How to make a gift card from pictures of flowers and berries in catalogues and gardening magazines

Hello again! I'm so pleased you dropped by.

One of the biggest pleasures of gardening for me is working with the wonderful colours of nature. Today I blended some of those wonderful colours to make a card for someone special.

Here are the pictures I found in gardening catalogues and magazines.

I cut out a 2cm x 2cm square out of some junk mail card and used it as a template. I then cut out squares from the pictures above by holding the template onto the photo and cutting around it with firm strokes. Here are the tools I used and the template. A craft knife and a self healing cutting board.

I then checked that I had enough squares for the blank greetings card (from Hobbycraft as were the tools) by placing them all roughly and slightly overlapping each other.  I then glued them to the card, randomly mixing the colour squares but starting on the edges. I also overlapped all the squares slightly and placed them quite randomly so they didn't line up in a grid.

The advantage of working with the squares like this is that the size of the flowers or berries in each of the photos don't have to match - by the time you cut such small squares its really all about the colour.

This has really perked me up and also relaxed me! Just the job! I can't wait to make more.

Very best wishes to you, hope to see you again soon.

xx

Caroline