Contemporary & Cool Christmas Card Ideas 2013

A Carol Singin’ Christmas Pud In Black & White!

This site brings you lots of cool Christmas card ideas. This design is one of my favorite Christmas card designs!

The red and green of the skeleton leaves and the beaded holly really sets off the gorgeous, black and white, handwritten, Christmas carol lyrics in the background.

The seed beads and skeleton leaves give the card some texture. And the pudding shape is raised to make it really stand out.

Very stylish – yet lots of fun to make….

Difficulty Level: An intermediate Christmas card making idea (knowledge of heat embossing needed).

You Will Need:

    A plain white folded card (C6)

    The black and white ‘Jingle Bells’ lyrics backing paper and the Christmas pudding outline from the Printable Christmas Card Making Kit here…

    Black embossing powder

    Clear embossing pen

    Heat embossing tool (also known as a heat gun)

    Clear mid-green and clear deep red seed beads

    Green, silver and red skeleton leaves

    Spray on glue (I used 3M’s Spray Mount)

    PVC glue

    Foam squares

    Craft knife or scissors

    Spare card

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How To Make This Card Design …

        Print it out! Open up the Printable Christmas Card Making Kit [the what?] and print out the black and white ‘Jingle Bells’ lyrics backing paper, and the Christmas pudding outline.

        Cool Christmas Card IdeasSpray glue it! Spray glue the front of your card. I used 3M’s Spray Mountglue.

        Cut it out!

            From the black and white ‘Jingle Bells’ lyrics backing paper, cut out a rectangle that’s slightly larger than the front of your card. Stick it to the front and then flip your card over and trim away the excess backing paper with a craft knife.

            Cut out the Christmas pudding, leaving a wide margin around it. Spray glue a piece of spare card and stick the Christmas pudding to it. Then carefully cut out the card-backed Christmas pudding outline.

    Tip: If you print directly onto thin card instead of paper, just cut out the pudding outline straight away.

        Stick on the leaves! Spray glue the back of the green, silver and red skeleton leaves and arrange them on the left hand side of your card, near the bottom.

        Emboss it! Draw over the Christmas pudding outline with your clear embossing pen. Do this in stages, so that you can sprinkle on the black embossing powder before the ink dries. Use the black embossing powder and your heat tool to emboss the design onto the paper as you go along. Mind your fingers now!

    Tip: Usually you don’t want those pesky flecks of excess embossing powder lurking in places where they shouldn’t, but this time (after shaking off the bulk of the excess powder), leave the odd few, stray specks of embossing powder (don’t brush them away). This adds ‘a little something’ to the overall design.

    Add glue! Once the embossed image has cooled down, fill in the holly leaves and berries with PVC glue.

    Add beads! Carefully stick the green seed beads onto the holly leaves and the red seed beads onto the berries of the embossed Christmas pudding. Leave to dry.

    Foam squares! Fix a couple of foam squares to the back of your Christmas pudding and stick it to your card, over the base of the skeleton leaf arrangement.

And there you have it! A very cool Christmas card idea!