How to make a box ledge card

How to make a box ledge card

Learn how to make a box ledge card and add dimension to your make by creating a stepped card front using our free Santas workshop printables.

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Holly Spanner

Published: July 5, 2024 at 12:23 pm

Download our free Santa's workshop printables and learn how to make a box ledge card following our step-by-step tutorial below.

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Step 1

First, download your Santa’s workshop printables! Next, create a 12 x 17cm, top-fold, white card blank. Trim present-patterned paper from your printables to measure 11 x 16cm, then layer it on top of a slightly larger piece of plain green card, leaving a thin around the edge. Attach this panel onto the card front.

Step 2

Trim a piece of white card to 12.5 x 17cm then score across it at 1cm, 4.5cm, 8cm and 11.5cm down from the top edge. Run double-sided tape along the top and bottom 1cm-wide scored sections.

Step 3

Trim two pieces of green card to 3 x 16.5cm then attach them either side of the central section on the card from step 2. Affix a 3.5 x 17cm piece of train-patterned paper to the central section.

Step 4

Trim white card to 2.5 x 16cm and stick a doormat topper in the middle. Glue faux snow (or white glitter!) over the rest of the card strip, leave it to dry then glue the strip to the top green card panel from step 3.

Step 5

Once dry, fold the panel from step 4 into a box shape and attach it to the bottom of the card front. Fussy cut a tree and a drum, leaving some white along the bottom edge, to look like snow.

Step 6

Cut out the Santa’s workshop door elements then use sticky foam pads to layer them. Trim along the right-hand side of the door, so it opens slightly, then add an elf behind it.

Step 7

Use sticky foam pads to attach the door, tree and drum to the card front. Fussy cut two more elves then attach one behind the top of the door and one inside the front box panel for a cheeky finish.

Holly Spanner

Staff Writer, BBC Science Focus

Holly is the Staff Writer for BBC Science Focus and looks after the popular Q&A section. She holds an MSc (distinction) in Geoscience (Space and Climate Physics) from UCL, and specialises in astronomy and earth sciences. Before joining Our Media, she worked as a geoenvironmental consultant and engineer, informing on ground risk and remediation in the north of England, while hunting for exoplanets in her spare time. Alongside this, she was regional editor of a popular theatre website for nine years, and has a solid background in curating and developing content for the digital space. Holly is also an artist and illustrator, and regular contributor to the craft website, Gathered. She has previously worked with the RSPB, English Heritage, Disney, Pilot and Brother, as well as on BBC Good Food magazine, Home Style magazine, and Papercraft inspirations magazine. She enjoys photography and has a sustained interest in antiques.
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