If you want to mail a homemade three-dimensional card, choose flat embellishments. For cards you hand-deliver, use chunkier, more textural options.

Materials Needed:

• recycled card stock
• scissors
• found objects such as seed heads, twigs and leaves in different sizes, dried flat
• X-acto knife

• ruler
• spices such as star anise and cinnamon sticks
• dried ingredients such as bay leaves
• glue

Step 1

Cut a piece of recycled card stock to the correct size. Score lightly down the middle of the card in a straight line using an X-acto knife and ruler.

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Step 2

Fold the card in half along the scored line, which will ensure a clean fold down the center of the card.

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Step 3

Arrange and stick a dried leaf onto the front of the card using small dabs of glue.

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