Christmas Tree Cards

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Paper Garland Decorated Tree Card

Sparkling Tree Card

Materials

• Hand-made layered paper. Hand-made Layered Paper Tutorial
• Small strips of paper.
• Sizzix Big Shot die cut machine
• Sizzix Bigz Die: Tree, Christmas #2 (657370) and Sizzix Originals Die: Stars #2 ​or similar
• Fast Drying craft ink pad 
• Self adhesive rhinestones
• Double sided Sticky Tape
• Card base- (To make a card base take a piece of card 21cm x 15cm, score and fold in half).  Scoring and Folding tutorial
• Foam sticky dots
• Craft glue
• Merry Christmas Stamp

Hand-made layered paper

Sparkling Tree Instructions

1. Ink the edges of the card base.

2. Die cut a christmas tree and star from your layered paper using the Sizzix Big Shot Machine (or similar) and the dies.  If you do not have a die-cut machine, design your own tree and star shapes and cut them out of the hand-made paper.

3. Ink the edges of the die cut tree and star.

4. Adhere the tree and star to the gold base card using double-sided sticky tape (for the tree) and a foam dot (for the star).

5. Stamp "Merry Christmas" onto the tree using your stamp and ink

6. Adhere self-adhesive Rhinestones to the boughs of the tree. 

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Paper Garland Tree Instructions

1. Ink the edges of the base card.
2. Die cut a Christmas Tree and star from your layered paper and ink the edges. (as shown above)

3. Make two paper garlands 

To make a garland:
Tape two thin (3-4mm wide, 360mm long) pieces of paper together at right-angles.

4. Trim off the excess tape.

5. Fold the pieces, as shown, to create your garland. You need to repeat the four steps over and over to create the garland.

Finished Garland.

6. Tape the garlands to the tree (as shown)

7. Using craft glue, adhere the garlands to the tree on the front, using a dot of glue underneath the centre of the garland. Allow to dry. You may need to use something to hold the garland in place while the glue dries)

8. Adhere the star and tree to the base card, as shown.