Christmas Fairies - Merry Christmas - Project of the Week

Materials:
Decoupage Sheet 
Backing Papers 
2 A5 White Card Blanks 
Ribbon Strip 
Glitter

Equipment:
Paper Trimmer 
Bone Folder 
Wet Craft Glue 
Foam Pads 
Quickie Glue Pen

What You Need to Do:
1. Using one of the A5 card blanks, fold back the front of the card. Then rpeat the Using the DL card cover the front of the card using your chosen backing paper and double sided tape or wet glue.

2. From your decoupage sheet cut out all your layers and layer up your image using foam pads or silicone glue. If using silicone glue, make sure you leave your work to dry for at least an hour.

3. Fix your decoupage to the centre of the card using foam pads.

4. Then add a sentiment to the bottom of the card fixing bottom centre of the card.

5. To give your fairy that magic touch, using a quickie glue pen add glitter highlights around the details of the wings. 

Project of the Week: Party Penguins Seasons Greetings

Materials:
8 x8 White Square Card Blank 
Backing Paper
Design sheet 
Flowers 
Glitter/Gems 

Equipment:
Scissors 
Trimmer 
Double Sided Tape 
Foam Pads/Silicone Glue 
Score Board 
Bone Folder 
Quickie Glue Pen 

What You Need to Do:
1. Cut down your backing paper so it covers half of the front of the card, as shown. Fixing into place using double sided tape or craft glue.

2. Cut out your chosen topper and fix to the centre of your card using foam pads.

3. Cut sentiments, attach them to the card using foam pads and craft glue as shown.

4. Using your flowers, fix to the left hand side of the bottom of the card using foam pads or silicone glue. If using silicone glue, leave your work to dry for at least an hour.

5. Using a Quickie glue pen, add glitter around your main topper.

6. Finish off by adding self adhesive gems. 

Santa Claus - Side Scene Card

Materials:
White A4 Card 
Side Scene Card Sheets 
Embellishments

Equipment:
Scissors
Trimmer
Double sided tape
Foam Pads/Silicone Glue
Score Board
Bone Folder
Blending Tool
Quickie Glue Pen

What You Need to Do:
1) Print out all the elements from the collection. If your printer takes card, print directly onto card. If you can not print onto card, print onto paper and back onto card.

2) Cut out your main card base (see diagram 1 on the sheet). Cut on the solid lines and score on the broken. Fold into shape to create a fold back card.

3) Cut out the long tab (see diagram 2 on the sheet), then score the lines and fold. Then fix it to the bottom of the left hand side of the card and then to the bottom of the right hand side. (see diagram on the sheet, where it is shown in green).

4) Then fold into shape.

5) Cut out panels 3 and 4 from your design sheets. Then fold back the tabs. Attach them to the middle section of the main card in height order using double sided tape or glue.

Art Deco Decadent Christmas - Feather Glamour

Materials:
A4 White 
Card Topper 
Backing Papers 
White Feathers

Equipment:
Scoreboard 
Bone Folder 
Glue or Double Sided Tape 
Quickie Glue Pen 
Scissors 
Paper trimmer

What You Need to Do:
1) Cut down you card to 18.5cm x 29.7cm, then fold in half to create your card blank. Mark and score at 8cm and 11.5cm. Using a bone folder fold back the first score line and then forward the second score line. This will create your card shape. 
2) Cover the front and the inside back with backing paper using double sided tape or glue. 
3) Cut out the ribbon strip and fix to the right hand side as shown. 
4) Cut out your topper and sentiment, and back it with card to make it sturdier. 
5) Attach white feathers to the back of the topper, then fix the topper onto the front panel, using silicone glue, (make sure you leave your work to dry for at least an hour). 
6) Attach the sentiment on top of the topper using foam pads, allowing it to overhang as shown. 
7) Finish off adding glitter highlights and gems to the card.

Santa Claus - Joy to World - Project of the Week

Materials
2 x White Square Card Blanks 
Design sheet 
Backing Papers 
Embellishment 
Stardust Glitter/Gems

Equipment
Basic Equipment

What You Need to Do:
1) Lay both the cards flat on your surface with the open ends together. Slot inside each other and attach one to the inside front to create a zig zag shape. Trim a half from the top card, then fold in half to create the front step card as shown. 

