New Friends
Designer: Laura Nicholas

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Supplies:

• Floral Backgrounds
• Flower Garden Multi-Shaper Punch
• Sheer Flowers
• Cardmaker's Pretty Creative Kit
• Cardmaker’s Pretty Ribbons
• Sara's Surfaces™ 6x6 album
• Zots™
• Brown ink pad
• Foam tape
• Computer font, apple chancery

Instructions:

1. Remove the posts from the album. Ink the edges and the folds of the spine of the album.
2. Cut three 3/4"x6 1/4" strips of green texture from the floral border paper and ink the edges. Add holes to replace the posts with a hole punch, and adhere to the binding. Cut two 6 1/4"x5" rectangles of the green floral paper and ink the edges. Adhere to the front and the back of the album.
3. Cut 1 3/4" strips of green texture and ivory swirl papers and punch a border on each. Ink the punched edges and layer, as shown. Trim to fill the area closest to the spine. Wrap blue sheer ribbon around the borders and tuck the ends behind the border. Adhere the ribbon wrapped punched border to both the front and back of the album.
4. Tie a large bow and adhere to the ribbon border on the front of the album. Add a shaped flower brad to layered sheer flowers and adhere to the center of the bow with Zots™. Print journaling onto tag and tuck under the bow.
5. Mat a photo with ivory swirl paper and ink the edges. Adhere to the front of the album.
6. Add a corner embellishment with small piece of punched border, a small bow and a small flower with a brad.
7. For the inside of the front and back cover: Cut two 6 1/4"x 6 1/4" squares of green dot paper and ink the edges. Adhere inside the covers.
8. For the page: Repeat a punched ivory border along the right edge of a 6"x6" square of green floral paper. Wrap the seams with ribbon and adhere to the edge of the green dot paper. Tie a bow and attach with a Zot™ to the ribbon. Mat a photo with ivory paper and ink the edges. Adhere to the center of the page. Add journaling to a tag and layer with a flower and a shaped brad. Adhere near the bow with foam tape.