Make someone's day with this mixed media greeting card

What you need...

• Fabric, patterned: blue, red
  
• Thread, DMC, stranded cotton
  
• Fusible webbing
  
• Paper, pale green
  
• Buttons, assorted
  
• Adhesive ribbon, spotty: pink, green
  
• Foam pads, 3-D

instructions

1. Trim a sheet of pale green paper to fit the centre of a 12.5cm square card blank, leaving a narrow border. Press fusible webbing onto the wrong side of a square of red floral fabric, then cut out a heart.

2. Work running stitches around the edge of the heart with blue cotton, then sew a white button to the centre. Using decorative-edged scissors, cut a larger heart from blue card, then glue the fabric shape to the centre.

3. Fix green and pink adhesive and black/white saddle stitch ribbons to the front. Glue the heart to the centre with sticky pads and adhere three buttons to the centre-top.