The Mini Bowdabra and Ruler are wonderful paper-crafting tools to use in your card making crafts. The bow making kit 
helps you to make beautiful bows for all your cards.
As winter draws to a close, here in the northeast we start to have “warm winter wishes”! I found inspiration for my card looking through some old books. I loved the image of a couple ice-skating on the cover of a book, published in 1897. I pencil sketched the image and layered it on a handmade card.
Paper Craft Supplies:
Coordinating Cardstock
Stickers or Markers
Pencils
Tacky Glue, Glue Stick, and Adhesive
1/8” Ribbon
Floral Accents
Mini Bowdabra
Hair Bow Tool & Ruler
Optional: Tracing Paper & Light Box
Instructions:
1. Begin by finding an image to fit your card. Use either images from the Internet or books around your home. Either pencil sketch your image or using tracing paper and a light box to transfer your image.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
2. Gather the coordinating cardstock you will need to make your card, along with the card saying.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
3. Begin to assemble the card. Attach 1/8” ribbon to the card front. Hold the ribbon in place with adhesive on the back.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
4. To make the small bow for the card ”“ Place the Hair Bow Tool & Ruler onto the Mini Bowdabra. Cut 10” of 1/8” ribbon and place it into the Mini Bowdabra.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
5. Place the end of the ribbon into the Mini Bowdabra at the .5” mark.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
6. Fold and press the ribbon at the 1” mark to make the first loop.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
7. Make a matching loop on the other side.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
8. Continue making loops use the Mini Bowdabra Wand to hold the loops down.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
9. Trim the ribbon from the spool and leave a 1” tail.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
10. Add floral accents and press them into the Mini Bowdabra with the Mini Bowdabra Wand. Keeping the wand in place tie the 1/8” ribbon to hold the bow together.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
11. Pull the ribbon tightly.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
12. Remove the bow from the Mini Bowdabra and tie it one more time to keep the bow held together tightly.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
13. Trim the ribbon to make two more tails.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
14. Glue the bow to the ribbon on the front of the card.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
15. Finish assembling the card.
Paper Crafting Warm Winter Wishes Card
16. Your warm winter wishes card is complete.
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