Christmas Ornament - Lattice Die

I had a lot of requests for a tutorial for this Christmas Ornament using the Lattice Die. It’s taken me a while but since I’m away for 4 days of stamping fun, I thought I’d go ahead and get this done while I’m here.  So, let’s get started!

Lattice Die

You need to begin with four of the Lattice Dies. This is a Stampin’ Up! exclusive die.

You’re going to begin with folding your die cut in half. Unfold it and fold in half again the other direction.

You have four more folds to do. I have drawn lines here that will hopefully help you.

I found the easiest way to fold these diagonal folds is to use a ruler. This is one of the lines you’re to be folding. You will fold all four lattice pieces with these.

Now you are going to cut on one of the half-folds to the center of the lattice. I hope you can see it in this picture.

As you look at your die cut, begin at the center cut you made. As you go to the left, that first fold you come to, fold that end up, your second fold will also be folded up and the next one down.  Sorry, it’s really hard to get a good picture and description for you (thus the reason I’ve been putting off writing up this tutorial!)

What you want, as you fold, is a corner oval setting down on your table and then you will have an oval sticking up in the air and then one on the table and one in the air . . .

You will want to use little teeny tiny pieces of Sticky Strip to adhere the two sides of the oval sticking up together.  This picture is looking at the bottom of the die cut, you can see where I placed the Sticky Strip for when I fold and put the two pieces together.  It is important to adhere them together!

This is what one Lattice Die Cut will look like with all the folding.  (Once you attach it to other pieces, the ends will be sticking up.)

You’re going to use Sticky Strip to stick the ends of pieces together.  (In the picture I’m getting ready to lay the one oval down on top of the other that has adhesive on it.)

Here’s what it looks like with 2 of the sections put together, keep going!

You’ll need to choose something to sticky strip your project to so it will lie flat. I used a circle punched with the 2 1/2″ Circle Punch. Then decorate as you wish and attach some ribbon to the back if you want to hang it.

I hope you enjoy! If you find this helpful, I hope you’ll leave a quick comment!  Feel free to put your questions as a comment so I can answer for everyone’s benefit.

I was asked a question about making the little snowman gift tags in my Gift Tag Boxes so I thought I’m just do up a quick little tutorial for you and try to answer any other questions out there.  They’re easy to make once you have the hang of what to do.

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I used a bone folder to fold a piece of Whisper White cardstock in half.  The bone folder gives a nice crisp fold which you really need for this since you’re going to be putting the folded cardstock into a punch.

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Insert the folded cardstock into the Stampin’ Up! Small Tag Punch making sure you can see the fold in the “hole” so you’re not punching on it.

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In other words, once you’ve punched the tag out, you want the remaining hole to look like this.

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And you want the tag you punched out to look like this.

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Stamp the outside as desired.  You can do the stamping before punching as well but with the tag from the Two Cool Dudes Stamp Set I find it easier to stamp after punching.

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Punch another tag without any folds out of cardstock using the Stampin’ Up! Tag Punch (this one is larger than the other we used with the white.)  You’ll notice I’m using Night of Navy Cardstock here, however, in the first picture you saw I used Whisper White, you can do whatever suits you and your style.

Layer the stamped tag onto the larger tag and then attach ribbon or cord as you desire and write a little message inside.  It’s that easy!  If you have further questions please don’t hesitate to ask by leaving a comment or using the Contact Me button here or at the top of the page.