Holly "Merry Christmas" Card

Materials

  1. White Card A4 - light enough to go through your printer
  2. Coloured Card - red, black and green
  3. Printer 
  4. Punches - Holly leaf, small circle
  5. Adhesives - white glue, double sided sticky tape 
  6. Sizzix Big shot machine
  7. Embossing folder (I used Tim Holtz Alterations 656645 Burlap and Swirls Set)
  8. Paper Trimmer
  9. Paper embossing tool 

Instructions

Make the base card. Cut a piece of white card 21cm x 15cm, score and fold it in half). 
Tutorial on Folding and Scoring
Print out the Merry Christmas Wording Template onto white card.
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Merry Christmas Wording Template
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​Cut out one of the Merry Christmas panels, and emboss it using the Big Shot machine and the Swirls embossing folder.
Back your panel with black card by using double sided sticky tape to adhere it onto a piece of black card - leave a small even margin on two sides, then using a paper trimmer, trim the remaining two margins to the same size (see pictures for guide).
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Adhere the wording piece to the black card, aligning two sides with thin margins.
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Cut the remaining two margins to the same size using a paper trimmer
Gently tear two panels of card. Firstly your green piece (approx 16cm x 9cm before tearing). Hold the piece of card in one hand, and with the other hand tear off the edge, pulling upwards (as per picture) to leave a multi-coloured tear line. Turn the card around and tear off the other side in the same way. Finished width should be approximately between 6cm to 7cm in diameter. Do the same wth a red piece of card (approx 16cm x 6cm before tearing). The finished width should be approximately 3.5cm and 4.5cm in diameter.

Tutorial on Tearing Card
Use double sided sticky tape to adhere the red piece onto the green piece (see picture on right), lining up one edge of the two pieces carefully.

hen use double sided sticky tape to adhere these onto the base card, again lining up one edge carefully.
Use a paper trimmer to remove any excess  from the edge of the card.
Use DSST to adhere the Merry Christmas card panel to the front of the card.
Punch out six small circles from red card for the berries (I used a normal paper punch, circle size approx 0.5cm). Make them 3-dimensional by turning them over, placing them on a foam or cork mat and rubbing a paper embosser on them in a circular motion.
Punch out four Holly leaves.
Glue the Holly leaves and berries onto the card.