Fishing Christmas Cards

Fishing Christmas Cards

Making fishing Christmas cards for friends, colleague or family members who love to fish is a thoughtful gesture.

Any one of them who loves fishing would be very appreciative to receive such a handmade holiday card. It shows how much thought and care you put into making that Christmas card.

So if you have anyone whose hobby is fishing, you might like to look for clip-arts, rubber stamps or magazine cuttings on fishing. Use these to make a card for him or her. (I do believe women fish too.)

My brother, Nick, loves fishing. He loves it so much that he even build a fishing website to talk to the whole world about his hobby. So this Christmas, I'm making a fishing Holiday card for him. And here's the card I created. I'm sure he'll like it.

Note: You can view a bigger version of the following handmade Christmas card. Just place your curser on the image and click. A new window will open with the bigger image. When finished viewing, just close the window and come back here to read the instruction for making this fishing Christmas greeting card

Cardmaking Supplies for making this holiday card:

1. fishing clip-art

2. white blank folded card

3. white card stock

4. watercolor

5. brush

6. pigma micron 01 pen

7. double-sided tape

8. trimmer

Cardmaking Instructions:

1. Use a graphic editing software like Photoshop to add words on the fishing clip-art.

2. Print fishing clip-art on white card stock.

3. Trim to size 3.5" x 5.00".

4. Cut a A4 size white card into half and fold to make a basic card.

5. Use a pigma micron pen to draw a frame on the front of the basic card. (Refer to the fishing Christmas card image above.)

6. Paint the clip-art and the frame with watercolors.

7. When dry, attach the white clip-art card to the front of the folded card with double-sided tape.

8. Rubber-stamp or handwrite a Christmas poem or Christmas greeting on the inside of the card.

That's it! Quick and simple! Looking for the fishing clip-art took the most time. After that, it's plain sailing.

You can also cut out pictures of fish and use them to make a collage cards. Fish collage cards make good fishing Christmas cards too.

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