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This month, have a go at creating cards suited to the men in your life, using quilling papers to make mini garden tools and greenery.

Runner Beans

1. Tie three lengths of black wire together with thin string, then glue to a single-fold green blank to form a triangle shape. Use the quilling tool to make coils from 20cm, 15cm and 10cm lengths of light green, 3mm wide paper. Pinch these into triangles.

2. With a 5cm length of red, 3mm wide paper, make a coil then pinch one end. Glue to the card near to the wire. Make a few more red coils and adhere in pairs or singly for runner bean flowers. Stick the leaves in place around and on the wire lengths, making sure larger leaves are at the bottom.

3. Take a 20cm length of brown, 3mm wide, paper and place one end into the quilling tool. Coil for four turns, then continue curling but angle the paper away from the tool as you go to create a cone shape. Continue coiling until you reach the end of the paper, then glue in place. Add adhesive to the inside of the shape and leave to dry.

4. Make a tight coil with 15cm of 1mm wide brown paper and glue into the end of the cone for the tool handle. Cut a small piece of silver card for the end of the trowel then repeat to make another.

5. Print 'Happy Birthday' onto light green card using a computer or write on with black pen. Cut out into a square and mount onto a larger green panel. Create another two co-ordinating squares then use a small punch to make a hole in the centre top of each.

6. Thread a length of raffia through the holes in the squares, then tie around the single-fold card as shown. Use 3- D foam pads to mount and secure each panel onto the front to complete.