This is a cheerful brightly coloured card that is suitable for any occasion or can even be used as a notelet.

What is required to make this card:

1. A6 White Card Blank (used tentfold style)
   
2. Woodware Large Lever Craft Punch – Plant Pot
3. Handmade Mulberry Paper – Light Blue
4. Handmade Mulberry Paper – Light Pink
   
5. Handmade Mulberry Paper – Pale Yellow
6. A5 Glitter Pattern Paper Pack – Turquoise/Pink
7. Tiny Decorative Flowers Mixed Colours
8. Satin 5mm Ribbon – Light Blue
9. 3mm and 6mm double sided sticky tape
10. Craft Glue
11. 5mm Sticky Foam Pads
12. Craft knife, pencil, ruler, cutting mat & sellotape

How to make:

Take the mint green silk paper with the turquoise glitter design on it from the A5 glitter pattern paper pack and cut a rectangle that measures 48mm high x 147mm wide. N.B. The width needs to be the exact width of your card blank, as sizes can vary slightly it is a good idea for you to measure the card blank you intend to use to check the size.

Use 6mm double sided sticky tape on all four edges of the back of the glitter pattern paper rectangle and then using the card blank tent fold style stick the paper to the bottom of the card blank.

Cut a 155mm length of the satin blue ribbon, fold enough over each end to make the ribbon strip the exact width of the tentfold card blank. Glue the ends in place, this gives the ribbon neat tidy ends and avoids fraying.

Apply a strip of the 3mm double sided sticky tape all the way across the card blank directly above the glitter pattern paper. Carefully stick the ribbon strip to the double sided tape taking care to keep the ribbon straight.

Use the plant pot craft punch to punch out a flowerpot shape from all three handmade mulberry paper colours – light blue, light pink and pale yellow.

Take three blue flowers, three yellow flowers and three pink flowers from the pack of tiny decorative flowers. Use some sellotape to secure the stems of the blue flowers to the back of the blue flowerpot and do the same with the yellow and pink flowers securing them to the yellow and pink flowerpots.

Use some sticky foam pads to stick the flowerpots in a row above the blue ribbon strip and use a dab of glue behind each flowerhead to stick them to the surface of the card blank.

Card Idea by Janine

This card has a fresh springtime design. It is a useful card to have made ready in your craft box to send for a variety of occasions. Spring flowers make great cards for Easter or why not even use it as a simple note card to write to someone special. Add a peel off sentiment to the top or bottom of the card if you wish or simply make it as it is shown here. See further down for a picture of the decoupage sheet used for the tulips to make this card.

What you will need to make this card:

1. Small square (120mm x 120mm) cream card blank
2. Tulip / Daffodil / Daisy Trios Decoupage Sheet for the tulips (pictured below)
   
3. Mid Green Mulberry Tissue Paper
4. Craft glue and sticky foam pads or silicon glue
5. Decoupage Scissors
6. Craft knife, ruler & cutting mat

How to make:

Cut a rectangle from the mid green mulberry tissue paper that measures 6cm x 12cm. Use your finger or a cotton bud with water to make a wet line across the longest side of the paper 2cm down from the top edge. Carefully pull the paper apart from either side of the wet line so you end up with a 4cm x 12cm rectangle with a nice fluffy top edge and then put this to one side to dry.

Use the decoupage scissors to carefully cut out all of the tulip sections.

Once the mulberry tissue paper is dry use some craft glue thinned down with a little water to stick it to the card blank, aligning the straight edge with the bottom edge of the card blank as shown in the picture, then the fluffy edge at the top makes a nice grass like effect.

Stick the bottom layer of the tulips with the bottoms of their stalks overlapping the fluffy top edge of the mulberry tissue paper.

Finally use sticky foam pads or silicon glue to stick all of the remaining tulip layers in place.

Useful tips for this project:

1. Thinning the craft glue down before sticking the mulberry tissue paper will stop it showing up as much behind the paper once it has dried, whilst still sticking the paper in place.
2. When you cut out the tulip sections, you can lightly pencil in numbers on the back of each section to make it easier to match them up again later.
3. Use felt tip pens of the same colour as the decoupage sections to carefully colour the white side edges of the paper as this helps to ensure there are no white bits showing on the completed card.

Card Idea by Janine