A fun Hostess Project for Christmas!

Hello Stampers,

It's always lovely to bring a handmade card or gift when you go visiting at Christmas – much more personal and less fattening than chocolate!

Here's a really easy but lovely project that can be brought out every year and displayed.

 

1. Start with a simple wooden frame from the craft store. Mine is 6 1/2" x 8 1/2"
2. Cut your Designer Series Paper (DSP) slightly larger than that size of the frame and trace the outside and inside window onto the reverse side.
3. Cut out the window and just outside the outer line.
4. Apply Tombow Multi-purpose glue to the frame in a thin layer and glue the DSP to the frame.  Smooth it out with a bone folder.  Let dry.
5. Use a sanding block to remove the extra paper from around the outside and inside window of the frame – basically you are sanding off the paper so it becomes the exact size of the frame.
6. Cut the Real Red cardstock to the size of the frame (mine is 6 1/8" x 4 1/8")
7. Cut the Champagne Glimmer Paper (3 1/4" x 5 1/8")
8. Cut Very Vanilla Cardstock (3" x 4 7/8") and emboss with Big Shot Embossing Folder of your choice. Glue to Champagne Glimmer Paper with Tombow glue.
9. Cut Very Vanilla Cardstock (4 1/2" x 2 1/8") and stamp the solid tree image from the Evergreen Stamp Set in Crumb Cake (you can stamp off if you want a lighter image). 
10. Overstamp the words in Early Espresso (or a colour to match your DSP).
11. Punch a triangle using the Petite Pennants Bulder punch in matching DSP and trim off the point to form a "stand" for your tree. Pop it up with a Dimensional at the bottom of the tree.
12. Tie a bow with 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon and attach to top of tree with glue dot.
13. Punch a gold star from the Champagne Glimmer paper and attach it to the bow.
14. Pop up the stamped piece with Dimensionals.

 

Products Used in this Project:

Evergreen Stamp Set  #127973 (clear) #127970 (wood)
Champagne Glimmer Paper #127885
Petite Pennants Builder Punch #122361
Real Red 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon – #119251

Tombow Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue – #110755
Stampin' Sanding System– #129367

 

I'm located in New Westminster, BC, Canada and serve the local Greater Vancouver area – north to Squamish and east to Mission. I also ship ANYWHERE in Canada by UPS.