This is a surprisingly easy to make but intricate looking Christmas card. This card shows that peel off stickers can be used in so many different ways to brighten up any card making project.

What you will need to make this card:

1. White DL card blank
2. Dovecraft Metallic Foil A4 Paper – Red
3. Plain white card
4. Super Lever Craft Punch – Circle
5. Christmas Baubles Modern Peel Off Sheet – Pearl Glitter Gold
6. Christmas Baubles Modern Peel Off Sheet – Pearl Glitter Silver
7. Vertical Season’s Greetings Peel Off Sheet – Silver
8. Flower Corners & Simple Borders Peel Off Sheet – Silver
9. Needle & white cotton
10. Double sided sticky tape & plain sticky tape
11. Scissors
12. Fingerguard paper trimmer OR cutting mat, craft knife, ruler & pencil

Directions to make:

Trim 1cm off of the right hand edge of the front flap only on the card blank.

Use the Super lever circle craft punch to punch three evenly spaced apertures in the right hand edge of the front of the card blank.

Measure and cut out a 21cm x 3.5cm rectangle and a 17cm x 1cm rectangle from the red metallic foil paper and a 19.5cm x 2.5 cm rectangle from the plain white card. Use double sided sticky tape to stick these rectangles onto the left hand side of the front of the card blank in layers starting with the largest red foil rectangle, then the white card rectangle and then finally the smallest red foil rectangle.

Stick a set of Season’s Greetings wording stickers from the silver vertical season’s greetings peel off sheet down the centre of the inner red foil rectangle.

Measure and cut another rectangle from the red metallic foil paper that measures 9.5cm x 21cm and using double sided sticky tape stick this on the inside of the card blank on the side that you normally write your message but near to the centre fold line so that the foil shows through the circle apertures but does not show on the right where the strip has been cut away from the front flap.

Apply plain straight silver border strips on all four edges of the red foil rectangle inside the card and also on the very right hand edges of both the front flap and the inside flap of the card blank.

Stick some stars from the pearl gold and pearl silver Christmas baubles peel off sheets to the right hand edge of the inside of the card blank and also some more stars to the right hand edge of the front flap of the card blank.

Choose two bauble stickers from the pearl silver peel off sheet and one bauble sticker from the pearl gold peel off sheet. Stick all three baubles onto plain white card and cut round them with scissors, decoupage scissors work well for this.

Make a hole with the needle and thread the cotton through the top of one of the silver baubles, next thread through the top of the gold bauble and then finally through the last silver bauble. Stick several peel off stars to the back of the top bauble ensuring that some of them trap the cotton centrally on the bauble. Stick the very top of the cotton above the top circle aperture with some sticky tape positioning the bauble so it is central in the aperture then secure the cotton below the aperture, position and secure the second and third baubles in the same way in the other two apertures.

To finish your card off write your personal greeting on the back of the front flap to the right of the bauble apertures or use a metallic marker pen to write your greeting on the red foil paper inside the card.

Card Idea by Jill

If you want something just a bit different for your Christmas cards then this classy blue and white snowflake design is perfect!

What you need to make this card:

1. A6 White rectangle aperture card (double fold)
   
2. 6 x 3cm White Satin Material Snowflakes
3. Dark Blue Handmade Mulberry Paper
4. Merry Christmas Peel Off Sheet – Diamond Silver
5. Trees & Snowmen Peel Off Sheet – Pearl Glitter Silver (for the stars)
6. Dark Blue or Black Cotton
7. Double Sided Sticky Tape & Foam Tape
   
8. Craft Glue

How to make this card:

Glue two of the white satin snowflakes together trapping the end of a length of cotton in the middle. Repeat this step two more times until you have three sets of glued snowflakes. Leave to dry.

Using the card tentfold style (landscape), use a strip of double sided foam tape to stick the top ends of the cotton attached to the snowflakes to the back of the aperture so that the snowflakes hang down in the aperture window at varying lengths. Apply more strips of foam tape along the other three edges of the back of the aperture. This does need to be foam tape to allow hanging space for the snowflakes.

Cut a rectangle of the dark blue handmade mulberry paper large enough to cover the back of the aperture. Stick the rectangle to the double sided foam tape. Then use double sided sticky tape to stick the outer card panel over the back of the central aperture panel covering the back of the aperture.

Use random stars from the pearl glitter silver trees & snowmen peel off sheet to stick around the top and sides of the card and also stick a few stars to the handmade mulberry paper backing in the aperture. Alternatively you can use silver stars from any peel off sheet of your choice.

Finally apply Merry Christmas wording stickers from the diamond silver Merry Christmas peel off sheet to the bottom edge of the card blank.

Card Idea by Jill