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This one's great as a card for a man - one who loves his garden or allotment anyway!

For this one print:-

The carrot seed packets onto quality white paper
The vegetables 4 seed packets onto quality white paper
The Gardening Miniatures sheet onto quality white paper
The tan paper from the Vintage Floral paper pad onto quality white paper

To make the card, cut a 17 x 11.8cm piece of the background paper and stick it to a larger piece of silver metallic card with double-sided tape before trimming round with a craft knife and ruler to 17.8 x 12.5cm - to fit the front of a cream 7" x 5" card blank. Stick the piece to the card with double-sided tape.

Cut out the seed packets with a craft knife and ruler, indent/emboss the folds with an embossing tool or used-up biro, then stick down the flaps with double-sided tape or glue-stick. I stuck mine down so that the flaps were on the outside of the back-flap so that there's no untidy edges showing - but it's up to you how you do it.

Add some seeds to the packets and seal them - if you have re-positionable tape, that would be good for this but it's not essential. Stick the packets at angles onto the card blank with double-sided tape.

Make up the handles for the little trowel and fork by cutting out two of the green triangular pieces from the sheet, then rolling them tightly round a cocktail stick, sealing the end with double-sided tape or a dot of tacky glue.

Dip the end of a cocktail stick into some more tacky glue and push it back into the centre of the handle. Cut off the cocktail stick so that a short length is left sticking out of the handle. For the trowel, I've used a small egg punch and some silver metallic card - emboss a line down the centre and bend it up slightly before sticking it to the extruding cocktail stick/handle part with more tacky glue. For the fork, I used a small hand-shaped punch and then trimmed off the first finger and thumb and used small scissors to shape the bottom. Stick to the cocktail stick/handle in the same way as for the trowel.

The carrots are made by rolling up the triangular shapes from the miniatures sheet in a similar way to the tool handles (but no cocktail stick needed this time). I've used some little sprigs of lavender from the garden to make the leafy ends - just ease some tacky glue into the carrot with a cocktail stick and add the lavender. You could also make the leaves with tiny pieces of green paper.

Once the carrots and tools are dry, add them to the card with further tacky glue. 


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