Create a whopping 50 cards with this festive kit containing everything you need to complete your designs.  With prints inspired by the Nutcracker story, create your own magical Christmas greeting cards and gift bags featuring the Sugar Plum Fairy, Mouse King and the Nutcracker himself, along with a host of coordinating festive and fun patterns.
 
The kit includes blank wooden star stocking and Christmas tree toppers to colour with your own designs, along with folksy felt reindeers, painted wooden frames, colourful buttons and bright washi tapes (use them to add borders, frames and stripy backgrounds).  There's also a set of four 3D pearl paints to add some pretty finishing touches.
 
With 50 cards, 100 sheets of patterned paper, 50 toppers, 50 buttons, 10 rolls of mini washi tape plus pencil crayons, a fineliner Sharpie, 4 3D pearl paints, detail scissors, double sided tape and glue dots, you'll have everything you need to make your own "Magical Stories" Christmas cards!
 
INSTRUCTIONS
 
The kit includes a 'scrapbooking and cardmaking tips and ideas' guide for inspiration.  Let your imagination run wild as you have fun experimenting with pattern and colour combinations and composition as you design your own unique cards.
 
Use the complete sheets of mini paper as backgrounds for embellishments, tear into strips to create striped montages or cut out silhouettes (perhaps taking inspiration for shapes to use from the patterns on the papers).  Use the pencil crayons and 3D pearl paints to colour the wooden stockings and Christmas trees in coordinating designs and have fun incorporating the additional embellishments provided.  The kit includes detail scissors to cut intricate shapes, as well as glue dots and double sided tape to attach your papers and toppers.
 
You can add greetings or illustrations using the 3D pearl paints, pencil crayons or the fineliner Sharpie included too.
 
The kit contains:
50 x white 250gsm greetings cards and 100gsm envelopes (6" square)
100 sheets of 'Magical Stories' printed papers in 20 designs (10cm x 10cm)
50 x colourful buttons
16 x wooden star stockings to colour
16 x wooden Christmas trees to colour
12 x folksy felt reindeer
10 x bright mini washi tapes (1cm x 3m each)
6 x painted wooden frames
1 x fine Sharpie permanent marker
1 x set of 12 colouring pencils (in a metal tube with a handy sharpener in the lid)
1 x roll of 25m double sided tape (9mm)
1 x roll of 100 glue dots (10-15mm)
1 x pair of precision craft scissors
1 x double sided A4 'scrapbooking and cardmaking tips and ideas' sheet
 
For ages 7+
 
encourages creativity
develops fine motor skills
aids concentration
builds organisational skills
 
ADULT HELP
 
The kit contains pointed detail scissors for cutting intricate shapes: younger ones may need an adult to use the scissors for them.