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Welcome to day 25 of the 30-day mixed
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media card challenge. 30 cards using
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craft supplies you've probably got at
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home. You want the other videos on the
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screen in the description on the
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channel. You'll find them. But today,
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we're going to be making this card here.
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So, let's get started. For this card,
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you're going to need some pretty tissue
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paper to make flower shapes. Now, you
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can get your flower shapes from
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anywhere, or you can get a free
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printable off my website, which I will
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link to on the screen and in the
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description below. And then all you're
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going to need to do is cut out a
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template so that you can make all your
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flower shapes exactly the same. So,
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whatever flower shape you're using, you
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then want to put it onto your chosen
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color of tissue paper and cut out. And
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you're going to need three of each one
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for each flower. And then I also
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recommend doing some leaves. And I don't
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have a template. I just cut a nice
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little curve and another curve and just
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get some nice little pointy leaves. If
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you want some more sophisticated leaves,
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feel free, especially if you're a very
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good drawer. So once you've got them,
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you're going to want your card. So you
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just need a piece of card folded in half
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or a card blank. And then you can just
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stick your flowers on or you could
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decorate your card first. So, I'm going
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to use some rubber stamps of some little
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flowers just to add a bit of a
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background effect. So, you can see I'm
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just using yellow. It's not in your
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face. It's just to make it a bit more of
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an interesting background.
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And it'd be entirely up to you how much
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And it's up to you to decide when you're
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ready to stick your flowers on. um you
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may just do them on the card,
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if you're using a colored card, for
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example. So, I'm just doing three
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flowers. And I'm looking at it now and
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thinking the background's still a little
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bit bare for me. So, I'm going to get
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another rubber stamp and do some more
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yellow detailing. Oh, don't drop it like
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I did. Um, what you can do, of course,
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is do different colors or maybe have
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some paint and a brush and do a bit of a
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stippled effect in the background. It's
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entirely up to you. As you can see, it's
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just adding a bit more interest before I
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And you can use rubber stamps for all
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sorts of things, but I do rather like
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them for a bit of a background. I've
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used them in a few of my cards in this
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series. So, then it's time to stick.
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Now, tissue paper's dead easy to stick,
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so all you need is a glue stick.
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And I'm going to assemble each flower.
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So, I'm just going to stick those petals
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on, but I'm not going to stick them
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directly over. I'm just going to twist
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it slightly and put them on so that they
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end up looking more natural. If you want
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to do thick flowers, you could do more
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layers, but three does seem to be
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enough. And then stick that down where
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you want it on the card.
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And then of course you're just going to
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repeat for however many flowers you've
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got. Now I'm putting mine close together
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and then I'll just be adding some
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leaves. You could do them all over. You
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could just do one in the center. Get
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So leaves. I'm just going to stick mine
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down flat. You could just stick one end
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of the leaf. I'm tending to just run the
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glue stick along the length and tuck it
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in behind the flowers. So, it just looks
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like they're poking out from behind the
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You can see how I'm uh sticking them
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down at the same time to the paper. So,
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that's why I'm working on a bit of paper
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underneath. I don't need the glue all
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And then I'm happy with that. So, I'm
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going to put a greeting on. And I'm
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going to raise that up with some little
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sticky foam pads. But you could just
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stick it on with a glue stick. And if
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you want some free printable greetings,
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you can get them from our website.
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There's a link on the screen and in the
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description below. Um, they cover lots
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of different occasions, not just forever
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And there we go. Now, I actually think
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the flowers look better with a center.
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So, I'm going to glue on a button. You
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can use a multi-purpose glue, but I'm
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using a hot melt glue gun. I mean,
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strictly mine's a cool melt glue gun,
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but it's just a hot melt glue gun that
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works at a lower temperature. And then
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we're finished. So, I hope you enjoy
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making your tissue paper flower card
