Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video, I'm going to show you how to make
this super cute greetings card. It's got 3D effect layered flowers on it, and then the
Cricut machine draws all of the stems and leaves to make this really nice greetings card design
that is super easy to put together. This design is included in the Craft
with Sarah Clubhouse. If you're already a member, simply log into your account to get
the Design Space project. If you're not a member, go to craftwithsarah.com/clubhouse to find out
more. I'll drop the link in the description of this video so you can go and check it out.
Let's hop over to Design Space and see how this design looks when it's all opened up. Here's what
the project looks like once you've opened it in Design Space. We've got our main card blank here.
You can choose to not cut this one and to do it from a pre-made card blank instead, which is what
I did, so if you want to do that, then hide this layer by clicking on the main group and then press
‘ungroup’. Scroll down to the bottom until you find the card blank and simply click the eye next
to it in the layers panel. That bit then won't be cut out. It's up to you if you do that or not,
but you do want to do the rest of the layers. We've got a rectangle here in blue, but you
can of course use whatever colour you like, and then we've got the white rectangle which is going
to be used to draw lines on to make the stems and the leaves. You could change these to foil
instead which I think would be really pretty. It would definitely add that extra ‘wow’ factor
to your card. To keep things simple for this video I've decided to leave them as draw lines.
We've then got all of the flowers on top, and each flower is made up of three layers.
When you go to make it, everything is sized and done for you. It will split it out onto your
different mats, so go ahead get everything cut out and then I'll show you how to stick it together.
Here are all my pieces cut out. I'm using a pre-made card blank rather than cutting
one out with my Cricut because I've got a lot of them that I'm trying to use up.
I've then got the coloured piece to go on top of there and then the piece with the
stems drawn on. I did these in a black glitter gel pen. It's one of the Cricut pens, and you probably
can't really see on the video, but it's got a lovely shine to it when the light catches it.
Then I've got all my flowers, so four of them, that I've already put together,
but I'm going to show you how to do it with the one that's remaining.
What I'm going to do is give the flowers a little bit more depth and a 3D look than if I was just
to stick the pieces one on top of the other. To do that we're going to curl the petals up.
To do this you'll need a tool with a rounded edge. If you've got an embossing tool, where they've got
the little balls on the end, that is ideal. I didn't have one of those so I'm using a compass
that just happens to have a rounded tip on the end. I'm doing a little bit of a hack here based
on what I've got. You'll also need a soft surface to press the flowers onto to make the 3D effect.
I like to use an old piece of packaging foam. It's basically a big bit of foam that means I
can push down into it and it'll squish in when it pushes. Here are my three layers.
Apologies for all the dog hair on this bit of foam if you can see it! It is a bit covered,
but pretty much everything in in my house is covered in dog hair, so we'll roll with it.
I'm going to start with the biggest flower and then take the ball end of my compass,
or your embossing tool, or whatever it is you're going to use, and push down in the middle and do
little circular motions. Can you see that when I did that, it's made all these petals bend
upwards a little bit? It gives it a 3D effect, but it will fold flat to go in an envelope.
Do the same thing for the other flowers. In the middle…just a little circle. I'm pushing
fairly hard, but you want to be careful not to do it so hard that you tear the paper. Once more
with the smallest one. There we are. I'm going to move these to one side and take my foam away
and then we can stick them together.
You can use whatever glue you like for this. I normally use tacky glue because it's got a nice
thin nozzle on it. This one is from Tonic Studios, but there are lots of different brands you can
choose from, but recently I bought a new glue which I'm trying out. This is made by Collall.
I don't know. Maybe that's how you say it? It’s a solvent basically, so you do need a
well-ventilated area. It's a see-through glue and it works really well. I've tried it on a few
cardstock projects, and it doesn't ripple your card when you add a lot of it. With tacky glue,
a lot of the time if you're using it for card making, it can cause bubbles in your card.
So far, I haven't had that happen with this glue. It does come in quite a big bottle. I bought it on
Amazon. I'll add a link in the description. I also bought these tiny bottles on Amazon,
and these came in a pack of 12. They have the smallest nozzles on them! It's just like a needle,
which means you can put the glue in teeny tiny places and it works really well! I got 12 of these
for not a lot of money. I squeezed some of the big bottle into this little one and, so far, I'm
very happy with this glue. I'm going to just clear the nozzle. I tend to get a few bits stuck to it.
