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Daisy Topper Birthday Card

Do you want a beautiful handmade card for someone special but don’t have a lot of time? Then this is the card for you! This incredibly quick and simple to make but quite gorgeous birthday card is ideal for that last minute card you need for any female relation or friend.

Burgundy Daisy Topper Card

Materials used to make this card:

  1. A6 cream card blank
  2. White Topper with Burgundy Daisy (Large)
  3. Curvy Happy Birthday Peel Off Sheet – Gold
  4. 6mm double sided sticky tape

How to make:

1. Apply a strip of double sided sticky tape to each edge of the back of the card topper and then stick the card topper to the top centre of the card blank leaving a gap at the bottom to apply the sentiment.

2. Remove a ‘Happy Birthday’ wording from the peel off sheet. Let the sticker relax for a minute on the end of your craft knife, to allow it to regain shape if it has stretched at all and then apply it to the bottom centre of the card blank.

3. To finish the card off apply the gold heart stickers that accompany the wording.

Card Idea by Janine

‘LOVE’ Valentine’s Card

This red, gold and silver Valentine’s card uses padded material shapes for a lovely raised look and scalloped heart punchies on the background for extra interest.

Multiple Material LOVE Valentine’s card

What you will need to make this card:

  1. Slimline (A5 tall) scarlet red card blank
  2. Woodware Large Lever Craft Punch – Scalloped Heart
  3. Woodware Super Duper Lever Craft Punch – Square
  4. Pearlised card in gold, red and silver
  5. 2cm Padded Material Hearts – Red Satin
  6. Padded Material ‘LOVE’ – Metallic Gold
  7. Padded Material ‘LOVE’ – Metallic Silver
  8. Padded Material ‘LOVE’ – Red Satin
  9. 5mm sticky foam pads, strong craft glue
  10. Scissors

Directions to make:

Using the large scalloped heart craft punch cut out 9 heart shapes – 3 from the gold card, 3 from the silver card and 3 from the red card. Arrange these hearts on the front of the card blank starting top right with a silver heart, then a red one a bit lower on the left, then a gold one a bit lower again on the right and repeat this pattern left and right until you end with a gold heart bottom right. The hearts on the left lean over to the left and the hearts on the right lean over to the right. Once you are happy with the positioning of the hearts use craft glue to attach each one to the card blank. Use scissors to trim the very top silver heart and bottom gold heart as shown in the picture so they are flush with the edge of the card blank and give the illusion of the pattern continuing.

Next using the super duper square craft punch cut out a square from more of the gold card. Again using the craft glue carefully attach the 3 material word LOVEs to the gold card square, starting with the metallic gold at the top, the red satin in the centre and the metallic silver at the bottom. Once the glue has dried use several sticky foam pads to attach the embellished gold square to the card blank so it sits in between the first and second red scalloped heart shape without overlapping them.

Finally use craft glue to attach a red satin padded material heart to the centre of each of the 3 red card scalloped heart shapes. The material hearts are also scalloped so fit nicely onto the punched hearts with a small border of the red card showing around the edge which does give a nice effect.

Card Idea by Janine