Cardmaking: Heart-Petal Flowers Cut with Cricut

Heart shapes make some of the prettiest petals for flowers. That is exactly what we use to make today's card, but instead of using solid hearts, we us the outlines/borders of the hearts that we've cut using the Cricut Expression 2. A bit of stamping and some bling is all that is needed to put the finishing touches on the card.

This is the layout I cut with the Cricut Expression 2.

I fed a sheet of paper into the machine.

This is what the shapes look like with the excess removed.

A second sheet of paper went into the machine.

A third sheet of paper was fed into the machine.

When I was done, I had a large selection of shapes to work with.

I start the project on a purple sheet of cardboard, along with a different shade of purple paper. Both are A4 in size.

I fold the cardboard in half to serve as the card.

I crop the paper to fit on the cover of the card.

Use your Tombow glue to stick down the heart outlines that will serve as the petals of your flowers.

Ink the edges of the matting on an ink pad.

Stick the matting down on the card.

Prepare a small stamp to be used on the card. I opted for a tiny flower.

Stamp the centres of the flowers.

Stick a rhinestone to each of the centres of the flowers.

The card is done.

You can watch a short compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/KnTypQCJOew

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