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Saturday, October 21, 2017

HD Christmas Classics - The Nativity #3


The third card from The Nativity topper set was a Angled Z-fold card.  This is what it looked like closed:


As you can see, I also made a matching envelope for it. as it was a less common sized card.

Materials: 
  • Hunkydory Christmas Classics Luxury Card Collection - The Nativity topper set
  • Leftover card stock from the Hunkydory Cute Christmas Luxury Card Collection
  • Gold Ripple Holographic paper
  • Blue patterned paper from my stash

Method:
  • Card Base - I scored a piece of coordinating card stock (from the kit) in 3rds, folded it like a Z (accordion fold), then opened it back up and cut the top off at an angle - tallest on the right side of the page.  The cut line went approximately from the upper right corner, to a spot 3 1/4" from the top on the left side. (I could have cut the angle first so the left over piece wasn't folded, but I wanted to see what it looked like folded to get an idea of how steep an angle I wanted to cut.)
  • Card Front - Since I used such a pretty piece of printed card stock, I didn't need to do too much to make a pretty card.  I matted the greeting (from the kit) onto blue patterned paper from my stash, then onto gold ripple holographic paper.  A strip of the gold paper was also added hanging from the top so it looks like it's holding the greeting. 
  • Behind the Card Front - since the back of the middle section is visible when the card is closed, I glued a piece of coordinating card stock (leftover from Cute Christmas kit) on the back of this section.  It doesn't go all the way to the bottom, but really doesn't need to as only the top part of it is visible.
  • Inside - Above the manger scene I added another tag (from the kit).  The I cut out a "guiding star" from the ripple holographic paper & glued it above the manger.

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