Card Art by Helen

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Cut Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper to 8-3/4" x 9".
2. Score at every 1-3/4" along the 8-3/4" side. Score lines will be at 1-3/4", 3-1/2", 5-1/4", 7", 8-3/4". See Template for details.
3. Use Bone Folder to fold and burnish score lines.
4. Place the scored paper all the way into the smaller Gleaming Ornaments Punch. Center a scored line vertically in the punch and punch out. Move punch and repeat centering and punching on each scored line. Rotate paper 180 degrees and repeat on the other side of the paper.
5. Add about 4" of Tear & Tape to the outside edge of one of the outside long scored sections.
6. Fold along each scored section and use flap with Tear & Tape to adhere the box closed.
7. Wrap about 10" of ribbon around punched section of each end and tie in a knot or bow to close the cracker ends.
8. Create a tag by stamping the large swirled ornament image on scrap Pretty Peacock cardstock with Pretty Peacock ink. Punch out with larger of the two Gleaming Ornaments Punch.
9. Punch Copper Foil Sheet with smaller Gleaming Oraments Punch.
10. Emboss with Hammered Metal 3D Embossing Folder.
11. Fussy cut out Mossy Meadow star/ornament design from Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper with Paper Snips. Add a self-adhesive Star Designer Element to the paper star. Adhere to small ornament with a Stampin' Dimensional.
12. Poke a small hole in the top of both ornaments with the paper-piercing tip of the Take Your Pick tool.
13. Thread Old Olive Linen Thread from the Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack through holes and knot around the ribbon at one end of a Christmas Cracker Box.
14. Optional: Add a name or short note on the back of the decorative tag.

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