I might be overdosing on the whole Christmas crafts thing, but not yet! I'm still having too much fun.
David, 16 months old, is our daughter's nephew, and he loves paper. "Should we wrap each gift individually or just put them all in one big box and wrap the box?" "That's a silly question--he loves the paper and the boxes, so wrap each one!"
I went searching for the perfect Christmas pop-up card to send to David--found it! The only problem is that the website is in Japanese! However, I was able to roll over the website and find the link for the PDF file to download it. I'll just have to look at it carefully and figure it out for myself. At least this one is not terribly complex, but it is very cute.
If you still have a little time, or are looking for something fun to do with the kids, or need something special to give someone, there are LOTS of websites for 3D cards, ornaments, pop-up cards, all the way from the very simple to the extremely difficult. I'll leave those for someone else.
Here are just a few of the websites I found. Just about all of them have templates to print, most in full color. Isn't technology wonderful?
How About Orange blog has a tutorial on snowflakes.
Hewlett-Packard has some nice "colorburst" ornaments and gift box ornaments.
New Archaeology has some unusual paper ornaments on its Christmas Page.
Style Hive has some great modern teardrop ornaments.
Martha Stewart always has nice holiday crafts, including some unusual ornaments for photos and some old-fashioned "glitter star" ornaments.
Dresden Star has printable Victorian paper dolls to which you can add fabric, lace, glitter...
Jessica at Lost Button Studio has some lovely 3D stars.
Shala at Don't Eat the Paste has lots of unusual little gift box templates.
And I love the fractal-fidgets at ss42.com
Of course, if you get carried away, you can keep working on them and save them for next year.
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