Festival of Trees & Wondrous Wreath Card – using metric measurements (cm). Paula Reid http://yellowbearnz.blogspot.co.nz

Start with your A5 piece of card stock (14.8cm x 21cm). Then trim it down to 14.8cm x 14.8cm and score at 10.5cm. This gives you your card base. With the scrap cut a strip 3cm x 14.8cm - this is for the bit at the bottom. Cut a strip of Whisper White that measures 3.8cm x 14.3cm. Stamp your greeting and then adhere to the card base as per photo. Cut a strip of DSP that measure 2.5cm x 14.3cm and adhere to the strip as per my photo (This will be attached to the card later). Stamp the 'tree' images three times on Whisper White (I used Garden Green and then heat embossed with Cherry Cobbler Embossing Powder) and cut out with the coordinating Tree Punch. Stamp the tree pot in Early Espresso and manually cut out. Punch three trees with the punch from Garden Green card stock. Adhere the top of the stamped trees to the main card base and then align the 3cm strip at the bottom to line up with the card base back and adhere the bottom of the trees. Then adhere the ‘pot’ on top (hope that all makes sense). Once attached open your card up and adhere the three trees to the back of the stamped trees. This gives it more strength. Adhere your stars. For these stars I inked VersaMark to a scrap of Whisper White then heat embossed with Gold embossing powder then punched out using the Itty Bitty Accents Punch. You could punch out starts from Gold Foil or Brushed Gold Card Stock. Here is another card I made using the same process but using the Wondrous Wreath set. For the wreath stamp the images then cut out with the framelit including the centre, then cut another wreath out of Whisper White except don’t cut the centre out – this will be attached to the back of the wreath like you did for the trees above. The DSP strips measure 3.8cm x 14.3cm and 2.5cm x 14.3cm. The ‘Joy’ is cut out of gold foil and adhered with Tombow. The bow at the top is heat embossed with Cherry Cobbler Embossing Powder then adhered with a dimensional.