Cracker Season's Greetings Christmas card

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Cracker Season's Greetings Christmas square card

Hi Craft addicts!

This is a slightly more complicated card (well for me it is) but had great fun making it - see below as to how I made it....


How I made this project:-
  • You need two 5" square cards to make this card - and to start with you need to stick the left hand flap of one of them on top of the right hand flap of the second - I used PVA glue as it grabs relatively quickly.
  • Once it was dry, I then opened it out and cut the flaps diagonally from the top left to bottom right hand corners - reversing it for the right hand flap.
  • I measured the inside of the card and cut out a panel of the yellow tartan paper (from an old Craftstyle A4 pad I have had for ages) and then added a piece of Mustard Yellow paper in the middle of it so there is somewhere to write your message.
  • I then cut two triangles out of the tartan card and stuck them to both flaps using PVA glue.
  • I cut out two Crackers (from a Sweet Dixie die) one in white, the other in red and glued them on top of each other slightly offsetting them. I coloured the leaves using a Green alcohol marker and the tendrils in Orange.
  • I also cut it out in silver and trimmed around the flower and placed it on the cracker with some PVA glue.
  • I then attached it to the left hand flap placing glue only on the part that was on the card.
  • Finally, I stamped out the Scroll out on to some Green paper using Black Gina K Amalgam ink and then added the Season's Greetings sentiment with Versamark ink and then covered it with White embossing powder and heat set it. I cut around it and then stuck it to the bottom part of the card again using PVA glue.
As I said, this is a really quick and easy card to make that I hope you will enjoy making - if you think it is better to have the blog directly on my website do let me know!!

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