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Vintage Toy Christmas Cards

Vintage Toy Christmas Cards

Turn your free papers into enchanting cards with vintage twist - perfect for the kids to make this Christmas!

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You will need...

Your bonus papers - You can download these papers for free here
Cardstock, yellow, green
Ribbon, red, yellow
Punch, corner rounder
Adhesives

elephant & rocking horses

1 Use a yellow blank for the card. From the vintage toy paper, cut out the rocking horses, the row of tops, the red and green edging and the Happy Christmas and with love greetings. Now glue them to the front of the card as shown.

2 Cut out the elephant square and glue it to a piece of card before mounting it on to the card front with double-sided tape. Attach a red bow at the top.

teddy bear & rocking horse

1 Cut out a piece of red card, 8.5cm long. Shorten the left-hand side width to 8.5cm, then score a fold 1.5cm from the outside edge and bend it inwards slightly. Now round off the corners; you can use a punch for this.

2 From the vintage toy paper, cut out the teddy bear, the rocking horse and the Merry Christmas greeting and glue them to the card. Finally attach a yellow bow as shown.

toy story

1 From A4 card, cut a piece, 13cm X 14cm (the card width is 13cm. Trim another piece, 13cm X 17.5cm for the stand, then score folds, 3cm and 11cm, from one edge of the 17.5cm length.

2 From the vintage toy paper, cut out the toys and glue to card front, rounding off the top edges. Cut out the Merry Christmas greetings and glue to a piece of card, 14cm X 2.5cm.

3 Attach to the card front with double-sided tape so it overlaps the width each side and the length by 1cm to 15cm. Cut out the 'with love' greeting and glue it to the card as shown. Finally, add a red ribbon.

3 Cut out two looped decorative edged pieces from patterned paper and glue to card, 13cm X 2cm, then attach to base of stand with double-sided tape. Now fold the card so it forms an easel stand.

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