Flowery Letter Birthday Card — Sum of their Stories Craft Blog

This tutorial was originally written to review the contents of a craft supplies subscription box called The Crafty What Nots box. I also wrote more about the box, what's in it, what you can make with the contents here. Sadly Jennysis Crafts doesn’t do those boxes any more but you can use any pretty papers from your craft stash to make this card.

Surely anyone who enjoys any sort papercraft is bound to have a whole heap of little bits. Too good to throw away but kind of tiny to make anything with. I had a lot of pretty bits left from my recent papercrafting.

It's my niece Anya's Birthday soon so I thought I could get all ahead of myself and make a pretty card for her with her initial.

How to make a Flowery Letter Birthday Card

I used:

a 6" square card blank
A piece of scrap cardboard about 6" square - not too thick
Scraps of pretty paper
Foam pads
Bakers twine
2 buttons
2 die cut paper flowers

Everything except the card blank was from the Craft What Nots box

First I drew a big chunky A on the scrap cardboard

Then I held it up to the window and drew it on the back of the card as well. This just made it easier to cut out later.

Then I just started glueing paper strips and off cuts over my A.

When I finished it looked like this.

I turned it over and cut it out with scissors.

When I got to this point I had to switch and use my craft knife to finish off.

I attached it to the card blank with the foam pads. Then I tied a length of bakers twine round the card and threaded buttons on each end.

I slid the pink button up so they hang at different lengths and then trimmed the twine off close and fixed it with a blob of pva.

I fixed the two dies cut flowers to the buttons whilst the pva was still wet.

Ta Dah!

Easy, pretty and it's another one of those "options are almost endless" ideas. Any sort of different papers would give a totally different effect. Most of all though I love saving those scrappy bits from being thrown away, no piece of pretty paper too small to use!

Julie

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