HomeKRAFTed Christmas Cards 1: The Window Card
Welcome to a new week here on DDoA! I hope you enjoyed trying out the Christmas tree projects from last week. This week I bring you ‘HomeKRAFTed Christmas Cards”. We use earth-friendly kraft paper as a base material and then jazz it up with whatever we have available at home.
Today at DDoA, all windows have a view as we start off our Christmas card making adventure with The Window Card.
Materials:
- kraft paper & envelope
- template
- scissors (big & small), exacto knife, ruler
- pencil, eraser
- white crafting glue
- old plastic or paper bag with nice design (to repurpose)
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| Kraft sheet and envelope |
Instructions:
1. Make a Christmas-themed template (E.g. Christmas tree, wreath, snowman, star, etc). Trace template onto the lower right side of your folded paper. (see picture below)
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| Step 1 |
2. Cut image using the appropriate cutting tool. Put aside.
3. Cut the printed plastic bag to be just slightly smaller than one frame of folded kraft paper.
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4. Flip paper and glue cut plastic on lower right frame of paper. (so that when you fold paper, window will have the plastic design as view)
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| Step 4 -image 1 |
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| Step 4 -image 2 |
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| Step 4 -image 3 |
Optional: Line the envelope flap with the plastic so it will match the card.
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| OPT – image 1
Trace flap but cut slightly shorter around to still show kraft paper on inner flap.
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| OPT – image 2 Glue in place and allow to dry completely before folding flap. |
And there you have it — your very own HomeKRAFTed Christmas ‘Window’ Card.
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| HomeKRAFTed Christmas Cards #1 “The Window Card” on daily-dose-of-art.com |
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
Quote from goodreads
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