You will need

• Coloured card
• Pencil
• Glue stick
• Twine or coloured string
• Scissors or craft knife and mat
• Template [Download here]

To make

1. Gather your materials and choose your colour palette. We’ve gone for a retro-inspired colour palette with bright cards but you can choose any colours you’d like to fit in with your garden or home decor!

2. Cut out your templates and begin tracing around them on to each of your coloured card, it’s up to you how many you make but we did one page of templates on each piece of coloured card to give us a nice selection of shapes to choose from.

3. You can use scissors to cut the florals out of the card or if you feel more comfortable, use a craft knife and mat. Don’t worry about cutting lots of yellow for the centres or the green for the leaves, having a mix of colours for each part of the floral shapes gives them a fun a modern feel.

4. Experiment with layering your card together, try the same shape floral in different sizes and colours on top of one another, you can layer up as much as you’d like as well as trying just simple cut shapes with the centre of the flower stuck on too.

5. Once you are happy with your colours begin sticking your layered floral shapes together with the glue stick.

6. You can give your florals a more 3d look but pulling bits of the card forward to create a less flat paper shape. Or if you prefer to have the flat just glue down each little stem of the card flat.

7. Now place your twine in between the floral shapes and glue together, this is so that you have florals both side of the twine and work along your twine leaving similar gaps between the flower to create your own bunting perfect for celebrating summer!

Project by Becki Clark (www.beckiclark.com), a creative designer inspired by the wonders of nature and seasonal changes. She has illustrated and designed surface patterns and designs for cards, wrapping paper and stationery which have been sold by large retailers in the UK. Becki's work has also been used in magazines and she regularly runs workshops teaching Brush Lettering and Botanical Illustration. Her first book "Modern Brush Lettering'" will be published later this year.