FESTIVE AND FUNKY CHRISTMAS CARDS!
Jenny from Parsley Pie Art Club shows us how to make three funky Christmas card designs. Using simple techniques you will have lots of fun making personalized cards for all your family and friends!
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1. 3D Reindeer card
MATERIALS:
Brown poster paint
Red, black and white poster paint or if you can get them use craft googly eyes and brown and red mini pom-poms
Plain note cards or coloured card
Glue
Twigs from your garden or the park! (these are for the antlers so need to quite small and thin)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Use your thumb to stamp 3 reindeer heads on each card.
2. Next, glue on googly eyes and pom-pom noses, use a red one for Rudolph! Or use the red, black and white poster paint to paint on the eyes & noses
3. Finish by sticking on the twigs for antlers!
2. bauble photo card
MATERIALS:
Pencil and ruler
Scissors
Coloured card
Jam jar lid, about 3 inches in diameter
Decorative string, wool or thin elastic cording
Shiny paper
Glue
Glitter
Photo
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. For each card, measure and cut a 9- by 4-inch piece of coloured card and fold it in half. Starting at the fold, draw a simple ornament shape, tracing around the jar lid to create the round portion. Cut out the ornament, going through both layers but leaving the fold intact.
2. Open up the cutout and lay a 9-inch length of string or cording across the crease, as shown.
3. Apply glue to the paper just below it, refold the paper, and tie the string ends together to form a hanging loop.
4. Cut a square from the shiny paper to fold over the top of the ornament shape. Stick it in place with glue. Decorate the outside with glitter then glue a photo, trimmed to fit, inside the card!
3. Messy hand Santa card
MATERIALS:
Plain note cards or coloured card
Red paper (or use white paper and paint red)
Glue
Poster paints, red, white, pink, black (for pink mix red and white)
Paper plates or paint palates
Googly eyes
Cotton wool
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Cut Santa-hat shapes (minus the pom-poms and white trim) from the red paper, then glue one onto each card.
2.Glue a pair of googly eyes a fingertip’s width below each hat or paint on the eyes
3. Pour white paint onto one paper plate, and a dollop each of red, black, and pink onto another.
4. Stamp white handprint beards, then use fingertips to stamp the trim on the hats, and a nose, mouth, and cheeks on each face. or use cotton wool for the trim of the hat!
5. If you have some spare glitter make your Santa sparkle by adding glitter to his hat!