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2015 CM Holiday Blog Hop Pull Card Instructions

Thank you so much for downloading the instructions for my Holiday pull cards! The links below go to the products and tools used on the main CM site (as of 11/5/15). If you have any questions about the instructions, please comment on the blog post or contact me by email. A big thanks to Alix at Oh Happy Day, who created the card that inspired my designs here! All printed papers and stickers featured come from Christmas Joy paper pack, slide-in pack, and stickers. (All measurements are given in inches.) BEFORE YOU START . . . I want to clarify what I mean by “plastic from embellishment packaging”—I literally mean the outer, flexible, slick, clear plastic packaging that is used to hold CM embellishments, such as the Fall In Leaf Embellishments. You MUST have this kind of plastic or another material of a similar weight, flexibility, and durability in order to make this design work. You can’t substitute paper for this plastic piece. (It doesn’t matter if the plastic you use is clear or colored, or if it’s pretty or not. It won’t show in the finished card.) I used a nice, sharp blade on a Straight Trimmer to SLOWLY cut the plastic strip to the sizes I needed for this project, and it worked beautifully.

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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Finished size: 4x6 Papers and stickers:

Solid white cardstock base: 8x6

Gold stripe paper pieces: 3.75x5.75 (front) & 3.75x1 (inside)

Red stripe paper pieces: 4x.5 (front) & 3.25x4.25 (inside)

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town slide-in card

Solid white cardstock piece: 3x4 (This piece could be any color.)

Tools:

12-inch Straight Trimmer

Multipurpose Tool

Tape Runner

Scissors

Shape Maker System (with Square and Circle Cartridges)

Strip of plastic from embellishment packaging: 1.825x6.5

Steps:

1. Score and fold the card base to make a 4x6 card. (I use the Multipurpose Tool to score cards with the grid on the 12-inch Straight Trimmer.)

2. Decorate the front of the card: a. Adhere the gold stripe and red stripe

papers to the front of the card base using Tape Runner.

b. Cut out “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” from the slide-in card using scissors, and adhere it to the front of the card using Tape Runner. (Save the rest of the slide-in card—you will use pieces from it inside the card as well.)

3. Create the “pull” gadget: a. Take the 3.5x4 piece of cardstock, and mark it with a line or score mark .5 in from each side. b. Use the Shape Maker System and Square Cartridge to punch out a 2x.5 piece out of the center of

each 3-inch side of the cardstock piece. (You will end up with an H shape.)

a. Wrap the plastic strip loosely around the center part of the cardstock and attach the overlapping

ends to each other using Tape Runner. Be careful not to let any extra adhesive stick out or attach to the paper. Roll the plastic around a few times and ensure that it moves smoothly. Line up the overlapped ends of the plastic at the bottom of the front part of the cardstock H before moving on.

b. Cut Santa out from the slide-in card. (You don’t need to cut too carefully around his feet, as these won’t show in the finished card.) Also cut a .75x3 piece from the slide-in card scraps—this will become your “pull” piece.

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c. Put Tape Runner on the back of Santa, but ONLY the bottom .25 inch. Attach his feet over the seam of the plastic that’s wrapped around the cardstock H on the FRONT of the plastic on the cardstock H. It’s important for this seam to be the place where Santa’s feet are attached so the plastic doesn’t get stuck as you pull Santa up and down!

d. Roll the plastic up and down a few times and ensure that it moves smoothly and Santa moves with it as he should. Before moving on to the next step, roll Santa up as high as he can go and still stay on the front of the H.

e. Put Tape Runner on the front of your “pull” piece, but ONLY the top .25 inch. Attach this piece on BOTTOM of the BACK of the plastic on the cardstock H. When you have done this, it should look like both your Santa and your “pull” piece are fully extended.

f. Roll the plastic up and down a few times and ensure that it moves smoothly with Santa and the “pull” piece attached. If there are any problems, fix them NOW because it will become a lot more difficult to fix problems with this gadget after you affix it to the card.

