How I Made My Needle Felted Poinsettia Shadow Box Picture

I had wanted to create a poinsettia for the upcoming Christmas holiday season but wasn't able to find a mold for it so I decided to use a combination of the rose design petals upside down from the Rose Needle Felting Applique Mold By The Each, the daisy design leaves from the Daisy Needle Felting Applique Mold By The Each, and the Floret & Berries Needle Felting Applique Mold By The Each that I had bought (and which are shown below) to create a red Poinsettia.

I wanted my poinsettia to be multi-layered with bright red petals, olive green leaves, and bright yellow berries envisioned within a shadowbox frame sponge painted with festive Christmas colors.

As I wanted my poinsettia to be multi-layered with various size petals I decided to use the large  rose design petals upside down for the bottom layer, use the medium rose design petals turned upside down for the 2nd and 3rd layers, and use the small rose petals for the inner section that would be holding the the yellow berries.

First, I needle felted 6 large rose petals and turned them all upside down and felted them all together using the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat.  For the second layer, I needle felted 6 medium rose petals and turned them all upside down and felted them all together using the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat.  Then I put them on top of the 1st layer of needle felted petals I had created and needle felted the two layers together using  the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat.

For the 3rd layer I needle felted 5 medium rose petals and turned them all upside down and felted them all together using the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat.  Then I put the third layer on top of the 1st and 2nd layer of needle felted petals I had created and needle felted the three layers together using  the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat. I used the single needle felting needle and needle felting mat to make sure the three layers were securely felted together.

For the 4th layer I needle felted 3 small rose petals and felted them all together using the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat.  Then I put the fourth layer on top of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd layer of needle felted petals I had created and needle felted the four layers together using  the pen style needle punching tool and needle felting mat. I used the single needle felting needle and needle felting mat to make sure the four layers were securely felted together.

For the yellow berries in the center of the poinsettia I used the berries section of the Floret & Berries Needle Felting Applique Mold By The Each that I had bought and needle felted three yellow berries with gold roving.  I added the gold berries one at a time to the middle of the needle felted poinsettia and felted them all together using the single needle felting needle and needle felting mat until everything was securely in place.

Then I needle felted 6 olive green leaves for my poinsettia using the leaves from the Daisy Needle Felting Applique Mold By The Each.  I wanted my leaves to appear to be curving up towards the center of the poinsettia so when it came to needle felting them to the poinsettia petals I only needle felted the very ends of the leaves to the center of the poinsettia using the single needle felting needle and needle felting mat.

As I wanted my poinsettia to be enclosed within a 6" by 6" by 2" Christmas holiday festive colored shadowbox with 5 1/4" by 5 1/4" opening I painted the unfinished wood shadowbox (except the back inside wall) first with white acrylic paint and then sponge painted it with a combination of Christmas Green, Christmas red, and white acrylic paint.  Then I applied one coat of varnish.

I  cut a piece of dark green felt backing 5 1/4" by 5 1/4" and a piece of 1" of Nu-foam backing 5 1/4" by 5 1/4" and using the needle felting punch tool felted them together.  Then, using the single needle felting needle,  I needle felted my poinsettia to the dark green felt and Nu-foam. Once it was felted to the dark green felt and Nu-foam I used the single needle felting needle to securely felt the inside sections of each layer in place. After I was sure the poinsettia was securely felted to the dark green felt and Nu-foam I hot glued this to the inside back of the shadowbox frame that I had left unpainted.

I liked how my poinsettia turned out and think it will make a wonderful decoration for the upcoming Christmas holiday season.  What do you think?

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