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holiday card stencils and balloon stamps

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Thank you Dollar Tree and the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club for making this post possible! ย 

This year, weโ€™re spicing our holiday cards up a bit.

For the past few years, our cards have become super-quick assembly line of envelope-stuffing, sealing, and stamping. Even our address labels are stickers.

This time, weโ€™re spicing our cards up a bit. Actually, some help from Dollar Tree, weโ€™re spicing up our holiday card envelopes. ย Thatโ€™s rightโ€”the very first thing our friends and family will see from us, and itโ€™s going to be totally rockstar.

Weโ€™re taking the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club craft, Balloon Painting, to a whole new level.

Weโ€™ve made super-simple stencils from Dollar Tree posterboard and a stamper out of Dollar Tree balloons. A few swirls of poster paint and a bit of time to dry, and we have very simply added a pretty, festive, fancy touch to our holiday cards.

 

Hereโ€™s the skinny. . .

  • Holiday Card Stencils and Balloon Stamps:

holiday stencils balloon painting

holiday stencils balloon painting

Really, all we did was slightly modify the super-easy steps on the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club Balloon Painting tutorial and change our colors.

This is a holiday craft that my kiddos loved because though they stuff our holiday cards every year, this year, the fun factor was a bit higher. We all had more fun looking at our blinged out envelopes compared to the plain-Jane white envelopes of holidays past.

No matter what you put inside your holiday cards this year, itโ€™s what you put on the outside of your card that will get people talking.

holiday stencils balloon painting

Youโ€™ll need:

  • Blank envelopes
  • Poster paint
  • Balloons
  • Disposable plate and knife
  • one piece of poster board

holiday stencils balloon painting

1.ย  First, we created holiday-inspired stencils. We wanted small and simple, and we wanted three basic designs.ย  We made a tree, a star, and a package.

Want some Holiday Stencils so you can do some balloon painting? You can download the stencil template here:ย wintertime holiday stencils

2.ย  Then we cut out the shapes on the posterboard.

3.ย  Then we dropped paint. We put coordinating paint blobs on a disposable plate: yellow, green and blue for the tree; red, purple, and white for the package; and yellow and orange for the star.

The kids slightly, ever so gently swirled the paint on the plate with a knife to blend the colors.

holiday stencils balloon painting

4.ย  Next came the balloons! We partially blew up a few balloons, and this is what Maddy, Owen, and Cora loved. We talked about how the balloon needed to be just the right size so that we could hold it without slipping and so it wouldnโ€™t pop as we stamped it.

5.ย  Finally, we stamped, stamped, and stamped some more!ย  We used the balloons as stamps, filling in the holiday stencils on the front of each envelope.

holiday stencils balloon painting

holiday stencils balloon painting

 

holiday stencils balloon painting

holiday stencils balloon painting

We let the envelopes dry completely.

And thatโ€™s itโ€”so quick and so simple, but a really extra-special touch to holiday cards.

Donโ€™t have time to balloon paint your holiday card envelopes? No problem!

holiday stencils balloon painting

Consider using Holiday Card Stencils and Balloon Stamps to:

  • make your holiday cards
  • make holiday gift tags
  • decorate holiday gift bags
  • make simple holiday ornaments

The possibilities are endless, though the craft is so simple!

holiday stencils balloon painting finished

ย __________________________

Contest is closed as of 12/26/13. . . winner chosen by random.org is Tara Z.

GIVEAWAY: $100 Dollar Tree gift card

Do you want to win $100 Dollar Tree gift card??!ย  Yes, yes you do.

  • To enter, sign up for the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club.
  • Then leave a comment below sharing which project from the club you want to try first.

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By entering this giveaway, you are demonstrating your understanding of and compliance with the Official Sweepstakes Rules.

This giveaway ends Thursday, December 26, 2013 at midnight ET. Winner will be chosen byย  and will be notified on or around 12/26/13.ย  Winner must respond within one (1) day of notification or forfeit the prize, in which case an alternate winner will be selected.ย  All Official Sweepstakes Rules apply.

fyi: This post was made possible by a partnership between Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club and The Blueprint Social.ย  As always, my opinions are all my own, influenced only by my experience as a parent and educator and my three little holiday-crafters.

 

Want a few more holiday-inspired giftย ideas or activities? Check out:

must have gifts for kids and families | teachmama.com

gifts for sunday school teachers or CCD teachers | teachmama.com

 

kids and family gift guide from teachmama.com

 

teachmama gift guide 2012

 

 

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