Hello again! For today's entry in my DIY Christmas card series I'm sharing ideas for making crafty Christmas tree cards using washi tape, patterned paper, and festive stamps.
(Missed posts 1-3? Follow the links to make
stripey washi tape cards, cards
decorated with simple shapes and crafty scraps, and
cards full of festive JOY).
UPDATE: follow the links to find all DIY Christmas card ideas in this series!
1. Washi Tape.
2. Simple Shapes and Crafty Scraps.
3. Simple Lettering.
4. Today's tutorial, Christmas Trees.
5. Baubles.
This tutorial originally appeared on
The Village Haberdashery's
blog - visit their shop for lots of crafty goodness, including
Christmas paper pads and washi tape sets.
To make these easy Christmas tree cards, use my Christmas tree templates (
click here to view and download the template sheets!) to cut out lots of tree shapes then use them as the focal feature your designs.
There are three different templates to choose from: simple trees, mini
trees for small cards, and fancy trees.
The minimal shape of the simple tree means you can go bold with the
patterns:
Instead of using a blank card for this design, I used half a sheet of
fancy festive card – cutting it then folding it in half, and
pairing it with a brown kraft paper envelope.
I used the tree template
to cut out a patterned green tree then glued it to a piece of white
paper. I then carefully cut around the tree, leaving a border of white
to frame it and help it stand out from the background pattern, and then
stuck it to the card.
For this card I used two Christmassy stamps and a white ink pad to
print a pattern on a blank card – the white ink stands out really well
against the red! Then I added the tree shape and a handwritten “Merry
Christmas” on a small strip of white paper.
To make this stripy tree, I cut out a tree shape from white card and
covered it in washi tape stripes. I used gold tape for the tree’s trunk
then used pretty festive tapes to cover the tree.
I then cut
a piece of brown paper as a simple frame for the design and positioned
the tree leaving space to write “Merry Christmas” underneath.
For small Christmas tree cards, use the mini tree template provided.
These are so quick and easy to make! I decorated one card with a stamp
and silver ink, one with three strips of washi tape, and made the third
from a sheet of patterned card... then added a little tree to all of them.
The fancy tree shape is a little more time consuming to cut out, but
it’s totally worth it!
The first card shows off the tree’s shape, with a simple bit of paper to
frame it – I chose a pale pink to make the dark tree really stand out.
You could add a festive message at the bottom of the card, but I quite
like the design as it is.
This is another simple design: I used four pieces of washi tape to make a
frame, added a small piece of gold tape to the tree’s trunk then stuck
the tree in the centre of the card.
You need a bit of patience to make this stripy card but the end result
has a lot of wow factor.
Decorate a white card with stripes of Christmas washi tape designs, leaving a small gap between the tape.
Start in one corner and work your way across the card, trimming the
excess tape as you go.
Glue one of the fancy tree shapes to a piece of
white paper or card and cut it out, leaving a narrow white border to
frame the tree. Then glue the tree to the centre of the card.
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