Green Christmas Tree Card

Craft punches are a great way of quickly making embellishments for your handmade cards in the colours that you want, here is a lovely Christmas tree card which is really easy to make.

To make this card you will need the following items:

  1. A6 green card blank
  2. Woodware super duper scalloped square craft punch
  3. Woodware super Christmas tree craft punch
  4. A Woodware regular star craft punch
  5. Gold Paper
  6. Ivory pearlised card
  7. Green mirror card
  8. Christmas Greetings Banners – Gold & Magnolia
  9. Gold glitter or Stickles Glitter Glue – Gold
  10. Metallic confetti stars
  11. Hi-tack very sticky glue
  12. Sticky foam pads (optional)

Green Christmas Tree Card

Directions:

Punch a super duper scalloped square out of the ivory card and stick onto top centre of the green card blank with glue or use sticky foam pads for a 3D raised look.

Next punch a super Christmas tree shape out of the green mirror card and stick that onto the centre of the scalloped square shape again with glue or sticky foam pads depending on which you prefer.

Use hi-tack very sticky glue to make some thick sloping lines across the tree shape, a bit like tinsel would hang on the tree. Then put the card to one side until the glue is almost dry but still very tacky to the touch, at this point use a finger tip to rub gold glitter into the glue making sure you cover the glue completely with glitter. Brush and tap any excess glitter off of the card blank onto a spare sheet of paper and tip it back into your glitter pot to avoid wastage. Alternatively you can use Stickles gold glitter glue here to draw the tinsel lines on the tree.

Use the regular star punch to punch out a star from the gold metallic paper and stick the star above the top of the tree (if you used sticky foam pads to stick the tree, use a tiny foam pad behind the star too).

Use glue to stick small metallic confetti stars over the tree like decorations. You can also randomly stick more confetti or punched stars on the card blank if you wish.

Finally stick the greetings banner onto the bottom centre of the card blank with glue or sticky foam pads. On this card we used a greetings banner that reads ‘Christmas Greetings’ from the ‘Christmas Greetings Banners – Gold & Magnolia’ pack, the banner pictured is gold foil printed onto pearlised magnolia card.

Card idea by Janine

August 07 Card Making Tips

August 2007 Newsletter – Card Making Tips:

1. After you have taken a peel off sticker away from the backing sheet, allow it to relax for a minute on the end of whatever tool you are using before you apply it as this will allow it to go back into shape if it has stretched a little bit. Then when you do apply it do not press it down too hard until you are happy with it’s position as if you apply it lightly you can peel it off and reposition it.
From Glitter Monster Crafts.

2. Raise just one edge of a topper on a card for emphasis, e.g. Stick a much thicker sticky foam pad (or two pads on top of each other) at the top of the topper and a thinner pad at the bottom of the topper for a nice effect.
From Matthew, Kent.

3. Keep all your off cuts and scraps of paper or card that are left over from making cards, you can use them for punching shapes out of, even the smallest piece might be useful in one of your future card designs. Organise them by colour or paper type in labelled envelopes.
From Joanna, Cornwall.

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