Learn how to make this card using these free instructions. Handmade cards are the perfect way to show you care, and with these card-making steps, creating this design is easy.

SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (Pool, Tide, Grass) Hero Arts; (white) Neenah Paper Patterned paper: (Dot Mango) Memory Box Inc. Rubber stamps: (Daisy Outline Pattern; sunflower, bee from Garden Flowers set) Hero Arts Clear stamp: (sentiment from Wake Up set) Paper Smooches Dye ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko; (Soft Pool) Hero Arts Watermark ink: Tsukineko Embossing powder: (White) Hero Arts Color medium: (assorted markers) Copic Accents: (clear pearls; clear rhinestones) Hero Arts Dies: (bee, sunflower) Hero Arts; (scalloped border) A Muse Studio Tool: (corner rounder punch) We R Memory Keepers Finished size: 4 1/4" square

1 Make card from cardstock. Stamp Daisy Outline Pattern and adhere patterned paper strip; round corners.

2 Die-cut scalloped border from cardstock; adhere.

3 Stamp sentiment on cardstock strip; emboss. Trim strip and adhere to card.

4 Die-cut sunflower and bee from cardstock; stamp images on dies.

5 Color images with markers. Adhere rhinestones and pearls to sunflower; color with markers.

6 Draw dots with marker. Adhere die cuts with foam tape.

Designer Tip

Create a perfect bee trail by drawing a swirl first with pencil. Then draw dots with a marker and erase pencil lines.

Appeared in:

July/August 2012

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