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Spring Blooms

By Anne Ellis

These cards are fun to make and quite

straightforward to do. Once the shapes are

cut from scraps of card you have plenty of

choice over the arrangement, type and colour

of card and choice of background.

Materials Required:

Thin card: Orange, Yellow, Dark Yellow, Mauve

and Mid Green.

Corrugated card: COR01 Green.

Coloured paper or mulberry paper: Pale Blue

and Pale Yellow.

Scissors or a craft knife and cutting mat.

Tracing paper and a pencil.

Thin White card.

Sticky fixers and a ruler.

P. V.A. Craft adhesive.

Card mount: SF03U-02 Pale Yellow.

To Make The Cards:

It is always worth keeping a selection of card

and paper scraps, it is amazing the uses to which

such bits and pieces can be put to enhance a

card. If several cards are required it is sensible

to prepare them at the same time remembering

that each individual card can be different and

this adds to the creative interest.

A contrasting panel behind the flowers often

looks good on non-aperture cards and gives

weight to the design.

When using aperture cards, back the aperture

with a different colour, perhaps using mulberry

paper or another hand made paper to add tex-

ture. For the daffodil design I wanted a small

aperture so I have used a DF03U and cut my

own circle into the centre panel.

Glue the card together before adding the

flowers but just use a couple of dabs of glue

around the aperture area so you can slip the

leaves and stems behind as you work.

Trace the flowers and leaves from the relevant

diagram. Make templates by turning the tracing

face down over a sheet of thin white card and

retrace over the lines to transfer them. Cut out

the pieces and use them to draw around onto

the different colours of card. These templates can

be saved and used again if you intend to make

more cards at a later date.

As templates can be used either way over,

always use them reversed so the piece you are

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drawing needs to be turned over for assembly

then the lines won’t show on the finished design.

You may need to use the templates more than

once for each design, turn the template over to

make leaves or flowers that face the other way.

The panel used on single fold cards can be

shaped and a diagonal often makes the card look

less static. My panel is cut from green corrugated

card 38mm wide and 118mm long. Make a mark

on the right hand long edge of the panel 95mm

down from the top. Rule a line from the mark

across to the bottom left corner and cut along the

line to make a diagonal.

backing pieces and attach the panel close to the

left hand edge of the front of the mount.

Usually I glue the stems and leaves into place,

tucking the ends under the front of the aperture.

For leaves, the tops should be left unglued to

allow them to come forward naturally. For the

daffodils I have used glue on the stems but

sticky fixers for the leaves to bring them forward.

Cut one sticky fixer into four pieces and stick

them onto the back of the panel one in each

corner but not too close to the edges. Peel off the

The crocus and tulip flower heads are made

from two pieces and the daffodils from three.

Assemble these flowers using small pieces of

sticky fixer between the layers of petals. Add

another piece of sticky fixer to the back of each

flower to mount them onto the card.

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