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Nancy Watt’s pretty florals are perfect for your spring papercrafting projects. How will you use yours?
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Helping HAND
bThe key to all these makes is careful measurements and scoring, so take your time to get them spot on bUse 3D foam pads to add extra dimension to matts and toppers bThe solid papers will also work beautifully with pressed flowers, so why not pick and press some? bFor a totally homemade touch, make floral embellishments yourself rather than buying ready-made ones – it’ll be worth the effort! bYou can follow my steps for these cards, and then add your own twist using ribbon and buttons to add embellishments
In full bloom!
3 Ways with your papers…
SKILL LEVEL
Hello sunshine
Kit List
b Free downloads b Card, black b Scoring tool and board b Adhesive b Scissors b Circle die
1Cut a 30cm x 16.5cm rectangle from black card stock. Mountain score at 7.5cm and Valley score at 15cm. 2Cut a 15cm square from green paper and a 14.5cm square from patterned paper. Matt and layer and adhere to the back panel of the card. 3Trim green card to 15.5cm x 7cm, and blue patterned paper to 14.5cm x 6cm. Matt and layer together then adhere to the front panel of the card base. 4Trim a 8.5cm square from black card stock, a 6.5cm one from green paper and a 6cm square from blue patterned paper. Matt and layer together. Cut out a topper from the downloads, adhere to the front of the square and stick this matt to the front panel as shown. 5Cut out an 8.5cm circle from black card and stick onto the inside of the card. Cut a circle topper and stick onto the card. Finish using decoupage from the kit.
Friends are the sunshine of life
Kit List
b Free downloads b Card, black b Scoring tool and board b Adhesive b Scissors
1Cut a 31cm x 18cm from black card stock. Mountain score at 10cm and Valley score at 15cm. 2Cut a green rectangle to 9cm x 17.5cm and a patterned rectangle to 8.5cm x 17cm. Layer together and adhere to the front panel of the card. 3Cut a green rectangle to 15.5cm x 17.5cm and a patterned one to 15cm x 17cm. Layer together and adhere to the back panel of the card. 4Cut a green rectangle measuring 4.75cm x 17.5cm and adhere to the middle panel. 5Cut two 9.5cm squares from black card stock. Trim two toppers from the kit and adhere onto the black squares. Finally adhere one of these squares to the front panel and one to the back panel.
SKILL LEVEL
Spring greetings
Kit List
b Free downloads b Card, black b Scoring tool and board b Adhesive b Scissors b Floral embellishments
1Cut a 15cm tent black blank card. Mark the sides and bottom of the card at 7.5cm. Score both sides from the 7.5cm marks to the bottom 7.5cm mark. Score from the top left and top right of the card to the bottom 7.5cm mark. 2You will now have three triangular shapes on the front of the card. Fold along the score lines
SKILL LEVEL
so that the middle triangles at either side fold behind the front of the card and the two at the bottom form ‘wings’ to support the card. 3Cut orange paper to 14.5cm square, and patterned orange paper to 14cm square. Matt together and adhere to the inside back of the card blank. 4Measure the main triangle on the front of the card. Cut an orange paper triangle 0.5cm smaller than this triangle, and patterned paper 0.5cm smaller than the orange one. Adhere the patterned paper to the orange card and matt onto the triangle on the front of the card blank. 5Trim a circular sentiment from the downloads and adhere to the front of the card as shown. Finish with floral embellishments of your choice.
