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.


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