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:
- A6 card blank
- A5 Metallic Paper Gold
- Some separate gold card
- Some separate plain cream or white card
- Woodware Mini Round Brads – Christmas Colours
- Gold 5mm Ribbon
- Christmas Trees Peel Off Sheet – Gold
- Happy Christmas Peel Off Sheet – Gold
- Glitzy Gold Metallic Marker
- Coloured felt tip pen
- Red glitter, gold glitter & silver glitter used with glitter bond or glitter glue
- Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat
- Decoupage/precision scissors
- 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