12 Days of Christmas- Day 9 & Pop-Up Box Card Wisemen Tutorial

Welcome to Day 9 of our 12 Days of Christmas! Each day from December 1-12, there will be a free SVG file of the day, along with a special promotion! For Day 9 we have this Christmas Tag Snowflake will be free today only, so don’t miss out!

In addition, today only, you can get 40% off all items under the Tags Category in my SVG shop! Just use code TAGS40 at checkout!

And check out this amazing card and tutorial from Marcia!

Hello everyone! Marcia here today. I’ve been busy making more Christmas cards to send out to family and friends. Lori designed a new The First Noel Christmas collection and I thought it would be a great idea to use the sentiment phrase ephemera pieces instead of using the print and cut feature in Silhouette. This would also speed up my cardmaking, a huge plus right now! I used the Pop Up Three Wisemen Box Card (SVG, Silhouette) cut file along with the coordinating solid pattern paper from the collection. When the card is closed for mailing it is completely flat.

When open, it can stand up by itself. The middle pops out to form a box with a dimensional city scene and star of Bethlehem.

Let me show you how I created mine.

Cut out all the pieces from desired cardstock and pattern papers. I used some Black Soot ink to darken the bottom and middle panel of the blue pattern paper pieces using an ink blending tool.

2. Assemble the panels and box card inserts. The city scene can be left as is, or add another layer of color on top.

3. I wanted my Star of Bethlehem to really sparkle so I added some gold glitter gel. This needs to dry before you attempt to assemble the card.

4. Glue the panel with the wisemen to the card front about .5″ from the bottom of the card lining up the edges on the left side. The opposite end of the panel is then adhered to the far right .5″ from the bottom lining up the edges on the right side. The middle panel should fold the opposite of the card base to form a box.