How to Use Tin Foil for Beautiful Christmas Cards

We all have tin foil in our kitchens and it has many uses. However, did you know you can easily emboss tin foil for beautiful Christmas cards? Here’s another idea for your Christmas in July crafting.

Read how to use Sizzix, Cuttlebug, Vevor, or your favorite embossing machine to emboss tin foil, for Christmas cards.

Emboss the Tin Foil

For best results, use Heavy Duty Tin Foil for this project. I used Reynolds Heavy Duty Wrap. I used regular cardstock and one layer of tin foil for my first attempt.

How to Use Tin Foil for Beautiful Christmas Cards

It’s surprising how well this works! However, I quickly noticed that some of the snowflakes had rough edges where the tin wrap had torn. It wasn’t really noticeable at first, but I felt it when I ran my fingers over the embossed surface.

With this in mind, I cut a piece of the tin foil about 7 inches wide, then, folded the longer width of it into thirds.

Glue the tin foil to the cardstock to give it stability. I used Elmer’s spray glue to spray onto one side of the cardstock. You can use Tacky Glue instead if you wish.

I planned to wrap the foil around the cardstock so I didn’t spray between the layers of foil. If the edges will show, you might want to fold the tin foil to the back. If you plan to cut the edges instead, you will want to glue between the foil sheets.

Smooth the tin foil over the top of the glued cardstock. Don’t worry about some small wrinkles. The embossing machine will press out the wrinkles.

Place the tin-covered cardstock inside an embossing folder. Stack the plates and the embossing folder per your embossing machine instructions. Then, roll the stacked plates and the embossing folder through the embossing machine.

Create a Beautiful Snowman Christmas Card

The embossing folder I used for this project is an old one. I couldn’t find a comparable one on Amazon. If you have one or can find one, simply emboss it onto white cardstock.

Use very sharp scissors to cut around the snowman. I highly recommend these little sharp scissors.

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I did find an adorable cutting die for a snowman on Amazon, which would be cute on this card, too.

Remember to use markers to color the nose, eyes, heart, hat, arms, and hands. I initially dotted the scarf with red but didn’t like it, so I filled it in with the same marker. This left a subtle red dot, adding a little detail without being too glaring.

Tin Foil Snowman Christmas Cards

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Needed:

Die-cutting and embossing machine
Snowflake embossing folder
Snowman embossing folder or cutting Die
Heavy Duty Tin Foil
Decorative and plain cardstock
12″ x 12″ Cardstock for Card Base
Sharp Scissors
Decorative stickers
Spray adhesive
Tacky Glue
Paper cutter or Metal ruler and X-Acto knife
Scoring board
Red ribbon bow

Directions:

To begin, you will need a small cardstock frame. The plaid frame I used was part of a Christmas package from the craft store. The frame measures 5-1/8 inches square and is 5/8-inch thick. Making one of these cardstock frames would be very easy using a metal ruler and an X-Acto knife.

Framing The Embossed Tin Foil

The tin foil embossed piece of cardstock is 4-7/8 inches square so the tinfoil piece is intentionally slightly smaller than the frame. There is a 1/8-inch border around the outside edges. In retrospect, maybe I should have glued each of the tin foil layers, and just cut the edges instead of folding it to the back.

Foil wrapped to the back of the cardstock square.

Dab glue on the back of the cardstock frame.

Leaving a 1/8-inch border, dab the Tacky glue onto the back of the cardstock frame.

Center the tin foil-wrapped cardstock on the frame.

Framed tin foil snowflakes.

Next, cut and glue a contrasting red piece of cardstock to the back of the plaid frame. I ended up cutting the red cardstock down to leave a 1/8-inch border.

Layout the Beautiful Christmas Card

I knew I wanted to use the snowflakes with the black background and also the red background. All I had left of the red was this 2-inch strip. I positioned it behind the framed tin foil embossing.

The Merry Christmas greeting is easy to create on PicMonkey or your favorite editing tool. This font is “Mountains of Christmas.” I added a black open rectangle. After printing it, I cut around the rectangle leaving a white border.

Ultimately, the printed Merry Christmas was glued to a piece of red cardstock, leaving a red border to set it off visually.

I went back and forth on whether to angle Merry Christmas! or not.

At this point, I added a couple of snowflake stickers. A couple of fake rhinestones give the centers a little glitter.

The Card Base

Use scoring board and tool to score a line at 6-inches. — Score at 6-inches.

Use a scoring board to score the 12-inch square piece of cardstock across the center at 6 inches. Fold on the crease.

At this point, I wasn’t sure how wide to cut the card. I placed the elements on the folded red base and decided 8 inches would be perfect. The next step was to cut the black snowflake background slightly smaller than the red base, leaving a red border around it.

Then, I cut the red snowflake strip slightly shorter than the black snowflake background.

Smaller snowflake stickers add a little more interest. A little red ribbon bow is the last element to add. The last step is to glue everything in place. I cut the red snowflake strip so that the smaller snowflake would show on the right side.

Glue the black snowflake cardstock to the red base.

Glue the red snowflake design in place.

Next glue the framed embossed tin foil snowflake design.

Glue the Merry Christmas greeting in place.

Next, glue the snowman in place.

Adhere the snowflake stickers.

The finishing touch – glue the red bow in place.

And there it is! Maybe this fun project will inspire you to create your own beautiful Christmas cards with tin foil!

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