July 13, 2023

Spellbinders - Classic Christmas Bird Poinsettia

Hello there.  Look who finally made her first Christmas card of the year! 😂  With all the Christmas in July releases at Spellbinders (SB) this month, it made it easier to finally start.  My card today used the Christmas Bird Poinsettia dies with the Christmas Sentiment Hot Foil Plates and Die set from the Classic Christmas Collection.


The bird layers were die cut from Bristol paper and ink blended with two shades of blue dye ink using finger blending brushes.  The poinsettia, mistletoes and pine branches were die cut from alcohol marker friendly cardstock and coloured with Copic Sketch markers.

Copic markers used:
mistletoe - G40/43. YG09
pine branch - YG63/67


“Season’s” was die cut from blue mirror paper.  “greetings” was hot foiled with Cobalt Blue hot foil on an A2 size Bristol panel, but because it came out crooked, it was trimmed down.  Assembled the card onto a white card base and added blue gems to the poinsettia center to finish.


That’s it for today.  Thank you for stopping by.






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12 comments:

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

That blue bird with his hat is TOO cute!!! LOVE it! Beautiful poinsettias and mistletoes, your Copic colouring on diecuts looks amazing!!
Hugs!

Lisa Elton said...

What a cute little bird! This is charming, Trina!

Christine Alexander said...

love the colours you used for the bird and poinsettia ♥

Elaine aka Ellapu said...

Stunning card - Thanks for sharing over at Peace on Earth Christmas and hope to see you in future challenges.
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Susan said...

Such a beautiful card (in my favourite colours of course!)! Love the combination of the bird and the poinsettia. The bird is adorable in his little Santa hat.

Loll said...

WOW! This is gorgeous Trina! I LOVE your bird nesting on the poinsettia. Amazing work, my friend! xx

Bonnie said...

I love this sweet bird with the Santa hat perched on the poinsettia! Love how this looks in blue and white!

Anonymous said...

This is just beautiful!

Diane said...

Stunningly beautiful card, I have this die set on my 'must have' list lol!!
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Papercraft Boutique said...

You are truly great at making beautiful blue-themed cards, Trina! This is one of them, and I can see your love of blue in the card. The combination of the dauber blended bird and the copic colored poinsettia is stunning! The blue gems and the foil die-cut sentiment are wonderful shiny touches.
Hideko xx

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Oooo - love your birdie in the poinsettia spray, Trina!!

BożenA said...

I love the bird with the hat, and the blue color is a great alternative to Santa in red.
xx