My Super Simple Christmas Card
Christmas is THE time of year for card-making! Everybody gets a card all at once – friends, family, even workmates who you don’t really like get a card! I know a lot of crafters like to take this opportunity to create something really spectacular and if all you’re giving is some money, it can be nice to jazz it up with a stunning card. However, stunning cards take a long time to make and have a habit of eating away at your embellishment collection rather quickly. It’s impractical to make them for everybody. Sometimes all you need is a simple design you can replicate easily in order to produce a set. Here’s my super simple Christmas card design that can still wow those who receive it!
You don’t need much to make this card – here’s a full list of tools and materials…
White Card (28.5cm x 17cm)
Pencil
Ruler
Craft Knife
Glue
White/silver mini gem embellishments
Black ink
Christmas greetings
Ink blender (which can be replaced by an everyday household item if you don’t have one already, read on to found out what)
Have your card in landscape position and draw two vertical lines to divide it into three equal sections. If our card is in the dimensions I gave in the materials list, each section should be 8.5cms wide.
In each of the outer sections, draw a curved horizontal line with the line in the left-hand section higher than the line in the right-hand section. Then draw your scenery. You can be as creative as you like but I find simplicity very effective and chose to draw a house at the top of the hill and long triangles for pine trees.
Use your craft knife to cut around your scenery and down the vertical dividing lines until you reach your curved, horizontal lines. You can then lift away the top half of those out thirds to leave your card’s silhouette design.
Score down the remainder of the vertical dividing lines with your craft knife so that you can make a neat fold. Make sure the right-hand section is folded over the left-hand section.
Reopen the card and place it on some old newspaper. Take your ink blender, stamp it in your black ink, and use circular motions to blend the ink onto the top of the middle section. Keep moving your blender downwards until you’ve covered the area that is left visible when you fold the left-hand section over it. If you don’t have an ink blender and you’ve already spent enough money on present to warrant buying one, use a folded piece of kitchen towel. I don’t think it creates as smooth a blend but it does the job.
Turn your card over and put it down on a fresh sheet of newspaper so that you don’t get the inside of your card dirty. Use the ink blender (or your piece of kitchen towel) to carefully cover your scenery silhouette in black ink.
Glue a few gem embellishments onto the top of your middle section to make a starry night sky.
Add your Christmas greeting and finish it off by adding a smooth line of silver glitter glue along your hillsides, covering up any bits where you went too far with the black ink, and wait for it to dry. Make sure you leave your card flat while it dries so that the glitter glue doesn’t drip.
And you’re done!