Christmas flower card
For this card you will need the following Stampin' Up! products:
Woodgrain Texured Impressions Embossing Folder and a Big Shot
Yellow scrap paper and some sort of flower punch, or a button or other embellishment for the middle of the flower
Scissors and a paper trimmer
This card was actually relatively simple to make, the most time consuming part was cutting out the 'petals'.
Step 1: Create your card stock
Cut out 14.8cm x 21cm piece of old olive card stock, so half of an A4 sheet. Score the card half way along the long (21cm) side, so at 10.5cm.
Cut out a piece of white card stock so that it is 9.5cm by 14cm.
If you haven't trimmed card stock before, have a look at my instructions Stamping and Cutting.
Step 2: Embossing the white card
Using your Woodgrain textured impressions embossing folder, put the impression into your white card stock.
If you don't know how to use the Big Shot and embossing folders, have a look at my instructions Using your Big Shot to emboss or cut.
Step 3: Cut out your 'petals'
Using your Builder Bird Punch and a thin piece of Old Olive card stock, cut out six green bird bodies. Then take a thin piece of Real Red card stock, and cut out six red bird bodies.
The easiest way I find to cut out the bird bodies is to face the bottom, or metal side of the punch towards me so that I can see where the card stock is in the punch.
You don't need to punch out all of the options on the punch (the branch for instance) and waste card stock, you just need a bird body. Just slide your thin piece of card stock, about 3cm wide, through the bottom of the punch (if you are looking at the metal part of the punch and the bird is right way up).
Once you have punched one bird body, move the piece of card stock further into the punch until you can see the whole bird body is covered again, and punch again.
For this card you do not need a full head of the bird. This part will be layered and is only used to glue the flower together. If you make a mistake and don't cut out a full bird head don't throw the piece out, it is perfectly usable. It is more important that you get the tail right here.
Step 4: Put your petals together to create your flower
Using liquid glue, and a scrap of white card stock as the base, stick your petals down onto the scrap of card fanning them out to create your flower.
Take a scrap of white paper, about one inch by one inch, to be the base of the flower.
Using the liquid glue, stick down two of the green bird bodies so that their heads are in the middle of your square scrap of white card, their heads are overlapping slightly, and they form a straight line but they are not a mirror image of each other. (Look at the example card, the straight part of the birds back needs to face the same way, clock wise or anti clock wise, for all birds. This is the easiest part of the card to make an error on).
Because you have used the liquid glue if you make an error, pick it apart and try again.
Repeat this with the other four green bird bodies, but rotating the new birds one sixth of the way around each.
Using the liquid glue, stick down two of the red bird bodies so that their heads overlap, they form a straight line but not a mirror image, and their tails are between two of the green bird tails.
Again repeat with the other four red bird bodies, but rotating the new birds one sixth of the way around.
Stick the white scrap of card behind the flower to your card using the liquid glue.
Step 6: The middle of the flower
Stick your chosen embellishment to the middle of the flower. Here I have used a small flower punch and some scrap yellow paper, you might like to use a button, a crystal, or some glitter glue.
Step 7: Create the greeting
Choose your greeting and stamp a piece of white scrap with it, then trim it down, and take a piece of old olive scrap and trim that to be the border behind.
Using the Merry Christmas stamp, a scrap of white card and the Old Olive ink pad, stamp the greeting to a strip of white card.
Once you are happy with the greeting, cut the piece of white card to size. Remember if you aren't happy with the greeting, you can flip the piece of paper over and try again on the other side.
Take a scrap of Old Olive card stock and using the greeting above as a guide, cut it to size so that it creates a border around the greeting.
Use any stamp to randomly create the lines on the example card, I used a stamp which was a line drawing of Mary and Jesus, I just stamped it half a dozen times and changed the position or rotation each time.
Stick the greeting to the green card using double sided tape, and the green card to your big card using liquid glue.
