If you would like to send a handwritten and lovingly designed greeting card for Christmas, you are probably already looking around for creative DIY projects for Christmas. In one of our articles we showed you various ideas on how to make Christmas cards with washi tape. An exciting and no less creative idea would be to conjure up a Christmas card with ironing beads. In the following picture gallery you will find inspiration for winter motifs as well as many great suggestions for winter crafts with ironing beads.
The colorful, small push-in beads, which are sure to bring back great childhood memories in you, are very popular again and are particularly popular as craft materials not only in winter but also during every season and on various occasions. This fact is of course not unfounded, because crafting with iron beads is a lot of fun for young and old alike and can create unique works of art in just a few simple steps.
Effective Christmas cardDesigning with iron-on beads also requires a few materials, which are quite cheap. For the original homemade cards for Christmas, you will need folding cards made of cardboard, ironing beads, pegboard, craft glue or hot glue, baking paper, iron and possibly various templates that make the realization of your craft project even easier.
If you want to create great greeting cards, it is of course first and foremost important to think of a suitable motif and think about how you would like to integrate the colorful beads into the handmade Christmas cards. You can then form the desired Christmas motif with or without an iron-on bead template from the individual colored iron-on beads. The color design and the selection of the size of the beads is entirely up to you and your imagination.
As soon as you have attached the ironing beads to the pegboard and the result is exactly what you want, place a piece of baking paper on top. Carefully iron the iron-on beads until the plastic on the iron-on beads melts and the iron-on beads come together. Allow the beads to cool and remove the finished ironed motif from the pegboard. As you can see, the great, festive motifs for your Christmas card are ready in no time.
Now it's time to attach the motif to the front of the paper folding card using a glue stick or hot glue. Another way to attach the motif to the card, if you are making an original Christmas card with ironing beads, would be the finished oneChristmas motiflike a Christmas tree pendant. To do this, you need to attach a nice hanging ribbon to the top bead.
In this way you have created unique Christmas tree decorations and a great Christmas greeting card in one. You can easily attach the motif pendant to the card with a small decorative clip. You can also decorate the bracket festively yourself. Color it, label it or maybe just quickly decorate it with decorative tape and you will add another charming accent that will make your handmade card individual and certainly unique.
If you decide to stick on the Christmas motif when designing, but still want to create the effect of a Christmas tree ornament, you can perhaps draw on a fake thread with a marker. The homemade Christmas card with iron-on beads gets the finishing touch with a nice lettering that you print out and stick on or get as a finished sticker.
If you would like to add a personal touch to the festive greeting card and have extremely beautiful handwriting, you can write on the iron-on bead Christmas cards yourself. The example above is also a great variant for Christmas cards, in which the motif itself serves as a card. For example, you can create a larger Christmas motif using ironing beads and attach cardboard or colored paper to the back.
You can add a nice message to the paper background, paint it or add a great family photo. The end result is undoubtedly a Christmas card made from perler beads that is only available once. If you iron the perler beads in this way, you will create an attractive frame for the card. Whether you decide on a simple color combination, choose the typical winter colors or use bright colors is entirely up to you and is exactly what makes the Christmas card with iron-on beads unique.
If you want to make modern Christmas greeting cards yourself using perler beads, you can let your imagination run wild. Of course, there are no limits when it comes to choosing a motif. In addition to the typical winter motifs, which immediately put you in a happy and festive mood, you can of course choose more abstract motifs that evoke associations with the beautiful family celebration.
The winter motifs that are a suitable decoration for your holiday cards are almost endless. For example, you can create fir greenery, mistletoe, other winter flowers or berries from green and red iron-on beads, even without having to use a template. You are also welcome to involve your children in the simple DIY project and have them attach the individual ironing beads in the shape of a leaf. The more imperfect the individual leaves look, the more authentic the mistletoe will be. A red bow adds a festive accent.
What would Christmas be without the good Santa Claus, who you can easily recreate. There are also many design options for this Christmas symbol. A Santa Claus dressed in his red coat looks just as great as just his face with the thick white beard and his bright red hat. If you have children, let them help you or, depending on their age and abilities, perhaps attach the ironing bead motif to the breadboard themselves.
Doing crafts with children at Christmas is not only a fun way to pass the time, but also an activity that promotes fine motor skills. If you would like to accompany your warmest Christmas greetings with the reindeer Rudolph or, more clearly, with a small heart made of perler beads, you can vary the colors, combinations and decorations of the Christmas motifs as you wish when crafting. Other ideas for Christmas motifs with iron-on beads include colorful Christmas balls, cute owls, a polar bear or a Santa hat.
Another great craft idea when making Christmas cards would be to decorate the front of the card with white and red candy canes. A gingerbread man is a suitable winter motif that looks good on an original greeting card and which even small children can create on their own. Cute mini gift packages can also be quickly made from craft beads and will certainly delight the recipient. Attached we have provided you with a snowflake template for a smaller and a larger motif, which you can use when making your own Christmas cards.
Both the snowflake itself and in combination with other craft materials look great on the Christmas card. You can cut out a Christmas ball from paper and glue the snowflake made of iron beads onto the paper ornament as an ornament.