2) Cover the back and each step with backing paper using double sided tape or craft glue

3) Cut out your main topper and fix to the centre of the card using foam pads or silicone glue. If using silicone glue, leave your work to dry for at least an hour.

4) Cut out a ribbon strip and fix to the bottom of the front step using double sided tape or craft glue.

5) Choose 2 sentiments and a topper. Fix to the front steps with foam pads as shown.

Vintage Heaven Christmas - Merry Christmas - Project of the Week

Materials
Square card blank
Design sheet 
Backing Paper
Embellishment Sheet
Stardust Glitter
Buttons

Equipment
Trimmer/ Craft Knife
Scissors
Double Sided Tape
Sticky pads/Silicone
Score Board
Bone Folder

What You Need to Do:
1) Cover the front of the card base with your backing paper, attaching into place using double sided tape or craft glue.

2) Cut our your topper and layer up your decoupage elements using foam pads or silicone glue. If using silicone glue leave your work to one side to dry for at least an hour.

3) Attach your main topper to the card as shown. Fixing into place using double sided tape or craft glue.

4) Cut out your sentiment topper and layer up your elements. Attach to the top left hand side of the card.

5) To give more dimension fix buttons on the tree as shown.

6) Finish the card by adding touches of glitter using a quickie glue.

Santa Claus - To a Special Friend at Christmas - Project of the Week

Materials:
A4 White Card
Backing Paper
Die Cuts
Template
Design Sheet
Gems & Glitter

What You Need to Do:
1) Transfer all your markings from the template to card cutting on the solid lines and scoring on the broken. Gently push your card should fold into shape.

2) Cover the card with your chosen backing papers using double sided tape or glue.

3) Cut out the ribbon strip from the backing paper and fix to the card using double sided tape or glue.

4) Using your free die cuts, pop out your chosen topper and attach to the card front with foam pads.

5) Cut out your flowers and layer them up using foam pads or silicone glue. (don�t forget if you are using silicone glue to leave your work to one side for at least an hour to dry).

6) Pop out some of the smaller die cuts and fix them to your card using foam pads.

7) To finish add glitter using a quickie glue pen.

Christmas Divas - Christmas Wishes - Project of the Week

Materials:
A4 White Card
Backing Paper
Decoupage Sheet
Gold Mirror Card
Black Card
Glitter/Gems
Black Ribbon

Equipment:
Basic Equipment

What You Need to Do:
1) Cut out and make up the decoupage topper. Make up using foam pads or silicone glue. If using silicone put your work to one side to dry for about an hour.

2) Score and fold an A4 card in half to make an A5 card blank. Measure across the fold to 15cm. Cut down the card at this mark to create a square card blank.

3) Cut a piece of black card slightly smaller than the front of the card. Attach using double sided tape or glue. Cut backing paper slightly smaller again and matt on top.

4) Matt the decoupage topper onto gold mirror card. Cut out following the shape and leaving a small even gap around the edges. Matt onto black card and again cut out leaving a small even gap. Attach to the front of the card centrally.

5) Wrap black ribbon around the left hand side and secure on the inside front. Tie a bow and attach as shown.

6) Cut out a sentiment and attach at an angle as shown with foam pads.

7) Finish with self adhesive gems and ultra fine glitter.

Christmas Fairies - Best Wishes - Project of the Week

Materials
Decoupage Sheet 
Backing Papers 
DL White Card 
Glitter

Equipment
Paper Trimmer 
Bone folder 
Wet Craft Glue 
Foam Pads 
Quickie Glue Pen

What You Need to Do:
1) Using the DL card cover the front of the card using your chosen backing paper and double sided tape or wet glue. 
2) From your decoupage sheet cut out all your layers and layer up your image using foam pads or silicone glue. If using silicone glue, make sure you leave your work to dry for at least an hour. 
3) Fix your decoupage to the centre of the card using foam pads. 
4) Then add a sentiment to the bottom of the card fixing bottom centre of the card. 
5) To give your fairy that magic touch, using a quickie glue pen add glitter highlights around the details of the wings.

