Made Marian: Oozing Crafty Goodness

Myself and my better half spent a fantastic weekend in Dublin recently with my friend from college and her boyfriend.  They wined and dined us for two whole days so any ole’ thank you card just wouldn’t do.

I still had some paper flowers left over from a sample set I got from Cara Crafts so I decided to make use of them.  I wanted something simple and elegant and since the flowers were white I decided to go with a dark pink background.

For this card, I simply cut the pink paper to size (just smaller than the front of the blank card) and glued it on with some gluestick.  For the flowers I trimmed the stems but left one a bit longer, I used this to twist around the other two to keep the flowers together.  I then added some raffia to hide the twisting stem.  I used two glue dots/squares, one in the place where I was going to stick the raffia bow and one above it.  Stick the bow onto the bottom glue dot and then use the top one to keep some of the flowers in place.

I used the “Thank You” stamp on the inside of the card to keep the front as simple as possible.