One of my very favorite parts of Christmas is sending and receiving Christmas cards in the mail. I run to the mailbox each afternoon. (Anyone with me?!) To make your holiday mail even more thrilling, I’ve compiled 11 fun and unique ways to address Christmas cards this year. Don’t worry, calligraphy isn’t required.
What you’ll need:
- Your Christmas cards & envelopes
- Stamps
- Sharpie fine point pen
- Silver metallic paint pen and/or gold metallic paint pen
And now to the fun part! Choose your favorite holiday cards and address away because the holidays will be here in the blink of an eye.
11 Ways to Address Christmas Cards:
1. THE GIFT TAG
First, write out the address. Then use the silver pen to write “To:”. Next, draw a holiday tag around the address and a swirl for the ribbon. Lastly, use the gold pen and draw slightly offset of the silver tag and ribbon to create a shadow. Using both gold and silver pens really makes the tag pop.!
2. SIMPLE CAPS GEOMETRIC
3. CURSIVE WRITE LINE
4. BUNTING DOTS
First, address the card in cursive with the family name and address using a black sharpie. Then on the left side draw a curved line from the top of the card to the left side of the card. Decide on how many letters (your holiday word, greeting) you would like your banner to spell and draw triangles for each letter with the flat side touching the curved swoop. Lastly, write each letter in the middle of each triangle. Decorate with silver metallic circles to look like snow and you are done!
This idea is cute and fun all year round. I’m a sucker for lettered bunting!
5. EASY LAUREL
6. HOLLY BOX
7. BETWEEN THE LINES
8. DIVIDED
9. HAPPY HEART
10. CHRISTMAS GIFT
Laura Ingalls Gunn says
On my to do list today is to address my Christmas cards and this is just perfection! I My cards are red so I am thinking I might try a white pen. Thank you for the inspiration.
Shayna says
These are all such cute & fun ideas!! I will be pinning this & must remember to do something fun on my cards this year, even if it is a more simple design!! Thanks for sharing!!
[email protected] + Dill says
What a great idea!! I definitely want to send out Christmas cards this year and this is just the right inspiration I needed!! =)
Happy Holidays & Have a great weekend! Melanie | Blog: Toots + Dill
Amy @ Ms. Toody Goo Shoes says
Hi Rebekah and Elise, these are all adorable! I’ll be featuring this post tomorrow night at Best of the Weekend!
Valerie says
How fun! I can’t wait to try some of these this week!!
Grace says
Thank you for all these great ideas!! I’m wondering with the last one “upward slope” or “dashing through the snow” you show the address in one line, does the PO give you a hard time? I thought addresses traditionally needed to be 3 lines? Call me old school…just wanted to make sure all my cards won’t show up on my doorstep with a nasty note from the post master 🙂
Kathy says
Elise, they are ALL fabulous, but the heart one I would choose as my favourite. You are very creative and I am definitely going to make my envelopes extra pretty this year. Thanks for sharing.