Materials:
Stickers, gold
Christmas tree ball, large no. 1718
Stars, small no. 1783
Alphabet, small no. 1668
Cardboard, red and cream
Photo glue
Beads, red 9/0
Piercing pen (pergamano) and mat
Quilt needle and gold-coloured thread
Scissors
Foam tape
Adhesive removable tape
Squared sticker paper
Circular cutter (orbis).
Cut a 13.5 cm circle out of the red cardboard and a 10 cm circle out of the cream cardboard. Using adhesive tape, stick a piece of gold-coloured thread onto the back of the cream circle, to serve as hanger, and attach this to the middle of the red circle with photo glue.
Stick the picture of the Christmas tree ball onto red cardboard and cut this out along the contours. The hanger on the ball may remain free. Pierce two holes in each curl on the ball, onto which the beads will be embroidered. To do this, take a length of gold-coloured thread and attach it to the back with a piece of adhesive tape. Draw the needle upward through a hole, thread on a bead and then go through the second hole to the back. Carry on embroidering in this way until there is a bead on every curl, and attach the thread to the back again with adhesive tape.
Now cut out the negative of the picture, which was left on the sheet, allowing a wide margin, and then remove the edges around the picture. Cover the whole negative with removable tape, rub it on well and then carefully peel the image off the paper. Stick the negative onto the cream circle, rub it on well again and remove the tape.
Attach some foam tape to the red ball and stick this onto the cream circle too, slightly overlapping the negative.
Stick a few stars along the edge of the inner circle.
On the squared sticker paper, draw a 13.5 cm and a 10 cm circle, between which the texts using the alphabet stickers will be attached. Attach the texts to the outer ring with the aid of removable tape, and your card is ready.
Design: Geralda den Hollander
For: Audenaerde Creative
Date: 03/04/01