CCAYR April: flowers

This is my card for Christmas cards all year round April challenge: flowers. I'm in the Christmas Belles group so we are posting here today - please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the Belles group. The Gingerbread gals posted at the beginning of April here - please have a look at their lovely designs and join in our challenge there.

I decided to use one of the most common Christmas flowers, poinsettias. The background card is from a Hunkydory kit. I created my poinsettias by using up some offcuts, including some vellum, cutting the larger pieces with a couple of Spellbinders poinsettia dies and cutting the smaller ones using a couple of dies that were magazine freebies some time ago (and I've only just got round to using them).  I embossed the larger pieces using a craft concepts embossing folder called budding vine and the smaller pieces using an embossing folder by Sheena. The larger pieces were swiped with worn lipstick distress ink and the smaller ones with fired brick ink. All the die cutting and embossing were done on my todo. I gently curled some of the petals with my pokey tool (had to be careful though because the embossing was splitting the paper a bit in places). The two sentiment glittered circles were left overs from an unknown kit and I added a few red gems to the flower centres and corners.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up 28: anything goes
Christmas with the cuties 4: red and green
Happy little stampers Christmas challenge: anything goes + option: emboss
Scrap n challenge April: embossing
International art & soul 5: distressing
Tuesday throwdown 338: something clear (vellum)
A snowflakes promise 39: anything goes
Use your stuff 259: flowers
Crafty sentiments: flowers
Crafting by designs: girls or flowers
QKR stampede 239 flowers or anything goes
Fabrika fantasy 8: flowers galore
Noor April: flowers
Unicorn 20: petal power
Quick quotes 74: flowers
Scrapy land 63: anything goes (Spellbinders dies)
Jo's scrap shack funday 184: anything goes
Crafting with friends 41: anything goes
Creative fingers 128: anything goes
Paru's card making April: anything goes
Dragonfly dreams April: anything goes
Dare 2 B artzy April: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 278: anything goes
Inspiration destination 126: anything goes
Cards and more 11: anything goes