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1. Use the border punch to cut four border
strips. Apply adhesive of choice to the border strips and apply
to the blank card so that the edges of the cut design meet the edges
of the card. To miter the border corners, hold two strips at right
angles to one another, use scissors or a craft knife to cut through
both strips at the diagonal where they meet (photo instructions
coming soon). (If you don't have a border punch, see
the notes at the bottom of this page.)
2. Cut a piece of background paper to fit just
inside the punched border frame. Use adhesive of choice to affix
the paper, centered, in the frame.
NOTE ON THE FLOWERS:
For this particular design, I used flower cutouts that had a
lot of leaves and greenery attached. Since the card has no "vase"
I clustered the flowers together in an eye pleasing formation, finishing
the look off with the ribbon. The steps below show how make the
three dimensional bouquet. While the photos show flowers from a
different design in this series, the technique is the same for
this card as well.
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Begin arranging your flowers by placing a flat base layer
down with regular adhesives (as opposed to pop dots). You
will begin to layer upon this in the next step, but right
now you are created the underlying base layer of flowers.
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Step 4.
Look at your base and decide where you will layer other flowers
and/or individual petals and leaves. Cut out the necessary parts
and pieces and attach pop dots to the backs of these elements.
FRUGAL TIP: You can use pieces of the backing as well
as the dots when using foam backed adhesives (as shown above)
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Start building three dimensional layers by sticking the pop-dotted
elements over the base flowers. Continue adding and layering
until you are happy with the finished look of the bouquet.
Step 6.
Attach bow to bottom center of card with a glue dot or adhesive
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*BORDER PUNCH INFO AND ALTERNATIVES
We used Fiskar's lace design border punch. You could just as
easily use other border punch designs. Don't have a border punch?
Use decorative scissors to cut border strips or use border stickers.
Click
here to browse the border punch selection at Amazon.com.
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