Christmas Card Making Ideas - The Santa Card As usual Christmas is approaching fast! Are you ready? Are you making your own Christmas cards this year? If so, you'll need some Christmas card making ideas to speed things along... This article is all about creating a Christmas card with a Santa theme.
So you've chosen a Santa theme for your Christmas cards. This means you're either going to need to be able to draw a Santa, or have a Santa rubber stamp or some stickers in your card making supplies kit, or get a card topper from a local craft shop.
Christmas Card
A Santa card usually has more impact if it's just his head on the card. However, you could have a full Santa, with his sleigh and reindeer - Especially Rudolph!
Making Your Own Card Topper
If you want to make your own Santa card topper for your card, you'll want to get a piece of red card that is about two fifths of the size of your base card. This will be the backing for your card topper.
You'll need some cotton wool (for his hair, beard and hat bobble), some red card (for his hat) and some skin colored card (for his face). You'll also need a black felt pen to draw in the details of his face and some red ink and a sponge that you can use to give him rosy cheeks.
Cut out an oval of the skin colored card that is roughly half the size of your card and glue it sideways onto the middle of your card topper backing. (So the widest part is horizontal)
Next take the cotton wool and stick it above and below the oval, overlapping it to create his hair and beard. You can make his beard as long as you like, even having it going over the edge of your card topper. However, keep his hair relatively short, as you're going to need to stick his hat on top of it.
Once you've done that, take your pen and draw in his eyes and nose. Next take your red ink and using the tip of your sponge, lightly dab some rosy cheeks just above his beard.
Now cut the base of a triangle out of the red card for his hat. Make it wide enough to fit over his hair, and tall enough to go just to the top of your card topper base. Finally using another small piece of cotton wool, create the bobble of his hat by sticking it just to the side of the red hat that you've put on your design.
Putting The Card Together
Take your newly created card topper and attach it to your card using sticky foam mounting blocks, on the top third of the card.
You can add a "Merry Christmas", "Happy Holidays", "Ho Ho Ho!" or any other sentiment you want to the bottom half of the card to finish it off.
Now you have your Santa card ready to go! Have fun making your Christmas cards this year!
Christmas Card Making Ideas - The Santa Card
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