Unique Christmas Card Ideas

Handmade Cards Ideas

Tried experimenting a different color combination for this Christmas cards.  I still wanted to achieve a very vintage look and although there is no hint of red and green (traditional Christmas colors), I wanted to make sure it still feels very much like Christmas.

Materials

• 1 dark brown cardstock for card base
• 1 cream cardstock
• 2 matching pattern papers.  I have used a floral pattern paper and matching blue colored polka-dots pattern paper

Tools

• Foam tape
• Glue/Glue Dots
• Hero Arts C2849 “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” woodmounted stamp (shown below)
• Silver pigment ink
• Cream ad brown trim ribbon
• Wool blended fiber in shades of black, silver, grey
• Vintage Floral Button

How To Instructions

• Cut floral pattern paper approximately 10.5cm X 9.5cm and blue polka dot pattern paper approximately 3cm X 9.5cm.
• Align the two pattern papers one after another and layer over cream cardstock leaving border of 0.1cm around it. Trim off access cream cardstock. It measures approximately 9.7cm X 13.7cm now.

• Stamp “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” on the bottom pattern paper.
• Layer light brown ribbon over the pattern paper, to cover the gap between the two pattern papers. Tuck excess behind the cream cardstock.
• Twirl different wool fiber and secure the button and layer over the light brown ribbon. Tuck excess behind the cream cardstock.
• Cut brown cardstock 20cm X 14cm, score at 10cm mark and fold to create a single fold card base.
• Layer the whole design over the brown card base using foam tape.