When it's starting to get pretty Christmassy inside, it's time to send the warmest and warmest congratulations on Christmas. With a lovingly designed Christmas card you will undoubtedly make your family and friends happy. Homemade items are always the best, especially when it comes to original Christmas mail. What do you think about surprising your loved ones with Christmas cards made with natural materials this year? Be inspired by our suggestions and have fun crafting in winter!
With natural materials you can create a great atmosphere not only in your own four walls. Christmas cards made with natural materials exude a very special wintery charm that immediately grabs you and doesn't leave you indifferent. Nature's treasures are diverse even on the magically beautiful winter days and inspire great individual creations. Twigs, mini cones, pine greens, spices such as cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise, dried flowers and much more encourage creativity!
With branches and twigs
Anyone who dedicates themselves to the exciting craft project “Christmas cards with natural materials” is spoiled for choice and can decide for themselves whether their own works of art are made exclusively from natural materials or whether other craft materials such as paper, fabric, lace, etc. are used for decoration. Did you think you could use cones when making Christmas cards? Of course, the smaller varieties are ideal for fastening. Alder cones and European larch cones are well suited for these purposes.
Make Christmas cards with dried orange slices
If you like things lush and beautifully festive, you might want to consider a nice, wintery background for your Christmas greeting card. Let your creativity run wild and perhaps cut out delicate snowflakes or stars from paper or glue on tiny beads that will add great shine. If you are making a Christmas card, the color choice is of course entirely up to you.
Now you can tie a bow out of paper tape and glue some small cones in place with the hot glue gun. If you want, you can put some glue on the scales of the cones and sprinkle glitter over them. Of course, you can paint the tiny cones white or any other color you like, or leave them as is. If you like the Christmas scent and want to pamper the recipient with it, you can enhance the homemade Christmas cards with natural materials with a spicy, fragrant arrangement.
The wonderfully fragrant cinnamon sticks are another natural material that can be used to make beautiful crafts. Take two cinnamon sticks of approximately the same length or simply cut one in half. Then tie them with a pretty bow or glittery craft wire. To create a small bouquet, add thin twigs or berry bushes to the bundle and enjoy the unique and distinctive scent.
When the talk ofCrafting during Advent or Christmasthen you can't just ignore the wonderfully fragrant dried orange slices. They are also beautiful to look at and can also be used in various other decorations. You can easily dry the fruit slices in an aluminum dish on the heater, but you will need to allow around 2 weeks for the drying process.
If you don't like elaborate decorations for your homemade Christmas card, you can of course choose very simple winter motifs. One of the most important symbols of the magical Christmas season is the Christmas tree. For example, you can conjure up a great Christmas tree from a branch that is as thin and as straight as possible. You can either make the fir greenery from delicate fir branches or use a beautiful, glittering gift ribbon. A felt star is the perfect finish to your tree.
With paper and cinnamon sticks
Another and incredibly creative way to create a Christmas tree on your folded card this Christmas would be this beautiful creation made from paper and cinnamon sticks. Cut simple triangles out of green construction paper and glue small pieces of a cinnamon stick to form a tree trunk. The Christmas tree is ready. You can also make original Christmas cards yourself by placing a piece of the cinnamon sticks on a beautiful winter meadowpatterned washi tapeset up.
Simple Christmas cards made with natural materials have a very special charm and look no less attractive than the more ostentatious ones. If you have houseplants, you can also use their branches to create your unique Christmas card. The leaves of the ferns have just the right, slightly tapered shape to transform the green plant into a beautiful Christmas tree.
The Christmas wreath with a difference
You can also design Christmas cards made from natural materials with small wreaths. For example, what do you think of one?modern interpretation of the traditional Advent wreath, where you tie an aromatic rosemary sprig into a wreath instead of fir greens? Think of a short text for the Christmas card and surprise someone you love with it. If you add a bow to the self-made wreath, the wreath can be used for further decoration.
A Christmas card made from natural materials is also a good solution if you don't have enough time for complicated crafts. The last minute Christmas cards are in no way inferior to the others. You can see a great example in the picture above, which you can easily replicate at home. For this simple but attractive and original winter craft project, you will need a small pine branch on which to hang cute Christmas tree ornaments made of buttons.
You might want togive a gift to a man for Christmas, who has a great sense of humor, then you can use the following idea as inspiration for a great Christmas DIY project. This great bow tie made of rosemary branches, which has been decorated with a Christmas motif, looks very fun and of course chic. Such a motif will definitely put a big smile on the face of a passionate wearer.
Christmas cards with rosemary branches
If you don't dare or just don't have the time for it, you can also spice up a beautiful Christmas card you bought with natural materials. For our next craft project you will need a clothespin and pine or rosemary twigs. Apply hot glue to one side of the clothespin and place the small green bundle on top. You can also use the Christmas decorated clothespin to hang up Christmas boots.
Dry leaves are also a suitable craft material for your pretty and imaginative Christmas cards with natural materials. If you would like to delight a child with your pretty craft, you can create Rudolph the reindeer in no time. The face is quickly painted on and the antlers are made from two leaves. You can make the typical red nose out of a small pompom or simply dye some cotton wool red.
