Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card

Benetta
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Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - finished design glued onto card base Use the prongs of a cake fork to stamp beautiful flowers for a summer birthday card.

Total Time: 30 minutes, drying time included

Yield: one card

Supplies:

A4 sheet of ordinary printer
8.2 x 5.6 in pink cardstock
5.5 x 4 in cerise pink textured cardstock
cotton ear bud
Kaibo watercolor paint tubes: mauve; Prussian blue; pink; yellow ochre and burnt umber
food coloring: red and blue
Giotto décor opaque metal pens: magenta; blue and bronze
salt
glue stick
standard scissors
paintbrush
pencil
ruler
three small cake forks
four saucers
two plastic bowls

Steps:

Draw a 5" x 3.6" pencil frame on the paper. Add blue food coloring to one bowl. In the second, mix blue and red food coloring, so that you will have purple food coloring. Dilute the blue and purple food coloring with water ~ the amount of water used will have an effect of the depth of color you will see when painting. Then, apply the food colorings to the inside of the frame, allowing the colors to interflow.
While the food coloring is still wet, add salt to some painted areas and let it dry thoroughly. Then, remove the salt by rubbing lightly over the paint with your finger.

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - blue and purple food coloring wash on card, add salt

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - brush off salt when dry

Use the pencil and draw three randomly placed small circles in the frame.

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - draw 3 randomly placed circles in the frame

Now use the forks to make flowers: Add the following three Kaibo colors each to a separate saucer: mauve; Prussian blue, and pink. Start by dipping the prongs of the first fork into the Prussian blue paint. Then, press the prongs on the paper, pressing down around the first circle. The imprints left by the prongs should fan outwards. Keep dipping and pressing until you have added imprints all around the circle to complete the first flower. Use the second fork and the mauve paint to make the second flower, and the third fork with the pink paint for the third flower. Allow to dry thoroughly.

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - use fork to create petals

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - blue flower complete

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - mauve flower added

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - pink and final flower

Add two separate blobs of yellow ochre and burnt umber paint to the last saucer. Use the ear bud and dot painting to color the centre of each flower. Allow to dry thoroughly.

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - yellow centers

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - Q-tip for dapping burnt umber to centers

Use the bronze metal pen to add detail to the centre of the flowers, and the magenta pen to add detail to the flower petals. Use the blue metal pen to add a stitched frame around the edge. Then, cut out the design.

Fork Printed Flower Birthday Card - use metal pens to add detail to flower centers and petals, use blue metal pen to create a stitched design around the outside, cut out

Score the 8.2" x 5.6" pink cardstock to create a card sized 5.6" x 4.1". With the fold at the left, centre and glue the cerise pink textured cardstock to the front of the card. Lastly, centre and glue the floral design to the front of the card. Tip: Add glue to all areas of the paper to glue it down completely, and to help stretch the paper again.