Quilled Santa Card with a Detachable Ornament

If you've contemplated making quilled Christmas cards to send to family and friends, but decided against it because you have a sneaking suspicion that after the holidays your efforts might be discarded, I offer a solution. 

 

 

Quill only on a small piece of card stock cut into whatever shape you like, punch a hole at the top, tie on a hanging ribbon, and adhere a small sticky dot on the back to attach it to the card so that the recipient can remove it to hang on the tree year after year.

 

To get a little bit fancy, you might prefer to cut two identical shapes to make the tag, one a bit smaller than the other, as I did with white and green cardstock. Another extra is to put a jump ring through the punched hole and then tie the ribbon or ornament cord through the ring. 

 

Backing up a bit to tell you how I prepared the card base and layered papers... it is white cardstock onto which I used a glue stick (I love this inexpensive one by Scotch 3M) to attach a colorful rectangle cut from a catalog's sturdy back cover. The floral rectangle was the paper liner salvaged from a Christmas card envelope.

 

Longtime quillers won't need a step-by-step tutorial to make the quilled Santa. That's a great thing about quilling... once you know how to do it, you can look at just about any quilling example and be able to replicate it.  

 

 

 

For those who are brand new to quilling, there are sooooo many tutorials on YouTube. For example, Meredith Amand of The Papery Craftery is currently doing a series of beginner videos called Back to Basics.

You might also want to take a look at my answers to Frequently Asked Quilling Questions that includes favorite tools and supplies. I walk you through the quilling basics in this handmade card post. Also, I show how to use quilling strips to make mitered corners that give the finished look of a border, as I did with 1/8" red strips on this card.

 

Santa is made up of ten quilled coils pinched into various shapes with a tiny, white fringed flower for the pom pom on his cap. The stick of his little wand represents the magic of Christmas and is a piece of metallic ornament cord. I was happy to find a use for the tiny reflective hexagon that is the wand's tip.... I don't remember where it came from, but there it was in my supply stash. So glad I'd saved it! An alternative would be to use a 1/8" hole punch and foil, like the kind on a yogurt container.

If you decide to make this design or something like it, I'd love to see! In fact, get in touch via a comment anytime you'd like to talk quilling or paper craft/art.

 

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