Here's what you'll need:
Plain cardstock (for flowers)
Ribbon
Patterned cardstock (2 different styles will work best)
A plain cardstock card or you can do like I did and make your own
A personal cutter (scissors and a steady hand can work as well)
Scissors
Paper doily (smallest size you can find)
Twine
Double-sided tape
Craft glue (I've tried several, but my personal favorite is Scotch's Scrapbooker Glue)
Here's what to do:
First place your card right side up on top of a flat surface. I love working on top on my cutting mat. It provides a dark background and measurements at the same time. My card measured about 6 inches by 4 inches. You can always customize to your needs.
I chose this really pretty patterned paper to form the edges of my card. You can't really tell, but it's textured, adding another layer of detail to the card.
I used my personal cutter to cut 2 strips of about 6 inches by 1.5 of the patterned paper.
Using my double-sided tape, I started attaching the patterned paper to my card. I used a small piece of tape to fastened the corner, and then created pleats as I worked until the other end was reached. I made sure to place tape underneath all the pleats, to fasten the entire piece of paper. You can use glue, but it will take longer to set.
Next came the paper doily. This was the smallest I found at the store. I just folded the bottom third inwards and then created a cone as you can see (I apologize for the graininess of the second picture).
I then cut three pieces of ribbon and attached them to my card, making sure the bottom edges were tucked into the pleats. I then added a strip of pattered paper that I had cut about half an inch wide and using the same pleating technique attached at about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the ribbon.
I then attached my cone, which was slightly bigger than I anticipated and ended tucking behind the bottom pleated paper.
For the flowers, you can do several things, you can go the easy way and add flower stickers which will look just fine. You can also use your die cutter and cut flower patterns and paste them (I tried, but my flowers came out a little too big, I was tired and didn't want to set the cutter up again. Or for a more rustic feeling, you can cut a mismatched circle out of cardboard and then cut the circle into a very long string. Folding the string on itself, will yield the flowers you see below. I should have added the pictures of making the flowers, but I forgot.
Using a little bit of twine, or even very fine ribbon, adding a little bow at the bottom of your "bouquet" is a nice little accent. I fastened a strip of the twine with tape to go across the bouquet and secured it with tape to the back of the doily. For the little bow, I made it first and then just glued it to the top of the string of twine.
I hope you liked my little card. Please let me know in the comments if you try it and how it came out.
