Sending your friends and family holiday greeting cards is one of the most delightful Christmas traditions. Many crafters love making DIY cards because they're easily customizable with special sentiments.
Below, find 17 DIY Christmas cards that are perfect to try this season. They'll likely serve as inspiration for hours of fun holiday crafting!
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Embroidered Christmas Card
The Spruce Crafts / Mollie Johanson
Needle crafters can practice a few new stitches when creating this unique and pretty card. The tutorial comes with a free printable template, so there's no need to worry about coming up with a pattern.
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A Fast and Easy Christmas Card Craft
Are you in a hurry and looking for a simple DIY Christmas card craft? This washi tape card is for you! Just cut strips out of washi tape and place them on a card in a tree shape. Put a star on top and your card is ready to send.
Simple Christmas Cards from omiyage blogs
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A Christmas Card With a Gift
Practically Functional offers a free printable Christmas card designed with enough space to glue on an eos round lip balm. This Christmas card is the perfect small gift for someone you want to acknowledge at Christmas without spending a lot on a gift. These cards are easy, thrifty, and most appreciated in winter when chapstick is necessary!
eos Lip Balm Christmas Card Printable from Practically Functional
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Gingham Hearts and Stars Cards
Create these lovely red and white holiday cards by sewing gingham cloth onto a white cardstock backing. The design is simple yet elegant and doesn't feel too specific to any holiday so you can make them year-round.
Stitched Gift Cards from A Spoonful of Sugar
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Snowman Paper Garland
Although this craft is originally a paper garland tutorial, you can use it as a Christmas greeting card. Just write your message and fold the garland into your mailing envelope. The recipient will have a Christmas card and receive the cutest Christmas snowmen for use as holiday home decor.
Paper Snowman Garland Craft Project from Craft Ideas
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Button and Ribbon Card
Make a beautiful Christmas tree card with green ribbon and red buttons. This tutorial is in Italian, but you can easily translate it in your browser. It's also so simple—you need only to follow the pictures.
Il biglietto di Natale con l’albero di nastro from Casa E Trend
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A Card Your Kids Will Love to Make
Kids love getting into the spirit of the season. Have them make their own Christmas cards with this handprint card craft. Parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles will treasure these precious handmade greeting cards from the little ones in the family.
Handprint Christmas Card from The Best Ideas for Kids
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A Christmas Card From an Unlikely Source
Make a beautiful contemporary Christmas greeting card from paint chip cards. If you don't have any leftover from your last painting project, head to the hardware store—they're free! Cut the paint chip card into a triangle, glue it onto a card, and add some embellishments. You can make this card in less than five minutes. We all love that, right?
Paint Chip Christmas Cards from One Little Project
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Christmas Cards With Elegant Old World Style
These Christmas cards remind us of the beautiful scherenschnitte cards of previous centuries. But, instead of painstakingly cutting them with scissors, you can quickly but them with an electronic die cutter. They're so pretty, you may want to frame them.
Elegant Paper Cut Christmas Cards from Lia Griffith
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Cards Made With Items From Your Sewing Box
You can make Christmas cards from many items, so, this year, skip the paper to try something different. The card shown above is made with iron-on patches, giving it an added layer of texture and personality!
Handmade Christmas Cards With Iron-On Patches from The Crafts World
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Quick and Easy Cards
Twist green pipe cleaners into a tree shape, embellish it with a gold star, then place it on a folded piece of cardstock or other heavy paper. You might want to make a bunch of these cards with your kids. It's so easy that even your little ones can help. Working on a card together is an excellent way to build family memories.
Pipe Cleaner Christmas Cards from Crafty Morning
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Simple Christmas Greeting Cards
Make gorgeous cards with glue, cardstock, and baker's twine. These cards are simple, yet elegant and you can use any leftove twine to create DIY garlands for your tree!
Bakers Twine Christmas Cards from The Country Chic Cottage
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Christmas Woodland Themed Cards
Bunnies aren't just for Easter! Give your holiday greeting a twist this year with hand-painted woodland creatures. These rustic cards look best when they're not perfect, so don't stress too much about the painting part!
Woodland Christmas Cards from Momma Is Dreaming
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String Art Card
String art has been trendy for the past couple of years, and this project makes the technique kid-friendly. Using a sewing needle and thread instead of nails and a hammer, older kids can begin to learn how to sew with this craft.
DIY String Art Christmas Cards from Hello Wonderful
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Christmas Cards That Light Up
Learn how to make your very own light up Christmas greeting cards with copper tape and Chibi Lights (light up stickers!). Lawn Fawn has a YouTube video available that you must check out!
Light Up Christmas Card from Lawn Fawn, via YouTube
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Lettered Holiday Cards
Whip up some paper-cut lettered holiday cards in minutes with these free download files provided by Persia Lou. This craft is perfect if you're making last-minute cards. Even though they look as though you labored for hours making them, the secret is that they are fast and easy when using a die-cut machine.
Paper Cut Christmas DIY from Persia Lou
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Reindeer Puppet Cards
Kids will enjoy this holiday card craft. They can make the cards, insert a special message, and then play with them afterward. Free templates are provided for download, so you are almost guaranteed a successful reindeer puppet outcome.
Reindeer Puppets Greeting Cards from Kids Craft Room