Cardmaking: Poppies from Circles

We are still busy exploring how far we can take the simple shape of circles in making cards. In today's blog, we will cut blood red poppies from the red cardboard and stick them down on the green to make a beautiful field of remembrance for a loved one.

Trim the leftover green cardboard to have four straight edges.

Fold the sheet over to form a card.

Trim a wide piece of red cardboard off the main sheet.

Draw rough freehand circles of various sizes on the red cardboard, using a black marker.

Draw flower centres into each of the circles.

Cut out the circles so that the outlines still form part of the flowers.

The cut flowers.

Fold each flower in half, with the drawn side facing out.

Fold in half again.

And fold in half yet a third time.

Open the flowers up.

Put a glue dot on the backs of each of the flowers.

Stick the flowers at random on the green card.

Use a black marker to draw stems, leaves and grasses on the card.

The completed card.

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