Crafting 4 Christmas | Part 3 | Christmas Card from cardboard and foam | DIY

Today we are making a Christmas card in part 3 of Crafting 4 Christmas

This is part three of my series in Crafting 4 Christmas, and today we will be crafting a Christmas card using cardboard and foam mainly. Maybe you have some laying around, otherwise, you can buy it very cheap at different stores probably. This part is one that you can do together with a smaller child as well, just be careful with the rhinestones as these are small parts. From now on, I will link all previous parts of the series below in the posts.

Let's get started!

Here's what you need for this card:

• I used cardboard that you can use for A6 sized cards but cut them in half for
  this card. I picked a light blue color myself.
• I had some black paper laying around with failed drawings at the back, so I cut
  these in smaller pieces to give the card a "window" layer. You can use any
  colour you like.
• You need just a very small part of foam, I used 2 colors of green for this one.
• An even tinier piece of brown foam (see image) for the tree stems.
• Scissors
• Glue
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Rhinestones
• Glitterfoam
• Two strips of paper with a fun print
• Silver pen

First, cut the edges of the black paper as nicely as possible and glue this on the bigger cardboard you've chosen for the card. Then you use a ruler to create small triangles on the green foam. Measure the size of the background to see how big you want the trees to be and then create a few of each tint of green to your liking. I chose to make 5 trees. Then you create tree stems with the brown foam, see the image in the collage above, it's very easy! Glue these on the paper in a playful way.

Now you can add the rhinestones as Christmas decorations in the trees. Measure the sides of the inner "window" and cut two strips of glitter foam to glue these on the sides as shown in picture three of the image above. Now you can add the two stripes of paper with fun print on the top and bottom of the window. Add a few rhinestones in the 4 corners, see image 4. Measure the exact size of the left/right part of the card and then cut the glitter foam stripes according to this size. If they fit the card, glue them on the sides as you can see in the last image.

Final touch: write "Merry Christmas" in the card and if you like you can add some "snow" using your silver pen, or real glitters.

And you're done!

One last picture of the end result, shown below:

As you can see, you can have a nice custom made Christmas card with very few needed items to create it. You only need small parts of the cardboard and foam, therefore you could even use waste after you've crafted something else. I always save these parts in a separate box so that I don't have to cut up new bigger paper/cardboard/foam but use the waste first.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial of a DIY Christmas card, and see you in the next part. Of course, I'd love to see some images of the crafts you've created, please leave a comment!

All Crafting 4 Christmas posts

Part 1: Christmas tree from cardboard
Part 2: Felt Christmas tree ornament