Christmas Card Ideas

Christmas Card Ideas

A Vintage Santa Christmas Card

This site brings you lots of vintage and modern Christmas card ideas.

And the great news is that every piece of decorated paper on this card is made from the printable Vintage Christmas eKit. So if you like this card and have a few basic card supplies, you can download the printable Vintage Christmas card making kit and get started within minutes!

There are lots of Christmas card ideas around - but this one is simply gorgeous and reminds me of those golden bygone days. Here's how to make it...

Difficulty Level: One of the intermediate Christmas card ideas.

To make this card you will need the printable Vintage Christmas eKit, which can be found here...

You Will Need:

• A plain square card blank (6x6)
• Sheets 001, 013, 016, 035 from the Printable Vintage Christmas eKit here...
• Glue, scissors, pop dots / glue dots
• Ribbon and buttons
• Spellbinder circle and scalloped circle die cut (or something round to draw around and some scallop edged scissors)
• Brown piece of paper
  
  • If you don't have any brown paper you can color some plain paper in brown using a brown pencil, paint, or ink pad. Or if you're savvy on the computer, you could use photo imaging software and the color picker tool to make a plain piece of brown backgound paper. Pick the color up off the Santa image.

1. Print it out! Open up the Printable Vintage Christmas eKit [the what?] and print out sheets 001, 013, 016, 035.
2. Cut it!
   1. Cut out a piece of 6 x 6 brown paper.
   2. Cut out a piece of the diamond paper (5.75 x 5.75)
   3. Cut out a small rectangle of the decorated background paper.
   4. Cut out the 'Merry Christmas' badge.
   5. Used the Spellbinder circle to cut out the Santa (or simply draw around something circular and use scissors)
   6. Use a scalloped circle die-cut to cut out the brown matting layer for Santa (or simply use scallop edged scissors)
3. Glue it! Glue the brown paper to the front of your card. Then stick the square of diamond paper over the top.
4. Stick it ! Next add the small piece of
   brown patterned background paper. Position if at an angle.
5. Decorate it! Add your ribbon and buttons.
6. Stick it! Stick the circles to the card using pop dots.

And voila! A simply beautiful, vintage Christmas card idea!