Recycled Floral Art Card

by: Nancy Thaut, Artistic Guide

Finished size: 4.25" x 5.5"

Supplies:
Stamps:
Inkadinkado
Paper:
Paper sack
Telephone book page
Lightweight fiberboard from mail junk
*Cardstock and extras from 12”x12” cardstock sheet
Ink:
Pearlescent Ivy Brilliance ink pad (Tsukineko) 
Other:
12-oz aluminum pop can with top and bottom cut off
Weed grass from yard
Clear embossing powder
Cuttlebug (Provo Craft)
decorative scissor (Provo Craft)

*Hint: I usually buy 12x12 cardstock so that I can get 2 – 11”x4.25” card bases.  The 3.5”x12” piece I use for stamping and the 1”x11” piece can be used for trim, borders, or small stamps.

Directions:

1. Cut Fiberboard 5.5”x4.25”. Cut paper sack and telephone book page 2.75”x4.25 and glue to fiberboard.  Run the 1” scrap through the Cuttlebug. Trim and center on fiberboard base.  



2. Stamp vase on cardstock. 



3. Run pop can through the Cuttlebug and trim with decorative scissors, 2.5”x3.5”.  The size would depend on size of stamp.  Cut out vase and slice opening so you can put grass into the vase.  Slide grass through slit and move around until achieve a balance you like.  Tape grass to back of vase. 

   

4. Attach folded card base 11”x4.25” before attaching metal & vase.  Glue down metal and use pop dots to back of vase for dimension and also so weeds fit.

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3 Responses »

1. 

   Melanie

   April 3, 2010 • 2:52 am

   Oh that metal looks great with that embossing folder. Love it.
2. 

   cynD

   April 2, 2010 • 7:39 pm

   OH by the way thanks for sharing this great card, and the very nice instructions. Thanks I get rattling on so much I don't always make sense.. I hope this previous one made some sense... I do need to look in to an embossing machine of sorts. The plates too. I have to see what will work with my Syzzix, standard little olde red one. It is a dream machine. Never has it failed me...
3. 

   cynD

   April 2, 2010 • 7:34 pm

   Oh Miss Nancy.. Love this!! I use aluminum cans when I can.. I love this. I have not used embossing folders as of yet.. I have to get after this product... I do love it. However I have embossed it with the embossing plates and stylist. that is just so fab! and junk paper.. OH ya some of the best materials you get for free in the form of junk mail! Way to go! Great Card and instructions thanks. Also I have gotten various news papers with chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hebrew various ethnic papers just for the graphics of the print. Having lived just out side Washington DC I have picked them up down in the train stations.. some free... I love that idea as well. I would guess you could go on line and look for a news paper from various countries and get a page or two to print to have some other quite architectual type print. Just for this type of card. Hey I have grasses and leaves! LOTS of leaves.