Holly Leaf Christmas Card

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A very personal way to give holiday greetings!

Difficulty rating

• Required supplies:
• 4- x 5-1/2-inch red card and envelope
• 5- x 8-inch Christmas print fabric
• 5- x 8-inch iron-on interfacing by Therm O Web
• 2- x 3-1/2-inch crème cardstock, 1-5/8- x 3-1/4-inch Red cardstock, 4-7/8- x 7-7/8-inch Mistletoe Green cardstock
• Rubber Stamp “May His every good and perfect Gift be yours this year” by Morning Star, Black dye ink stamping pad
• Eight 1/4-inch red rhinestones, 18-inches of 1/4-inch wide gold metallic ribbon
• Papier Opaque Thicket and Engine Red dimensional paint by Folk Art/Plaid, 3 wood 1-inch holly leaves, 1-inch gold bar pin
• Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue
• Palette or foam plate
• No. 6 flat paintbrush by Loew-Cornell Golden Taklon, Acrylic craft paint by DecoArt Americana: Evergreen, Hauser Dark Green, Hauser Light Green

Instructions (Print version)

Front:

1. Press iron-on interfacing to fabric. Using Template, ShapeCutter, ShapeBoss, and cutting mat, cut out three holly leaves from fabric. (Note: If this is not successful for you, use a pencil to trace the template pattern onto the fabric and cut out with straight-edged scissors.)

     Using appliqué glue, add a few dots of glue to backside of each leaf and adhere to card.

2. Using Thicket dimensional paint, outline leaves and add leaf veins to each leaf.

3. Using Engine Red dimensional paint, adhere rhinestones at base of leaves for berries.

4. At an angle, adhere strips of gold ribbon in each corner.

Inside:

5. Using pinking paper edgers, trim both smaller ends of Mistletoe cardstock.

6. Fold trimmed cardstock in half to fit inside card.

7. Along fold line, measure in 1-3/4-inch from both outer edges. Using straight-edged scissors, cut into the card 2-inches to form a tab. Fold tab inward. Flip card over and fold tab inward the opposite way. Open card and pop tab inward. Glue pop-up card to red card being sure not to have glue on pop-up tab.

8. Using hole punch, punch two holes 1-inch apart vertically on lower section of pop-up tab.

9. Holly Leaf Pin: Paint each holly leaf Hauser Dark Green. Dip brush into Hauser Dark Green and Evergreen. Shade outer left side of each leaf and add a vein to each center. Dip brush into Hauser Light Green and Hauser Dark Green and highlight outer right side of each leaf and highlight along each center vein.

     Glue leaves together. Let dry. Glue on 3 red rhinestones to base of leaves. Let dry. Glue on bar pin to back and left dry.

10. Place pin in punched holes on pop-out tab.

11. Stamp Christmas message onto crème cardstock. Trim to 1- x 2-1/2-inches and glue to Hunter Green cardstock. Glue Hunter Green cardstock to red cardstock and glue this above pop-up tab.

12. Tie a bow and glue to upper left corner of Christmas message.

Envelope:

13. Glue gold ribbon to left side of envelope, if desired.