Brenda Harvey shows us how to produce a truly festive set of modern cards

What you need...

• Stamps: pear tree, large (CI268); three kings, village silhouette, stars (CI270); door (CI249); trees (CI167)
  
• Card: plain, white, purple, jade green; mirror card; scrap, lime green
  
• Embossing powder, clear, gold
  
• Ink-pad, pigment, black
  
• Heat gun
  
• Ribbon, narrow, satin, jade, lime
  
• Pens: turquoise, purple, Marvy Markers; Emboss Dual
  
• Pencil, brown
  
• Adhesives: foam pads, 3-D; glue
  
• Punch, heart-shaped, small
  
• Scissors, deckle-edged

instructions

1. Opening Doors - 1. Prepare white card, 21cm square, and fold in half lengthways. Layer a smaller piece of purple on top. Stamp door image onto white card and heat-emboss with clear powder. Cut it completely out, then trim along the top, bottom and middle lines of the door. Carefully score the sides, so it will open outwards.
   
   2. Ink up one of the tree stamps with a turquoise Marvy Marker pen and print onto white card, 7cm square. Stamp a star onto white and heat emboss with gold powder. Cut it out and attach at the top of the tree with a tiny foam pad.
   
   3. Cut an aperture, 6cm x 8.5cm, from gold mirror card, 8cm x 10.5cm. Layer the tree, doors and frame together with 3-D foam pads and position in place. Use a home computer to print the phrase 'Merry Christmas' repeatedly onto white paper in jade green. Tear the edges and glue onto a strip of gold mirror card, 2.5cm wide.