Cutout Christmas Tree Card

Exchanging Christmas Cards takes a whole new meaning when you add a personal touch to the cards and craft your own. This simple and elegant Christmas card will trigger your crafty-self and you will want to make all your cards yourself for many Christmases to come.

This card is inexpensive to make and fun to create. You will find most of the material in your craft box. A short trip to the store will supply you with the rest. This can also be made easily by Kids. Or you can supply them with ready to use cutouts which they will have fun gluing to the card and decorating the tree.

Materials:

Instructions:

1. Cut out a triangle with a small base for the tree trunk from green paper.

2. Cut out small triangles from the tapering sides of this triangle to make branches. Use the ‘Tree Cutout’ image as a guide.

3. Glue the cutout tree onto the card base.

4. Cut small squares and rectangles in assorted colors to make gifts.

5. Cut out thin strips of contrasting colored paper to make the ribbons and bows.

6. Glue the thin strips of paper onto the squares and rectangles to complete the gifts as shown in the above picture.

7. Alternatively, you can also use golden string as the ribbon for the gifts.

8. Glue the completed gifts to the card base, arranging them at the base of the tree.

9. Punch out circles with a hole-puncher from red paper and glue them randomly on the tree to decorate it.

10. You may also use thin golden string as garlands, to decorate the tree.

11. Stick a ‘Merry Christmas’ sticker on space at the top right.

This craft project first appeared in the Christmas 2004 issue of 'Celebrating Christmas PDF Magazine'. To download a FREE copy of the entire magazine, go to http://www.celebrating-christmas.com/magazine.shtml

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