How to Decorate Greeting Cards with Flowers

Greeting cards decorated with flowers adds a personal touch.

Greeting cards are a popular way to express your feelings to someone. Making a greeting card with flowers adds a touch of nature. Follow these steps and you'll have a flower-covered greeting card sure to brighten up anyone's day.

Things You'll Need

• 4 to 6 fresh-cut flowers
• Paper towels
• Phone book
• 8.5 x 11 inch card stock
• Tweezers
• Decoupage glue
• Craft brush
• Scissors
• Pencil

Instructions

1. Pick or buy four to six fresh-cut flowers. The flowers themselves should be no bigger than 2 inches in diameter.

2. Using scissors, cut the stems off the base of the flower.

3. Lay the flowers face up on a paper towel. Cover the flowers with a second sheet of paper towel, making sure the flowers are covered and no petals show from beneath the paper towel.

4. Place a phone book on top of the flowers to press them flat. Keep pressing the flowers for two weeks.

5. Fold your card stock in half to 8.5 by 5.5 inches.

6. Arrange the pressed flowers on the card front in a pattern you like.

7. Remove the flowers and mark with pencil where you had placed them on the card front.

8. Brush decoupage glue over your pencil marks on the front of the card.

9. Use tweezers to place the flowers on the glue and gently press down with the tweezers. Let the glue dry for 10 minutes.

10. Gently brush glue over the flowers and the paper around the flowers using the craft brush. Let the glue dry for one hour. Add a greeting to complete the card.

Tips & Warnings

• Use flowers with thin petals like pansies or daisies. Flowers like these are easier to glue to the card than flowers with thick petals, such as marigolds.

• You can also use thin leaves, seeds and grasses to add variety to your card.

References

• "Greeting Card Making"; Deborah Hufford; 2006