Cardmaking: Flowers from Circles

A circle is such a simple shape, and yet it is one of the most versatile to use in arts and crafts. I decided to do a short series on making cards, using simple circular shapes. I was inspired by some of these ideas from Pinterest and other sources, while some are entirely my own. The grouping of it together here in one place, makes for a fascinating collection. In today's blog, I will show you how to use simply circular cut-outs from cardboard to make cute flowers, using only pens to complete the picture.

I decided on a range of A4 cardboard sheets of different colours. I would use these for a number of projects. The colours I settled on were: red, yellow, blue, orange, green and black.

Start by folding the black sheet in half to form a card.

Cut squares from the green, blue and red. Draw large freehand circles on each of these. Strive for imperfection when drawing these circles, as this simple card derives its charm from the imperfections.

Cut out the circles.

Draw smaller circles on squares cut from the green, yellow and orange, and cut these out.

Here you can see what sizes to aim for more or less.

Cut even smaller circles from squares cut from red, yellow, orange, blue and green.

This is what we are aiming for.

Use double-sided tape to stick the circles to the card.

Cut the yellow cardboard slightly smaller so that it would fit inside the black card with ease. Retain the pieces of cardboard that were cut off, for a later project.

Fold the yellow cardboard in half.

Stick double-sided tape along one of the folded edges.

Insert this yellow card inside the black one. This creates a space to write your messages that is easier to write on with a normal pen, unlike the black cardboard.

I then used a white paint marker that I had also bought at the Herbert Evans sale to draw petals around one of the flowers. The paint came out in such uncontrollable blobs, that I was forced to go over the blobs with a black marker to fix it. I could not continue to use this pen for the rest of the project and was forced to switch to another white pen with a thicker tip. Anyway, draw double petals all around the circle and then put dots inside the inner petals.

Draw the detail for one of the other flowers. Here you can see that I have switched to my trusted Posca marker, which never fails to deliver brilliant results! Note also the detail drawn inside the flowers.

Add the detail for a third flower and draw a half a leaf peeping into the page.

Add the detail for the first of the smaller flowers and draw in the foreground.

Draw the detail for the last of the smaller flowers.

I then switched to a black marker to add some shadows to the flowers.

The completed card.

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