How to Make a Christmas Card: Let’s Explore Three Different Ways!

November 03, 2022

Wondering how to make a Christmas card? We’re here to help! Making a fantastic Christmas card from scratch, upcycling an existing card, or designing a personalised card using fantastic online tools is a great way for kids and adults to get creative during this festive season. We’ll be showing you how to do all these things and more, in this comprehensive do-it-yourself Christmas cards guide!

How to Make Easy Christmas Cards at Home

There are several ways you can make luxury Christmas cards in your own home, all you need is some affordable craft fundamentals available at your local hobby shop or online. Here are just some of the benefits of creating your own cards:

Creating a series of handmade Christmas greeting cards is generally more affordable than buying cards individually or in a pack from a shop.
You have a much larger range of designs and ideas to pull from when choosing a design.
You can get completely personal with your messages for an extra unique and thoughtful card.
Many cards can be created quickly and easily with some methods.

How to DIY Christmas Cards with Cardstock

Speaking of quickly and easily – one of the ways you can create a great Christmas card for family and friends with little effort is by using cardstock. This method is incredibly helpful if you need to create a lot of cards fast, and the end result is affordable and charmingly unique. We’ll start with a quick tutorial here. You will need:

Cardstock - white is more versatile, but go for any colour you think you’ll like, and choose whatever size you think is appropriate.
Christmas Card Pads – just check the measurements to make sure they aren’t too small in regards to the card stock. You can choose whatever designs you like the best, the plainer ones are typically more affordable, but we can brighten them up later - just as long as they are festive!
Scissors, or ideally a trimmer.

Those are the three basic things you’ll need, but you can embellish your card with all kinds of exciting decorations if you have them lying around. Let’s get started.

How to Create a Christmas Card Base

Choose which Christmas card pads you want to use – if there are any that you don’t think will make for a great standalone card, you can always cut them up and use them to embellish other cards later.
Use a trimmer (or scissors – but be careful!) to cut your pads into shape so they fit onto the cardstock - coloured card stock makes for a wonderful border for a pad, but white works better for most designs – it’s up to you!
Stick the pad onto the card stock with glue.

Now you’ve got the base of your card – it’s time to make it truly unique.

How to Decorate Your Christmas Card

Adorn the outside of the card with whatever festive additions you want – glitter, pearls, stars or even parts of other card pads.
Write a thoughtful, personalised message inside. If you’re using coloured card stock, you might want to fix a white sheet onto the inside of your card so your message stands out more.

There you have it! Once you get used to the motions of cutting your pads and getting them stuck onto the card stock you’ll be flying through each card in no time. You can really add as little or as much detail as you like – sometimes less is more, of course!

How to Create a Christmas Card through Recycling

We’ve already mentioned you can use discarded card pads to embellish your DIY Christmas cards, but you can go even further, and transform old Christmas cards into wonderful new ones by upcycling!

You’ve probably got a stack of old Christmas cards sitting somewhere, perhaps you’re too sentimental to throw them out, but in transforming your old cards you’re not just helping to spread joy, but also helping the planet a little as well. Here’s just some of the things you can do with old cards.

Use a trimmer (or scissors) to slice up the designs and use them to embellish some of your DIY cards. Or you can make a collage from a range of old ones.
Cut the card in half (so you’re just left with the design side) and turn it into a lovely hanging card using string – placing a piece of cardstock onto the inside face to write your message.
Use the design as the basis of one of your DIY cards using card stock. A2 card stock is typically smaller than many store bought Christmas cards, so cut out the central motif or the most interesting part of the design and use that.

There’s all kinds of wonderfully creative things you can do with old Christmas cards outside of simply turning them into new cards – decorations, bunting, placemats, wreaths – you’d be surprised how much you can get out of an old Christmas card – just look online and you’ll find a range of amazing ideas.

How to Create Personalised Christmas Cards Online

Another way to create a Christmas card at home is by ordering a personalised card online. You’ll be surprised at the creative lengths some online card retailers are going to when it comes to card customisation – the idea is really about putting as much choice in your hands as possible. Here are some of the advantages of creating a Christmas card online.

It takes minimal effort to do so, the end product is high quality and can be delivered right to your door (or the door of your recipient!)
You can still express yourself and create a unique card without all the mess, with online tools offering many customisation options.
There are an unparalleled amount of designs to choose from – you’ll also be allowed to add your own photos, and if you’re someone who regularly gets creative on your computer, your own designs into the mix.

Creating a traditional christmas card online is often a better option if you want to create one or a few really high quality cards for the most important people you’ll be spending time with this festive season.

It’s a great idea if there’s an extra special Christmas coming up – perhaps it coincides with an anniversary, perhaps there’s a baby on the way, perhaps someone has moved into a new home. But whatever your reason to celebrate – you’ll find a selection of fantastic festive cards here on Boomf! With our online personalisation tool you’ll be able to get creative - choosing between all kinds of designs, fonts, and colours, and our amazing specialist cards offer even more unique options.