How to Craft Window Art Christmas Cards
Design Christmas cards to send to family members, teachers, neighbors and friends that showcase your creativity. Impress loved ones with holiday cards featuring simple window art that adds a deluxe touch with minimal effort. Use basic supplies such as card stock, stickers and a shape stencil sold at craft and scrapbooking stores to create a window card that reveals a whimsical winter image inside and out and expresses your heartfelt wishes and sentiments for the season.
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Things You'll Need
- Card stock
- Craft knife, scissors or paper trimmer
- 2-inch circle shape stencil or drinking cup
- Pencil
- Self-healing cutting mat
- Stickers, rubber stamps and ink or markers
- Glitter glue
- Letter stickers or alphabet stamps and ink
- Eraser
Instructions
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Cut a 7-by-10-inch piece of card stock using a craft knife, scissors or a paper trimmer. Fold the card in half to make a 7-inch-tall by 5-inch-wide blank card.
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Place the card face up on a solid surface. Position a 2-inch circle shape stencil or drinking cup 1.5 inches down from the top of the card, centered left to right. Trace the circle with a pencil.
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Unfold the card and place it on a self-healing cutting mat sold at scrapbooking, craft, stamping or fabric stores to prevent damage to your table. Cut the circle out using a craft knife. Remove and discard or recycle the circular piece of card stock.
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Close the handmade card and lightly trace the circle so a circle appears inside the card. Add a holiday-themed embellishment inside the circle such as a snowman sticker, a rubber-stamped image of Santa or a Christmas tree drawn with markers or colored pencils.
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Create a decorative border around the window on the front of the card. Apply snowflake stickers, tiny Santa's boot rubber-stamped images or a line of glitter glue all the way around the circle, for example.
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Add a holiday sentiment across the bottom of the window card using letter stickers or alphabet stamps and ink. Use a simple line such as "Celebrate the Season," "Happy Holidays" or "Ho Ho Ho." You can also use a Christmas song lyric or a holiday-related quote.
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Open the card and add a decorative border around the embellishment inside the card, such as tiny stickers or rubber-stamped accents, if desired. Ensure the border is outside the pencil line so the accent isn't visible through the window on the front of the card. Erase the pencil line on the inside of the card once you've added the border.
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Tips & Warnings
Save time by using a 2-inch circle paper punch sold at scrapbooking or craft stores to create the window in the front of the Christmas card. The punch may not reach 1.5 inches down the card, however, so the window may sit higher on the completed card.
If your children are helping you create the holiday window cards, do not allow them to handle the razor-sharp craft knife. Cut the windows in the cards yourself and simply allow them to decorate the cards or write messages inside. Store the craft knife out of the kids' reach when you're not using it.
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