Pocket Fold Christmas Card

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This month our theme is … Christmas! I’m sure that’s not surprising as it’s time to start planning and making those homemade Christmas cards that make your friends and family smile! Here’s my Pocket Fold Christmas Card!

Don’t be fooled! This isn’t a traditional card base… the card base is just a piece of card stock. Most of the card is made from a piece of patterned paper. When you open the card it looks like this:

Isn’t that pocket great? That’s a Pocket Fold Christmas card. It’s perfect for holding a photo or gift card! You can adhere the white paper and write your greeting in the available space or just tuck the white piece into the pocket and remove it to write on it and read it. So many possibilities! It’s great to have a Christmas card with so many options.

Instructions for the Pocket Fold Card

1. Cut a Mossy Meadow rectangle (card base) 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″.
2. Choose a patterned paper from the Heartwarming Hugs pack and cut it to 5 1/4″ x 12. Score it at 4″ and 8″.
3. Fold the bottom rectangle up and into the middle. Fold the top rectangle down and over the middle. Burnish your folds.
4. Next make your diagonal cut. Hold the top flap up and open. Looking at the flap that is folded up from the bottom note that you want your cut to go from the top left corner to the bottom right corner at the fold line. Mark that top left corner with a faint pencil mark.
5. Place that top left corner in the channel of your cutter and line up the fold line on the bottom right in the bottom part of the channel. (Make sure your paper is the correct side up. )
6. Cut off the triangle.
7. Adhere the triangle closed by using a thin line of liquid glue only on the left straight edge.
8. Cut a piece of Basic White 3 3/4″ x 5″ and stamp Season’s Greetings from the Christmas to Remember stamp set in Mossy Meadow ink. Insert into the pocket.
9. If adding a gift card attach it to this piece with a glue dot.
10. Die cut a Real Red rectangle using the largest Stitched So Sweetly dies.
11. Stamp “Friends like…” in Mossy Meadow on a scrap of Basic White. Die cut with the largest label from the Stitched So Sweetly dies. Layer this on the red rectangle.
12. Die cut 2 large trees and 2 small trees from the Cabin Dies on a scrap of Mossy Meadow card stock. Pop three trees (1 large and 2 small) on dimensionals on the front of the card.
13. Adhere one large tree on the inside pocket.
14. Add 3 red Wonderful Gems to the front of the card.

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Lorraine
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