Cards Made to Represent Easter Flowers
are always welcome. Trace [Fig. 491] on heavy paper; paint the flowers to resemble as nearly as possible the natural blossoms, shading the lily lightly and coloring the passion flower in natural hues. Paint the violet a light blue purple and its foliage green. When dry cut out the design; then bend the card at the dotted lines that each flower may stand erect, supported by the blank back piece in tent-like fashion. When bent the card will form three tents in a row, with the smallest in front, as in [Fig. 492].
Fig. 493.—One half of the cross.
Fig. 494.—The other half of the cross.
If you are not able to paint the flowers satisfactorily, use any colored, printed flowers you happen to have, either the embossed ones that come for scrap books, or those cut from colored advertisements or newspapers. Select three different blossoms or groups of flowers and, taking the largest first, lay it down flat on a strip of stiff paper with the stems or lower part toward the edge of the paper; then run a pencil line entirely around the edge of the flower; this will give a blank enclosed by the outline of the flower. Place the same blossom on the paper again, being sure to bring the top of the flower to meet the top of the outline flower, in order that the two parts may fit; then make a second tracing. Examine the lily in [Fig. 491] and you will understand more clearly. Unless the two flower tops meet, one side of the flower tent will be upside down.