4. Finish the inside:

a. Attach your “pull” gadget to the inside of the card using Tape Runner, allowing it to bow out slightly so Santa can slide up and down easily. Be careful not to get your tape on the moving parts when you’re attaching it! Note: Normally, I just use a dab of tape in each of the corners to attach pieces together, but this one needs to hold firmly, so I ran a whole line of tape on each leg of the H.

b. Try your “pull” piece a couple of times to ensure that everything is moving as it should before you put the chimney over Santa.

c. Use the Shape Maker System and Circle Cartridge to punch out an arc out of the bottom, center of the 3.25x4.25 piece of striped red paper so your “pull” piece will be accessible. Attach this piece over your “pull” gadget using Tape Runner, again allowing it to bow out slightly so Santa can slide up and down easily. Be careful not to get your tape on the moving parts when you’re attaching it! (Again, I ran a whole line of tape on each side of this piece to hold it firmly in place.)

d. Adhere the gold stripe papers to the top of the chimney using Tape Runner. e. You should be able to gently pull down on the strip of paper at the bottom of the card and have

Santa pop up out of the chimney! When you’re sliding Santa back down, make sure he hugs the white cardstock so his hands don’t get caught on the chimney.

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Christmas Traditions Finished size: 4x6 Papers and stickers:

Solid white cardstock base: 8x6

Silver lights paper pieces: 3.75x5.75 (front) & 2 each .5x3.5 (inside)

Red stripe paper pieces: 2 each 3.25x2

Christmas Traditions slide-in card

Stockings slide-in card

Scraps from various Shades of Bright and Shades of Neutral designer cardstock

Solid white cardstock piece: 3x3 (This piece could be any color.)

Tools:

12-inch Straight Trimmer

Multipurpose Tool

Tape Runner

Personal Trimmer

Scissors

Shape Maker System (with Square and Circle Cartridges)

Evergreen Cartridge and Border Maker System (optional)

Corner Rounder

Brown Dual-Tip Pen

Strip of plastic from embellishment packaging: 1.825x5.5

Steps:

1. Score and fold the card base to make a 4x6 card. (I use the Multipurpose Tool to score cards with the grid on the 12-inch Straight Trimmer.)

2. Decorate the front of the card: a. Adhere the silver lights paper to the front of the card base using Tape Runner. b. Cut out “Christmas Traditions” from the slide-in card using a Personal Trimmer, and adhere it to the

front of the card using Tape Runner. (Save the rest of the slide-in card—you will use pieces from it inside the card as well.)

3. Create the “pull” gadget: a. Take the 3x3 piece of cardstock, and mark it with a line or score

mark .5 in from two opposite sides and with a line or score mark .25 in from two opposite sides.

b. Use the Shape Maker System and Square Cartridge to punch out a 2x.25 piece out of the center of two opposite sides of the cardstock piece. (You will end up with an H shape.)

c. Wrap the plastic strip loosely around the center part of the cardstock and attach the overlapping ends to each other using Tape Runner. Be careful not to let any extra adhesive stick out or attach to the paper. Roll the plastic around a few times and ensure that it moves smoothly. Line up the overlapped ends of the plastic at the top of the front part of the cardstock H before moving on.

g. Cut the stocking out from the slide-in card. (You don’t need to cut too carefully around the top, as this won’t show in the finished card.) Also cut a 1.25x2.53 piece from the slide-in card scraps—this will become your “pull” piece.

