Photo Greeting Card

 

Use a favourite photo to make a greeting card - It's just like scrapbooking

I've made a Christmas greeting card with the main image being a photo that was taken last year of our dog - she doesn't look very impressed does she? :) I didn't get many photo's before she knocked the antlers off!

I wanted to show you that you could easily make a Christmas card using the same skills as scrapbooking. For those that have not heard of scrapbooking - it's a way of making a photo album but you use special acid free patterned papers and decorate the page with your photo's, buttons, ribbons, tickets, die cuts, stamps and finish it off with a bit of journaling to describe the photo.

My card is relatively plain compared to most scrapbooking pages. But scrapbooking is very personal - you make it to please your eye. If you made your card without a greeting on the front, it could always be framed after the recipient has received it.

I've used a picture of my dog, but it could easily be a lovely snowy scene, your children, family or photo's of food! I've also used a digital photo that I have made smaller using a free piece of software called Gimp (You can download it here). I'll show you how easy it is to make your photo's smaller. You could just as easily use a pre printed photo if the sizing of the image works for your card.

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Snowflake Snowman Card

 

Cut a snowflake from white paper to create a snowman's tummy

This card was inspired by the snowflake paper cutting technique that you normally do as a child - where you fold a piece of square paper then cut out shapes from the edges. I haven't done this for some years and it was very exciting to unfold the paper to see what sort of snowflake I had created.

The snowflake then becomes the snowman's snowy tummy. His head is made in a similar way to the gift wrap I made in last weeks blog. (If you didn't see that, click here - it makes such a fab gift wrap for a small gift or some chocolate)

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Snowman Gift Wrapper

 

Create this gift wrapper in the shape of a snowman to hold a small gift or some chocolate or sweets.

This cute little character is made from mainly white card with a few scraps of coloured card and some random buttons. I thought it made a lovely wrapping solution for a small gift. It's another one of those items I remembered seeing online or in a magazine somewhere and have always wanted to make one. I think he turned out really well and is very cute.

 
If you don't have random buttons or some of the dies I have used to decorate him, then just use what you have in your craft stash. Why not add snowflakes instead of the buttons or holly leaves?

 
You could add the recipients name to a tag coming out of his hat band and use them as name places for your Christmas table.

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Christmas Gift Pocket

 

Make a simple cute pocket for gifts out of a piece of 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper

How cute is this little gift pocket? It is made from just one sheet of 12 x 12 inch scrapbooking card and only requires minimal folding.

They can be made to hold your gifts or maybe make a batch of them for table gifts. I also made one out of a piece of 6 x 6 inch paper and added a piece of string so it can hang on my Christmas tree - this one is super cute and I'll attach a photo to the bottom of this blog page.

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