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Button Snowman Cards
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Materials:
- Medium- and heavy-weight card stock
- White buttons in three graduating sizes
- Clear-drying craft glue
- Needle and colored thread (we used red, white, and black)
- Hole punch
- Ribbon
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Instructions:
- Fold medium-weight card stock in half to form a card; fold heavier card stock over it.
- Glue three buttons onto heavier card stock to represent a snowman. Position top buttonholes to form a face when filled in with knots of colored thread. (If buttons have four holes, line up top button’s holes to form a square; holes of two lower buttons should form a diamond.)
- Use a needle to poke a hole through just the top card and each buttonhole.
- To make eyes, thread needle with black thread, knot at end, and pull through top buttonhole from behind top card. Make another knot close to the button; poke needle back through the same buttonhole to back of card. Bring needle back through second eye hole; repeat process for this and additional buttonholes.
- For mouth, sew across two holes on top button with red thread. The inside card will hide the stitches on the outer card.
- To secure cards together, punch two holes through top of each, thread ribbon through holes, and tie in a bow.
Note: Because buttons are fragile, the cards should be mailed in padded envelopes.
MarthaStewart.com - Good Thing: Button Snowman Cards. www.marthastewart.com.
Viewed on April 27, 2001.
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