Handmade Christmas Card Ideas

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Making your own Christmas card is a good way to bond withyour kids during Christmas season. There are many handmade Christmas card ideasyou can find online that you can use as your guide when making one. For this, Idecided to post some of my homemade Christmas card ideas for your perusal. Ijust hope they help.

Handmade ChristmasCard Idea #1: Santa Christmas Card
With just simple materials like a cardstock or constructionpaper, we can make a simple Christmas Santa card. Here’s how:
Materials needed:
·        Cardstock or construction paper (green)·        Colored paper (pink, white, red and peach)·        1 piece of small pom-pom or can be a piece ofcotton·        Pattern (Santa’s drawing)·        Glue·        Black marker·        Pen (gold and white)·        Paint (pink)·        A piece of sponge·        Scissors
Procedure:
1.      Fold the construction paper or cardstock to makea two page card.
2.      Using the pattern, draw Santa into the coloredpaper. Then cut into pieces.
3.      Paste Santa to the front of the cardstock usingthe glue, first the hat, followed by the face then the hat rim. Now, add thecheeks using the pink colored paper then paste it using the glue.
4.      Using a pen, write your Christmas messages. Forexample:”Merry Christmas”.
5.      And for the completion of Santa’s hat, paste thePom-pom or the piece of cotton in the point of the hat.
6.      Finally, make two dots that will serve as theeyes of Santa using the black marker.
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Handmade ChristmasCard Idea #2: Wreath Christmas Card
Wreath is commonly seen as a door decoration made fromassortment of leaves, fruit, and flower. It is typically used as Christmasdecoration and household ornament. If you want to include a wreath as yourcard’s design, here are some steps to follow
Materials needed:
·        Berryand leaf stamps·        Stamp pad (red and green)·        Glue·        12 inches of ¼ inch red ribbon·        5 ½ inches x 8 ½ inches cardstock (white)
Procedure:
1.      Fold the cardstock in half to make a two pagecard.
2.      Stamp randomly to form a circular pattern on theblank white cardstock using the leaf-shape stamp. You make a better distributionof color, by stamping two to three times before re-inking the stamp, becausethe increasing of light shades of the ink can make good depth and shading thatmakes your design better.
3.      After you create the circular pattern that serveas the wreath, use the berry-shape stamp to make a berry’s design on thewreath.
4.      Lastly, put the ribbon at top of the wreathusing the glue.



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