Home based women business: Xmas cards
November 4th, 2008
Thinking about finding a source of some extra income before Christmas holidays? I can offer you a brilliant idea – Christmas greeting cards home based business. The joy of making adorable handmade greeting cards can be compared to no other pleasure! And that’s also a perfect way to strengthen your familly budget before long holidays.
I would offer you to spend a bit of your free time to craft these simple, yet unique and appealing cards which can be made quickly and with a few basic materials. The demand for such nice handmade xmas cards before Christmas is enormous and they will surely sell good both in your local souvenir shops or online.
Xmas cards | Christmas Tree card
Xmas cards | Materials:
White blank card and envelope
Gold wire
Assorted coloured beads
Green paper
Gold paper
Silicone adhesive
Pritt stick
Scissors
Directions:
1. Start by carefully bending the gold wire into the shape of a Christmas tree.
2. One by one, thread the coloured beads along the wire and glue into place using a little blob of silicone adhesive.
3. Create a rough rectangle, slightly smaller than the size of the front of the card, by tearing the gold paper.
Repeat this process with the green paper, though this time so it is slightly smaller than the gold paper.
You could neatly cut out the rectangles with scissors if you wanted a more uniform look.
4. Glue the gold paper to the front of the card using pritt stick. Then, stick the green paper on top of the gold paper again using pritt stick.
5. Attach the wire Christmas tree to the front of the card using several small blobs of silicon adhesive on the beads, add your own greeting to the inside of the card and you are done!
Xmas cards | CD Christmas Cards
Xmas cards | Materials:
Old CDs - 2 CDs for each card
Christmas Cards or Graphics
Aleene’s Glitter Snow
Directions:
Write your message on the card on your graphic.
Glue two CDs together so that their shiny sides are facing out. If your CD has both sides shiny, then use only 1 CD.
Glue your Christmas card or graphic on to the CD covering the center hole.
Put Aleene’s Glitter Snow around the edges and in various places on or near the graphic where you wish to resemble snow.
Let dry and you are done!
Xmas cards | Christmas Present Card
Materials:
Blank white card and envelope
Scrap White card
Red and Gold tinted mulberry paper
Gold wire
White pearl card
Gold glitter card
Scissors
Glue
Peel-off “Happy Christmas” sticker
Directions:
1.Cut two squares of white card out of the scrap card, approximately 4 x 4cm (1.5”).
2. Cover both in red mulberry paper and seal down with glue.
3. Wrap the gold wire around the present and form into a bow at the front.
4. Repeat this for the other present.
5. Tear, cut and stick strips of red mulberry paper, pearl card and gold glitter card together as shown in the photograph.
6. Stick the “Happy Christmas” peel off to another smaller piece of red mulberry paper.
7. Finally, stick the presents and greeting to the card using glue. Feel free to experiment with colors, it doesn’t have to be red, but I went for something festive for this project.
These are only basic ideas for Christmas craft, but using your imagination you can do much more and combine extra income with real pleasure!
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December 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I love the cards!
August 10th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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