Crayon Friends Greeting Card
This friendly greeting card project is quick and easy and is great for kids. This makes a great activity for after school or a rainy day, and kids will love sending it to a friend.
Materials:
- White cardstock, cut to be a 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” card and matching envelope
- Black stamp pad, red stamp pad
- Crayon Kids stamp set by Stampin Up
- 1-inch Treasure Tape
- Diamond Beadlets
- Colored pencils
- Kreinik Petite Facets sky blue
- Kreinik #12 Braid 100 White
- Flat-backed cabochons or buttons (for feet, and one heart)
Instructions:
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Using red ink, stamp “Friends” along the bottom of the front of your card.
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Using black ink, stamp a boy image and girl image on the front of your card.
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With colored pencils, color in stamped areas as desired.
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Cut pieces of Treasure Tape to fit the dress of the girl and the shirt of the boy. Attach. Remove the red liner to expose the top sticky part.
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Lay white braid in loops at the bottom of the girl’s dress (to replicate lace), pressing the thread into the tape to make it stick.
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Lay a heart button on the girl’s dress near the top.
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On the boy’s shirt, lay Petite Facets to look like buttons.
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Lay your card in a shallow pan, and cover remaining sticky areas with Diamond Beadlets.
- Cut pieces of Treasure Tape to fit the feet of each. Remove the top red liner, then attach cabochons as shoes.
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