Stargazer Floral Card Tutorial with Layered Dies | Step-by-Step Guide

Hello, crafty friends! Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs. I am showing off the Stargazer dies in this pretty card as a tutorial for you to follow. I love these beautiful, simple flowers, and I wanted to add a bouquet of them to the front of my card.

Follow along as I walk you through the process!

STEP 1

Find the stems from the set, as well as the petal layering pieces, and cut them all out of green cardstock.

You will notice that the petal layering pieces are labeled with an alphabet that coordinates with the stem they layer on. This is so handy! Just keep each stem and petal piece together, and you will have no problems matching up all the pieces.

Once you have all the pieces cut and matched up, go ahead and glue on the layering pieces to add dimension. I used the same color green for the stem and petal pieces, but you could add a darker color for shadow and dimension.

STEP 2

Cut out the Stargazer flowers. These come in layering pieces as well. There is a larger-sized flower and a smaller size, and then two unopened flowers. If you lay them out and match the sizes, it is easy to see what pieces go together.

Here are all the pieces cut out and matched up. I used white cardstock so I could color the flowers myself.

STEP 3

To add the color, I used a trio of pink alcohol markers. I used the darkest color in the back, the midtone in the middle, and the lightest color in front.

STEP 4

Assemble your flower after you have colored each petal layer. I used just a drop of liquid glue on each layer.

Once your flowers are layered together, add it to a stem with another drop of glue.

STEP 5

Don’t forget to assemble those unopened flowers! I colored mine a light green and then glued them to a stem, as well.

STEP 6

To create a background, I used a piece of navy blue cardstock and cut it into three pieces using the Open Lace Frame and Landscape dies. I used the curve and the hilly dies to create three wavy layers.

STEP 7

Using the layers and some foam adhesive, layer all the pieces together, one behind the other on top of another navy blue piece of cardstock.

STEP 8

Now it is time to arrange the bouquet of Stargazers on the front of our wavy background. Play around with your arrangement until you find something you like.

I kept all my flowers to one side, and I even varied the height by slipping some stems behind the different background layers.

STEP 9

Once you are happy with your arrangement, glue down your flowers using liquid glue. I also used some rhinestones for the middle of the flowers instead of the piece that came with the die set. I like sparkle!

STEP 10

Speaking of sparkle, add some more! I used some clear sequins in a variety of sizes and sprinkled them around my bouquet of Stargazers.

To finish this card, I added the sentiment from the So Amazing Sentiments die and stamp set, mixing the die-cut word “So” with the stamped “amazing”.

And that’s it! A beautiful Stargazers card is finished.

BONUS CARDS!

I loved this whole collection so much that I mixed and matched some of the other supplies to create some coordinating cards. Here’s a peek!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have found this tutorial to be fun and easy to follow along.

Until next time, Marie Nicole

Spellbinders Supplies:

Other supplies

Liquid glue, foam adhesive, alcohol markers, colored cardstock, white cardstock, sequins,