Making Christmas Greeting Cards
Christmas Tree Greeting Cards
About six weeks before Christmas I like to start making Christmas greeting cards and buying gifts to put under the Christmas tree. Christmas can be a little overwhelming with so much to organize it’s not always possible to send Christmas greeting cards on time.
With a little prioritizing you won’t be making Christmas greeting cards in a rush. This means all your friends and family will receive beautiful handmade greeting cards which they can display on their mantel before Christmas day.
Making Christmas greeting cards is a fun Christmas craft project that people of all ages can enjoy. To make your very own greeting cards you’ll need these craft supplies: Christmas tree clip art, thick craft card (U.S letter size or A4) pencil, scissors and ruler.
This should be all the craft supplies you’ll need to complete this Christmas card. If you love Christmas greeting cards that look real busy you can use a combination of Christmas vector art, Christmas borders, Christmas text or Christmas stickers to finish off the card. The possibilities are literally endless when you combine Christmas vector art and Christmas clip art.
With your Christmas greeting card supplies on hand just trim down the craft card to U.S.letter size if it isn’t already prepared. You can measure it easily by using another U.S. letter sized piece of paper as a guide. Mark it out with your pencil and then rule up the lines. Take your scissors and carefully trim down the sheet you’ve just measured. Remember kids when using scissors you’ll need a grownup present.
If you don’t know what size to make your Christmas greeting card a good size card generally measures around 5″ x 7″ when the card has been folded over. If you work by these measurements you should be fine.
Start by double clicking the Christmas tree clip art and save it to your desktop. From here it’s easy enough to import the artwork into another program or print it out directly.
When you use digital clip art there are several ways of making Christmas greeting cards using the computer. If you’re computer savy you can import the PNG into a program like MSWord or any program that will support PNG graphics.
Just remember you can import other Christmas clip art or Borders into the same document. The only thing you’ll need to do is position the graphics and format the Christmas greeting card yourself.
If this sounds to difficult the easiest way of making Christmas greeting cards is to download the above Christmas tree clip art graphic to your desktop. Open the PNG image by double clicking and choose print. In the printing options scale down the graphic so it’s small enough to fit onto a 5″ x 7″ greeting card. This is the easiest way if your not computer savy. You will however need to keep any eye on page positioning when you print.
Tip: It’s always a good idea to print a black and white versions first, this way you’re using minimal ink. Oh, it’s also a good idea to use standard printer paper and not waste your craft card.
Once your happy with the design print in full color directly onto the craft card. When the ink is dry you can measure and trim the Christmas greeting card to a 5” x 7” size. Fold the card in half by lining up the corners and make a firm crease down the center. Your Christmas greeting card is almost done!
Earlier in the post I mentioned that you can use Christmas vector art, Christmas borders, Christmas text or Christmas stickers to further embellish the inside and outside of cards. Even if your making Christmas greeting cards the easy way you can still use the above graphics by printing them onto paper or adhesive paper and glue or stick them onto the greeting card.
To personalize the Christmas greeting cards just hand write a message and include a Christmas verse wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Have fun this year making Christmas greeting cards using Christmas tree clip art from Pixabella.
Tags: Christmas, Clip Art, greeting cards, holidays, trees
November 16, 2009 9:08 pm 
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