Santa Post Card Ornaments

November 26, 2023

Santa Post Card Ornaments

I made these darling little Santa postcard ornaments using some wooden planks from Dollar Tree! I used the longer planks that they sell and trimmed off some on the ends to make them the perfect post card size. Save those trimmings because in another post Ill ahow you how to make another onrmanet out of them!

I found this post card stamp at Hobby Lobby.

I started by stamping it onto some white cardstock paper I had so I would know what size to trim my planks down to. I used a miter box to trim down my planks to the exact size of the stamped image but if you are saw saavy you could quickly knock it out.

I had this "Dear Santa" stamp that came in another stamp pack that I purchased from Amazon. I wanted to stamp only the wording and not the entire image so I inked up only the portion I wanted to use. If you get ink on any other part just use a baby wipe to remove it before you apply the stamp.

I added the wording to the post card line.

Next I needed some writing. I only had this stamp that would fit. The writing was in cursive but that was okay. This set also came from Amazon. I inked it up and applied it to the rest of the lines underneath.

Now I needed to decorate my post card. I thought a Santa face would look great so I got out this stamp (also from Amazon) and inked it up in red and added it to empty left corner of the postcard.

I used some distress ink to age my card by using a blending sponge and ran it across the edge of the postcard.

I then had to drill some holes into the wooden planks so I could add hangers. Be sure to start with small drill bits firstt and work your way up to however big you like so you dont split the wooden plank.

Then mod podge your post card onto the wooden plank.

Let fully dry. I also mod podge over the top of the cardstock for extra protection. Then using a sharp pointed tool poke a hole into the postcard where you drilled the holes in the wooden planks.