Crafting Christmas cards: 12 delightful ideas for creating a large pile in one evening
Crafting Christmas cards is a delightful activity. These simple designs draw inspiration from round shapes such as wreaths, Christmas balls, string lights, and beads. If you make a lot of cards, consider writing your Christmas greetings with text stickers or a stamp with a festive message. You can also use these ideas for gift tags or Christmas decorations.
Creative Christmas card ideas
Miniature wreath
Use a cotton swab and craft paints and dab on a wreath. Start with a green base, let it dry, and then embellish with golden dots. Using individual letter stamps requires practice for a neat finish. Watch this video to learn how to create a Christmas card effortlessly. [in Finnish]
Reindeer in a snowstorm
Attach a pre-made wooden or cardboard animal figure to the card base. Create a snowfall effect with pearl or diamond stickers. (House hanging ornaments from Ikea.)
Golden & shimmering snowfall
Top left: A Christmas card for your sweetheart. Use a gold pen to draw relaxed lines through a circle stencil. Add dots in between and arrange the text with letter stickers. Watch this video to see how the card is made. [in Finnish]
Middle top: Pearl snowfall. Use pearl or diamond stickers to create a snowfall effect on a blue card base. Stamp or write a greeting in the bottom corner.
Middle bottom: All together. Cut out Christmas balls from decorative papers. Arrange them in a group and draw strings with a black pen. Decorate with diamond stickers.
Paper quilling Christmas card
For fresh Christmas card ideas, try quilling. This traditional technique involves rolling narrow strips of paper into tight coils with a quilling pen or needle, then gluing them onto paper.
Go green for Christmas!
At the back: Use hot glue to attach twig or herb snippets into a wreath. Tape the greeting on with text tape. Hand-deliver this card without an envelope to avoid crushing the twigs. (Vinter 2017 decorative balls and house hanging ornaments from Ikea.)
Stamp it
Use a Christmas stamp on a circle stencil cut from cardboard to stamp in the entire opening. Draw a hanging string with a gold pen. Watch this video to see how the card is made. [in Finnish]
Light in the darkness
Lightly apply a wash on watercolor paper with yellow watercolor. Cut out Christmas light bulbs from it. Draw the wire and sockets with a pen, then glue the lights in place. An easy alternative is to use round gold stickers from craft stores.
Bling bling!
Create a ball with diamond stickers. Make a bow from lace ribbon, attach it with hot glue, and finish with a pre-made text sticker. Watch this video to learn how to create the card effortlessly. [in Finnish]
Recycle old books
Cut circles from book pages. Attach four pieces together from the center with a sewing machine. Glue onto the card base and make a bow from string.
Tip!
Explore other beautiful Christmas cards and crafting instructions [in Finnish]!
Card bases, ribbons, text stickers, craft paints, and quilling supplies from Sinelli. Text and decorative tapes from Flying Tiger Copenhagen.
