Poinsettia Punch Art Tutorial

Ready… lets do it!!!

Supplies:  I used Martha Stewart Punches, you can use any brand.

1” Circle Punch ~ 1” Leaf Punch ~ 1” Five Petal Flower Punch ~ Regular Sized Hole Punch ~ Small Ball Stylus ~ Scissors ~ Paper Piercer ~ Straight Pin ~ 2 Sponge Daubers ~ Summer Sun and Real Red SU Markers ~  Old Olive and Real Red Stampin Pad.
The first thing you’ll do is punch out 12 Real Red Leaves, 3 Old Olive Leaves, 1 Five petal flower in Real Red and one 1”Circle.

Now you will want to emboss all the petals, one line straight down from the stem to the point of the leaf.  Now flip over the petals so the embossing is on top.
Using your sponge daubers and ink pads, distress the raised side of each leaf.
Place 3 green leaves without the stems on your punched circle using a small clear dot, to outer edge of the circle, one at 3 O’clock, 7 O’clock and at 9 O’clock.  Now place the red leaves, cuttin off the stems,  at 12 O’clock, 2 O’clock, 4 O’clock, 6 O’clock, 8 O’clock and 10 O’clock.  Be sure placement is at the outer edge of your circle.  You’ll need room for the center layer. 
Note:  Be sure the raised edge of the embossing is on the top, now bend the sides of each leaf to the center so the there is a crease down the middle of each leaf.  You can do this after each layer or at the very end.
Now place the last 6 leaves, with the stems,  between each petal of the previous layer.  These petals will be placed in the empty spot in the center of the circle.
Using a sheet of your printer paper, punch out circles with your regular sized hole punch.  And color them with your Summer Sun Marker, color both sides.  While they are still wet…

Make little balls, like above.  Stick one on the end of a straight pin and dip into a little spot of glue (above left) and place in the center of your 5 petal flower.   Do this for all 5 punched circles.  Now, right on top of the yellow ball, using your Real Red Marker, place a spot of red on top of the yellow centers.  Now, using a clear dot, place it in the center of your last layer of leaves.And there you have it.  I hope you enjoyed my Poinsettia Punch Art Tutorial today. 

Be sure to check out my post on tomorrow, Nov 19th and you’ll see what I did with my Poinsettia.  Hint… the photo above is a close up of my project.

I’d sure appreciate it, if you’d leave me a comment today and let me know if you like my Poinsettia Tutorial.  I have some ideas for flower tutorials for Valentines Day and Easter.  So stay tuned…

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