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Christmas is around the corner, and people have started on their shopping, cards and cooking. How about kicking your creativity up a notch this holiday season? Here are 6 creative Christmas cards to try this year. A little extra effort, some fun times with the kids in your house, and you will create something extraordinary that will touch the receiver’s heart.
Thanks to the pandemic, people have started to feel more and more isolated and lonely than ever before. This year, let’s try to add a little extra warmth and happiness with these cool DIY cards. They let your loved ones know how much you care!
Merry Kissmas
You can add your pictures as well as those of your family members, all puckering up to blow a kiss. If you have kids at home, click pictures with them, kissing you and being kissed. You can also get lipstick kisses on their faces and click their pictures for even lovelier cards. If you can’t kiss the people you love in person, a card will have to do, right?
Message inside: May the love of Christ and the warmth that comes with this holy season remain with you and make your holidays the best ever!
Mistle Toes
No, not the usual ones but those tiny, cute toes. Don’t get it? No worries. Click pictures of tiny toes of little angels at home. You can go as creative with this one as you want to.
If there are infants at home, plant a lipstick kiss on their feet and capture their kissed toes on the camera lens. Make your toddler sit up on a shelf with Christmas goodies in the toy cart below and go click-click.
You can also capture the toes of family members on grass, in bed, on swings and the like. Use these pictures to design your card.
Message inside: Merry Christmas! Find the Mistle Toes that matter and let them fill your life with joy!
Laughing All The Way
Your Christmas card with laughter will instantly transport the receiver into a happy state. After all, joy is infectious, and so is laughter. Use pictures of you and your family laughing together to design this happy greeting card.
You can also use neat cutouts of smiles, laughter, happy symbols and images to design your joyous Christmas card.
Message inside: Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Ho, here’s some Claus for celebration!
Illustrate a Christmas Carol
To design a Christmas card around a carol, try one that gets you to sing along. You can start with – The Twelve Days of Christmas. The song has twelve verses, each describing a gift given one by one on all the twelve days of Christmas.
You can design your card on the lines of this song. For example, the first three verses are –
“On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.”
So, you can design your card by dividing it into 12 sections and giving one unit to one verse, illustrating the song in pictures. For instance, you can show a partridge in a pear tree in the first section, two turtle doves in the next, and so on.
Message inside: Merry Christmas! May you get a chance to take in the beauty and true meaning of the season.
5. Functional Greeting Cards
Make cards that can double up as things to use. For instance, create greeting cards with die-cuts. The receiver will be delighted not only with the beauty of the card but also its usability. Create it in a way that it becomes a mouse pad or a coaster.
Message inside: May the love of Christ and the warmth that comes with this holy season remain with you and make your holidays the best ever!
Back to School
Ditch the colours and try to go monochromatic. Try your hand at a blackboard style greeting card and adorn it with designs as if chalk-drawn. Create a snowy scene, a Christmas tree, Santa Claus on his sledge, wreath and mistletoe, or whatever you like that talks about Christmas.
Message inside: Merry Christmas! Enjoy the season of joy with the simplicity and wonder of a child.
Undoubtedly, these thoughtful Christmas cards will be appreciated and cherished. After all, handmade things are packed with love, time, care, and thought, and so are these cards! Which one will you make first? Want to add some gifts to go with these cards? You’ll never go wrong with these cool gadgets.
