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This one's a really pretty card for a lady.

For this one print:-

The Flower seed packets 2 & 3 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.

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.

Once the tools are dry add them, and a few seeds, to the card with strong tacky glue. 


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