Handmade cards with hanging heart Christmas tree decoration

These Christmas cards combine techniques from two of last year's craft projects to make a lovely Christmas card with a removable Christmas tree decoration.

They're very simple and all you need is

• White card
• Wrapping paper
• PVA glue
• Wool or string
• Needle

1. Begin by ripping the wrapping paper into smallish pieces. If the paper has words or motifs on it, such as snowmen, try to keep a few of these whole and put them to one side.

2. Fold the white card down the middle

3. Draw a heart on the front and cut this out - both the heart and the hole are needed

4. Take the cardboard heart, pieces of paper, and pva glue and begin building up layers of paper over it as in Paper mache Christmas decorations

5. After a couple of layers, and while the glue/paper is still wet and soft, push the needle through the heart where it will hang from.

6. Let the glue dry, then add a final layer using the pieces that you put aside earlier.

7. Push the needle through the hole again

8. On the inside of the folded card, lightly draw a slightly larger heart around the heart shaped hole

9. Follow the instructions for Sew simple Christmas cards to stitch the outline

10. Thread wool through the hole in the heart decoration

11. Line the heart decoration up with the cut out heart, and make a hole in the back of the card so that heart can hang - tie the string loosely at the back so that it can be untied and hung on a tree later

12. Write your greeting on the front and you're done