These beautiful hand made appliques and lace butterflies turn ordinary scraps of card stock into one of a kind cards and gift tags.
Materials:

Lace butterflies motifs or decorative appliques
Card stock
Bone folder
Craft glue
Sewing machine (for butterfly cards)
Assorted pens and paints to personalize the cards.

Technique:
a) Prepare the card stock. For a standard card, cut a piece of the card stock to 10” by 7” and fold it in half along the long side smoothing out the fold with the bone folder. For gift tags, simply cut to an appropriate size for the gift.
b) Glue the appliques to the card and personalize with a message. For the butterfly cards, using a sewing machine, sew a running stitch in spirals on the card affixing the butterfly in the process.
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