I was trying to be more upbeat, here, so no creepy, demonic eyes. This time. 😄
I used Repeat Transform (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Alt/Opt + T, after the initial transform) once I had the original poinsettia where I wanted it. Think I anchored the rotation to one of the sides of the poinsettia. (It's always a division of 360 degrees, so the first transform is 30 degrees and I eventually end up with a perfect circle of 12 copies.)
I kept the original image in the background, stretched it and blurred it, then layered one of my original textures on top. I was thinking of crinkled wrapping paper for some reason. (lol)
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