Merry Christmas Tree Card

Designer:
[fiskars top ten] Susan Weinroth

Find an alternative use for your eyelet setters with this spirited holiday card.  Use the hole-punching end of the small and medium setter to create a festive garland for the tree on your card.

Difficulty rating

• Required supplies:
• Eyelet Setters 3-Piece Set
• Twinkle Twinkle - Large
• Twinkle Twinkle - Medium
• Ultra ShapeXpress™
• ShapeTemplate™ Tool - Hearts-1 w/Victorian Border
• Pinking Paper Edgers
• 12 inch/30 cm Deluxe Portable Trimmer - Purple
• Heidi Grace Designs : 12-71794 Dot with Mushroom
• Heidi Grace Designs : 12-71357 Brown Rubon Letters
• Heidi Grace Designs : 12-71631Baby Boy Borders Stickers
• cardstock : brown, beige, red

Instructions (Print version)

1. Trim 9” X 9.5” piece of beige cardstock to use as base of card.  Fold in half so that card measures 4.5” across, and 9.5” tall.
2. Trim 4.5” x 9.5” piece of brown cardstock – adhere to front of card.
3. Trim 2” x 4.5” strip of Dot with Mushroom paper – adhere .25” above bottom of card (so dots face out).
4. Place beige scallop Borders sticker along bottom of Dot paper.
5. Rub “Merry Christmas” from brown Rubon Letters to .5” x 4.5” strip of beige cardstock.  Adhere over Dots paper.
6. Use ShapeXpress Tool to trim 3 various sized hearts from green cardstock.
7. Flipping the hearts over & stacking to use as the base of the tree, lightly trace with pencil, the lines for your “garland”.  Alternating the 1/16 & 1/8 sized punch – punch along the lines, being careful to erase afterwards.
8. Layer red cardstock underneath green “hearts” so that punched “garland” is noticeable.
9. Layer tree parts (largest on bottom) and adhere to form tree.  Trim 1” wide piece of beige cardstock with pinking edgers and adhere as “trunk” of tree.
10. Adhere completed tree to upper portion of card.
11. Punch 1 Large red star, and 1 medium beige star – layer and adhere to top of tree.