Here are 10 creative ideas for making your own personalized cards by hand, even with the help of the little ones.
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If the Most welcome Christmas gifts are self-produced e fai-da-te, i greeting cards they can be combined with them as well. To make them, it is sufficient to have very simple materials available, even better if they are recycled.
For example, for the bases in ticket cardboard, the necessary materials can be recovered by putting aside the food packaging, such as rice or pasta. The decorations of the cards can be obtained with scraps of fabric, wrapping paper, buttons, beads and much more.
Here are 10 creative ideas for make your personalized cards by hand, even with the help of the little ones.
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3D Christmas tree
Here is a ticket that will amaze those who will receive it, because, at the moment of its opening, you will be able to see a small Christmas tree in 3D. For the its realization you need some cardboard for the base of the card, to be folded in half, and some tissue paper, or colored or coloring paper, to give shape to the tree. The Christmas fir will be made by folding the strips of paper like an accordion and gluing them onto the card until a triangular shape is obtained. You can add decorations of different colors as desired, such as the vase or the trunk at the base of the tree, a star on the tip or snowflakes in the background.
Fabric scraps
Here is a decoration that can be suitable for both actual greeting card, Both for the sachet in which it will be inserted. It is simply a matter of obtaining from fabric scraps of heart-shaped decorations. It is advisable to help yourself with one cardboard template to follow the outline to cut out the decorations, perhaps drawing the outline of the heart on the back of the fabric itself. Hearts, bags and cards can be decorated in turn with ribbons made using string or raffia, or with buttons. The edges of the hearts can be embellished by making hems by hand or with the sewing machine. The hearts obtained must be applied on bags and cards with glue suitable for the fabric. Here all the instructions.
Christmas tree with gift ribbon
A three-dimensional Christmas tree can be applied on the card that will be used as a card also through the use of a green color gift ribbon, to be wrapped around a second cardboard, which will be cut out following a triangular shape. By fixing the ribbon to it with glue or tape, the sapling will be ready in a few minutes and decorations in other colors can be added to it. All that remains is to apply it on the outer side of the card that will act as a greeting card.
Herbs
Did you ever think you could use aromatic herbs, very precious in the kitchen, for the decoration of your Christmas cards? A simple card made up of a rectangle or square of cardboard in white or any other pale color of your choice, can be made truly original with the application of a wreath of aromatic herbs, made using, for example, sprigs of sage or rosemary, with which to form a crown around wire or kitchen twine. A simple greeting message will suffice to complete each card.
Bay leaves
Bay leaves, orange peels, kitchen twine and simple sheets of paper or cardboard, including salvaged ones, are everything you need to make greeting cards for Christmas at no cost, following the example that was proposed to us by a reader with instructions to follow to make a greeting card to decorate with a small Christmas tree cut out of a bay leaf and citrus peel. The cards obtained in this way are delightful to apply directly to a gift box.
Postcarden
Here is a beautiful idea to imitate so that the greeting card can be transformed into a micro-garden to be cultivated. Try taking a look at Posrcarden. These are greeting cards made entirely of cardboard, inside which gods have been inserted sowing of watercress, which, watered day after day from the moment the card is opened, can lead to the birth of a small vegetable garden to be cultivated, enclosed in a greeting card that becomes three-dimensional.
Buttons
I buttons represent another easily recoverable or obtainable material for the realization of Christmas greeting cards. With small green buttons, for example, you can make small Christmas trees. The buttons must be applied one by one on the card chosen as the basis for the ticket. The green buttons can be alternated with buttons of another color, for example red or yellow, which will represent the decorations of the tree. Get the right glue and involve the little ones in their realization.
perline
Beads and rhinestones of your favorite color can be applied on the card chosen for the realization of your own do-it-yourself ticket. One of the shapes that can be obtained using beads is represented by the classic sphere that constitutes the Christmas tree decoration. Just apply the beads or rhinestones next to each other with glue on the cardboard, until you get the desired shape. The card can be completed with handwritten good wishes.
Origami
Wrapping paper or light cardboard of different colors and patterns can be used both to cover the base of your greeting card, and to obtain origami style decorations with contrasting colors to the background, which can take the form of Christmas trees, Christmas balls, hearts or flowers. The decorations can also be used as simple parcel markers. Here you can find the tutorial for making a flower.
At this address you can follow the origami tutorial to create a Christmas tree to apply on your greeting card.
Cardboard houses
Starting from the recovery of simple cardboard or light brown cardboard, you can create beautiful decorations, which will recall the houses of gingerbread, to be used as real greeting cards or simply as parcel markers to be applied to gift packages. Just cut out some silhouettes in the shape of a house from cardboard and decorate them with crayons, tempera or markers. Using the white color you can imitate the typical gingerbread or gingerbread houses, often present among the Christmas decorations.
Merry Christmas to all!
Marta Albè
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