Flower Cards To Make and Treasure

by Various Authors

      Flowers are always popular subjects for cards, and here is a book filled with projects on how to make floral cards. Compiled from all the floral projects found in seven earlier card-makingcardmaking books, you are sure to find something suitable for all flower lovers in here.

If you want ideas for men’s cards look elsewhere; here is a wonderfully girly mixture of projects using a variety of different popular (and less well known) materials and methods. Pierce holes, stitch, do paper tole, rubber stamp, use silk ribbon, and work with glass paints and more. There are flower fairies, Victorian cards, oriental-inspired subjects and art nouveau as well as simple studies of individual garden favorites. Projects are all staged with easy to follow instructions, photographs of the work in progress and templates for the main idea as well as other possible similar cards on the same theme. Most of the cards can be made using the usual card-makingcardmaking materials that all crafters have to hand, but there are some templates that might prove tricky to source in these days of die cutters and pyramage. If you are a silk ribbon embroidery tyro then I would advise getting one of Ann Cox’s excellent beginners books first. The projects in the latter section of this book are not for those who have never done this sort of work before and it is not a papercraft, so maybe does not truly belong in the same place as the rubber stamp, pricking tool and chalk set. The cards are lovely however, and of course are floral so seeing them may well prove an incentive to take up a new hobby. All in all, a lovely book that will appeal to a variety of levels of card makers.