OK, here is a little sidetrack . . . as you’ll see in my finished card, I attached a few trees to the top of my “pull” piece. This is because when I put everything together I accidentally trimmed the “pull” piece too short and needed to give it some

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additional height so the stocking could go all the way up and down. If you really like the look of this, you’re welcome to add it to your card as well, but if you want to simplify, just make sure your “pull” piece is AT LEAST as tall as the stocking itself. You can always trim it shorter if you need to later.

h. Put Tape Runner on the back of the stocking, but ONLY the top corner (the hanger part). Attach the hanger over the seam of the plastic that’s wrapped around the cardstock H on the FRONT of the plastic on the cardstock H. It’s important for this seam to be the place here so the plastic doesn’t get stuck as you pull the stocking up and down!

i. Roll the plastic up and down a few times and ensure that it moves smoothly and the stocking moves with it as he should. Before moving on to the next step, roll the stocking down as low as it can go and still stay on the front of the H.

j. Put Tape Runner on the front of your “pull” piece, but ONLY the bottom .25 inch. Attach this piece on TOP of the BACK of the plastic on the cardstock H. When you have done this, it should look like both your stocking and your “pull” piece are fully extended.

k. Roll the plastic up and down a few times and ensure that it moves smoothly with everything attached. If there are any problems, fix them NOW because it will become a lot more difficult to fix problems with this gadget after you affix it to the card.

4. Finish the inside: a. Before attaching you “pull” gadget, decorate the rest of the card. (The fire inside this card is

optional, but I think it’s cute.) b. For the fire logs, I used two pieces of brown cardstock each about 2x.5 and used the Corner Rounder

to create a log shape, and then I sketched some log lines on with a brown pen. (I didn’t round each corner, I just punched each of the ends once.) Just ignore that other big brown piece in the pictures—I thought I was going to use it but ended up leaving it out.

c. For fire, I cut pieces of yellow and orange cardstock into flame-like shapes using scissors, and then I sketched some fire lines on with a brown pen.

d. Finally, the fireplace “hole” is a piece of black cardstock cut into a 2 inch square with the Shape Maker System and Square Cartridge with the top rounded. (I used scissors because I wanted more of a circle than the Corner Rounder gave on this piece.)

e. Using the pieces left from the “Christmas Traditions” slide-in card, cut out a hearth (piece at the

bottom of the fireplace) and mantel (piece at the top of the fireplace) 4 inches wide. The exact height of these pieces isn’t terribly important, but my pieces were 4x.75 and 4x1.25.

f. Set aside the mantel piece and one of the red stripe pieces of paper. g. Using Tape Runner, attach the pieces for the bottom part of the fireplace to the card: silver strips

that form the “wall” behind the fireplace (in my card I had separate scrap pieces for the “wall” but It will be much easier to just use long strips that go from the white hearth to the top of the card), one of the red pieces, the hearth, and the fire you made. h. Attach your “pull” gadget to the inside of the card using Tape Runner, allowing it to bow out slightly so the stocking can slide up and down easily. You may need to

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slide the bottom legs of the H beneath the bottom red paper so the top doesn’t go beyond the top of the card. Be careful not to get your tape on the moving parts of the “pull” gadget when you’re attaching it! Note: Normally, I just use a dab of tape in each of the corners to attach pieces together, but this one needs to hold firmly, so I ran a whole line of tape on each leg of the H.

i. Try your “pull” piece a couple of times to ensure that everything is moving as it should before you put the chimney over the stocking.

j. Use the Shape Maker System and Circle Cartridge to punch out an arc out of the top, center of the

remaining piece of striped red paper so your “pull” piece will be accessible. (To ensure the punched out piece was centered, I marked the back of the paper 1 inch in from each side and used those marks to line up my circle.) Attach this piece over your “pull” gadget using Tape Runner, again allowing it to bow out slightly so the stocking can slide up and down easily. Be careful not to get your tape on the moving parts when you’re attaching it! (Again, I ran a whole line of tape on each side of this piece to hold it firmly in place.)

k. Adhere the mantel papers to the top of the fireplace using Tape Runner. l. You should be able to gently pull up on the strip of paper at the top of the card and have the

stocking pop down out of the chimney! When you’re sliding the stocking back up, make sure it doesn’t get caught on the mantel.