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:
- Small square (120mm x 120mm) cream card blank
- Tulip / Daffodil / Daisy Trios Decoupage Sheet for the tulips (pictured below)
- Mid Green Mulberry Tissue Paper
- Craft glue and sticky foam pads or silicon glue
- Decoupage Scissors
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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