Christmas Spinning Puzzle Cards Part 3: Poinsettia flowers and Wreath circles, minimal supplies - July 31 2023

 Today I am sharing another of my Christmas Spinning Puzzle Cards Series focusing on flower and circle nesting dies to make interactive poinsettia and wreath Christmas cards with minimal supplies. Today's video is about ways you could batch make, keep dimension down for cheaper postage, and using up scraps. These ideas could easily be used to make birthday, thank you, hello, etc. cards as well.

I won't be focusing on the spinning puzzle assembly so much, so if you've never seen this type of card and want a full tutorial on how to make a flower Spinning Puzzle Card, please head to this video and check out the flower card first:

https://youtu.be/U0RIAxZT1zU

If you want to see more detail on how to hide your brad in the centre of your images, please check out the first video in my Christmas Spinning Puzzle series here:

https://youtu.be/4G6VILMbrhw

The live stream for the red a gold poinsettia card is here:

https://youtube.com/live/ZyDZGyjU3UM

And the short version is here:

https://youtu.be/cYs0uf6hQCs

Poinsettia and wreath - use your scraps and coloured inks on layers


Poinsettia and wreath - use your scraps with quick stamping


Poinsettia die cuts on a circle - over-hang your elements


Wreath circle - keep things flat and basic on a shaped card with colouring


Silhouette Wreath - getting inky to keep things flat for postage





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Hixxy Crafts:

https://www.hixxycrafts.com/xcut-nesting-dies-flower-5pcs/p1295

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Thanks for reading, Lesley x

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