Here’s what i’m doing for my Christmas cards this year, so I thought I’d share the creating process so you can make some too.

Here we go, my balsa wood Christmas card decorations:

1. Gather your materials, knife, pencil, ribbons, thread, glitter, split pins and any other decorations but most of the things you will already have lying about in your crafting draw. But what you might need to buy in is some balsa wood. Balsa wood is a really light wood often used for model crafting so comes in great sizes and thicknesses you can cut with a knife. You can buy this from model shops but I bought mine on Ebay. Another great tool I used is a type of mini hand drill called a reamer, if you don’t have one of these you need one!

2. Make a stencil or draw your design onto the balsa wood and carefully cut out with a knife.

3. Use the reamer tool to drill a small hole at the top of your shape so you can later thread through some ribbon to hang.

4. Drill more holes to add on some decoration. Here I have used mini coloured split pins and wrapped embroidery thread around each one to create some tinsel.

5. It’s Christmas…. ADD GLITTER!

6. Add some ribbon to enable you decoration to hang.

7. Carefully slot the decorated shape back into the piece of balsa wood, pop into an envelope and send to your loved ones.

I hope you like this MAKE & DO, there are lots of ways to customise each decoration so do let me know if you have a go!