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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

My Latest Over at Crafting a Green World: Business Cards and Business Cards

a tutorial for making business cards out of recycled papers, with stitching instead of glue

and a tutorial for substituting fabric scraps for that recycled paper, and top stitching the business info on

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

My Latest Over at Crafting a Green World: Business Cards and Business Cards

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