Spring Flower Pot Card - Use up your scraps

 Hello Crafters

I saw these lovely Flower Pots on Gi Kerr’s YouTube channel, and thought what a great way to use up your little scraps of papers that you couldn’t bear to throw away but are too small for most projects.

I will link the video from Gi Kerr below so you can see it being made.

To make this you need:

 1 sheet of cream card A4 or a piece of tea stained paper ( I used cream card)

Oddments of lace (preferably scalloped bottom)

Oddments of cheesecloth or Muslim (I used organza ribbon)

Scraps of paper cut with flower punch to produce lots of small flower shapes 

A small piece of cream card for a tag 

With the the page portrait fold up from the bottom about 3.5” and then fold down that flap about 1/2” to strengthen the seam

Leaving about an inch of space from the folded up piece fold down the top of the page. 

This gives you a wallet shape from which you can cut 2 card about 3.5” wide 

Next cut the top flap down on each card the flap just needs to cover the lip of the pot (the piece you folded over for the top of the pot) you will use this next to cut the semi-circle that holds the flowers

Next using the spare card cut a half circle (use a reel of tape or cup to draw around) 

It will be wide enough to fit the top of the pot and you can cut around your template with scissors as it does not need to be exact as it will be covered with flowers.

Attach to the pot. 

Colour the flower pot , I used distress inks so I could blend it darker at the sides and leave it lighter at the middle as this gives the illusion of shape to the pot.

Then decorate, place your organza or Muslim on the top section of the pot for the background, and glue a piece of lace to the base of the top flap of the pot, and then add the flowers. 

The flowers were cut using a multi flower punch as it is so quick and this gave me the 2 basic shape flowers it also has some leaves but I did not use them 

You can gather these in advance by cutting them out whenever you have little scraps and then select form your bag of flowers to make the cards.

Last I cut a cream tag to sit inside of the pot to add my greeting from a piece of scrap card. I also added a bead opening but this is optional.

This is the link to Gi Kerrs video that shows how to make the card using tea stained papers.

https://youtu.be/blFGvOlz58E