I’ll put a big dollop of it in the middle of the big flower, and
it does get things like threads on it occasionally - a bit like a glue gun. So watch out for that!
I’ve put my orange flower in the middle and I'm going to use the end of my compass again
to put it into position and just hold it down.
It can take a little while for the glue to stick and hold it. That's partly because when we push
down to emboss the petals up, we domed the bottom so they're not quite flat. That's why I put such
a big dollop of glue in the middle - to make sure that there's going to be enough to hold it.
I'm going to do the same thing for the smallest petal. Put a big dollop of glue in the middle
and then add this petal and put it into place with the compass.
I'm just going to hold it for a few seconds to make sure it will stick nicely.
In the middle, I’m going to add a drop of Novu drops.
These come in a whole range of colours and you squeeze them into a dot and it dries
domed and 3D. You can add really nice effects to cards with them. This one is a Novu Crystal
Drop and the colour is ‘Ripened Pumpkin’. You can see on the ones I've already done.
I've got some dots in the middle and that's been done with this Novu drop.
I'm going to open it up and just do a little tester to make sure it's all running
correctly - which it is. I’m putting a nice big glob of it in the middle of my flower. These dry
in a perfect sphere so they look really nice and neat and add a lot of dimension and a little bit
of an added extra to craft projects. They do take a little while to dry so I'm going to leave this
for about 10 minutes and then come back. That's dry to the touch now so I can get
on with making the rest of my card. Next, I'm going to stick my card layers together. You can
either use glue or 3D foam pads to add dimension, or double-sided tape, any of
those will work fine. Because my flowers are quite dimensional, I don't want to add foam, personally,
because I want to make sure that this will go through the letterbox as a standard letter,
so I don't have to pay more postage on it. I'm going to do these flat, and I'm actually
going to try my new glue, just to see if it is going to ripple this paper - I'm
hoping it won't! Let's give it a go. I'm going to do the blue layer first.
I’m putting some glue all the way around. It comes out so easily from these little bottles,
and because the nozzle is so thin you can be quite precise with it.
Stick that onto the card. I'm really bad at sticking things on straight! With glue,
you do have that bonus that you've got a bit of wiggle room if you need to move it about.
Let's push that down. You can see there's no seeping through of that glue, and the paper
isn't rippling or warping, it's perfect. That's another thumbs up for this glue!
Next, I'm going to stick on the layer with the stem, so again, let's put some glue on here
and stick it to the card. I’m going to make sure I'm putting it on the right way,
and again, I’m putting that straight in the middle of the one that's already there.
Push it down, being careful not to push down on the pen. I'm not sure if it might smudge
because it's not been that long since I drew it with the Cricut and I don't want to smudge it.
Now all we have left to do is add on the flowers. Here they are. I’m
adding a little bit more glue.
Putting some glue down at the bottom. A nice big blob, and then just place it on.
I'm going to push it down a little bit, just to make sure that glue's going to stick.
I think it's all good.
I think I'll do the three top ones first and then fill in the smaller ones so that
I can make sure I've got the spacing right. Here's number two. Put a big dollop of glue
on the back. Oh! I've got a stringy bit there. Let's get rid of that.
And let's put it in the middle.
Can you see that nice effect from bending up those petals? I think it's definitely worth
taking the time to do that because it adds quite a lot of visual appeal and interest to the card.
Now that I've got the ones to go on the smaller stems, there we go – oh, I dropped that one a
little bit - and then the last one… I’ve got some glues going all stringy here.
This one will not stop!
Put that one on there. All right. If you are using this glue, then clean off the top with a
bit of tissue and put the lid back on. I'm not going to touch this yet; I'm
going to let it dry because I've added quite a lot of glue - especially under these flowers.
I'm just going to leave it for a while to get that glue nicely set, but there
is our finished card with our dimensional flowers using the draw tool on the Cricut.
Don't forget, to get the design to make this card, head on over to www.craftwithsarah.com/clubhouse.
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