Happy Holidays

For those that love to send out their holiday cards, or create them, the earlier they can get them done the better.  For this super simple, yet wonderful looking when completed, card, cutting in July so you can get them out by Christmas in December can be quite a bit of fun.

Simple Holiday Greetings

To make the card:

1. Either purchase a pre-cut card or cut use a simple based card stock, cut your card to size.

2. Using a dark green or patterned paper, cut two strips of approximately 1.25 inches.  Attach to card.

3. Using the same paper from step two, cut a strip of card stock approximately 2 inches.  Attach to card.

4. Using a lighter green colored, textured card stock, cut two strips 1 inch and one strip 1.75 inches wide.  Attach to strips from steps two and three.

5. Find or create a textured piece of card stock and cut three squares to a size slightly larger than your snowflake embellishments or brads.

6. Using an awl, needle or skewer, punch a hole int he center of your squares from step five and attach.

Option One: room for a family picture.

7. Using a slightly lighter, textured piece of red card stock, cut three squares and attach to cards.  

8. Attach the square from step seven to the square from step six.  Attach to card where you please.

9. Using twine or a neutral piece of string, wrap around cover of card and tie in a bow.

10. Using the same paper from step four, or a color very similar, cut to size for the inside of your card and attach.

11. Using the same paper used in step five, cut two strips, about one inch side, and attach to the top and bottom of the inside to the card.

Option One
12 a. Print your family photo, add sticky photo corners to all our sides of your picture, center and attach to the center of your card.

Option Two 

Option Two: room for holiday message 

12 b. Either add a piece of neutral colored paper as a space to write your holiday message. You can either leave as is, your punch holes in the top left, bottom left and top right corners using an awl, needle or skewer in order to attach silver brads.
13 b. Cut a small dark green square the same size of that cut in step seven.  Attach to the bottom right of your message block in step twelve b.
Cut a square of the same paper used in step seven, and cut to size as square done in step five.
14 b. Punch a hole in the center of the square cut in step thirteen b.  Attach your snow flake brad and attach to the center of the square in step thirteen b using a double sided foam sticker.

15. Put into your envelope, use a holiday stamp, and put in the mail box after you have sealed in your holiday greetings with love.