Bunting Card

Mother's day is coming up, but it's always a good time to tell someone you love them! It doesn't have to be Valentine's Day! Say I love you with a cute bunting card! It's super simple!

Set Up:

• Black Puff Paint
• Yellow Embroidery Floss
• Gray Felt
• Blue Cardstock Paper
• Red Cardstock Paper
• Hot Glue Gun & Glue
• Embroidery Needle 

•   Time: Waiting for a pizza to cook, eating the pizza while puff paint dries, then put on Robot Chicken.

Step One: Fold the Card

This one should be self explanatory. Take the paper and meet one end to the other end. Tip: Use the bottom of the paint bottle to pressure the fold straight.

Step Two: Cut your Felt

Cut several squares of gray felt and then cut your triangles out of the felt, make sure they are long triangles not perfect. Tip: Cut more triangles than you'll need!! 

Step Three: Add Your Letters

Take the puff paint and paint your letters onto each triangle. Puff paint takes awhile to dry so make sure you give it time before moving forward.

Step Four: Add Hearts

Cut hearts out of the red card stock and glue the heats onto the triangles for spacers.

Step Five: Sew the bunting together

This is so quick! Get your embroidery needle out and stitch the floss through each row of the bunting.

Step Six: Assemble the Bunting

Place the buntings onto the card where they will fit. Place dots of glue to the edges of the card where the floss is. 

Cut the remaining piece of floss.

Place small dots of glue on the flags and place them to the card.

You're Done!! 

Now write something sweet in there and give that card to your special someone! Check out With Two N's on Facebook give us a like and share your creations! 

Enjoyed the tutorial but don't feel like spending the time? Well pop on over to the ETSY shop and buy one for yourself! 

Flower Pot Card Tutorial

Mother's day is just around the corner on May 12th! Maybe the last tutorial for Mother's Day cards just wasn't intense enough for you! That's fine, kick it up a notch! Make your momma a beautiful flower pot card that will make her feel like a beautiful flower! 

Set Up:

• White Craft Paint
• Assorted Buttons
• Light Pink, Pink, Purple, Blue, Goldenrod, and Green Felt
• Light Purple, Green & Brown Cardstock Paper
• Lace Strip
• Green Embroidery Floss
• Glue Gun & Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Paint Brush
• Time: One Episode of Parks & Rec

Step One: Fold the Card

This one should be self explanatory. Take the paper and meet one end to the other end. Tip: Use the bottom of the paint bottle to pressure the fold straight.

Step Two: Cut Paper Pieces

Take the brown paper and cut into the shape of your pot. Tip: Fold your paper in half and you will create a symmetrical pot.

Take your green paper and cut into a V shape that will fit in your pot. The top of the V should be slightly less wide then the pot top. Take your scissors and fray the edges of the top to create grass.

Glue the grass piece to the back of the pot piece.

Step Three: Create & Add Flower Stems

Take the embroidery floss and cut 5 pieces to about 3 1/2". Take your hot glue gun and glue strips to the back of the grass.

Then put a 3/4 square of glue around the base part of your pot and glue to the card.

Step Four: Create Flowers

For this card I chose to do 5 simple flower embellishments. You can choose to do 5 of the same or mix and match however you like! Now I present MINI-STEPS FOR MINI FLOWERS!

Daisy Flower

Step One: Cut a circle of yellow 
Step Two: Fold the circle in half and cut slits to create the petals, then go back and detail the petals with rounded tips.

Step Three: Cut your felt pieces into 2in. by 1 1/2in. squares. 

Step Four: Glue a button to the center of the felt piece! aaaand You're done! 

Tulips

Step One: Cut a U shape of the felt with a rounded bottom and a square top.

Step Two: Fold the U in half and cut a triangle out of the flat side.

Step 3: Cut two small triangular pieces and glue them to the back of the Tulip, and you're done! Tip: I used the scraps from the Rose flower to add the triangles to the tulip! Save Felt and save $$! :)

Rose

Step One: Cut a circle of light pink

Step Two: Cut a swirl into the circle. The technique to this is similar to the larger Rose tutorial.

Step Three: Glue small pieces of each layer starting with the interior and working your way out. This is also similar to the Rose tutorial. 

Step Four: Glue button to the center of the flower.

Violets

Step One: Cut purple felt into a circle.

Step Two: Cut small triangles to separate the circle into thirds.

Step Three: Cut the center of the top piece into a rounded top. Cut the two bottom sections into Y shaped petals, Cut the remaining piece of the top portion into more petals.

 Step Four: Glue yellow button into the center.

Carnations...Sort Of..

Step One: Cut 2 circles of blue felt, make sure one circle is smaller than the other.

Step Two: Fray the edges of the circles, then clip random tops of the frays.

Step Three: Glue the smaller circle on top of the larger  circle & glue button to the center.

Leaves

Step One: Cut green felt into the rectangles
Step Two: Fold rectangle in half and cut a rounded edge for the leaf.

Step Five: Assemble the Card Pieces

Place a dot of hot glue to the tip of the embroidery floss piece where you would like the flower to be placed. Repeat this step for each flower. Tip: Place the flowers so they will fit before you glue them down! Also, glue from the center outward.

Step Six: Add Lace Embellishment

Measure the lace piece to the pot piece and cut it to size then glue a straight line of hot glue onto the pot piece and place the lace down.

 Step Seven: Add Leaves

Place your leaves the same way you placed your flowers to make sure they fit properly, then glue them down with a small line of glue.

Step Eight: Paint your message!

In pencil lightly sketch the letters or embellishments you'd like on the card, then use the craft paint to paint on your message.

You're Done!! 

Now write something sweet in there and give that card to your Momma! Give her a hug and maybe a few felt flowers!! Check out With Two N's on Facebook give us a like and share your creations! 

Enjoyed the tutorial but don't feel like spending the time? Well pop on over to the ETSY shop and buy one for yourself!