It’s my Mum’s birthday today (Happy Birthday, Mum!) and I wanted to make her a special card. I’ve combined three of my favourite things here: pretty paper, bunting and stamps! I bought all of the things to make this card from Paperchase – one of my favourite shops!

You will need:

A piece of white A4 card
A selection of coloured papers
Some alphabet stamps
An ink pad
Scissors and glue

Step 1

Take the first letter stamp and stamp it on one of the pieces of coloured paper. Cut out a triangle around the letter.

Repeat this with all of the other letters.

Step 2

Fold the piece of A4 card in half and arrange the bunting pieces. I originally wanted to make a landscape card, but after moving them around a little I realised that portrait would work better for my bunting.

Step 3

Glue each bunting piece onto the card – don’t worry about glueing the pointy bits of the triangles, as this gives a better effect of the bunting hanging.

Ta-dah! That’s it – you’re ready to send it!

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I discovered Flow magazine through Instagram – I kept seeing beautiful photos of things that were in the latest issue! Then I discovered that they had issued a special book to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the magazine. How could I resist?! 

As you flick through the pages of the Book for Paper Lovers, you cannot help but be delighted. I’m speaking as a stationery nut here – so if you love paper then you’ve got to get a copy!

There are beautiful papers:

Postcards to send:

Gift tags:

Craft ideas:

Beautiful words of wisdom:

And then even more paper!

These are just a few of my favourite things in this book – but there are so many more! It’s a bit like a Where’s Wally puzzle, in that each time you look, you see something that you didn’t before. This books costs €14.95, which some people may think is a little pricey. But I think it was worth every bit! I’m probably just going to admire it for a little while, so I can think carefully about what to use each thing for…

If you would like to buy a copy, visit the Flow website. They have a cool blog too!

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