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This is a really pretty card that uses three of the little flower seed packets.

For this one print:-

The 'In the Cottage Garden' sheet onto quality white paper
The mini fruit and flowers seed packets onto quality white paper
The Gardening Miniatures sheet onto quality white paper
The red 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.

Mount one of the small motifs onto silver metallic card as for the background and stick it to the card with sticky pads.

Cut out three of the pink flower seed packets, fold and stick together with double-sided tape. Add them to the card blank with further tape.

Make up the handles for the little trowel and fork by cutting out two of the brown 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.

Stick both the tools onto the card with further tacky glue.


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