Christmas Trees Pop Stand Exploding Box Card Tutorial
Hello! I have this tutorial on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today, for a card idea I've wanted to try for a while - an exploding box card with a Pop Stand feature in the middle. I decided to use Karen Burniston's lovely new Christmas Trees Pop Stand, which has a beautiful floating centre. Directions for making the card: 1. Score a 12'' x 12'' double-sided piece of card stock into 4'' squares as shown below. It's been my first chance to use my new Martha Stewart Score Board, which I found lovely and easy to use! 2. Cut away the four corner squares. Fold under the two outer side squares (so that the card base can fit through a die cutting machine). Die cut the small pop stand tabs into the middle of the centre square. (This will also die cut the two folded-under side squares, but these die cuts will get covered up later.) Open out the card base again, so that it looks as below. 3. Using more double-sided card stock, die cut pieces to make the large...