FREE Christmas Tutorial

Sometime ago I had a relatively new customer ask me to put together a class that would help her get her Christmas cards done. She would gather a group of friends and coworkers to fill the class if I would create and prepare it. She also requested that we do a lot of embossing and other things with the Big Shot.

So my first thought was to turn to the Simply Scrappin Kit in the Idea Book & Catalog and see what I could do with it to make a card class. Originally I was rather disappointed with this kit because it seems to lend itself more to a countdown calendar or something of the sort rather than a card class like kits of the past have done. I decided to go ahead and order one and see what I could do. With a little creative “covering up” of certain elements, I was able to get a lot more mileage out of the kit and put it together for the card class I needed.

I created 23 card fronts (needing to be adhered to separate cardstock) and 4 boxes out of about half of the kit (it’s just a wee bit more than half). I bundled the kit, the “Four the Holidays” stamp set, 2 class periods of my instruction, and a THOROUGH printed tutorial together for $45.00. With the amount of time it took me to put the full-color tutorial together, test it, modify it, and finalize it, plus teach the class, I’m not really sure I earned much from this, but it was a GREAT experience with new customers and friends and I will definitely try my hand at using a Simply Scrappin Kit for this purpose in the future.

So, without anymore blabbing, here are some group shots of the projects:






What do you think of the projects?? It took a lot longer to design them all than I thought it would, but I loved it!

Originally, I was planning to offer the tutorial here on my blog for sale, but due to a surgery in the middle of everything, I just wasn’t able to get in done in as timely a manner as I would have liked. So instead, since we’re getting so close to Christmas, I decided to offer up this tutorial here on my blog for free to all of my readers.

There are TWO documents that you will need to be sure to download. One of them is the cutting instructions and the other is the full assembly instructions that is complete with photographs of each individual card or box. You can download them here:
Christmas Cheer Card Class Instructions
Christmas Cheer Cutting Instructions

The only thing I ask of you for downloading the tutorial is that you give me some feedback on what you think of it. I worked hard on it, and would like to do similar things in the future, but I need to know what could or should be changed to improve. So please either email me or leave me a comment here to let me know what you think. Please, Please, PLEASE!!!

I hope you enjoy it!

Check back later to see a video showing what else I did with this kit!