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Pink Springtime Card

This bright and cheerful card is perfect to brighten up any Spring occasion! We have used the word ‘Spring’ on our card here but you can replace the wording with anything to make this the ideal card for your occasion. It would be fantastic as a Mother’s Day card, a birthday card or a bright springtime Easter card!

What you will need to make this card:

  1. A6 card blank
  2. Mixed pink, lilac, purple & pink flowery papers
  3. 7mm organza pink ribbon
  4. Super Daisy Punch
  5. Super Flower Punch
  6. Large Daisy Punch
  7. Large Flower Punch
  8. Regular Daisy Punch
  9. Regular Flower Punch
  10. Mini round brads
  11. Alphabet peel off sheet
  12. Sticky Foam Pads and Double sided sticky tape
  13. Ruler, Craft Knife, Scissors, Craft Cutting Mat



How to make:

Take the A6 card blank and cover the top half with plain pink paper and the bottom half with flower patterned paper.

Next use double sided sticky tape to stick a strip of the 7mm organza pink ribbon along the join where the two papers meet, trim off any excess ribbon.

Punch out some flowers and daisies out of lilac, purple & bright pink paper. Tip: Use contrasting colours to the papers used to cover the top and bottom of the card.

Make a tiny hole in the centre of each flower. At this stage you can fold the punched flowers and daisies down the centre of each petal and then open up for a more raised 3D effect like the flowers shown in the picture, alternatively you can leave the flowers flat.

Layer the flowers and daisies together using different contrasting colours on each layer, experiment until you get the best effect flowers that you are happy with. Make 2 larger and 1 smaller flower. Once you are happy with a layered flower, push a round brad through the centre of the flower and bend back the prongs to secure the flower layers together.

Mount the flowers onto the card blank using sticky foam pads in a similar pattern to shown in the picture.

Finish your card off by sticking either individual peel off letters or a peel off wording sticker to spell out whatever occasion you want on the top left hand of the card at an angle. Choose whatever wording is suitable for your occasion.

Card idea by Jill

Lilac/Silver Butterfly Card

This is a gorgeous card that could be used for a beautiful Birthday card or a thoughtful Mother’s Day card.

What you will need to make this card:

1. A6 White Card Blank
2. Lilac mirror card
3. Silver & lilac paper, shiny or pearlescent
4. Mini lever craft punch – butterfly #2
5. Huge lever craft punch – square
6. Papermania Gemstone Stickers – Butterflies Silver
7. Mixed Butterflies Peel Off Sheet – Diamond Silver
8. Sticky Foam Pads
9. Craft Glue
10. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & craft cutting mat


How to make this card:

Take a sheet of the lilac mirror card and push it as far into the huge square punch as it will go keeping it straight. Punch out a square. Keep the side closest to the edge of the card as it is and cut the other three sides to the same width as that first edge to create a lilac mirror card frame. Use sticky foam pads to stick the frame to the top centre of the card blank. We used 1.5mm thick sticky foam pads for this.

Take a side view butterfly sticker from the gemstones sticker sheet and stick this in the centre of the lilac frame. Also stick a round gem and a flower from the same gemstone sticker sheet in the top left and bottom right inside corners of the frame.

From the diamond silver mixed butterflies peel off sheet take 2 small butterfly stickers and stick these in the bottom section of the card blank on the top right and bottom left of this bottom blank section. From the same peel off sheet, take 4 of the little flowers and stick one each on all four corners of the lilac frame.

Punch out 10 mini butterflies using the mini butterfly punch out of the silver and lilac paper (5 of each colour). Use a small spot of craft glue or a tiny sticky foam pad to stick these butterflies randomly all over the bottom section of the card blank.

Card idea by Janine.