Christmas Cards

Add Your Own Touch to This Year’s Christmas Cards

Surprisingly Christmas cards can give rise to some pretty strong feelings in us. Some of us love to proudly display our cards while others of us simply chuck them on the side with our other mail. Some of us may prefer to buy only charity cards while others give direct to the charity rather than sending cards. If you are a lover of cards you might like to make your own.

Make Your Own Christmas Cards

A hand-made card gives the feeling that personal attention has been paid and cards themed for specific people enhance that personal touch. You might like to think about making cards with your own photographs – with home computers this is an easy thing to do. The simplest of hand-made designs can be very effective. If you are making cards with your young children, you can draw shapes for them to fill with glitter or even try potato printing easy stars and trees in festive colors. For Grandma or Grandpa, a small handprint decorated with glitter can make poignant Christmas Cards.

Requirements

There’s obviously a basic list of tools you’ll need – white and colored card, envelopes, good scissors (large and small for detail work), glue and a ruler – but beyond this the list of materials you can choose for your card design is almost endless – paint, glitter, bits of ribbon, old buttons, foil from candy wrappers, and pictures cut from magazines to name a few.

Make your own Christmas cards and not only can you have great fun in the process but you’ll be sending someone a special holiday wish.