This ‘Let it snow’ Christmas card is very easy to make and the light blue and white colour scheme make a nice change from the more traditional Christmas colours.
Items you will need:
- Small square (125mm x 125mm) white card blank
- Some plain white card, plain white paper and plain medium blue card
- A Christmas pattern background paper
- Woodware super duper square craft punch
- Woodware huge square craft punch
- Woodware super snowflake craft punch
- 3cm white satin material snowflake embellishment
- Light Blue Craft Ribbon
- Printer & printable white paper for sentiment
- Hi-Tack original all purpose very sticky glue
- Sticky foam tape and double sided sticky tape
- Craft knife, pencil, eraser, ruler & cutting mat
- Paper trimmer (optional)
- Scissors
How to make:
Carefully measure and cut out a section of the Christmas pattern background paper to cover the front of the card blank. To save paper you can leave a 2cm uncovered margin on the left of the card blank as this will be covered by the white wavy border later. Use double sided tape on all four edges of the patterned paper and then stick it to cover the front of the card blank.
From the plain white card measure and cut out a strip of card 3.5cm wide x 12cm tall. On the right hand side of this strip of card use scissors to cut a wavy edge design.
On the same strip of card using a ruler and pencil make a mark at the following intervals (each one measured from the last) 5mm from the top, 2cm, 1.5cm, 4cm, 1.5cm and 2cm, the last mark should be roughly 5mm from the bottom of the card strip. All of the marks should be in a straight line about 1-1.5cm from the left hand edge. Using a craft knife make small holes at each mark twisting the knife to open the holes up slightly.
Cut a 17cm length of the light blue craft ribbon. Thread the ribbon in and out of the holes on the card strip starting from the back of the top hole. You should end up with the ends of the ribbon poking through the back of the top and bottom holes. Pull the ribbon through so the ends are roughly even in length, trim the ends and secure each one down with a strip of sticky foam tape making sure the tape does not stick out over the edges of the card strip. Apply another strip of foam tape to the centre of the card strip and then use the three foam pad sections to stick the card strip to the card blank so it is lined up with the very left hand edge and the wavy edge covers the edge of the patterned paper.
To finish the decorative ribbon strip, cut a 7cm length of the light blue ribbon and tie this around the centre of the threaded ribbon, once you have tied it, trim the ends to around 2cm in length.
Use the Super duper square craft punch to punch a square out of the plain blue card. Next use the Huge square punch to punch out a square out of the plain white paper.
Using double sided sticky tape around all four edges of the huge punched white paper square, stick it to the card blank approximately roughly positioned as shown in the picture. Next using sections of sticky foam tape stick the super duper punched blue card square in the centre of the white paper square.
Then use the super snowflake craft punch to punch out a snowflake from some of the plain white card. Use craft glue to attach the card snowflake to the centre of the blue card square. Then still using the craft glue attach the material snowflake embellishment to the centre of the card snowflake.
Finally to create the sentiment use your printer to print out the words ‘Let it snow’ in medium blue writing on white paper. The font we have used here is called Bradley Hand ITC and the font size used is 28. Use a paper trimmer or craft knife, cutting mat and ruler to cut round the wording so that it measures 6.25cm wide x 1.75cm high making sure the wording is central in the finished rectangle. Using double sided sticky tape, stick the sentiment about 1cm up from the bottom of the card blank and so it is aligned with the white/blue snowflake topped squares above.
Card Idea by Janine