Magic of Christmas - With Love - Project of the Week

Materials:
A4 White Card 
Design Sheet 
Glitter 
Gems Embellishment

Equipment:
Scissors 
Trimmer 
Double sided tape
Foam Pads/Silicone Glue 
Score Board 
Bone Folder 
Blending Tool 
Quickie Glue Pen

What You Need to Do:

TOP TIP: Instead of using a knife and ruler, why not use Fiskars paper trimmer to get that precision cut.

1) Using your A4 card fold in half and trim down to make a square card.

2) Cut out all your elements for your large decoupage topper. Decoupage the scene using silicone glue or foam pads. If using silicone glue leave to dry for at least an hour.

3) Cut out a sentiment and attach to the front with foam pads.

4) Then cut out a piece of holly and attach to the sentiment as shown. 5 Finish by adding glitter highlights using a quickie glue pen.

Art Deco - Merry Little Christmas - Project of the Week

Materials:

A4 White Card 
Backing Papers 
Design Sheet
Glitter/Gems

Equipment:

Scissors 
Trimmer 
Double Sided Tape 
Foam Pads/Silicone Glue 
Score Board 
Bone Folder 
Quickie Glue Pen

What You Need to Do:

1) Using the A4 card, fold it in half, along the spine, measure 9.5cm along then cut down 6.5cm down.To make a stepper card fold the step section over to make a crease line, then fold it back.To finish push the step inside. 
2) Cover the card with backing paper attaching with double sided tape or craft glue. 
3)Cut out your decoupage topper and layer up all your elements using foam pads or silicone glue.Fix to the side step as shown.If using silicone put your work to one side to dry for at least an hour. 4) Cut out your ribbon strip and extra toppers and fix to the card as shown using double sided and craft glue. 
5) Choose a sentiment topper and fix to the step using foam pads. 
6) Using a Quickie Glue pen add ultra fine glitter add glitter highlights to the image. 
7) Finish by adding self adhesive gems.

Party Penguins - Holiday Cheer - Project of the Week

Materials:

• Square card 
• Free design sheet / papers 
• White ribbon / string
• Sand coloured card 
• Buttons

Equipment:

• Trimmer / Craft Knife
• Scissors 
• Double Sided Tape
• Sticky Pads
• Bone Folder

What You Need to Do:

Top Tip: To give a cluttered effect, you need to stick to 2-3 colourways and just keep adding layers and textures.

1. Using the backing paper, cover the front of the card using glue or double sided tape. 
2. Tear corners from a contrasting paper and fix as shown on opposite ends. 
3. Using the wide white ribbon, wrap a piece around the card ash shown. 
4. To give a more textured effect, tie a few knots in the string and then wrap it on top of the white ribbon. 
5. Matt and Layer your main topper with sand card and contrasting paper as shown. 
6. Then fix to the centre of the card using foam pads. 
7. Cut out your extra embellishments/sentiments and fix to the card as shown using foam pads. 
8. Finish the card by adding buttons to the bottom right hand side of the card, attaching with wet glue.

Project of the week: Santa Claus Mini Scene Card

Santa Claus Mini Scene Card

Materials

A4 White Card
Template 
Scene Card Sheets (click here)
Glitter
Gems

1. Transfer all the markings from the template onto card including all the extra tabs.

2. Cut out the elements from the scene card.

3. Wrap largest tab around the back of the scene towards the top and attach. Repeat to the other side. 
Then wrap one of smallest tabs around the bottom and attach the frame on top. Repeat to the other side.

4. Attach the side posts onto the frame using tape or glue.

5. Attach a small tab to the frame near the bottom. Repeat to the other side. Attach the next layer on top. 

6. Attach a small tab at the bottom and repeat to the other side. Attach the front section on top.

7. Use the extra elements to add extra interest and dimension to the scene.

8. Finish with glitter highlights and gems.

To watch a video of how to make a Scene Card visit www.debbimoore.tv