Large Floral Blank Topper 10Completed by Gwyneth George

I printed the sheet onto good quality, glossy photo paper and cut out the main panel and butterflies. I also printed out a couple of extra butterflies. I also printed out two shades of purple backing papers from cup261016_1435 and cup265385_1435 onto heavyweight, white, supersmooth, paper.

I punched loads of little flowers out of these two papers - the variegated tones of colours within each sheet means that the flowers have a more natural light and dark shading within them.

I used a metallic marker in the centre of each of the punched out flowers and tipped the end of the petals of the paler colour flowers with a purple ink pad.

I prepared a base card by cutting and scoring an A3 sheet of Centura Pearl Snow White card to make it 1cm larger in each direction than the main panel.

I rounded the right hand corners using a punch and went around all the edges with the same purple ink pad I'd used on the flowers.

I also put a border of fine, gold, peeloffs just inside the purple inked edge.

I wrapped a piece of fine, organza, purple ribbon around the main panel around a third of the way up, using some strong double sided tape to hold it in place while I worked.

The main panel was then mated onto a piece of linen textured metallic gold cardstock. The mat was trimmed and the same corner rounder punch as the main card was used.

I used 2mm deep, double sided, foam pads to attach the mated panel to the front of the prepared card.

To decorate the card I prepared a greetings panel from a Happy Birthday greeting pre-printed on acetate which I attached to a piece of the same gold cardstock as the main mat, and again rounded the corners (this is attached using double side tape in two corners).

I shaped each of the flowers by pinching the petals and then used glue gel to stick them all over the central area of the main panel, making sure that some covered the corners of the greeting panels where the tape was visible.

I stuck two butterfly layers together to make a dimensional butterfly and put on top of the flowers, and shaped and stuck the other two butterfly layers over the butterflies that are a part of the main panel.