See How to Make Free Handmade Christmas Cards

Handmade Christmas cards can be exquisitely beautiful or have delightful but primitive designs. You can pay a lot of money for one card or do a search and learn how to make your own free handmade Christmas cards.

If you will be making your Christmas cards you will need some basic supplies: scissors, craft knife, paper cutter/trimmer, card stock, envelopes, glue, tape, rubber stamps, and ink pads, delicate papers such as rice paper, vellum, mulberry paper to name just a few.

Decorative punches are great in a variety of sizes are great to have to add some pizzazz to your cards. You can find most of these supplies in the scrap booking section of your local department store. Most scrapbookers are also into creating greeting cards, since both hobbies require the same basic supplies and skills.

If you are looking for some inexpensive design elements for your card making try cutting some images from old Christmas cards or find a kid’s Christmas coloring book. You can color the images with pastels, colored pencils, paint, etc. Or use them as templates to cut the designs from colored papers, card stock or construction paper.

You can add details with markers, cotton balls and buttons. Paper punches also can help you to add details. Depending on your design, you may want to use glitter on some of your cards. You can find a more detailed list of supplies for card making at Making-greeting-cards.com.

I have found one of the most important tools you can have is a bone folder. It is used to crease the paper or cardstock you are using for cards. You can use the flat side of a dinner knife to do the job. When you first start making cards, you may want to use blank invitations as your card base

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