Ugly Christmas Sweaters!

I found an idea on Pinterest for "ugly Christmas sweater" gift tags.  Sorry, but I've lost the link to it, so I can't reference it.  But it's very simple.  There was a pattern to print and cut out, but really, it's such a simple shape that it doesn't really need a pattern.  This is a way to use up old Christmas cards.

Here you can see the pattern I used and my tracing marks on a Christmas card.  I really needed to trace on the front, as opposed to the back (where my tracing marks would not be seen) in order to get the "sweater" positioned on the card where I wanted it.  I was just careful to cut out inside the lines.

Here are a couple of the resulting gift tags.  On the back I've simply written "To:" and "From:."  I may punch a hole in the shoulder maybe to attach with a ribbon/string.  Or I may just tape them on a package.

Pretty quick and easy craft to use up some of those pretty cards.

Making Christmas Cards

More Christmas crafting!

Today I'm showing you how I made some super-easy

Christmas cards.

These are the materials needed:

scraps of paper (can be wrapping paper, craft paper,

metallic paper, textured paper, whatever you have--I used mostly

greens, but added a little glitzy gold, too)

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glue stick (or whatever method you prefer)

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blank card forms (or make your own from card stock)

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scissors

Cut the paper randomly into triangle shapes. No pattern needed, just cut various sizes from your paper. Don't worry if not all the shapes are

perfect isosceles triangles;

have you never seen a tree that is a little lop-sided!?!

You can see from

the ruler that most of my bases are somewhere around 1 inch wide.

Now also cut some (not as many) much smaller triangles

(half-inch or smaller at the base).

Here are the "trees" laid out on the front of my card. As you can see,

they are not necessarily centered. I have simply overlapped one tree

on top of the next, varying the heights and sizes of the trees.

The above photo shows the trees glued down. (I guess they are fairly centered,

but that is definitely optional!)

Now to use up those little tiny trees...

I always like to put at least a little something inside the cards I make,

rather than leaving them blank.

So here I glued three little trees down in the corner.

As you can see, there is a lot of flexibility with these cards, and

a lot of room for your own personalization and creativity!