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DIY Cricut Angel Wings Handmade Christmas Card

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Create these warm sentiment handmade Christmas cards using your Cricut cutting machine and Cuttlebug or die cut machine. Get all the details of this snowflake embossed holiday Christmas card featuring double-layered angel wings!

What is it about the holidays that once mid-November arrives, we are just plain crazy busy?! For me, that also means hunkering down and getting all my handmade Christmas gifts done in time to either mail out or deliver. This year I also took on the extra task of creating this DIY Cricut Angel Wings Handmade Christmas Card using my Cricut Explore Air 2 machine.

If you recall both my mother and my mother-in-law passed last year. That was when I really focused in on learning how to use my Cricut machine. I used it to create so many elements of my mothers service like this DIY Keepsake Funeral Memory Board. Their passing is also why I wanted to do an extra special Christmas card this year in their memory. My mother always loved angels and so that became the theme for this card.

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This project had so many different parts to it that I’ll list each step in the design process along with some details. I’ll also run through the problems I encountered during some of the steps because this is an excellent project to show how no craft goes perfectly as planned. I went through numerous errors to get the final result so I’ll detail for you the good, the bad and the ugly.

To keep this project budget friendly, I used some blank folded cards that I received free with a past craft supplies order. I also pulled out my scrap paper stash and used that construct some of the elements.

It wasn’t until after all the cards were written in using my Cricut that I realized I didn’t have envelopes for any of the cards! So dealing with the envelope issue would have to be put to the bottom of the list. I was on a time crunch now to get these cards done, assembled and in the mail –before Christmas!

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DIY Cricut Angel Wings Christmas Card Details

I’ll admit upfront that this handmade card project began with just an idea of what I wanted to create. In my haste I ordered a set of angel wing die cuts that ended up being too small for what I envisioned. That’s when I pulled out my Cricut machine (I’m serious…can you see that dust?!).

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Use Cricut to Write In Card

Writing in the card using my Cricut seemed like a much easier idea than handwriting out each card. My plan was to write a personal message on the inside-left of the card and then a holiday greeting on the inside-right. This meant I had to set it up in Design Space to do both sides and get the print centered.

This step was definitely a learning curve for me at this time because I hadn’t really used my machine much. But this was also a great project to start with because it pushed me out of my comfort zone.

In the final cards the wording was not perfectly centered on either side. But sometimes good enough is well, good enough. In all, I only wasted two cards before accepting this imperfectly centered writing.

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Emboss Colored Cardstock

For this project I wanted to try and incorporate the colors that each mother liked. One liked blue, the other liked pink. I decided to use blue scrapbook paper for the snowflake embossing because I felt it just looked better.

I cut down squares of blue paper to 3.75″ x 5.25″ and used my Cricut Cuttlebug to emboss each rectangle with a falling snowflake pattern.

Since this paper was textured I used double sided sticky tape to adhere the embossed paper to the card face. The reason I used tape was because I feared with the embossing that a glue wouldn’t grab to the card good enough; and I wanted to be sure this paper didn’t move since every other element was going to be layered over it.

3

Cut Angel Wings

The challenge in this step was to get the angel wings cut in a shape and size that was close to what I had envisioned for this card. Prior to starting I had ordered some metal die cuts online (shown above) but they never arrived until after the cards were already mailed out. Which ended up being okay because they were all completely too small for this project!

Silver Angel Wings

First Attempt. I used my Cricut and a Design Space image to create an angel wing die cut but that didn’t work. I wanted to create a 3-D affect by layering two different size wings (representing one for each mother). On this first attempt (shown above on upper left side) the image was cutting out all the “feathers” for each layer. This just made the die cut unstable for creating a 3-D look.

Second Attempt. Again I used Cricut and a Design Space image (which looked great on screen). However, the final angel wing cut just looked like a giant heart (shown above on upper right side).

Third Attempt. I purchased an angel wings shape from an Etsy shop and they worked perfectly. The best part was all I had to do to layer them was simple reduce the size of the first cut!

The final size of the silver angel wings were 3.509″ x 2.592″.

White Angel Wings

For these angel wings I used a textured piece of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper and sized the wings to 2.69″ x 1.987″.

I didn’t realize until almost the 3rd time trying to cut these white angel wings out that I could move around the images on the “Make It” screen so that I could get as many angel wings as possible cut in one sweep…and all on the same piece of big paper. Lesson learned!

Warm Wishes Message Flags

Pressed for time? Grab a set of 12 message flags to use in your card making creations or in your journal.

4

Create Tiny Hearts For Dangle

This step is optional. To add another layer to the design I wanted to create a small heart dangling from the center of the layered angel wings. All it took was a simple small heart paper punch and the scraps of silver glitter paper. I cut out two hearts for each card, then used glue to place a small piece of white embroidery thread between them.

During assembly, I made a few wrap arounds of the thread onto the center of the white angel wings. Then it was just a matter of adhering the white wings over the top of the silver wings using double sided tape.

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Project Details

When creating a large or very detailed project, I always pull out my Happy Planner project sheets to keep me organized. Once the project is complete, I archive it into my projects notebook. Want to see my craft and home project Happy Planner notebook? Drop a comment below.

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Layered Message Tags

Silver Glitter Tag

To create the silver message tag I used a free shape from Cricut Design Space to cut out in silver glitter cardstock a tag that measured 2.5″ x .728″. I then used double sided tape to adhere this to the snowflake embossed paper.

Warm Wishes Message Tag

I used the same shape as the silver tag and just decreased the size to 2.1″ x .611″ and used a blue Cricut pen to write out the sentiment, “warm wishes”. To keep things uniform, I used the same font as inside the card. Once it was cut out, I used double sided tape to stick this down to the silver glitter tag.

I really do love the double sided tape because I can put it precisely where I need it and it’ll stick to most mediums.

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Add a White Bow

The final step that completes this card was to simply add a small white bow to the top of the angel wings and this project was complete.

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Card Envelopes

Luckily while out Christmas shopping with my daughter, we found envelopes that were the perfect size for the card. This was really helpful and allowed me to get our Christmas cards in the mail…just 2 weeks before Christmas.

There is always the option of creating your own card envelopes. I forsee another craft idea!

It felt SO good to get these DIY Cricut Angel Wings Handmade Christmas Cards done and in the mail! Now on to my next holiday project.

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