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Working more with the Die-namics Poinsettia die set from My Favorite Things, I came up with several different color/ paper variations of this lovely holiday flower.

Poinsettias come in such beautiful color varieties that it takes little imagination for the card maker to experiment with their flower design.

I chose to change up the flower bract colors and leaves rather than the layout and overall design of the card. This made for easier work putting together four beautiful cards. Each card has two flowers and a minimum of two bracts each per flower. For most of the backgrounds I used Vintage Christmas patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio.

On the card above I ventured away from red and ivory and used Concord & 9th’s Nectar (top) and Grapefruit (bottom) card stocks. For the flower centers I used The Paper Studio Gold Foil cardstock as I really like its mostly matte, yet subtle sheen.

The marbled red poinsettias below have three bracts per flower. I sprayed on Altenew’s Pure White Ink Spray over the paper bracts for that marble effect. You may try using a dilution of white gesso for a more opaque white finish as the paper seemed to really soak up the spray.

I also used a pre-embossed white card stock from The Paper Company as a base. This paper has a very unique, light weight texture. It is something I found years ago in a craft store. Hard to find something this beautiful and elaborate these days. Yet there are plenty of embossing folders out there to create your own.

For this card I used a different die (set offers three) for the cyathia located in the center of the bracts, which is the actual flower part of a true poinsettia. Check out this post from The Spruce for more incredible varieties.

Die cutting these flowers can be labor intensive as each card here has a minimum of 11 cuts. To mass produce you may look into using a Cricut Explore Air or Cricut Maker electric die cutting machine. There are currently refurbished models available on Cricut’s website here if you’re looking to invest but want to save some money as these machines can be expensive.

There are also many poinsettia steel die sets on the market that vary in design and size. Hopefully you have found one that you enjoy working with so that you can create dozens and dozens of beautiful flower designs using different bract colors and configurations.

For more designs using this poinsettia steel die, check out this earlier post.