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Victorian Icing Card Christmas Decorations
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When Christmas trees came into common use, decorations were usually made by hand, and sometimes the whole family would gather to make ornaments for the tree. Our homemade Victorian icing card ornaments revive that tradition.
This is a satisfying Christmas craft to do with your children - and it produces lovely Victorian style ornaments for the tree or for the kids to give as homemade gifts this Christmas. You can recycle your favorite old Christmas cards, and keep them on the tree as sentimental reminders of those who sent you loving Christmas wishes. Or you can print our small collection of fine art and children's fantasy images and make something completely new.
Victorian Icing Card Decorations
Recycle Christmas cards or use our printable fine art children's fantasy images.
~ old Christmas cards or print our set of fine art and children's fantasy images shown at right.~ scissors
~ 1-1/2 cups icing sugar (approximately)
~ one large egg white
~ piping bag for decorator icing
~ gold glitter hot glue or white glue and glitter
~ thin ribbon for a hanger
Icing Card Instructions:
Here's how to make a set of Victorian icing cards:
1. If you are recycling Christmas cards, select cards that have a suitably sized central image for you to cut out. The church and the Victorian carol singers shown in the framed picture, above, are recycled Christmas cards. A variety of cut out shapes will work, but ovals or rectangles with the corners rounded off are particularly well suited to this project.
2. If you wish, print our collection of six fine art images and children's fantasy pictures. Print on card stock or on paper. If you print on paper, glue the image to cardboard, wait for the glue to dry, then cut out each image.
3. Use a fork to mix the icing sugar with the egg white in a bowl, until the mixture is quite thick. You don't want the icing to be runny, as this will spoil your design.
4. Put icing into a piping bag with a fine, small opening tip. Begin piping around the edge of each ornament. You can make simple straight lines all the way around each card, or make a wavy design, or even go round once in a wavy line, and trace back over it again with a wavy line going in the other direction. If you make a mistake, just wipe the card clean and try again!
5. Let your icing card decorations dry for about an hour. Heat the glue gun and insert a gold glitter glue stick. If there is any white or clear glue left in the gun from previous projects, you will have to push out the residue until the gold glitter glue appears. Now use the glue gun like a glitter pen, and highlight your icing designs with lines and swirls of gold.
6. If your children are helping with this project, and they are too young to use a glue gun safely, let them paint lines of white glue to highlight the icing and then sprinkle with glitter.
7. Let the glue and glitter dry and glue a small ribbon to use as a hanger on the back of your ornament.
I am going to try this project with dimensional paint rather than the icing because I think I could manuever the small paint bottle easier than an icing bag.
i,m looking for directions to use wax paper milk cartons to make a card recyled luminary also all of the four cards were trimmed with some sort of wax or maybe it was iceing
I'm looking for the pattern that has a christmas tree made with old cards.I saw one made and it was pretty but have'nt been able to find pattern.Could you please help me or maybe one of your crafters.Thank You
Can't remember where I found it, but I made some Christmas trees a few years ago from old cards... Take two cards (in order to be double sided...) and cut out two triangles, one from each. Equilateral triangles will do, and centre your favourite bits in the triangles. Then cut each triangle horizontally into three or four parts. Make the cuts the same on both cards. Then cut a piece of thread, or ribbon - not too bulky, and lay one triangle face down with spaces between the pieces. Lay down the ribbon, then glue the remaining pieces down, face side up! Glue sticks are good because they are tacky and do not distort the thinner cards. The ribbon or thread becomes the 'trunk'. You can cut a square out of the same cards, and beneath the triangles if you wish to add a base. Play with proportions until you get what you like! You could make these with other cardboard or handmade papers, too. Gold and silver card would look good... Hope this helps!
I have one do you still need it.
love this idea. i have alot of victorian prints so this is a great idea for me. thank you for sharing.
