Craft/Handmade/Travaux Manuels: 2013 Christmas Cards & Gift Packages

Christmas was in the air and I wanted to make something different for my in-laws (*).

I crocheted scarfs for grandma/mom/sister-in-law but I thought nice homemade cards & nice homemade packagings would add some heartfelt value to the gift.

As usual I found my inspiration from youtube as well as from someone's blog.

I never consider myself to be good at drawing but I really like it so I thought why not give it a shot?

For my beloved hubby

I call him "my baby bear" so it will only be suitable if I make a card with a bear with a big heart!

I found a tuto to draw a bear as well as the tuto to make heart by origami, on youtube.

For grandma-in-law

Surprise box

I drew the tree on a piece of paper, first the draft by pencil then add some line by black pen. I decided to color the drawing by using the same pen and leave it as it is. The tuto for drawing the tree can be found in youtube.

To create the box I found a link in youtube, normally it's suppose to be 3D suprise cards (if you put several layers inside) but I wanted to do it simply.

For my mom-in-law

I thought it might be amusing to make a 3D card. I found a way to make the 3D christmas tree from a video in youtube.

The packaging for her gift is something simple, it's nothing but a fold & glue work. I don't think anyone need to have any tuto for such kinda simple thing.

For my sis-in-law

In the region where they live (west of France), they have rarely cold coldest winter with lots of snow. I find it funny if I can send them a snowman :D Where I live we can achieve winter until -20°C.

I made a bag from the same wrapping paper as for my mom-in-law's but instead of closing it as an envelope, I made 2 sets of handle from crocheting white yarn.