This elegant holiday card made with the Traditions of Christmas designer series paper from Stampin’ Up in a double Z-Fold design makes a great card to send for the holidays.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Cherry Cobbler card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Gold (Tan Textured Pearl) card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- White card stock
- Traditions of Christmas designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
- Christmas Greenery stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
- Unknown Paper Pumpkin Christmas stamps (retired Stampin’ Up)
- Cherry Cobbler ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Scoring board or scoring blade for paper trimmer
- Shiny Ribbon (Sept-Dec 2025 Mini Catalog Stampin’ Up)
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
- Pop dots
From a piece a Cherry Cobbler cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 2 1/8” and 4 ¼”, fold the left side to the right and then the right side to the left forming your first Z-fold. Then cut another piece to 3” x 6 3/8” and score at 2 1/8” and 4 ¼” and fold evenly into your second Z-Fold. From the gold card stock cut a piece to 1 7/8” x 2 ¾” and then cut two more from white card stock measuring the same.
Adhere your gold piece to the front of the small Z-Fold and the two white pieces to the other two sections.
From your Traditions of Christmas designer series paper find the red poinsettia paper, the red polka dot paper and the floral spray paper. From the red poinsettia paper cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼”. From the red polka dot paper cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Then from the floral spray paper take the floral die from the Christmas Greenery dies and cut out one of the red flower sprays.
Take the ”Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a verry happy New year” greeting and stamp on the center white panel of the small Z in Cherry Cobbler ink.
Adhere the red polka dot paper to the back of your card base and each of the red poinsettia pieces to the front flap and the middle section of your Z-fold. Now take your small Z-fold and put adhesive on the back. While folded in the Z shape, adhere to the center of your red polka dot piece at the back portion of your card. Take the top of the small Z-fold and put adhesive on half and adhere to the front of the large Z over the red poinsettia paper, forming your double Z-Fold.
Use pop dots to adhere the floral spray to the front of the gold panel on the small Z-fold. Use the red Shiny Ribbon to tie a bow and adhere it to the bow section of your floral spray (note: I did trim off some of the paper ribbon so it didn’t show).
This is such a beautiful card and a great card to give to anyone.
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