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Craft Tutorial # 13-Baubles Card
Craft Tutorials #13- Christmas Baubles Card
What You Need: All Items available at Fern Gully Stamps
Small Carl Swirl Punch
Large round Punch (or cut our with scissors)
White card 18.5 x21cm
Patterned Paper-Pale mauve clouds 10.5 x 18.5cm
Silver metallic paper-scrap
For the baubles- Dark blue textured card & 2 different but matching patterned papers
Adhesive (glue pen)
Double sided tape
Merry Christmas silver sticker
silver border sticker
silver rhinestones or stars
Follow steps below to make this merry little card
Step 1 Using a small swirl punch- punch 3 swirls from silver metallic paper
Step 2 Using the same silver metallic paper cut 3 small rectangles 2cm x 6mm
Step 3 Attach each swirl to the back of a 2×6mm silver rectangle ,centred as shown- this is you Bauble top
Step 4 Cut 3 circles that are 4-4.5cm at widest point-
One in plain dark blue textured card
2 in different patterned papers in matching colours
Step 5 Attach the Bauble tops to the top of the cut out circles centered
Step 6 Decorated the plain Bauble
On the plain dark blue bauble place silver border stickers along the bottom and top
Place rhinestones or stars in the centre of the blue Bauble
Step 7 Cut 3 thin strips of silver metallic paper approx 10cm long and 2mm wide
Step 8 Place double sided tape on the front of the white folded card and attach the mauve cloud paper, this should cover the entire front of the card
Step 9 Arrange your baubles on the front of the cloud paper where you would like them, do not attach yet
Step 10 Remove the Baubles and place your thin silver strips on the the cloud paper. Trim the excess at the top.
Step 11 Apply adhesive to back of the Baubles and stick in place, the silver strips should just touch the top of the silver swirl
Step 12 One of the Bauble may sit over the top of one of the silver strips.
Step 13 Attach a Merry Christmas Sticker to the bottom left corner
You could do some more decorating by adding glitter to the baubles or more rhinestones
Craft Tutorial #12- Christmas Tree Card
Craft Tutorial #12- Create a Christmas Tree out of punched shapes
What You Need: All Items available at Fern Gully Stamps
A small to medium size punch- Heart shape, flower or star
Mat 1 - Metallic silver/pale pink Paper 6.5cm x 7cm
Card- Metallic pale pink textured card folded in half
bright pink card to punch hearts shapes out of
Border and message stickers
Small decorative silver stickers (small parts that can be taken out ) or cut up a border sticker to use instead
Double sided tape
Double sided foam
Adhesive
Permanent coloured pen-Pink
Step 1- 
You can Make your silver message and border stickers pink by using a bright pink permanent marker
Step 2- Punch 10 bright pink Heart shapes
Step 3- Place you heart shapes upside down
Apply adhesive to the bottom right of one heart as shown
Step 4-Align another heart on top of the first heart. The left bump on the top heart should be on top of the right bump of the bottom heart, so you now see 3 bumps at the bottom as shown.
Step 5- Apply adhesive to the right side of the top heart and add a third heart
Step 6-Continue to make a row of 4 hearts, a row of 3 hearts, a row of 2 hearts and then a single heart.
I will refer to these rows as - top single heart is row 1, then next one down with 2 hearts is row 2, then row 3 and at the bottom with 4 hearts row 4.
Step 7-
Joining the rows-Apply Adhesive to the 4th row (bottom row)- Apply it to the front, near the top,
align row 3 (3 hearts) to the top of row 4.
Step 8- Apply adhesive to the top of the 3rd row (3 hearts) and align the 2nd row (2 hearts)with the top of row 3.
Step 9- Apply adhesive to the 2 row and add the single heart at the top.
Step 10- Make another tree, this time using only 3 rows
Step 11-To decorate the tree use small pieces of silver stickers or cut up a part of a border sticker
Step 12- Place the small stickers between each heart or randomly.
Step 13-Put a border around Mat 1 using border stickers - 5mm in from the edges.
Step 14-Put double sided foam on the back of both trees and place them on the front of Mat 1.
Step 15-Place a border around the front of the folded card 5mm in from the edge using border stickers.
Step 16-Place double sided tape to the back of Mat 1 and place it 5mm in from the top border.
Step 17- Put a message on the front of the card, below Mat 1
You can use a larger heart punch to make a larger Christmas tree, you can also make the Christmas tree out of other shapes such a flower punch.
