Christmas cards are favorite card for many. Especially when they come with their jingles playing or with attractive Santa Claus and reindeer, it would be interesting. They are the most special card of the year with all sorts of tiny accessories speaking the language of glory. They could be made of several accessories and they do not have any fixed symbol to denote Christmas in that way they are different. They could be as simple as a wish or as grand as depicting the entire universe with little things around.
Things You Will Require
- Silver paint maker or gold paint maker
- Photograph
- Black photo corners
- Rubber stamp
- Snow flakes
- Waxed paper
- Blue art paper for every photograph you use
- Embossing powder
- Heating gun or embossing gun
Ideas to Make Your Christmas Cards
Here we will mention some of the awesome ideas that you could use to make out your favorite Christmas cards.
- Now glue the photograph onto the blue paper and let this blue paper be sized to the photographs dimension. Glue them exactly so that their corners and sides match. Place the black photo corners near the corners of the photograph exactly.
- Now take your rubber stamps with different shapes. Mostly the shapes of star and snowflakes would be used. Rubber stamps with little tree and Santa Claus would also be available. Now apply the silver ink or your gold ink to the rubber stamp and stamp the card evenly. If the star rubber stamp is used, stamp it equally and sparsely so that they do not occupy much of your space. Do not place the rubber stamp in the same direction to have a same pattern, turn them as necessary to give a very natural look.
- It would be excellent if you were using the rubber stamp with wider dimension. In this case, use the rubber stamp to make a border for your card. If your card needs a gold touch, then use the gold ink or else use the silver ink. If you are using the stamp to make your card border then do not allow them throughout the card.
- Now apply embossing powder all throughout the snowflakes before the ink dries so that they stick well to the snowflakes or star shape. Make sure that the ink is not dried soon. Now just blow out the excess emboss powder stuck over the shapes being printed. Now just make sure that the emboss powder exactly surrounds the shapes made with the rubber stamp.
- Now use the emboss gun or heating gun to heat the emboss powder. This heating will melt the powder and give it an embedded and raised look.
Making Christmas cards would be interesting enough to keep you occupied when you are free. It would be one of the creative sessions to start with for your kid. You can teach your kid to start making out a beautiful Christmas cards and develop creativity.
I enjoy Christmas, because for that celebration all Family Members will meet and enjoy that great day.
I have shared my Christmas experience on my website: http://www.ineedchristmas.com
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