Camino crafts - Saint James' Day card 2016

With July 25th rapidly approaching (it's on Monday) here's a craft for a Saint James' Day card using hamms beads and incorporating a badge that can be worn on your backpack (a little like last year's card that can be found here http://footprintsonthecamino.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/camino-crafts-saint-james-day-2015.html?m=1)!

Hamma beads can be bought from craft shops, eBay or Ikea sell a big pot for £5 which includes yellow beads then a peg board is also needed (Ikea sells three for less than £2).

You can see how I set up the beads on the board above and then I ironed the design (with greaseproof paper between the iron and the beads) before attaching a badge back using glue as shown below (the badge back cost me 12p from my local bead shop and I used UHU all purpose glue).

Here's the badge attached to the card - a blue card may have looked more effective and if my letter stamps hadn't been missing then I would have used them instead to write the greeting!

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