How to Make a Spring Flowers Card

I love making cards with spring flowers and my project today certainly announces that spring has finally arrived.  For this project I used the new Rubbernecker Arch Trellis as a window and covered it with foliage from the new Leaves and Greenery and Tiny Flower Buds.  The eyelet drapes behind the window was made using the Borders 2.  I attached the Tulip Tops to the the new Garden Stems and created a flower bed with strips of Grass along the front of the house.  My favorite thing about this card are the three Cats playing in the tulips and looking in the window.

The Card Base

• Cut a  blue A2 sized card base.
• Cut several 4.25 x .50″ pieces of white card stock.
• Start at the bottom of the card base and attach the first strip of cardstock using ATG adhesive.
• Continue attaching the strips up the card base to create the siding for the house.
• Finish the top of the siding on each side with a 3/8″ strip of crimped cardstock and attach using double stick tape.

See Through Window

• Cut an Arch Trellis using white cardstock..
• Use the inner trellis openings as a template to draw cut lines on the card base.
• Cut the window opening 1/8″ outside the template lines using a craft knife.  You may have to cut each section a couple of times to get through the layers of cardstock.
• Apply thin strips of mounting tape to the back of the trellis and attach it over the opening.
• Cut 2 1.00″  wide decorative drape sections using the Borders 2 die and run them through the crimper to add dimension.
• Apply 1/8″ double stick tape around the inside window opening and attach the drapes leaving an opening to see through.
• Apply strips of mounting tape to the back open window and drapes and attach a piece of decorative paper to show be hidn the drapes.

Complete the Scene

• Use green cardstock to cut the Leaves and Greenery, Garden Stems and Grass.
• Use several pastel colors of cardstock to cut the Tulips and Tiny Flowers.
• Attach foliage and tiny flowers to the top of the Arch Trellis using glossy accents.
• Use ATG adhesive to attach the back grass layer to the card base and strip of mounting tape to attach the front grass section.
• Attach the tulips to the garden stems using glossy accents.
• Tuck the tulips in behind the front grass layer and attach using glossy accents.
• Use white cardstock to cut the cats and color them using a black marker.
• Finish the scene by attaching the cats in the tulips and on the window using pieces of mounting tape.

Do you love making cards with spring flowers as much as I do?  Need some more inspiration?  Check out this Pinterest link to see lots of cards….maybe even some of mine. And, if the Pinterest link wasn’t enough you can check out lots of my spring flower cards here.  I sure do appreciate you for coming by and I hope you have a great day.

Here are the dies used for my project.

5307-01D Arch Trellis Die [ RBB ] 5309-04D Leaves and Greenery Die [ RBB ] 5309-08D Garden Stems Die [ RBB ] Tulip Tops Die Cut 5147-18D [ RBB ] 5160-02D Boarders #2 [ RBB ] Tabed Grass Set Die Cut 5152-03D [ RBB ] Cats Die Cut 5142-09D [ RBB ] Tiny Flower Buds Die Cut 5147-10D [ RBB ]

Here are the tools and supplies that I used.

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Icy… [ ELH ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock,… [ ELH ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock,… [ ELH ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Sour… [ ELH ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Sour… [ ELH ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Easter… [ ELH ] Bazzill COTTON CANDY Card Shoppe… [ SSS ] Solar White Heavyweight 110 lb – 25… [ ELH ] Susan’s Garden Tool Kit, Elizabeth… [ ELH ] McGill Paper Blossoms Molding Mat-8.3… [ AMZUS ] Fiskars Paper Crimper, Straight [ ELH ] Mini Applicators, 12 pk, PanPastel Sofft [ ELH ] Mini Glossy Accents, Ranger Accents [ ELH ] Scotch Foam Mounting Tape [ ELH ] Fiskars 01-005452 Recycled Bypass… [ AMZUS ] ATG Kit, Advanced Tape Glider [ ELH ] Teflon Bone Folder, Essentials by Ellen [ ELH ] Scor-Pal Measuring & Scoring Board 12×12 [ ELH ] Crossover II Fabric & Paper Cutting… [ RBB ] COPIC Sketch Marker 100, Black [ ELH ]

Do you love making cards with spring flowers?