VIDEO: Design your own Christmas cards

Scrapbooking - let your creativity run free

• Scrapbooking is a craft trend from the USA, in which photo albums with small drawings, texts, decorations creatively pepped up from colored paper, stickers and decorative elements and made into small works of art will.
• The handicraft trend is no longer new for us either. Scrapbooking has been known in Germany for around 10 years - however, the possible uses today go far beyond making photo albums.
• Thanks to the large range of motif, structure and effect papers, cutting dies, paper borders and ribbons, masking and decorative adhesive tape and much more, You can create a lot more than just albums in scrapbook style, such as gift packaging, storage boxes or Christmas cards.
• So-called motif sets, consisting of various papers, cutting dies, glitter applications, asterisks, etc. are also ideal for Christmas handicrafts. at. If you prefer something more individual, you can of course put together your own material compositions from the wide range of scrapbook materials.

Design your own Christmas cards - very easy with colored paper and decor

You don't have to be an artistic genius to design scrapbooking-style Christmas cards yourself - you have to enjoy being creative Handcraft is completely sufficient.

1. First, you should make a paper selection for the "primer" of your Christmas cards. It looks particularly nice if you use a plain-colored paper (possibly with effect or structure) with a strip of motif paper. You can use it to cover the entire surface of your Christmas cards or, with the help of special-effect scissors, leave a white border, for example with a zigzag or wave pattern.
2. The best thing to do is to glue on the plain-colored paper first and then put the strip of motif paper over it. You can only design your Christmas cards on one side, from the outside, and leave space inside for the Christmas greeting, or you can include both sides in the design.
3. In the next step you either stick a finished text sticker, for example "Merry Christmas", or write on your card yourself with a touch-up pen. It is best to place the lettering on monochrome paper so that it remains legible, even when your card is lavishly decorated.
4. Now you can decorate your Christmas card just the way you like it. For example, you can apply glitter, small snowflakes with a motif punch Punch out the white paper and glue it on, apply additional, small decorations with the touch-up pens or your cards also simply with the help of stickers, such as little angels, stars, Christmas packages, snowmen or borders and ribbons or similar. ä. shape. Your imagination is required here.

Crafting in the scrapbook style is easy, is really fun due to the variety of materials and is also suitable for Doing handicrafts together with children - even if the very little ones may still need a little help with dropping and sticking require. Have fun designing your Christmas cards!