Thursday, March 12, 2015

If You Can't Say Anything Nice - Neon Flower Card by Cindi Bisson

If You Can't Say Anything Nice.....
Designed by Cindi Bisson 

Materials:

KellyCraft™ - Jimbo Lojik™ Stamp Set J
                    - Get-it-Straight™ Laser Square & Multi-Mat™ 
Neon green, white card stock 
Neon/bright striped patterned paper 
The Buckle Boutique Self-Adhesive Rhinestone Stickers - Turquoise 
Makin’s Clay®  - Neons, flower cutter set, texture sheet 
Toner Plastics Craft Lace - Aqua     
Stylus tool 
Clearsnap®  ColorBox® Archival Dye ink - Very Berry, Marigold
Westcott® Titanium Bonded Scissors, Trim-Air Trimmer
We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile punch 

Instructions: 

Cut neon card stock 5 3/4 x 8” and fold in half to form card. 

Cut striped paper to 5 3/8 x 3 1/2”.       

Open neon orange Makin’s Clay®, place extra in zip lock bag with damp paper towel when not in use.  Roll to approximately 1/4” thick.  Texture by placing texture sheet on top of rolled clay and lightly pressing to transfer texture to clay.  Cut 3 small flowers using small flower cutter.  Make hole in the bottom of each flower.  Let dry. 

Punch, die-cut or hand cut 3 leaves from neon green card stock.  Use stylus to emboss detail lines in leaves. 

Ink verse with Very Berry ink, use Get-it-Straight™ Laser Square to help align stamping on white card stock.  Trim around verse. 

Ink around edges of verse with Marigold ink.
 
Cut strip of neon card stock about 1” x 1/2” wider than verse.

Use Laser Square to align, mount to card front, centered top to bottom, on the right front edge of card.  

Use Laser Square to align, and mount verse centered over neon strip. 
Apply a small amount of Quick Grab
adhesive, insert piece of turquoise Toner Plastic Craft Lace into the hole on each neon orange flower.  

Arrange flowers with stems on left card front next to verse.  

Use Crop A Dile to punch 3 small circles from self-adhesive rhinestone sheet.  Mount to
center of each flower.

Cut two pieces of self-adhesive rhinestones (4 rows) x about 1/4”, tuck under verse and mount centered on neon card stock strip.  


Glue leaves to stems of flowers. 

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