How to make a beautiful greetings card using butterflies and flowers fabric

Butterflies card

Butterflies and flowers

Description

A square cream card has fabric, featuring butterflies and flowers, mounted in a round aperture. The fabric is padded and the card is finished with decorative gold peel-off adhesive corners.

Materials used

A double fold cream greetings card with round aperture
144mm x 144mm (5½ in x 5½ in)
Butterflies and flowers fabric
Polyester wadding
Peel-off sticker No 81 "Borders link"
Double-sided adhesive tape

Method

You can use any fabric with a suitable pattern. Select the part of the pattern you are going to use.

Cut a square of fabric slightly larger than the aperture.
If you want to bring a part of the design forward, such as a butterfly wing, cut round the part that will overlap onto the card. Put double sided tape onto the back of this cut-out piece.

Cut out a circle of wadding the size of the aperture.

Put a strip of double-sided tape across the middle of the back of the fabric. Secure the wadding to the fabric.

Put double sided tape on the inside of the card around the aperture. Fix the material to this.

Pull out the cut-out piece to the front of the card. Remove the backing of the double-sided tape and fix in place.

Close the backing flap of the card and fix with double-sided tape.

Add peel-off sticker decorative corners.

The butterflies and flower card was made by Linda Jefferson.

The peel-off sticker corners reproduced here by kind permission of the copyright owners.

This project was originally published at Card Inspirations. It is reproduced here here with kind permission. Card Inspirations are sponsors of the Card Making Inspirations web site.

Product availability

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The layouts and techniques used in these projects are timeless. However, products such as stamps, stickers and patterned papers are quickly discontinued to be replaced by new items. When this happens we suggest that there is a lot of satisfaction in finding an alternative product that suits the design.

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