How to Make Christmas Card

Create a decorative Christmas card for family and friends.

Create personalized Christmas cards to express specific holiday sentiments to your family and friends. You can make a custom Christmas card using decorative techniques such as rubber stamping, embossing, hand painting and embroidery. Embellish the card with glitter, puff paint, beads, silk greenery and other items that speak to your holiday message. Peruse the scrapbook aisle of your local craft store to find materials that suit your festive spirit.

Things You'll Need

• Christmas card stock
• Anti-static dryer sheet
• Large rubber stamp, Christmas image
• Slow-drying ink
• Loose paper
• Metallic embossing powder
• Heat gun

Instructions

1. Fold a sheet of Christmas card stock in half. Apply pressure to the fold to create a crease. Wipe the front panel of the Christmas card stock with an anti-static dryer sheet. This will help keep the embossing powder from scattering over the surface of the paper.

2. Press the Christmas stamp onto the slow-drying ink stamp pad. Make sure that you use slow-drying ink so that you will have time to add the embossing powder before the ink dries. Press the inked stamp onto the front of the folded Christmas card stock.

3. Place the card stock on top of a loose sheet of paper. Sprinkle metallic embossing powder over the wet ink. Cover the stamped image with powder. Tilt the card up off the paper. Tap the card to release the excess powder. The metallic embossing powder will help the stamped image stand out on the Christmas card stock.

4. Return the excess powder to the embossing container for future projects.

5. Place the card face up on a work surface. Hold a heat gun 6 inches above the card and apply heat to the embossing powder. Move the gun back and forth over the powdery surface until the granules melt and become glossy and slightly raised. Heat the powder until the stamped image is fully embossed.

6. Write a personal holiday message inside the card. You can also stamp and emboss another, smaller, Christmas image inside the card. Word stamps are also available in a variety of holiday sentiments.

Tips & Warnings

• Cut the perimeter of the card with decorative scissors or tear the perimeter to create a decorative edge.

References

• Rubber Stamping Fun: Stamping and Embossing Card Stock

Resources

• Scrap Jazz: How to Heat Emboss