Sheet Music Christmas Cards
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A couple of years ago I made some Christmas cards with a few pages of old sheet music and had them listed in my Etsy shop. They have all long since sold but as the Pinterest pin for them is still floating around I thought I could share a few quick instructions on how I made them incase you want to have a go yourself.
They are all really simple to make and if you don’t have any sheet music to use I think pages on an old book could work really well too.
You will need:
Square card blanks, mine are 5.5” square brown kraft card but I think white would work well too.
Scraps of sheet music or book pages
Scraps of red paper - I used an old envelope
A Christmas greeting stamp - mine was a magazine freebie but something like these would be perfect
A black fine liner pen - these are my favourite
Paper Glue - i usually use a stick glue like Pritt stick or Blu Stick
Twine
As I made these a while ago there are no step by step photos but they are all really simple and I’ll describe the process - I’m sure you’ll get the gist very easily!
I’ve struggled to describe the pen lines. I want to say ‘outline’ the paper shapes but you do the lines inside the shapes (except on the last one) so is that ‘inline’ rather than ‘outline’?! Do your pens lines fairly quickly and let them be a bit wiggly. Non-perfect is the look you are going for here. If you try to do them too slowly and carefully the effect won’t be right, just go for it and don’t mess about!
Robin Christmas Card
Place a small wine glass onto your sheet music and draw around the base in pencil.
Add a triangle for a beak on the right hand side just over half way up and then cut out.
Turn it over so you don’t have to worry about rubbing out the pencil marks (this is advisable if you are using old papers, they can tear really easily) Using the fine liner pen draw round the circle and the beak twice and draw a part circle to form the belly.
Use the red ink pad to lightly ink in the red belly area, this doesn’t have to be perfect, a patchy effect is just right.
Glue onto the card just a little above the centre.
Using the black fine liner add a triangle tail, 2 long thin legs and a oval eye.
Stamp a Christmas greeting at the bottom with the red ink.
Triangle Christmas Tree
Cut an isosceles triangle from sheet music 8.5cm (3.5”) along the bottom and 10.5cm (4.25”) tall.
Using the black fine liner pen draw around the triangle twice.
Glue the triangle to the card blank with the paper glue.
Punch a small star from red paper and glue to the top of the tree.
Stamp a Christmas greeting at the bottom with the red ink.
Christmas Star Card
Cut a 5 pointed star from the sheet music - I just googled star template and printed one out. You want it to be approx 9.5cm (3.75”) across.
Using the black line liner pen draw around the star twice.
Glue the star to the card with paper glue.
Tie a bow from the twine and glue it to the star with pva glue or a small glue dot.
Stamp a Christmas greeting at the bottom with the red ink.
Bar Christmas Tree Card
Cut 4 strips from the sheet music, 6cm x 1.5cm, 4.5cm x 1.5cm, 3.5cm x 1.5cm, 2cm x 1.5cm
Outline all these strips with the fine liner pen.
Cut another strip from the edge of the music (ie the plain border) 1cm x 9cm
Glue the plain strip vertically and the music strips horizontally, each at a slight angle to form a tree.
Punch a snowflake from red paper and glue on one of the middle strips as shown.
Stamp a Christmas greeting at the bottom with the red ink.
Red Star Christmas Card
Cut a 4cm x 9cm (1.5” x 3.5”) rectangle from sheet music.
Glue it to the card towards the top left corner as shown.
Using the fine liner pen outline the rectangle, outside the paper and inside.
Cut a long thin, non regular star from red paper (I just drew this free hand and then cut it out.
Outline the star with the fine liner pen twice and then glue it to the card, mostly on the sheet music rectangle, but slightly off.
Stamp a Christmas greeting in red ink towards the bottom right of the card.
There you have it, 5 simple card ideas that are just perfect if you have any music lovers you like to send a card too. Great for music teachers or anyone who plays an instrument too.
If you made them with book pages instead then they would become perfect for book lovers and avid readers, librarians and teachers.
Enjoy!
Julie
I’ll be sharing this idea at these link ups
