Handmade Christmas Card Ideas To Make This Christmas Extra Special!

Get some Christmas card ideas here and send homemade Christmas greeting cards to all your loved ones this Christmas.

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Christmas Card Ideas

Snowflakes Card

  • Cut a white card as shown in photo.
  • Punch snowflake on card.
  • Stamp Season's Greetings with Brilliance ink.
  • Mount onto Metallic Blue Basic Blank Card.
  • Punch different sizes of snowflakes.
  • Paste on both white and blue portion of card.
  • Stamp Used: Season's Greetings - Hero Arts


Watercolored Merry Christmas Card


Christmas Star Card

  • Trace star design on metallic white card and cut out.
  • Sew and wind star with metallic thread.
  • Mount onto Blue metallic long blank basic card.
  • Place brass stencil of three wise men on card.
  • Colour within stencil space with Brilliance ink.
  • Draw border on card with white marker.

Christmas Trees Card

  • Trace star design on metallic white card and cut out.
  • Sew and wind star with metallic thread.
  • Mount onto Blue metallic long blank basic card.
  • Place brass stencil of three wise men on card.
  • Colour within stencil space with Brilliance ink.
  • Draw border on card with white marker.


Celebrates the Season Card

  • Stamp image on white cardstock and cut out.
  • Colour and layer onto gold paper.
  • Mount onto red blank basic card.
  • Stamp "Celebrate The Season" in black.


Santa Christmas Card


Snowman Card

  • Stamp the snowman stamp image on white paper with red pigment ink.
  • Sprinkle gold embossing powder on image.
  • Then shake off loose powder.
  • Use a heat-gun to melt the embossing powder.
  • A beautiful raised image!
  • Colour in with markers/watercolour or any colouring media of your choice.
  • Cut out the image and layer on coloured papers.
  • Then finally on your basic blank card.
  • Write Merry Christmas with gold marker.
  • Stamp Used: Snowman - Hero Arts

Vellum Snowflake Card

  • Stamp the snowflake image on vellum with Versamark ink.
  • Sprinkle silver embossing powder on the image.
  • Shake off loose powder and melt with heat-gun.
  • Using a pin, make tiny holes on the red parts as shown in photo on the left.
  • Dry emboss on the white parts (refer to the photo) and colour in with markers.
  • Cut out embossed snowflake image and attach to a dark green cardstock.
  • Stamp Season's Greetings on bottom of snowflake with Brilliance Moonlight White inkpad.
  • Stamps Used: Snowflake - Pergamano PS-3, Season's Greetings - Hero Arts

Christmas Gift Tags

  • Stamp Season's Greetings on evergreen cards with red pigment ink.
  • Draw in cherries and leaves.
  • Use corner punch to decorate the four corners.
  • Punch a hole on top left corner and tie a ribbon.
  • Stamp Used: Season's Greetings - Hero Arts

Cards by Readers

Do check out the beautiful galleries of cards by some of the readers of this card-making website.  On that page, you will be able to see handmade cards by Valerie Smith (e.g. the above Happy Valentines Day card)

More Card Ideas

  • Handmade Cards 001 - Various card ideas from card makers from oriental cards to postcards.
  • Handmade Cards 002 - Handmade greeting cards I received from friends who are as enthusiastic about card making as much as myself.
  • Handmade Cards 003 - More colourful greeting card design ideas to inspire you
  • Handmade Cards 004 - Card received as RAK which means Random Acts of Kindness. These are handmade greeting cards that I receive that are not expected. Nice to be surprised! :-)


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