I’m forever inspired by Pinterest and in the past few weeks whilst trawling through all the Christmas craft pages I was inspired to make some Christmas cards featuring a certain someone’s footprints! I popped into my local Hobbycraft (by local I mean a good 13 miles away) and picked up some paint, Pom poms and googly eyes.
I have one of the JoJo Maman Bebe splash mats which I actually bought to take to friends and families houses so Oliver doesn’t destroy their carpet when he’s eating a meal, but also doubles up as a brilliant art and crafts mat! Paint wipes off of it easily and it protects the floor.
I digress, I decided to confine us to the kitchen so Oliver couldn’t escape and paint my wood flooring and carpets! Oliver played ball 99% of the time and let me paint his foot and stamp it, after about 5 cards he started getting grouchy and flinging his legs around, so I quickly cleaned his feet (WaterWipes are BRILLIANT for this!). He went for a nap and I spent the time doing the decorations on the card, adding eyes, antlers and a nose to the brown footprints and a glitter bow to the green, ones making them into ‘Mistletoes’!
I think the print cards turned out really well and I might make some more before Christmas and may do them next year too. They were pretty inexpensive, the cards were £1 for a 10 pack and the paint, Pom poms and googley eyes were only a £1-2 each too.
Have you made foot or hand print cards? What design did you use?
I love this idea x
Brilliant ideas. Will have to try it with the grandchildren.
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Wow these are sooo cute, I love them!
These are adorable! I need to get on and make our Christmas cards so that we actually have time to send them. #sharingthebloglove
We are making our cards next week! I can’t decide whether to do the reindeer like yours or the Santa handprint. Max can be a bit funny about paint on his feet, so perhaps the handprint is a better idea! Yours are lovely – I bet they go down a treat! Thanks for joining us again at #SharingtheBlogLove
I wanted to try the Santa ones but I think he would have scrunched his hands up! Good luck! X
These are just so precious. What a great idea to remember how little those cuties were. I’m going to do that with my niece this weekend. Thanks for the idea xx
Lovely craft and great to see how much bigger little ones feet get each year. #SharingtheBlogLove
I hadn’t though of that, what a nice idea x
We decorated a plate with our eldest daughter’s hand prints last year. Now think it would be a good idea to do hers again and her sister’s. #GlobalBlogging
We decorated a plate with our eldest daughter’s hand prints last year. Now think it would be a good idea to do hers again and her sister’s. #GlobalBlogging
What fun ideas. Need to add these to my Christmas crafting list.
-Cristy
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Do, they’re great fun!
Ahh they are really cute and effective. A lovely keepsake too! Interesting to see if my attempts will turn out ok. #bigpinklink
I’m sure they will, thanks for reading x
These are so cute! #bigpinklink
Thanks!
These look amazing, I might have to give these a try next week when Alice finishes school and we have more time. The reindeer looks fab! Thank you for joining us at #SharingtheBlogLove x
Yes, they’re great fun, plus she’s at an age when you don’t have to worry *too* much about her running off just after painting her foot!
These Christmas cards are so beautiful. I think we’ll definitely be having a go at these this weekend. #Sharingthebloglove
These are so cute! We made cards this year. I let my little girl loose with crayons and foam shapes! The cards are so cute!
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These are absolutely brilliant! What a lovely idea, so simple but so effective. I would never have thought of this! #sharingthebloglove
Fab idea and i have done the Mistletoes ones with Charley-Rose and a handprint one with Harry that looks like a Reindeer #Sharingthebloglove
These are so adorable! My daughter made us one at nursery but seeing this I now wish I’d attempted them at home to send out to all the family. Thank you for sharing with #bigpinklink x
These are sooo adorable! <3 What a lovely idea – have retweeted. 🙂
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We love all these cute cards. Thank you for sharing the printable. Found you on Pinterest and am excited to look at the rest of your site 🙂