Bring paper picking into the 21st century with these stunning christmas designs

What you need...

• Tool, perforating: #10 sharp needle pushed into a cork or needle vice; or a similar size single needle tool
  Mat, perforating
  Punch, eyelet, 1/8 inch
  Paper: A5, Canson Mi-Teintes, lily, ivory, or white; tracing, 90gsm
  Card, A4, pearl, Venetian red, pine green
  Adhesive, spray
  Tape, low-tack
  Pen: brush; ProMarker, pine, holly, berry bed
  Peel-off sheet, gold lines, Starform
  Cutting tool, straight edge, Puerto Rican (optional)
  Project Pattern Download: Click Here

instructions

1. General Instructions - Project Pattern Download: Click Here Copy the design from the pattern download onto tracing paper. Secure the template face down on the back of mi-tientes paper with low-tack tape. Place onto a foam mat and perforate along the solid lines, keeping the holes evenly spaced. Remove the pattern and turn it over. Flip the project, reposition the template onto the front, matching up the holes, then secure in place. Finish perforating the dotted lines and add any freehand details.

2. Christmas Tree - Follow the general instructions, using the Christmas tree design. With the template still attached, lay the project onto the cutting mat and create solid circles with an eyelet punch. Keeping the pattern in position, cut out the tree and greeting layers along the solid line shown.
   
   Adhere peel-off lines, 0.5cm from the edge as shown. Pick up colour from a pine marker with a brush pen filled with water, and tint the tree. Fold venetian red pearl card in half, cut to size as per pattern and glue the design onto the front.

3. Holly Wreath - Follow the general instructions, using the holly wreath design. With the template still attached, carefully cut along the solid line round the wreath design.
   
   Tint the leaves in holly and the ribbons with berry red, using markers and a brush pen. Fold green card in half, cut to size and adhere the wreath onto the front.

4. Holly Tag - Follow the general instructions, using a small part of the holly wreath design. With the template still attached, carefully cut along the solid line round the holly leaves.
   
   Tint the leaves in holly and the ribbons with berry red as before. Trim green card to form a tag and spray-mount the holly onto the front. Punch a small hole near the top.

http://www.suttontools.co.uk - needle vice
http://www.centagaph.co.uk - Canson Mi-Teintes; perforating tools and mats; eyelet punch; Puerto Rican cutting tools
http://www.papercellar.com - pearl card
http://www.letraset.com - 90gsm tracing paper; ProMarkers and brushpen