Ideas to Make Your Own Christmas Cards

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​In this post I am making a variety of handmade Christmas cards using paper from the Lollipop Box Club's November box, Crafty Bonbons Dec box and from a recent stamping workshop at the Mama Makes Christmas get together. I have also made a lovely watercolour card and some festive wrapping and envelopes.

Eek, not long to go before Christmas is here, it's gone so fast this year. This is my last Bloggers Like us post for the year and this time around we were all given a prompt to create our blog post. My prompt was given to me by Kelly and it was 'Christmas Cards'. Check out the other bloggers posts here:

​Kelly from thescrapbookgirl.co.uk,
Emma from the readwriteinspire.blog 
Sam from samalderson.co.uk

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Bloggers Like Us Christmas Edition

​Christmas Tree Cutout Card

Firstly I gathered the papers and cut out a Christmas tree in one of the pieces and made it so it fills most of the blank card. TOP TIP: Save the cut out tree for the inside of your card. I then cut some bright pieces of card of up in to random lines. These were then glued on to the card itself so that they overlapped. I also added some of the shiny washi tape that came with the kit to give it a bit of sparkle. These will form the inside of the tree.

Next glue the cutout tree on top of the inner decoration and on to the card. I love the effect this gives. You could then add washi tape around the edge like I have or leave it blank.

Finally I decorated the card with some embellishments from the kit, including Mrs Brimbles stickers and die cuts. Et voila, a quick and creative card.

Festive Envelope Decorating

I also wanted to decorate the envelope, so I used some more of the stickers and die cuts and a bit from the creative zine to make it more festive. I hope my recipient likes it.

Handmade and Stamped Watercolour Christmas Card

Last up I have made this watercolour card using a variety of Daniel Smith watercolours and some gold spray alcohol ink that I made myself. I then used a winter tree scene stencil and layered over some blue distress ink. Finally I added a few of the sticker embellishments to finish it and a bit of writing that I added, a nice and simple card.

Festive Cards Using Stamps

At the Mama Makes Christmas Craft workshop I had fun making a variety of cards, tags and wrapping paper using stamps. You can see these in the top image. I absolutely love this cute one made with some of Lotti's gorgeous paper and stamps. I then added some pearls that you can also buy from Mama Makes. My favourite one and I also stamped the muslin gift bag too.

Finally I used some cute bits from the Christmas themed box that I received from Crafty Bonbons using their beautiful paper and Lotti's stamp. I then added embellishments from the Crafty Bonbons kit to finish off the look.

Check out the Festive Unboxing of the kit here Crafty Bonbons Christmas Box Unboxing

​You can also see the stamped wrapping paper I made at the workshop using parcel wrap and a Mama Makes stamp.

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 I do hope that I have inspired you to give some of these ideas a go. Don't forget to share your card creations in my Art Journaling FB Group , I'd love to see your creations. Don't forget to check out the other Bloggers Like Us posts and bloggers at the top of this post too.

Take Care,
Kerry xx

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Crafty Bonbon box: ​Crafty Ali and Bonbons Kawaii
Lollipop Box
Mama Makes ​