10+ Christmas Card Ideas & Step-By-Step Video Tutorial

December 22, 2022 • 4 min read

Author: Valeriia Vodiashyna

Christmas, gifts, festive fuss… All this creates a special atmosphere of this period. Adding greeting cards to gifts for relatives, colleagues, and customers is already a tradition. So I decided to add a special atmosphere to you and prepared 10+ Christmas card ideas that you can use for both personal and commercial projects.

As a bonus, in the article, you will find 3 video tutorials on creating simple Christmas cards. Postcards from the tutorial are suitable for a gift to your loved ones. Also for these businesses: children’s shops, children’s clinics, pet supplies, family and children’s institutions, holiday companies, women’s clothing, candles, stationery, etc. Thus, I recommend reading to the end 🙂

Also take a look at the selection of templates, illustrations, patterns, etc. that you can use in your design and speed up your work.

Tutorial: How To Create a Digital Christmas Card?

We will create a postcard in Illustrator, but you can use the same principles to make postcards in Photoshop, Figma, Сanva, and even cut and paste cardboard elements 🙂 So don’t switch and watch all the videos.

Create your unique postcards with these tutorials. You can change colors, fonts, illustrations, and backgrounds. Let your design bring joy to loved ones or additional finances you. After all, you can very simply place cool ready-made postcards on our platform through the Sell Your Deal form! This is a great way to earn extra money for the holidays 🙂

Let`s start!

Preparing for Design

At this stage, you need to look at examples of cards and New Year’s designs to get inspired by colors, fonts, composition, style, etc. To save time, I used a ready-made Christmas color palette.

Next, we select cool and suitable illustrations for postcards. The fonts were selected from the Google fonts library so that they can be used for printing.

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Create a Workspace

For the postcard, I chose the size A6 – 148×105 mm.

Go to Illustrator and click “Create New Document”. In the window that appears, select the “Print” tab, because I`m preparing a design for printing right away and we need a CMYK color profile.

I name the document and set the dimensions to the desired dimensions. But be careful, you need to add 2 mm on each side for trimming. Then the size of the postcard is 152×105 mm. Also, if you are making a design for a customer, then it is better to check these sizes with the printing house, because they may differ slightly.

I choose a vertical artboard orientation for my design.

I set ppi 300 because these creative Christmas cards will be small.

Press “Create”.

Window with creating a new document.

Digital Christmas Card Design

Great, I have created our document. Now drag here everything that we will use for the design.

Collage with color palette and dimensions.

Create a new layer and add the background of our postcard. To do this, select the rectangle tool on the left of the panel or press the M key.

I will paint over the finished background in a gradient. To do this, select the gradient tool on the left of the panel, after that select the last type of gradient and click “Edit gradient” on the panel above.

Points appeared on the rectangle that needs to be painted over and moved in the order we like. Click 2 times on the point and select the pipette in the window that opens. Ok, now move the eyedropper over the prepared color and paint over this area of the gradient.

Now I need to repeat this with all the points. I chose 2 shades of blue for this. The colors must create a smooth transition without muddy undertones.

Next, create a new layer and add an illustration to it, in my case, it’s a super cute holiday llama. With the shift key held down, I increase its size so that it becomes large and occupies the main part of the postcard.

I also recolored the scarf and llama hat with an eyedropper to make it blend better with the background.

Collage with part of work table and card with gradient.

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Now let’s add some text. To do this, press the T key or select the tool in the panel on the right. Write a congratulatory text. It should be short because longer wishes are best left for the back of the postcard).

On the panel at the top, select the appropriate font. I used a combination of Random Grotesque Spacious Book and Allura Regular to create an interesting combination. Note that I added the bottom line in separate words to create an interesting placement effect. To do this, select the words and make them the same distance on the tab Properties – Aling.

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Now you can move the elements of the llama snowflake so that they are positioned in a similar way as in the example. To do this, double-click on the group with the illustration, select the object, and move/delete/recolor it.

Be sure to remember to press Ctrl+S to save the document. If you need to save in some other format, then use the path “File — Save as — select the desired format” or “File — Save as a copy — select the desired format”.

White sheep and the brenches of the christmas tree.

That’s all — a cute Christmas greeting card is ready. I propose to watch now 2 short videos with other funny Christmas card ideas. For them, I picked up illustrations with Christmas penguins and cute gnomes.

Are you still here? Then take these postcards as a token of gratitude for watching our content. Use them for personal and commercial purposes. And if you need other designs, then you can always go to the tab with templates and choose the one that suits you.

Christmas Card Ideas

I decided to pick up beautiful Christmas card ideas for you for inspiration. You can adapt these examples for your designs.

Collage with post cards Mikel Cans and HORT.

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Christmas Card Templates

The easiest and fastest way to create an unusual postcard is to use ready-made Christmas card templates. This saves you time choosing fonts, illustrations, colors, and styles, while you can customize them for yourself. This is a must-have now when there is little time left before the holidays.

If you are the owner of a small business and want to add a nice postcard to your order to create a festive mood, this section will help you a lot. These Christmas card templates can be used both for commercial orders and for gifts to relatives, friends, colleagues, etc.

Set of Xmas Postcards

Price	$5
File type	DXF, EPS, SVG
Date	October 7 2022
Colors	blue green red
Rating	5 (10 Votes)

This set is quite versatile and looks stylish due to its simplicity, nice contrasting colors, and simple illustrations. There are 6 different designs, so you can add uniqueness to each order. You also don't need to look for different options for different people.

34 Christmas & New Retro Flyers and Postcards Collection – $19

Price	$19
Date	December 21 2016
Rating	5 (4 Votes)

This set is a real find! Interesting watercolor Christmas card ideas are implemented here, which are suitable for different niches. They can even be used as advertising posters announcing Christmas promotions or events.

