Parchment Craft & Sweet Poppy Stencil Flower Border Project Tools & Materials: Sweet poppy stencil Flower Border Parchment craft paper Black micron pen No 02 Embossing mat & Ball tools Graphite pencil and eraser. Perforating 2 needle tool Perforating mat Parchment craft scissors Brown blendable pencil, Zest it & paper stub Fine scissors Glue pen Gold mini brads Self-adhesive pearls 3mm A4 Kraft card folded in half for base card Card stock: Light brown, chocolate and gold. Digital background papers Diamonds sand from Gemini Crafts Stamps: Crackle background, Happy Birthday. Distress ink pad Tea dye, black soot. Burlap string All-purpose glue & 3D foam pads 1
Step 1: Secure stencil on top of a piece of parchment craft paper, using a Pigma micron pen size 02 carefully trace through all the shapes of the stencil. Step 2: Turn the stencil and parchment over so you are now working from the back, place onto an embossing mat. Using embossing ball tools emboss the shapes through the stencil. TIP: Make sure you use the largest ball tool you can fit into a shape first and carefully push the parchment through the stencil. To further whiten use a smaller sized ball tool. Step 3: Turn your work over and trace around the edge of the stencil using a graphite pencil and remove the stencil. 2
Step 4: Trace a flower in each corner of your design. Step 5: Emboss the corner flowers as shown. Picture shows the design at this stage. 3
Step 6: Embossing half flowers around the border. Find the centre point of each side and mark with a pencil. Place a flower at the centre point as shown, trace and emboss. Picture shows an half flower traced and embossed. Step 7: Trace and emboss half flowers on each of the other 3 sides as shown. 4
Step 8: Trace and emboss another half flower either side of your first flowers as shown, I have chosen a smaller flower but this is optional. Step 9: Continue until you have reached the ends of the pencil lines as shown. Picture shows completed half flower border. Erase away all pencil lines. 5
Step 10: Using the black micron pen add lines to make the half flowers around the border look like bows as shown. Step 11: Place your design onto a perforating mat using a 2 needle perforating tool, perforate following the outer edge of the half bows. Spot the deliberate mistake I got carried away and embossed a full flower, we will hide this later TIP: To achieve neat perforations only move along 1 needle at a time letting the back needle drop into the last hole. Step 12: Place a piece of light brown thin card under your design and secure in place it is important that it does not move. Place a perforating mat under your work and using the same 2 needle tool carefully follow your perforations made in the previous step and perforate through the parchment and into the card below. 6
Step 13: Separate the 2 layers and cut the perforations using parchment craft scissors around the border of the light brown card and take away the excess, picture shows the finished piece. TIP: Take note of which is the top of the design and make with a T Step 14: Repeat the same cutting technique around the border of your parchment piece. Step 15: Add colour on the back of your parchment design using blendable pencils, blending medium and a paper stub. Add the pencil colour, dip the paper stub into a blending medium (Zest it or White Spirit) and rub the pencil until it is a smooth colour. TIP: Do not add to much medium to the stub or you will wipe away the pencil colour, if you don t add enough medium your pencil will not blend. 7
Step 16: Make 3D Flowers from spare parchment by tracing and embossing as before. Cut out using fine scissors as shown below, add a small amount of glue to the centre of one flower layer and offset another flower on top. Step 17: Attach the parchment to the light brown card with Gold mini brads in each corner. Step 18: Attach the 3D Flowers to the main design using dry glue dots. Especially over my mistake Decorate the flower centres with selfadhesive 3mm pearls. Step 19: Attach the parchment topper to a piece of chocolate card cut slightly larger than the design using 3D foam pads. Wrap a piece of burlap string around the bottom edge and tie a bow to one side. Add a background paper to your base card. I used my Digital Diamond Papers stamped & distressed. Attach the parchment topper to the main card using 3D foam pads Stamp a greeting onto chocolate card and emboss in gold, attach this to gold card and secure to the main design using all-purpose glue. For more Digital Lessons & Tutorials take a look on our website. Click on our YouTube button at the bottom of our website page for more FREE videos. 8