Make Your Own Elegant Flower Cards

It’s a rewarding and joyful activity

This is what you’ll need:

White paper – Blank postcards or thick white paper cut into your preferred size.
Coloured paper – Choose multiple colours that speak to you, because that will help you to get the best results. I cut some of my paper out of brochures.
Scissors or cutting knife + board
Glue
Dried flowers and leaves – If you don’t have them at the moment, pick different flowers, leaves and grasses on a dry day and place them between pages of books or in a flower press – you can use them after two weeks. There are also ways to dry them instantly, by ironing them for example. Look around on the internet how to do that.

Step 1:

Choose how many cards you want to make in this batch. Six to eight would be a good number. Measure how wide you would like the white borders to be and cut the coloured paper accordingly.
Then paste the coloured papers onto the white ones.

Step 2:

Place all the cards that you have just made next to each other on the table. Take a dried flower and place it on top of each card to see which colour combination works best. Leave it on top of the one you like most. If there’s a flower that looks good on multiple colours, leave it aside for now. You’ll probably find that some colours are more difficult to match with the flowers than others. So use the flowers that match easily for those.

Step 3:

Once every card has a matching flower, glue them carefully on top of the cards. I did this by putting small dots of glue on different points of the flower and stem.
Put the card right away under a stack of magazines or books so it dries well. Take them out after about 15 minutes and cut the stem off where the paper ends.
That’s it! Now send them to your loved ones :)