These easy handmade Christmas card ideas are great for family, friends, neighbors, or your kids teachers! And, your little ones can join in on the fun for many of these ideas too.

DIY greetings don’t have to be difficult or time-consuming, either — the following seven last-minute handmade card ideas are doable for anyone to try!

Handmade Christmas Card Ideas

I am still one of those people who sends out Christmas cards each year through the mail. The older my daughter gets though, the more she enjoys making and crafting things. I think making handmade cards for her to give to friends and teachers will be a fun thing for her to do!

Handmade Christmas cards are also great to send to neighbors with baked goods for gifts during the Christmas season. Something about them is just more special!

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Modern Christmas Cards

These are the perfect cards to make if you want to get little ones to help you customize cards — they’re perfect for babysitters, grandparents, teachers, godparents, etc. All you need is white card stock paper and either pre-stamped paper stars or even star stickers placed into a triangular tree shape. Finish it all off with a handwritten note — one from your kiddo(s) will make the card into a children’s DIY Christmas keepsake for whoever receives it.

Reindeer in the Dark Cards

These are really unique! Here is a video on how to make it.

All you need is dark paper for the background and 18 small googly eyes, two for each reindeer. Glue pairs of eyes together on the front of the card, adding a red dot or button beneath the set of eyes meant to be Rudolph. With that, your card recipient will get that they eyes peering up at them belong to Santa’s reindeer, even though the rest of the scene is hard to discern in the dark. 

Stamped Snowman Cards

Another classic Christmas motif is, of course, the snowman. These stamped snowman cards are very simple, but also very tasteful to give to anyone. It’ll be up to you to choose the winter greeting you send along with your sweetly designed card.

Paint Chip Christmas Tree Cards

Have you recently painted a room in your home? Or, do you frequent the local hardware store? If so, you likely have a few old paint chips laying around. Those take-home cards with different shades of a single hue are the perfect card-making material. Simply cut them into triangle shapes and adhere them to navy paper of a thicker stock, to make your card stand out from the stack. Then, add a star on top of the center tree, as well as starts in the sky with adhesive sequins or even with a glitter pen.

There are so many color possibilities with this one!

Glitter Greeting Card

All you need is paper, stencils, some glue, a paint brush, glitter and a razor or X-acto knife to create these sweet, simple greeting cards with sparkling Christmas cheer. Place your stencil over your paper and dab a little glue onto your paintbrush. Glide that over your stencil to create a sticky outline of each letter, then add glitter. A razor-sharp edge will help you clean up any errant sparkles, making your shiny holiday greetings as perfect as you want them to be. This is another one you can do just about any design for!

Torn Paper Santa Cards

Here’s a card idea  that you’ll create by ripping and layering paper into the shape of a Santa!. The imperfections of the white paper you use to create Santa’s beard and hat fluff will make the final product even more like the real guy. Once you have your hat, fluff, face and beard in place, draw eyes, a nose and mouth to complete your Santa-face cards.

Fingerprint Christmas Light Cards

This one is great for kids! Paper, a fine-tip Sharpie and a few paint colors are all you need to create these adorable Christmas light cards. First, draw the wire onto which you’ll add colorful bulbs. To create those, all you have to do is dip a finger into a color, stamp a few lights, rinse your hand, and repeat with a new color. This is another card that’s great for families creating their holiday greetings together.

Get Creative

These are just seven examples of the many, many ways you can create a beautiful and simple holiday card. I

No matter what you come up with — or which of our suggested cards you make — one thing’s for sure: a handmade card shows you care, so whatever you come up with will be received warmly, and that’s what the holidays are all about.   

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