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What is a better gesture of love than a handmade Christmas card? (Alright, maybe some homemade cookies, but that's as good as it gets!) I spent last night crafting 4 fairly easy Christmas cards, and wanted to share these ideas with you. (Plus an additional quick how-to for DIY bauble earrings!) Here we go!
You will need:
Card stock
Wrapping paper
Scissors
Glue
(everything else is absolutely optional)
Number 1: Cute as a Button
- pine sprig
- coloured buttons
- tacky glue
First
draw freehand ribbons and hooks for your button baubles, then glue on the
buttons and the pine sprig. Done. I decided to add a few tiny details: a red bow that i drew on top of one of my baubles, a hand written "happy holidays" greeting in one corner, and part of a paper snowflake which i made from tracing paper.
Number 2: Simplicity is Key
- festive card stock, i chose shimmery gold
- a printed napkin (or even wrapping paper instead)
Carefully peel off the very first layer of the napkin (or just use a pretty piece of wrapping paper), cut out the desired motif and gently glue it onto your card. Done. Can it get any easier than this?!
Number 3: To my Deer Family
This
is a card i "accidentally" made last year for Saint Nicholas Day - it's
lots of fun if you want to play around with some leftover household
items. In my case it wasn't even supposed to be a card, i - erm -
honestly just had a piece of paper with some brown spots on it because i
had been painting the other day, and somehow i decided to make reindeer
heads out of these spots. To make them a little cuter i also drew some
ears and mouths, hair and beard on them. Yeah, i went kinda crazy ...
Noses: various beads and one brass fastener.
Antlers: matchsticks, nails and some wire, respectively.
Papa
Deer even got a little wrapping paper neck-tie. Oh, and i glued some
googly eyes on them, too! And that's how Baby Deer, Papa Deer, Mama Deer
and Teenie Deer came about. It's kinda cute though, isn't it?
It goes without saying that you have to address your loved ones with "Deer (name)", of course ;-)
Number 4: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- white or printed paper
- printed wrapping paper
- some narrow gift ribbon
- some glitter
Now for my favourite card: Cut
out three ornament circles from the wrapping paper. Fold in half and
attach the halves back to back except for the two "outer" ones; those
will be glued to the card. Cover card with white or printed paper, glue
the ribbon thread to it, then a ribbon bow, then the 3D bauble, and
decorate with glitter, writing and a thin strip of wrapping paper at the
edge, if you like.
Oh, and i also drew a tiny red nosed reindeer onto the envelope! Isn't it cute?
THANKS TO:
who was kind enough to share this post on pinterest!
(almost 400 re-pins and 100 likes so far!! this is crazy... thanks so much for making my day :))
who happened to include this in their Christmas Card round-up
(buzzfeed? how did they even stumble across my blog...?! i'm so honoured!)
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BONUS: 2-minute Bauble Earrings
Last
but not least i've got one final DIY to share with you: Christmas
Earrings that will only take 2 minutes and 2 items to make!
- a pair of baubles (which
ever colour you like, i went for a classy gold)
- a pair of earring
hooks
Take off the little "lid" of the bauble, attach the earring hook to
the loop, put it back onto the baubles and voilà ! There you have your 2-minute Christmas Earrings.
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That's it!
Ah,
these were so much fun to make :) I hope you found some of it useful!
Do you usually write Christmas cards? I have to admit, i was never
really a Christmas card writing type of person, but that's going to
change right now.
Wishing you a lovely weekend ~
♥
Maisy
