Simply Elegant Christmas Card

This year, use your favorite Christmas carol as the focus point for your Christmas cards. Make this Simply Elegant Christmas Card with a few simple materials. This DIY Christmas card will send joyful seasonal greetings with elegance and style. In the bleak midwinter, we could all use some uplifting sentiments. We all know that the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. So spread the holiday cheer this year! The recipient of this homemade Christmas card will be singing for joy when opening this card.
 

Materials:

• printout of music sheet for “O Come All Ye Faithful”
• 11.6” x 5.7” white textured cardstock
• 5.4” sized square cut from red cardstock
• 7.4” of 1” wide dark red and gold Christmas ribbon
• golden mirror word “Peace”
• Artline golden calligraphy pen
• 1.2” wide old gold floral shaft button
• pencil
• ruler
• standard scissors
• quick-drying craft glue (such as Bostik Clear)

Instructions:

1. Score the white textured cardstock to create a card sized 5.7” x 5.7”.
    
2. Use the golden pen to draw a “frame” around the red cardstock.
    
3. Cut a 5.1” sized square from the music sheet.
    
4. Glue the music sheet to the front of the red cardstock.
   
   
    
5. Thread the ribbon through the ring at the back of the button.
   
   
    
6. Glue the ribbon onto the music sheet, fold it to the back of the red cardstock and glue it down to keep it in place.
   
   
    
7. Glue the mirror word onto the ribbon.
    
8. With the fold at the top, glue the red cardstock with music sheet and ribbon to the front of the card.
    
9. Use the pen to draw a golden frame around the music sheet. Be careful not to get ink onto the ribbon.