Hello Friend - Flower Builder Collection Card Tutorial – Chloes Creative Cards

Hello Crafters,

Create a floral card for a friend today with this brilliant tutorial by our talented DT member, Glynis. The chosen collection for today's inspiration is the newly launched Flower Builder collection; the results are beautiful.

Read on for a full step-by-step project tutorial, complete with a materials list that has been linked so you can click on each product to be sent to its respective web page, making it easy for you to shop.

YOU WILL NEED:

Flower Builder collection:
- 3D embossing folder, stamp and die set – Flower Swirl
- Stamp and die set – Amazing Beautiful Lovely Sentiment Builder
- 8x8” paper pad – Pastel Rainbow Delight
- Vellum pad – Flower Ombre
Scalloped and Pierced die set – Rectangle
8x8” nesting die set – Basic Rectangle
A3 white card
Mirror card – Amethyst
Pearl card – Crystal White
Self-Adhesive Sparkles – Pretty Purples
Sparklers – 10mm and 12mm
Sparkelicious glitter – Fiesta, Lime Zing, Crystallina, and Diamante Sparkle
Bling Box – Sugared Pastels
WOW! embossing powder – Silver Bells
WOW! clear embossing inkpad
Range Distress Oxide inkpad – Villainous Potion
Purple marker pen
Art Glitter Dries-Clear PVA glue
Pinflair 3D glue gel
Foam pads on a roll
WOW! heat tool
Scoreboard
Die-cutting machine

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 Score and fold the A3 white card in half. Place the top of the largest die from the 8x8” Basic Rectangle die set just slightly over the edge of the score line and die-cut. Using the other dies from the set, cut different size matts in Amethyst mirror card, Crystal White pearl card, mirror card again and, lastly, a sheet of patterned paper from the Pastel Rainbow Delight paper pad. Glitter the edges of the white panel using Crystallina Sparkelicious glitter and the edges of the patterned paper with Diamante Sparkle Sparkelicious glitter. Affix the largest mirror card panel to the base card, then matt and layer the other three panels together and secure onto the base card with foam pads. For the middle layer, use slightly smaller dies and cut in mirror card and patterned paper from the paper pad, then glitter with Diamante Sparkle glitter, as before.

2 Emboss a sheet of Crystal White pearl card using the Flower Swirl 3D embossing folder. Glitter the foliage using Art Glitter PVA glue and Lime Zing Sparkelicious glitter. Colour the flowers with the Villainous Potion Oxide ink and matt and layer onto a scalloped mirror card panel, die-cut from the Scalloped and Pierced Rectangle die set. Adhere to the base card with foam pads.

3 From the Flower Ombre vellum pad, die-cut three lots of flowers using the Flower Swirl die set. Place the die-cut petals inside the Flower Swirl embossing folder and emboss. Glitter the petals with Fiesta Sparkelicious and adhere together with Pinflair glue gel. Colour the 10mm and 12mm Sparkles with a purple marker pen and adhere to the middle of each flower. Attach the flowers to the embossed background using Pinflair glue gel.

4 Stamp and heat-emboss the sentiment from the Amazing Beautiful, Lovely Sentiment Builder using Silver Bells embossing powder onto white card. Matt and layer onto mirror card and affix using foam pads. Finally, decorate the background using the Pretty Pink Self-adhesive Sparkles.