Start with old floral greeting cards, wallpaper, or floral printed scrapbook paper (you need two or more copies of each individual flower). Take scissors and cut out individual flowers and leaves (this is good busy work to do while watching television). When it comes to assemble the card, you can arrange you cutouts to your pleasing, then use pop dot foam adhesives to layer leaves and petals over your base to give the bouquet a three-dimensional quality.

These cards are great for all kinds of celebrations, such as birthdays, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day or just to let someone special know you are thinking about them.

1. Use the border punch to cut four border strips. Apply adhesive of choice to the border strips and apply to the blank card so that the edges of the cut design meet the edges of the card. To miter the border corners, hold two strips at right angles to one another, use scissors or a craft knife to cut through both strips at the diagonal where they meet. (If you don't have a border punch, see the notes at the bottom of this page.)

2. Cut a piece of background paper to fit just inside the punched border frame. Use adhesive of choice to affix the paper, centered, in the frame.

NOTE ON THE FLOWERS:
For this particular design, I used flower cutouts that had a lot of leaves and greenery attached. Since the card has no "vase" I clustered the flowers together in an eye pleasing formation, finishing the look off with the ribbon. The steps below show how make the three dimensional bouquet. While the photos show flowers from a different design in this series, the technique is the same for this card as well.

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Step 3. Begin arranging your flowers by placing a flat base layer down with regular adhesives (as opposed to pop dots). You will begin to layer upon this in the next step, but right now you are created the underlying base layer of flowers.	Step 4. Look at your base and decide where you will layer other flowers and/or individual petals and leaves. Cut out the necessary parts and pieces and attach pop dots to the backs of these elements. FRUGAL TIP: You can use pieces of the backing as well as the dots when using foam backed adhesives (as shown above) -- no waste!

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Step 5. Start building three dimensional layers by sticking the pop-dotted elements over the base flowers. Continue adding and layering until you are happy with the finished look of the bouquet. Step 6. Attach bow to bottom center of card with a glue dot or adhesive of choice.	*BORDER PUNCH INFO AND ALTERNATIVES We used Fiskar's lace design border punch. You could just as easily use other border punch designs. Don't have a border punch? Use decorative scissors to cut border strips or use border stickers. Click here to browse the border punch selection at Amazon.com.

MORE 3-D FLORAL GREETING CARDS Use this technique to make more great three dimensional floral greeting cards. Click here for details and instructions Shop for Paper Crafts Supplies at Amazon.com.