Materials…

• White card blank
• Lovebug ((c)Kay Miller) digital kit
• 148gsm Mohawk Navajo printer paper
• Red Petaloo tie-dye daisies
• Rose/burgundy Prima Marketing Belle Fleur
• Pink Habico craft mesh
• Pink Pastel ColorBox Cat’s Eye chalk inkpad
• White Doodlebug All Mixed Up and Simply Sweet rub-on letters
• Making Memories brads
• Self-adhesive jewel dots
• Stardust Stickles glitter glue
• Martha Stewart Valentine Lace border punch
• Tiny flower punch
• Sizzix Flower – Daisies die
• Bazzill Basics Flowers and Flourishes jewel templates
• Manual die-cutting machine
• PC and printer

To create…

1 Fold a large tie-dye daisy in half, tucking a tiny piece of double-sided tape into the crease to keep it folded. Remove the brad from a Belle Fleur flower and separate the two layers. Fold each of these in half and secure as before.

2 Die-cut a large Sizzix daisy from pink mesh and trim away four of the petals. Assemble all the flowers together as shown, securing them with a brad. Repeat the process using a medium tie-dye daisy and a medium die-cut mesh daisy and secure the layers using a smaller brad.

3 Print a sheet of pink paper from the digital kit and cut a heart approximately 160mm wide by 180mm tall from it. Position the flowers on the heart and apply jewels at the edge of the heart at each side of the petals that overlap the outline. Mark the flower centres.

4 Remove the flowers and complete the outline of the heart using jewels plus four tiny flowers punched from white paper with a jewel centre.

5 Print a sheet of dotty paper from the digital kit and use the border punch along one edge. Trim to 8″-square then attach your heart centrally at a slight angle.

6 Use the Bazzill template to create the flower stems. Remove the template and fill in the spaces between the template jewels with further jewels.

7 Apply your rub-on greeting to the heart. Lift the brad prongs on the flowers and attach to your heart, pushing through both layers of paper before flattening the prongs again to secure.

8 Trim 15mm from the opening edge of your 8″-square card blank, front and back, and attach your paper layers to the card, aligning the left-hand, top and bottom edges.

9 Using an off-cut of dotty paper, punch a border along one edge, trim to a 13mm-wide strip and attach to the back of the punched edge on your card. In addition to being decorative, this strengthens the edge of the paper extending beyond the card blank.

Project by Judith Hannington. Originally published in Creative Cardmaking issue 11.