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DIY Simple Homemade Holiday Cards (Christmas, Hanukkah & Kwanzza)

Published: Nov 19, 2010 by Ashley Phipps · 250 words. · About 2 minutes to read this article. · 1 Comment · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads and sponsored posts · This blog uses cookies · See our privacy policy for more info Filed Under: Craft, DIY, Holiday

I love the tradition of sending out a holiday card every year.

But I have never actually done it.

Perhaps this will be the year!

So if I do get cards out, I have not decided what type of holiday card it would be.  So for kicks I decided to try making a few cards. 

I kept these very simple of course since that is that I (mostly) do around here: simple.

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I personally celebrate Christmas, but as I was making the Christmas Tree card I thought it would be so easy to do a card for Hanukkah and Kwanzaa as well!  And I actually like how they all turned out.  
Here's a simple tutorial for an oh-so-simple card:

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I took a patterned piece of card stock and cut it into the size of card I wanted.
Next I choose a plain colored piece of card stock, cut it smaller and glued it only the front of my card.
Then I cut out a simple tree shape. 
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Next I took the tree and cut it into a lot of little pieces.

Then I glued the little pieces to the card, only using every other piece and leaving a blank spot where the piece would go.  (Does that make sense?)
Anyway, this is the result: a cute, simple, modern Christmas card!
Using a similar philosophy (simple straight shapes), I created a Hanukkah and Kwanzaa card too.
  
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What do you think?  Will you be making, buying, or going digital with your Holiday cards this year?

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  1. Kaila

    November 12, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    This is so cute and very creative.
    I'm really fan of handmade cards and I love to make this on my own instead of just buying it.
    SO, thanks for the inspiration!!
    good job for you!!

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