Cute Homemade Christmas Card Ideas

Cute Homemade Christmas Card Ideas

'Let It Snow' Card Idea

If you love cute angels then this cute homemade Christmas card idea is for you!

And the great news is that all the decorated papers, greetings and images used for this card idea are printable papers.

Yep! Every image, greeting and piece of decorated paper on this card is made from the printable Funky Christmas and Christmas Doodles eKits. So if you like this card and have a few basic card supplies, you can download the Funky Christmas & Christmas Doodles eKits and get started within minutes!

If you love cute angels and putting layers together, then you'll love making this cute homemade Christmas card idea. Here's how to make it...

Difficulty Level: One of the intermediate Christmas card ideas.

To make this card you will need the printable Funky Christmas and Christmas Doodles eKits, which can be found here...

You Will Need:

• A plain square card blank (6x6)
• Sheets 081, 042, 032, 021 from the Printable Funky Christmas eKit here...
• Two copies of sheets 17 & 21 from the Printable Christmas Doodles eKit here...
• Coloring pencils, felt tips or pens (the faces and hair of the girl and boy angel were colored with Copic markers)
• Glitter
• Spare white card or paper (to dry emboss)
• Spellbinder and the petite circle dies (or just use scallop edged scissors)
• Cuttlebug and snowflakes embossing folder.
• 'StampIn Up' Scalloped Border punch (or any other suitable border punch)
• Ribbon
• Glue, scissors

1. Print it out!
   
   1. Open up the Printable Funky Christmas eKit [the what?] and print out sheets 081, 042, 032, 021.
   2. Open up the Printable Christmas Doodles eKit [the what?] and print out sheets 17 & 21.
2. Cut it!
   1. Cut out the cute girl and boy angel.
   2. Then with your second copies, just cut out their outfits.
   3. Use these as templates to cut out outfits from the blue patterned sheet.
   4. Cut out two white circles and green scalloped circles for both images with my Spellbinder and the Petite Circle Dies.
   5. Cut out two white circles and two green scalloped circles (to mat your images onto) with the Spellbinder and the Petite Circle Dies. If you don't have these tools then draw round something round, and use scissors and scallop-edged scissors.
   6. Cut out a square from the green paper, the same size as your card.
   7. Cut out a square (5.75 x 5.75) from the blue swirl paper.
   8. Cut a greeting strip from the backing paper with the blue wording. It should be the same width as your card.
   9. Cut out a strip from the green paper. It should be the same width as your card and high enough to fit the greeting strip.
   10. Cut out a strip of the blue dot paper. This should be tall enough for the green strip (above) and the greeting, to be matted onto.
   11. Lastly, cut out another green strip, that should be tall enough to add a border to.
3. Dry Emboss It! Run the white circles through your Cuttlebug using the snowflakes embossing folder. If you don't have these tools then simply skip this step.
4. Color it! Color the faces and hair of the boy and girl images.
5. Stick it!
   
   1. Stick the green paper to the front of your card.
   2. Layer the square of blue swirl paper on top, near the bottom.
6. Ribbon! Stick the two pieces of ribbon onto your card (vertically).
7. Border it! Grab the green strip for your border. Use the StampIn Up Scalloped Border punch along the bottom edge (or any suitable border punch you have at hand).
8. Stick it!
1. Stick the green strip with the border near the top of your card (position it so that your border will poke out once all your layers are mounted).
2. Stick the strip of dotted blue paper to the top of your card (leave a little green margin at the top).
3. Mount the blue greeting strip onto the strip of green paper. Then stick it over the dotted blue strip.
4. Stick the blue outfits to the boy and girl images you colored in earlier.
5. Stick the boy and girl images each to a green circle.
6. Then stick the green circles to the white circles.
9. Glitter it! Add glitter to the boy angel wings and both of the halos.

And there you have it. A cute little homemade Christmas card idea with angels!