DIY Christmas cards // Christmas Series

Hello and happy Saturday! I hope you've had a good week :) It's time for this week's christmassy post, I know I skipped it last week but I seriousely forgot, and I was also really tired!

So as obviousely Christmas is so close like I can't actually believe there's only 17 days left!! When making presents, I don't think just a present is enough, it's always nice to recieve a beautiful self made christmas card I think. So today I thought I'd show you some designs that I came up with, it's really hard to show the process in pictures so I just tried to describe it...I'm sure you'll understand what I did there.

I blurred out the writing cause it's in estonian and you wouldn't understand it.

The first is a very simple one, when you're in a hurry then this would be a good choise. I just took a black marker and drew this line that's supposed to be the wire and then I took my colouring pencils and drew some lights attached to the wire. Another cool thing you can do with it is if you have glow in the dark paint then you can put this on the lights and it'll look really cool in the dark :)

This one takes a bit more time and is also a little harder to make. First I took a strong white paper and then I chose 3 colours that I want my christmas decorations to be, you can even cut them out of the magazine. For the overlay colour I chose green as you can see and I cut it a bit smaller than my white paper. I then marked where I want the ornaments to be and what size they should be and then cut them out of the green paper. Then I just glued the patterned paper on the white part of the card and then glued the green paper over. And ofcourse they're not ornaments without the string to put them on the tree with so I just used a silver pen to draw it on.

This is similar to the last one but it's a lot easier to make. I just cut the shape out of a cardboard and made the corners a bit more round, this is optional but I think it looks cuter like that. Then I just chose 3 patterned papers again and cut out 3 circles in different sizes. Before gluing them on, make sure that you're happy with the layout by first placing them on the card without glue. With this card I also added the little silver attachment and then again used my silver pen to draw on the string.

 I think this one is so cute and again easy to make. Again took a strong paper and then I found a brown string and just taped the edges of it to the back of the card leaving the front part loose (I seriousely suck at describing stuff) I cut 3 stockings out of colourful paper and also added this white little edge and taped them to the string. As a finishing touch I cut out 3 little pieces or beige paper and glued it on the top of the stockings to act as a tiny clothes peg.

I kinda came up with this one in last minute, I found this really cool yarn from my drawer, it's got all these um little flecks or you know, you can see the picture. Since it was green I though this would make a cool christmas tree. I put PVA glue (Mod Podge is basically the same) and used a brush to apply it on the paper in a triangle shape. Then I started going from the bottom to top with my yarn and later decorated it with some stars. Here again if you have the glow in the dark paint, this would look really cool.

This card is really creative and you can use up all your old buttons that no one ever uses anymore. Again I put the glue on paper in triangular shape and started mix-matching different pearls, buttons, stars and paper on it. Ofcourse you gotta have a star on top of thre tree so I used silver glitter for it. Here you can stick to just one colour theme like different shades of green or just play around with different colours like I did

I think this one is a fun card to give to a smaller child. It's 3D which makes it interesting for them. The process of it is really hard to explain but I hope you can work it out yourself. It may lool time consuming but actually it didn't take much time at all. 

This one has to me my favourite, it looks so elegant and feminine (if you'd use a white bow, I didn't have white ribbon!) With that I found an old necklace that had white and little golden pearls and since it was broken I decided to use the pearls from there. I trased a circle on paper to have a nice even ornament and then applied PVA glue and put the pearls on it. Then I made a bow and sticked it on top and then took some white yarn and glued it on as the attachement. I really love how it turned out and I already know who's gonna get that card from me.

So that is it for this week's christmas post. I hope you find it at least a bit helpful and let me know in the comments what do you think of these cards and will you be making them yourself?

Why don't you listen to this while making cards :)

Have a beautiful, magical, wonderful day!

Merilin xx