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Silhouette Tulip Card

Description

A pearlescent pearl greetings card has a dark green rectangle containing a silhouette tulip design cut in pink paper. The green card is outlined with a gold border sticker. A gold Happy Birthday sticker completes the design.

Materials used

• Sheet of pearlescent pearl card
• Sheet of dark green card
• Sheet of pink paper
• Silhouette stencil tulip
• Craft knife
• Cutting mat
• Metal edged ruler
• Sticker gold chain border
• Sticker gold Happy Birthday
• Sticky dots adhesive
• Card adhesive or double-sided self-adhesive tape

Method

Use the sheet of pearlescent pearl card to make a greetings card 110 x 210 mm (4¼ x 8 ins.).

Place the pink paper on the cutting mat. Place the silhouette stencil on top of the paper. Draw around the tulip design and the outside edges of the stencil in pencil. Remove the stencil and cut out the design free hand with a craft knife. Use a metal ruler for the straight edges. Remove the excess paper.

Right: silhouette stencil.

Mount the pink paper tulip design on the sheet of green card with Sticky dots adhesive.

Cut the dark green card to a rectangle with a border about 5 mm (¼ in.) larger than the rectangle of the pink tulip design.

Mount the design on the front of the greetings card with card adhesive or double-sided self-adhesive tape.

Add a gold border sticker around the edge of the rectangle of green card. It is actually the waste that is left behind when the chain border is removed.

Add a gold Happy Birthday sticker below the green rectangle.

Silhouette tulip card made by Linda Jefferson and reproduced with kind permission.

Silhouette stencil tulip design copyright and reproduced with kind permission.

Please note that this is an old project. It is left here for the interest of the reader. Some of the materials used may no longer be available. We regret that we can not help you find a source of supply for these.