Receiving Christmas cards, any Christmas cards, adds joy to the holiday spirit, no doubt about that. Small cards or large cards, elaborate cards or simple cards — they all tell us that someone has been thinking about us and then following up with a heartfelt message and greetings for the Christmas holiday season.

But there is something extraordinarily special about the Christmas cards which were handmade by a family member, a friend, a colleague or a good neighbor. They, after all, are the fruits of somebody’s labor or love.  Besides, they are unique and each one of them is one of a kind.

On top of the joy, those handmade Christmas cards add an extra touch of the personal, the non-commercial aspect personalization. Handmade Christmas cards have the fingerprints, heartprints and mindprints of their makers and I cherish them ever so much more.

Do you need some ideas for your handmade Christmas cards? I can help you right here and right now.

Idea No. 1:

• Take a red card stock sheet and fold it in half.
• Take a piece of white card stock paper and, using zigzag scissors, cut it somewhat smaller than the folded red sheet.
• Cut out holly leaves from green colored paper.
• Swirl red wire to form the holly berries.
• Now, with the fold of the red card facing upwards, paste the zigzag edged white sheet.
• On top of that, arrange the holly leaves and berries.
• Open the card and write your message.
• Pass it on to a love one and watch their faces light up.

Idea No. 2:

• Take a light gray card stock sheet and fold it in half.
• With the fold on your left hand side, paint a blue sky.
• Cut a large, a medium and a small circle out of white card stock paper.
• Paste the large circle close to the bottom of the card.
• Paste the medium circle above the large circle.
• Paste a ribbon on which you had written “Merry Christmas.”
• Paste the small circle above the ribbon.
• Paint a face on the small circle.
• Glue a couple of buttons on the middle circle.
• Open up your card and write the heartwarming message to the one you love.

For more Christmas card ideas and Christmas card sayings search the net because the resources there are quite literally limitless. And this fact should not come as a surprise to anyone because men (the generic sense of the word) has had plenty of time to perfect the technique and acquire more ideas. That is because handmade greeting cards date back to times of antiquity. The ancient Chinese exchanged handmade greeting cards made of rice paper to celebrate their New Years. The ancient Egyptians exchanged handmade greeting cards for various occasion and those where made on papyrus scrolls. Beginning with Germany of the early 1400s, the Western world used handmade greeting cards to convey Valentine’s Day expressions of love.