Introducing your... christmas village card kit

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Try a stepper greeting, easel fold, shadow card and much more with your all-in-one cardmaking pack

YOUR Paper Carfter GIFT:

15 clear stamps including sentiments 96 gold foil alphabet stickers 60 die-cut toppers to pop out Pre-folded blanks to get you started Double-sided patterned papers • Christmas Village Cardmaking Kit • Dies: Mama Elephant Pizazz Pieces, circles • Ink pads: Ranger Distress Oxide Saltwater Taffy, Salvaged Patina, Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire; blue, black, embossing • Cardstock: blue, green, black, silver • Embossing powder, white • Punches: corner rounder, hole • Alcohol markers • Embellishments: Ranger Glossy Accents, ribbon, twine, gems, glitter glue • Tools: ink blending, heat gun • Acetate • Masking paper • Adhesives: glue, double-sided tape • Die-cutting machine

ROCKER CARD

1 Position a 15.5cm circle die on top of a winter scene blank and die cut into a semicircle to create a rocker card. Die cut a 9.5cm circle and 8cm circle from contrasting papers, then layer up. Attach the circles to the front with 3D foam pads.

2 Glue character toppers and a snowflake on top. Fix trees and a house either side. Snip a 1cm strip from snowflake paper and run along the bottom of the card, trimming to fit. Secure a sentiment on top with 3D foam pads.

INKED SKIES

1 Trim blue card to 11cm x 14cm, then ink the edges with dark blue distress oxide ink. Use clear embossing ink to stamp snowflakes all over, then heat emboss with white embossing powder. Layer onto a white blank.

2 Snip white card to 6cm x 11cm, then cut a curved edge along the top. Trim pink spotty paper to 3cm x 11cm, then cut a similar curved edge. Layer up and fix both to the card front at the bottom. Stamp snowflakes in blue ink onto the white card and a sentiment in black.

3 Stamp a snowman and sleigh in black. Colour in the snowman with alcohol markers, trim and secure in the bottom-left corner of the greeting. Fix the sleigh along the top with 3D foam pads.

GOLD SENTIMENT

1 Matt blue card, 12cm square, with light blue snowflake paper, then wrap gold twine around the panel, 3cm down from the top edge. Layer onto a white blank. Spell out ‘Fa la la’ with gold letter stickers and adhere onto a 2cm x 9cm strip of blue card. Fix on top of the gold twine with 3D foam pads.

2 Secure three snowflake toppers around the sentiment, then add a gold gem to the centre of each snowflake. Stamp two houses and three trees in black ink, then colour in with alcohol markers and cut out. Glue to the bottom of the card, with the trees behi