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Hey gals! I've thought to take upon myself an art project for the upcoming holiday season. I have decided to join DeviantArt's Holiday Card Project and was wondering where I might be able to find some of the following!

Cardstock (preferably cheap as I don't really have a lot of money right now though I can also use printer paper)
Holiday stencils (preferably Christmas related)
Festive Origami paper

Also, regarding the stencils; I will be outlining the stencils on the back of christmas wrapping paper and then cutting them out and gluing them onto the front/inside/back/whatever of the cards I'm making. Now if I were to, say, cut from the middle of the paper, how would I do that? Is there a tool that I can get that would help me accomplish this? If I can't actually use scissors to cut it out? (omg I hope that's understandable. ><)

I have recently learned how to make paper cranes, so I thought it would be a nice idea to make one for each card, hoping it brings them a little peace.

I've never had to search for any of these things before, so I don't really know where to look. And this is my first big art project ever. So I'd really like to be able to do this. ^^;

Any help would be more than appreciated, thank you!

EDIT: I totally forgot to ask, but what would be the best way to attach objects to the cards? Glue, rubber cement? Glue stick? Also, thank you for all your helpful comments!!