Visitor Put up – Making Flower Playing cards

It is at all times helpful to have a inventory of handmade greetings card able to go, and this concept from Shelly is easy, fast and enjoyable – and excellent for Mom’s Day!

I really like the concept of home-made playing cards and so they don’t have to be that fancy or excellent; in reality it’s typically the imperfect playing cards which have ended up which means probably the most to me.  We not too long ago made a couple of completely different flower playing cards that have been actually fairly simple to make however very efficient. And the one issues that you simply wanted to need to make them have been the cardboard, a template, some patterned paper, glue, scissors and a pen to put in writing with. The perfect crafts are those the place we have already got every thing that’s required in the home.

Simply one among our accomplished playing cards

We began by choosing a template.  On this case we selected flower template 2 – one which didn’t require the centre of the flower to be reduce out. We did not have any appropriate patterned paper in the home so we downloaded some scrapbook paper and printed that out. You would actually use any sample for this craft however we chosen the trendy rose scrapbook paper sample and the pastel gingham scrapbook paper pages so we may strive layering.

Printing scrapbook paper and flower templates

Flower templates in several sizes

We reduce out a variety of completely different measurement flower templates, traced round them onto the patterned paper after which reduce out our patterned flowers. When my children have been youthful I might typically simply get them to chop the fundamental form and I might reduce out the more durable, smaller sections for them. That method they did quite a lot of the slicing however didn’t get discouraged by the more durable sections.

Chopping out a number of flowers!

Then the enjoyable started, attempting to resolve how we’d prepare the flowers onto our playing cards. I believed fewer flowers have been simpler.

Just some flowers on this card

However my children appeared to love the concept of a number of flowers!

Plenty of flowers – shaped right into a wreath

As you may see, we added a couple of buttons to the centre of among the flowers. You would additionally add craft pom-poms or presumably scrunched up tissue paper simply to make the centres a bit extra noticable.

Including buttons to the centre of the flowers

A reasonably, easy flower card with button centre

After we began making these the thought was simply to make some enjoyable playing cards for our assortment. As soon as we had made a couple of I realised they’d be excellent for Mom’s Day playing cards.

All you would want to do is write somewhat message on the skin saying Glad Mom’s Day and you’d be all set.

Turning our flower playing cards into Mom’s Day playing cards

Due to Shelly for this concept (which she wrote a couple of years in the past when her kids have been youthful).

Shelly is a house educating guardian of two babyren aged 10 and 12. She blogs at ofamily learning together the place she shares concepts on the completely different studying actions that they do together with a number of hand-on maths, arts and crafts and the rest that’s a part of their residence educating life-style.