Dollar Store Finds Before and After

I found a matching card set and notebook at the one dollar store, and thought I would try and alter them.  I saw someone else do this on her blog and thought it was a really good idea.  I would give credit for the idea, but I can't remember who it is.

The first picture shows how one of the cards and the notepad looked before I altered them.

On both projects, for the ribbon I layered a light blue ribbon I had over a soft suede ribbon. 

On the card I added three cardstock buttons that I made using 2stampis2b's tutorial.  You can find it on youtube.

Besides adding ribbon to both the card and notepad  I used a regular sized hole punch to punch out soft suede circles, which I then placed in the center of each flower.

I also decorated the envelope.

After altering all the cards in the set this would make a cute gift.

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