Home for Christmas Archives

Handmade Christmas Cards with Photos

Dec

Hey Pebbles fans, Becki here. Christmas is only 3 days away! I’m finishing up some last minute details. Are you ready for the big day? I look forward to sending out Christmas cards every year. Some years I make Christmas cards and some years I have them printed. The one thing that I always do is include a photo. I usually include a family photo or a photo of my kids. This year I made our Christmas cards and designed them to include our family photo. Today I want to show you 3 cards that I created. Each card is different but they all include a family photo.

The first card I created has our photo right on the front of the card. This is a 5×7 card. I framed our photo with a 4×6 journaling card. I added the “Merry Christmas” sentiment sticker to the bottom right of the photo.

The inside of the card has two 3×4 cards. One has the sentiment, the other is a journaling card. I used this card to hand write a greeting from our family.

I love gate fold cards. A gate fold card is a card that has 2 flaps that cover the inside of the card. I created a 6×6 gate fold card, covered it in patterned paper and used a “Merry Christmas” sticker as the seal on the card.

The inside of this card has a few stickers, our family photo, and even a pocket to include more photos or even a gift card.

I used the kraft tag that goes inside the tag pocket to write who the card is from. I love adding hand writing to my cards. It gives the card a more personal touch.

The last card I created has a huge sentiment “Merry Christmas” using candy cane Thickers. I stitched the Thickers onto the front of the card to make sure they stayed in place while in the mail.

On the inside of this card I just adhered our family photo and wrote on a kraft tag and adhered it under the photo.

Enjoy the Christmas season and create a few cards that include your family photos.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you for visiting us here at Pebbles.

Supplies:
Candy Cane Thickers 732660
Home for Christmas Stickers 732662
Home for Christmas Envelope Seals 732664
Home for Christmas Cardstock Tags 732666
Home for Christmas 12×12 Paper Pad 732678

Winter Snowflake Gift Packaging

Jan

Snow Cute Box Card

Jan

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Holly here from Ribbons & Glue sharing with you today a “Snow Cute” box card made with the Pebbles Inc Home for Christmas and Home + Made collections. I have to admit, as I was making this Snow Day card , it’s was a sunny, 60 degree day in Southern NV. Definitely not a Snow Day but snowman are still cute any day of the year.

The box card is made from a Flower Pot Box Card cut file by Lori Whitlock that I altered using my Silhouette. I embellished the inside of the card with Home for Christmas Chips and covered the outside of the box card with Home + Made wood-grain paper and Home for Christmas Snow Flurries paper.

The Pebbles Inc collections almost always contain die cut shape Chips that can be easily enhanced. I added black glitter glue on to the Snowman’s buttons and enhanced the scarf and trees using a white gel pen.

When the card is folded flat, the beautiful wood grain paper and a stamped sentiment greet you.

When the box card is opened, a “Snow Cute” snowman and snow covered trees pop up to wish you a Happy Snow Day.

Supplies:
Home for Christmas Snow Flurries Paper
Home + Made Pine Paper
Home for Christmas Chips
Flower Pot Box Card cut file
White Cardstock
Stamped Sentiments
Paper cord

Hot Chocolate Gift Boxes

Jan

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Hi everyone, this is Eva Pizarro and today I want to show you how to make a perfect small gift or favor for this winter. I started by cutting my paper to 6×6 inches, and I used my Pillow Box Punch Board to make the gift boxes.

Cut a piece of vellum and score it with the board.

Gather some tags, twine and cut some shapes from the Christmas paper to embellish your gift.

Fill the boxes with whatever you want! I included some hot chocolate mix, mini marshmallows and some spices like cinnamon and cloves.

These are very easy and with the punch board you can make them super quickly. Have a great week!
Eva

Supplies:
Home For Christmas Gingerbread (732651)
Home For Christmas Snow Flurries (732656)
Home + Made Phrase Tags (732639)
Red Baker’s Twine (366303)

Mini Christmas Cards

Dec

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Hello everyone, I’m Eva Pizarro and today I’m going to show you how to make quick mini cards that you can use for small greetings or to add to a gift.

For these mini cards I used the envelope seals from the Home For Christmas collection. The size is perfect and you get so many of these in one package that you can make these in bulk.

Begin by sticking the seal to a piece of patterned paper. With a punch or a scallop scissor, cut all around the seal.

Add the seal with dimensional dots to a 2 3/4 inch square card made with kraft paper. Decorate the borders of the card with a black pen and tie some red twine.

Use your Envelope Punch Board by WRMK to do the envelopes. For this card I started with a 5 inch square, aligned my left border at 2 1/2 inches and followed the board instructions.