How to Create Your Own Dog Christmas Cards
Show off your best four-legged friend during the holiday season by making a Christmas card with your dog's image on it. A dog Christmas card is a twist on the traditional card that features a family photo and is a good alternative if you do not have children or all your children are grown and out of the house. To make this card, you will need a digital picture of your pooch that you can print from your home computer or at a copy shop.
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Things You'll Need
- Blank greeting cards
- White card stock
- Picture of your dog
- Color printer
- Scissors
- Glue
- Red or green paper
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Marker or holiday greeting stickers
- Red glitter or red glitter glue
Instructions
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Purchase or make blank greeting cards. You can make a blank greeting card by folding a piece of white card stock in half.
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Print out a color picture of your dog on to a piece of card stock. Print one image for each greeting card you are making. A good picture of your dog to use is one where he does not have any part of his body covered by another object in the photo.
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Use scissors to cut the picture of your dog out. Trim as closely as you can around your dog to remove as much of the background as you can.
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Glue the picture of your dog onto a piece of green or red paper. Use a pencil to draw a ½-inch border around the picture of your dog to outline its shape. Cut the colored paper out using the pencil line as a guide.
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Glue the colored piece of paper with the dog's image on it to the front of the blank greeting card.
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Add a Christmas greeting onto the front of the card. You can use block letters cut out of paper, alphabet stickers or stickers with holiday sayings on them or a marker to write your Christmas greeting. Place the greeting anywhere you like on the front of the card. It is okay to make a letter overlap the picture of your dog a bit if you are tight on space.
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Use glitter to create a red reindeer nose on your dog's picture.
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Finish your Christmas greeting on the inside of the card once all the glue on the front is completely dry.
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References
- Photo Credit Dog image by CiberZoom from Fotolia.com
