Friends Are the Family

By Beatriz Jennings

Materials

• Light green card stock
• Printed papers: pale green, light orange, red
• White felt
• Ivory envelope to fit a 51/2 x 4-inch card
• Stamps: flowers, friendship sentiment, flower border
• Ink pads: black dye, brown distress
• Colored pencils
• 22 inches 5/8-inch-wide lavender polka-dot grosgrain ribbon
• 6 buttons
• Assorted threads (optional)
• Sewing machine with white thread
• Sewing needle
• Paper adhesive

Project note: Use black ink unless otherwise directed.

Form a 51/2 x 4-inch top-folded card from light green card stock. Cut a 51/2 x 4-inch piece of pale green printed paper; ink edges brown and adhere to card front. Adhere a 51/2 x 23/4-inch piece of white felt to top of card front. Machine-stitch along edges of card front.

Stamp seven flowers onto different colors of printed papers; cut out and adhere six flowers to white felt on card as shown. Thread buttons if desired, knotting ends on back. Trim excess threads. Adhere a button to center of each flower on card.

Stamp friendship sentiment onto lower right side of card front. Wrap ribbon around card front and tie a bow on left side; trim ribbon ends at an angle.

Adhere a 45/8 x 33/4-inch piece of red printed paper inside card; adhere remaining flower to lower right corner of paper rectangle.

Stamp flower border along bottom of envelope front; color as desired.

Inside details.

Sources: Card stock from DMD Inc.; printed papers from K&Company; stamps from Doodlebug Design Inc.; distress ink pad from Ranger Industries Inc.

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