Bringing Home the Christmas Tree Card
Create a playful Christmas card depicting the occasion of bringing home the Christmas tree. This card uses a vintage car stamp and glittery scraps to create snow.
Materials:
- Stamps: Merry Christmas by Michael Strong, “Full Car” by Stampotique
- Die Cut: Medium Pine Tree from Sizzix
- Chip Board
- Ink: Palette Hybrid Inkpad “Landscape”, “The Embosser”, Memories Chalk “Gingerbread”, India Ink
- Black Embossing Powder: Filigree by Stewart Superior
- Embossing Gun
- Black Brad or eyelets
- Brown String
- Zip Dry Paper Glue
- Magic Scraps: Snow
- Cardstock: Two shade of green – lighter green for card base, dark green for matt.
- Foam Mounting Squares
Directions:
- Cut Light Green cardstock into Card base size. 8 ½” x 5 ½” – score at 4 ¼”.
- Cut Dark Green Cardstock to 5 ¼” x 4”. Stamp “Merry Christmas on the top of the cardstock using India Ink. Punch a hole in top two corners and add black brad or eyelets.
- Using you Zip Dry Paper Glue – add some glue across the Dark Green cardstock bottom and pour some Magic Scraps “Snow” and let dry. Once Glue is dry tap off excess “snow”.
- Using your Chip Board and Die Cut machine – Cut out “Pine Tree”. Using a direction to paper technique add “Landscape” Ink to tree top and “Gingerbread” to tree base. Add a little Zip Dry Glue to tree and snow to tree…
- Stamp “Full Car” onto Chip Board using Embossing ink and Filigree “Black embossing powder”. Cut out image – BUT – Cut off the all the people except the driver and his lady. Punch a hole in both of the windows to cut the window out. After you Punch the hole in the windows – you can put your scissor in the hole and cut the window out.
- Tie tree to top of card using string. I tied my to the window and back end. You can add a small drop of Zip Dry Glue to the back of the tree to help hold the string in place. Zip Dry Glue will dry clear.
- I place two Foam Mounting Squares on the back of the car to give it dimension. Place car onto Dark Green Cardstock just above the snow….
