Designer: Melissa Phillips

SUPPLIES: All supplies from Creative Café unless otherwise noted. Cardstock: (white) Patterned paper: (Red Notebook, Flourish Blue from Spirit collection) Accents: (pink buttons, library cards, price tags, chipboard frames, red felt flower) Fibers: (orange twill, orange scalloped velvet ribbon); (white string) no source Finished sizes: 4 1/4" x 5"

ELEMENTARY DESIGN
1 Make card from cardstock.
2 Cut patterned paper slightly smaller than card front; adhere.
3 Cut rectangle of patterned paper; adhere two sides and bottom to form pocket.
4 Insert library card; adhere.
5 Adhere price tag, button, and frame.

SECONDARY DESIGN
Sand all edges.
1 Repeat steps 1-3 in elementary design.
2 Adhere velvet ribbon.
3 Repeat step 4 from elementary design.
4 Adhere price tag, twill, and frame.
5 Tie button with string; adhere.

GRADUATE DESIGN
Sand all edges.
1 Repeat steps 1-3 in elementary design.
2 Stitch around edges of card front.
3 Repeat steps 2-5 from secondary design.
4 Stitch button to flower with string; adhere.

Adding to Your Designs
Learn to increase the complexity and detail in your paper crafting designs with our “Graduate Your Design” feature in the June/July 2008 issue of Paper Crafts magazine.