20 DIY Christmas Cards for Families to Make

Why not make some really beautiful, fun and creative Christmas cards this holiday season and avoid the generic store-bought ones? Here are 20 brilliant ideas for scrapbookers, stampers and paper crafters. Whether your preferred medium, is ink, felt or paper, you’ll find lots of inspiration here. Plus many of them are simple enough to put together that the entire family can join in. This could become your next family Christmas tradition!

Scrapbookers will also find lots of ideas and inspiration for embellishments for scrapbook pages or December daily.

Source: 20 DIY Christmas Cards for Families to make -coco29

Are you looking for more Christmas Holiday papers and supplies? Check out some of our favorite holiday designs over at A Cherry on Top. and these printable designs we found on Etsy.

Check out these other Christmas-themed posts for project ideas and tutorials for Holiday Scrapbooking.

Last year I shared a roundup of shorts knitting patterns over at Our Daily Craft, and it’s consistently one of my most popular posts this time of year.

What that post lacked, though, was any projects of mine, because I have never written a shorts knitting pattern before.

And I guess technically I still haven’t, but I have written a detailed tutorial of how to knit shorts that fit you. Use whatever yarn you have, at whatever gauge you like, and knit using whatever stitch pattern you want to make the size you need.

The “pattern” walks you through knitting a swatch and the measurements and math you’ll need to do to make sure your shorts fit. Yes there is math. It’s not terrible, I promise. And because gauge is sometimes a liar, I talk you through all the points along the way where I tried the shorts on as I went to adjust the fit as needed.

This was actually a really fun project. I used yarn I’d salvaged from ripping up one of my husband’s old sweaters (with permission, of course!) and made a really simple pair of lounge shorts that’s all stockinette stitch with knit hems.

But it’s really easy to change it to make ribbed edges, or throw in an allover stitch pattern, or stripes, or whatever else you want to do. I love writing tutorials like this instead of patterns because I don’t know what your body is like or what kind of fit you want, or how long you’d like the legs on your shorts to be. And it’s really satisfying to be able to figure it out for yourself.

And once you know how to knit shorts that fit you, there’s nothing stopping you from keeping on with the legs and knitting a pair of pants in just the same way.

I’m actually really tempted to do just that. Good thing I’ve got another sweater to unravel.

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