Card Making Ideas: How to Make an All-Occasion Floral Card
Supplies:
Scrapbooking Papers: My Little Shoebox
Alcohol Inks: Tim Holtz / Ranger Industries
Zig Painty Pens
Cat-Eye Fluid Chalk Inkpad
Card Base: Strathmore Bristol Board
Adhesive: Zip Dry Paper Glue
Page from the Clear Scraps Mini Sunflower Album
Chipboard flower and clear acrylic flower from the Miss Molly Clear N Chip set by Clear Scraps
Tools:
Bone folder, Scor-Pal, or other scoring tool
Sandpaper or emery board
Card Instructions:
Cut a 7" x 10" piece of Strathmore Bristol Board. Score it down the middle using a scoring tool such as a bone folder to make a card base measuring 5" wide x 7" high. Set aside.
Note: I like using Strathmore Bristol Board for card bases because it is a lot heftier than plain old cardstock is. It's great for stacking a lot of heavy layers, and it withstands inking and painting much better than cardstock does. I like to do a lot of layering and embellishing when I make cards.
Having said that, in this card you could substitute white cardstock as your card base if you prefer.
Cut a piece of patterned paper measuring 7" high by 5" wide. Ink the edges with Fluid Chalk ink. Glue this paper to the card base using Zip Dry paper glue.
Ink your acrylic flower using Tim Holtz alcohol inks. Let the inks dry.
Punch out your chipboard flower. Use it as a template to trace around a piece of patterned paper. Cut out the flower and adhere it to the chipboard flower. Sand it with the sandpaper or emery board to remove the uneven spots. Draw a dotted line around the flower edge to add emphasis. Glue the embellished chipboard flower on top of the inked acrylic flower.
Draw around the edges of the clear flower with a Zig Painty Pen. Glue it on top of the chipboard flower.
Cut out a small round flower design from the piece of patterned paper. Use it as the flower center; attach it on top of the acrylic flower.
Glue the entire three-dimensional flower onto the card.
Your card is now ready to use. You can add stamped sentiments on either the outside or the inside if you prefer.
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