A versatile card idea

Hello there!

It's been a while since I shared a craft post, mainly because I have been busy doing other activities and have not made anything.  I actually have been crafting up a storm in the past 2 days, having made about 10 cards which I will share in due course (as some of the recipients read this blog) so I thought I'd share my Mother's day card which Mum has now received so I can share it!

I have repeated this many times but if I could advise you of one versatile craft tool to buy, I would say, buy a flower punch.  I have a few in various flower and size options but any will do.  

My flower punches have been utilised on so many occasions in different combinations.

Here, I used 2 punches- one is a basic flower punch and the other is a tiny daisy border punch.

 The benefit of this card design that I came up with for Mum is that anything could go in the centre of the heart: Mum, Dad, A lovely couple, Gran, Sister, Thank you, On your Christening, On your confirmation, Love, Valentines, Bob...

 To make this heart-shaped design, you will need:

• Tiny flower punch (mine came from The Range.)
• White card base.
• Metallic card in turquoise or colour of your choice (mine was from a Stationery shop I've forgotten the name of.
• Tiny self adhesive gems (mine came from Poundland for a pack of 504)
• Flower edge punch (Fiskars do some good ones)
• Black fineliner
• Silver gel pen.
• Prittstick.

• First, fold and cut your card to size.

• Secondly, use your border punch along the long outside edge to make a border.
• Next,   punch a set of turquoise flowers and then arranged them on the table until you have a shape you like.  
• After, glue them using prittstick onto your card front, making sure you evenly space the heart from all four edges. (you can use PVA, I just prefer to avoid if I can)
• Following that, select and carefully snip the gems for the flower centres (I chose to alternate lilac and silver) from the plastic sheet and position onto the centre of each flower (watch out, sometimes, some of them don't stick properly. I had to reposition one of two with Prittstick- PVA would be better for this...)
• Then, fill in the gaps between the flowers with green gems.
• Lastly, find a font style you like on the internet and  copy it, drawing it lightly in pencil onto the centre of the heart (I practised on a piece of scrap paper first).
• Go over the pencil in black pen and then edge it in silver.
• Finito!

As I said, this design can be utilised for many occasions and you really don't have to be skilled to do this.  You don't even need the border punch if you really want. 

I will show another design in a week or so I did which used the same elements for this but in a different way for a different occasion.

Have I inspired you?  Would you give this a go?

Do share if you do!

xx