First Christmas

What comes to mind when you think of the first Christmas? That first Christmas was the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.

When I first started thinking of a Christmas card with February’s featured stamp set, on the Farm, I knew immediately it would feature Jesus’ birth. Besides Mary and Joseph, the animals were probably the first creatures on Earth to experience the miracle of Jesus’ birth

There are always sheep in the Christmas story. The angels did announce the news of Jesus’ birth to the shepherds after all. 🙂
None of us know for sure if cows were at the birth of Christ. But, the song, “Away in a Manger” sure says they were.

Away in a Manger

verse 3:
The cattle are lowing
The Baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes

Blue fun fold step card closed. Largest back panel has stars background paper with stamped image of holy family. First two steps have rolling hills patterned paper and sheep and cow dies.

Card Details

This card is a fun fold step card. It begins with a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of cardstock that is the scored at 3″, 6″, 7 1/2″, 9″ and 10″. Nest, fold the cardstock along the score lines alternating mountain and valley folds to create the steps.

All three steps are decorated with Designer Series Paper available as a Level 1 Sale-A-Bration item. The front two steps have rolling hills from the Day at the Farm DSP with sheep and cows die cut from another patterned in the paper pack. The star patterned paper on the largest step comes from the Enjoy the Journey DSP pack. You may have seen that paper in the 2022-2023 Annual Catalog. It is now one of the Sale-A-Bration choices added at the beginning of February.

The back step includes a stamped image of the holy family along with another sheep die hanging out with them, admiring the baby Jesus.