This card uses Christmas glitter brads with pearlised card square punchies in the same way as on the square ‘Christmas Glitter Brads Card’ that I previously posted. With the addition of sparkle paper, ribbon and mini round brads, this version has an even more luxurious look and an even more tactile finish.

What you will need to make this card:

1. Slimline (A5 tall) white card blank
2. A5 sparkle paper pack – formal colours
3. Pearlised card in green, red, silver and ivory (or cream)
4. Woodware Super Lever Craft Punch – Square
5. Woodware Large Lever Craft Punch – Square
6. Some spare card any colour (measuring at least 21cm x 2.75cm)
7. Silver 5mm ribbon
8. Woodware Mini Round Brads – Christmas Colours
9. Woodware Glitter Brads – Christmas
10. 5mm sticky foam pads, sticky foam tape & 6mm double sided sticky tape
11. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat

How to make the card:

Take a sheet of the silver with silver glitter paper from the sparkle paper pack, measure and cut out a piece sized 7.5cm x 21cm. Apply a strip of double sided sticky tape close to each of the four edges of the paper and stick this to the front of the card blank making sure it is straight along all the edges, trimming away any overlapping paper if necessary.

Next measure and cut a 2.75cm x 21cm piece from the spare card. Take a sheet of the white with silver glitter paper from the sparkle paper pack, measure and cut out a piece sized 4cm x 21cm. Apply strips of double sided sticky tape to the full length of all of the edges (front and back) of the strip of card you cut out earlier. Stick the strip of card to the centre of the strip of white sparkle paper and fold the edges of the paper over to the back of the card strip and stick them down.

On the back of the white sparkle paper covered strip of card using a pencil make a mark exact centre, then make marks at regular 2.5cm intervals from either side of the central mark until you end up with 9 marks in total. The outermost two marks should be around 5mm from the top and bottom of the card strip. Using your craft knife make a small hole at each of these marks.

Cut a 25cm length of the 5mm silver ribbon, find the centre of the ribbon and push a green mini round brad through it and then from front to back through the centre most hole in the card strip. Keeping the ribbon relatively tight but not stretching it, push more green brads through the ribbon and the remaining 8 holes. Turn the card strip over and bend back the prongs of all the brads. Wrap the loose ends of the ribbon over the top and bottom of the card strip and secure at the back with fairly wide strips of sticky foam tape. Apply two more similar strips of sticky foam tape at even intervals in between the first two strips. Peel the backing off the foam strips and then stick the whole thing to the card so the card strip is lined up with the very left hand side of the card blank.

Take the super square craft punch and punch one square of each colour of the pearlised card (green, red, silver and ivory). Next repeat this step but using the large square craft punch to punch a square of each colour of the pearlised card.

On the reverse of each of the smaller squares draw a pencil line diagonally from the tip of one top corner to the tip of the opposite bottom corner and repeat from the other top corner to it’s opposite bottom corner. Where the two lines cross in the middle marks the exact centre of each square. Place the squares onto your craft cutting mat, using the tip of the blade of your craft knife make a small hole just ABOVE centre on the red and green card squares and dead on the centre of the ivory and the silver card squares.

Next push a silver snowflake glitter brad through the hole on the ivory card, a green Christmas tree glitter brad through the hole on the red card, a cream snowflake glitter brad through the hole on the silver card and finally a red Christmas tree glitter brad through the hole on the green card. Align the brads and bend the prongs back pointing into the corners of the squares so the ends do not show when the squares are turned right way up. You also need to make sure that the Christmas trees are straight when you look at them from the front.

Then use 5mm sticky foam pads to mount the ivory square with the silver snowflake onto the super red square, the red square with the green Christmas tree onto the super silver square, the silver square with the cream snowflake onto the super green square and finally the green square with the red Christmas tree onto the super ivory square.

To finish the card off use double sided sticky tape to mount the finished squares onto the card blank as shown in the picture lining them up as straight as you can. It is a good idea to start by placing the top and bottom squares at matching distances from the top and bottom of the card blank and then to place the two middle squares at even gaps in between them.

Card Idea by Janine

Christmas Tree Peel Off Card with a Gold Ribbon Frame. This card is very similar to the ‘Christmas Tree Peel Off Card’ that I posted previously but by using a pearl gold card and with the addition of brads, ribbon and glitter you end up with a very effective and more luxurious looking card.

What is required to make this card:

1. A6 card blank
   
2. A5 Metallic Paper Gold
3. Some separate gold card
4. Some separate plain cream or white card
5. Woodware Mini Round Brads – Christmas Colours
6. Gold 5mm Ribbon
7. Christmas Trees Peel Off Sheet – Gold
8. Happy Christmas Peel Off Sheet – Gold
9. Glitzy Gold Metallic Marker
10. Coloured felt tip pen
11. Red glitter, gold glitter & silver glitter used with glitter bond or glitter glue
12. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat
13. Decoupage/precision scissors
14. Craft glue, 5mm sticky foam pads & 6mm double sided sticky tape

Directions:

Cover the card blank in the gold metallic paper, you can either cover the whole card blank front and back or to save paper you can cover just the front if you wish. Use double sided sticky tape as close as possible to the edges of the card blank to avoid the edges of the paper lifting.

Remove a Christmas tree picture sticker from the peel off backing sheet, let the sticker relax for a minute on the end of your craft knife, to allow it to regain shape if it has stretched at all and then stick it to the plain cream /white card. Using the decoupage scissors carefully cut the tree out taking particular care around the candles.

Use felt tips pens to colour in the peel off centre sections in appropriate colours. Colours used here are green tree, brown tree trunk, yellow star, blue tree decorations, pink/purple/red gift wrapped presents under the tree. Use the gold metallic marker to colour any areas you found hard to cut out but that need to merge in with the background of the card such as either side of the tree trunk.

Push a red mini round brad through each of the four baubles on the Christmas tree and bend the prongs back. Use glitter bond to apply some red glitter on top of the four red brad baubles, gold glitter to the star and a sprinkling of silver glitter on the presents. You could use glitter glue instead of the glitter bond and dry glitter here if you wanted to. Put the completed tree to one side to dry.

Take the separate gold card, measure and cut out two narrow strips the same length as the height of the card blank and two narrow strips the same length as the width of the card blank, all four strips should be about 6mm wide. Apply a strip of double sided sticky tape to the gold side of all four card strips overlapping each end of each strip so the tape folds over the back a short way. Cut 2 lengths of the gold 5mm ribbon 2cm longer than the short card strips and 2 lengths of gold ribbon 2cm longer than the longer card strips. Peel off the sticky tape backing on the card strips and carefully stick a length of ribbon to each one overlapping the ribbon over both ends of each strip. The reason we use gold card here is that another colour may show through the ribbon.

Using a craft knife make a small hole 1.25cm into each end of all four strips of ribbon covered card. Make the four strips into a frame by pushing red and green mini round brads through the holes you just made and bending the prongs back to secure all four strips of card together as shown in the picture.

Attach 5mm sticky foam pads to the back of the frame at regular intervals and then use these to attach the frame to the card blank taking care to line it up evenly on all four edges.

Next using more sticky foam pads attach the peel off tree to the card inside the top centre of the frame.

Finally to finish the card off, remove a ‘Happy Christmas’ wording from the peel off sheet (again allow the sticker to relax on the end of your craft knife blade before applying it). Place the wording in the space underneath the Christmas tree and use a ruler to make sure it is straight. Once you are happy with the position of the wording press down on it firmly to stick it in place.

Card Idea by Janine