Christmas Printable Postcards Bundle

Price	$12
File type	PNG
Date	December 15 2022
Colors	blue green red
Rating	5 (12 Votes)

Just look at these cute Christmas card template. There is nothing superfluous in them, so they are universal. And what's more interesting is that you can choose each of the options in 3 bright colors.

Cute Merry Christmas Card Design

Price	$10
File type	JPG, PNG
Date	December 7 2022
Colors	brown green red
Rating	5 (14 Votes)

What do you think of these cute Christmas card ideas? They are just perfect for gifts to loved ones or as a bonus when ordering. Especially these cards are suitable for brands that create a feeling of care, tenderness, and comfort. You can also use them for other winter holidays.

Printable Merry Xmas Cards Design cover image.

12 Printable Merry Xmas Cards Design

Price	$12
File type	JPG, PDF
Date	December 2 2022
Colors	blue green red white
Rating	5 (6 Votes)

You can send these postcards with Christmas images by e-mail or print them at home on a printer. Because they are available in jpeg and pdf format.

Simple Modern Christmas Greeting Cards Vector Design cover image.

Simple Modern Christmas Greeting Cards Vector Design – Only $9

Price	$9
File type	AI, EPS, SVG
Date	November 4 2022
Colors	blue brown green red
Rating	5 (15 Votes)

These modern creative Christmas cards are done in deep shades of blue, red, and green. It looks expensive and festive!

Free Christmas Cards Design cover image.

Free 3 Christmas Cards Design

Price	$0
File type	PDF
Date	December 2 2022
Colors	blue brown green pink purple
Rating	5 (12 Votes)

You will receive as many as 3 postcard designs for free, which you can print at any print store near you.

Free Christmas Postcard Wine-Derful Time

Price	$0
File type	AI
Date	November 17 2021
Rating	5 (7 Votes)

This is a very nice Christmas card template with mulled wine and reminds us of fairs, fun, and fuss. So what a great way to remind others of this too!

Free Christmas Card: Wishing You a White Christmas!

Price	$0
File type	SVG
Date	April 15 2021
Rating	5 (4 Votes)

This postcard with a funny inscription is a great addition to a gift for your wine connoisseur friend. It can also be used by a business that has an adult target audience.

Christmas Card Illustrations

Illustrations help make a unique and interesting design. But far from everyone, even senior designers can draw them from 0.

I have prepared for you a selection of cool paid and free illustrations that you can use to implement your Christmas gift card ideas.

The Christmas Bundle – 200+ Elements

Price	$34
File type	PSD
Date	July 9 2022
Colors	green pink red yellow
Rating	5 (13 Votes)

It's just a huge pack of holiday designs! You will find illustrations, patterns, and graphics in 3 different styles. You can buy it once, you can use it in different projects, which is very convenient. And as a bonus, this set has several templates for postcards.

Christmas House Decoration with Snow

Price	$9
File type	AI, EPS, PDF
Date	December 14 2022
Colors	brown orange red
Rating	5 (15 Votes)

This is a very beautiful set of Christmas card illustrations that can be used to make interesting and minimalist designs. I recommend you add a grainy texture to the houses and the inscription to get an interesting result.

Christmas White Wreath Red Golden Ball

Price	$2
File type	JPG
Date	December 10 2022
Colors	orange red yellow
Rating	5 (9 Votes)

Such a wreath will look great in combination with an inscription in an unusual serif font. It looks interesting due to the color combination and bright accents.

Winter Holidays Watercolor Illustrations

Price	$10
File type	JPEG, PNG
Date	October 16 2021
Rating	5 (12 Votes)

Google easy watercolor Christmas card ideas? You can take these ready-made beautiful illustrations and create a cool postcard in 10 minutes using the video tutorial from the article.

9 Cute Teddy Bear SVG Files

Price	$4
File type	PNG, SVG
Date	September 11 2022
Rating	5 (10 Votes)

These teddy bears are perfect for your fun Christmas card ideas. You can make yourself a template and just change the illustrations. So you get several options for postcards at once. It's comfortable!

6 New Years SVG Designs

Price	$7
File type	PNG, SVG
Date	June 3 2022
Colors	gray orange red
Rating	5 (9 Votes)

It seems that the Christmas tree is easy to draw, but this is not entirely true. You can spend a lot of time making it interesting. And with this pack, you immediately get 6 ready-made Christmas tree illustrations for your projects.

Christmas Snowflake SVG

Price	$7
File type	PNG, SVG
Date	October 17 2022
Rating	5 (9 Votes)

These Christmas card illustrations make for a very neutral and versatile design. You can make a pattern of several snowflakes, or you can add close-ups and make several options.

Christmas Snowmen and Ornaments Clipart

Price	$0
File type	PNG
Date	December 1 2022
Colors	white
Rating	5 (14 Votes)

Wow, these are cool and modern 3D snowmen! 14 different images are available for both print and holiday web design. This is a great way to make an interesting postcard just by adding such a snowman to a nice background.

Christmas Pick Up Truck Presents Free SVG Files

Price	$0
File type	SVG
Date	October 1 2021
Colors	white
Rating	5 (10 Votes)

A bright car with gifts is what you need to convey the upcoming holiday.

Saint Nickolas flies away over Christmas village cover image.

Free Coloring Page Saint Nickolas Flies Away

Price	$0
File type	PDF
Date	October 8 2021
Colors	black white
Rating	5 (10 Votes)

Want to know how to make creative Christmas cards? Try adding this image to the front of your postcards. So clients can color them in their favorite colors and even use these postcards as a stress reliever. And this is true during the holiday bustle 🙂

I wish you a Merry Christmas and creative designs!

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