Sshh! Christmas is coming!

I said that I was working on something for Christmas and well, here it is...

my Christmas wreath, made with cherry cobbler poinsettia, die cut leaves in various colours and stamped leaves using a stamp from my autumn splendor stamp set (and yes I hand cut every single leaf myself).

Here is a closer look....

and a really close look at the poinsettia...

I started with a 12 x 12 piece of thick card, I used the packaging from my dsp stack and cut a large circle, I then cut a smaller circle from the centre to leave me with a ring doughnut effect, I coloured this with black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder and added glitter to show little peeps of sparkle!

Using my little leaves die from Stampin' Up! I cut out several leaves in different colours, chocolate chip, crumb cake, soft suede, always artichoke and certainly celery.

I stamped my leaf from the autumn splendor stamp set on to daffodil delight, old olive and tempting turquoise designer series paper and hand cut them out, approx. 60 in total.

I cut my poinsettia using the build a blossom punch, from cherry cobbler card, each flower had 10 medium size petals and 10 small petals. I cut a small circle and stuck on five medium petals, then stuck the other five in between the first layer, I then added five of the smaller petals spaced evenly and added the final five petals to the top again spaced between the layer below. I added chunky glass glitter to the centres.

I then assembled my die cuts, hand cut leaves and finally my poinsettia's on the top in an evenly spaced way. I'm really pleased with the final project and think it will look lovely fixed to my door at Christmas!

Please leave me a comment if you like it too.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow as its my Christmas crafting event, I hope to take some photo's and post them soon. Thank you for visiting me, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x