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Nine squares Christmas card

Description

A white aperture card has small gold and silver Christmas stickers mounted in a grid of nine squares on acetate film. There is a background of dark blue Mulberry paper. Squares of crystal glitter complete the design.

Materials used

• White double fold greeting card 144mm x 144mm (5¾ x 5¾ inches) with aperture
• Acetate film
• Sticker No. 08 Christmas baubles
• Sticker No. 09 Bells, tree, candle
• Sticker No. 11 Snowflakes & stars
• Dark blue Mulberry paper
• Identi-pen permanent markers
• Glitter Crystal Ultra-Fine
• Glitter Gold Jewel Ultra-Fine
• Glitter Pastel Blue Ultra-Fine
• Double-sided adhesive tape
• Double-sided self-adhesive sheet

Method

Nine squares grid

Use a ruler to draw a grid with nine squares on a sheet of paper, as in the drawing above. The grid should be a little smaller than the card aperture and each square equal in size.

Cut a piece of acetate film just larger than the card aperture

Lay the acetate film over the paper and trace the ruled lines with a black permanent marker pen. The side with the ruled lines will be the back of the acetate.

Put stickers on the front side of the acetate in the centre of six of the squares as shown in the photograph above.

Colour in the sticker shapes on the back of the acetate film with permanent marker pens.

Cut three squares of double-sided self-adhesive sheet the same size as the inside of the grid squares.

Peel off the backing of one of these squares and stick it on the front of the acetate grid in the bottom left hand corner.

Remove the top layer of the self-adhesive square and sprinkle with gold glitter. Press the glitter in place and then shake off the surplus.

Repeat on the bottom right square using pastel blue glitter and on the top right square with crystal glitter.

Mount the acetate in the aperture of the greeting card using double-sided tape.

Fix a square of dark blue Mulberry paper behind the acetate as a background.

With the inside of the card uppermost close the left hand side of the card over the aperture and fix down.

Nine squares Christmas card made by Linda Jefferson.

Sticker images used by kind permission of the copyright owners.

Please note that this is an old project. It is left here for the interest of the reader. Some of the materials used may no longer be available. We regret that we can not help you find a source of supply for these.