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Vintage Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop

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Tutorials Photo Manipulation 19322 November 22nd, 2018

In this new Christmas tutorial we are going to make a vintage greeting card. To make the vintage effect I will use a knitted fabric combined with some grunge old paper texture. You can choose one of my three greeting card templates and choose also the Christmas graphics inside the card. I used a Santa Claus vector graphic but you can of course try it with a snowman, with a Christmas night background, with a Christmas tree and so on.

In this quick tutorial we'll learn how to create a vintage Christmas greeting card in Photoshop using some simple techniques, textures and xmas vector graphics.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

First you have to download this greeting card PSD template; we will use this template to create the xmas card.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Open the PSD file and inside you will find many layers that you can adjust and customize as you wish. I will only work with the Page 1 Layer, which is in fact a smart object. Double click on the layer thumbnail to open it.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Inside the Page 1 Layer you will find a smart object called Your Work; open again this object and inside we'll create the xmas card design.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

So let's start creating the design. I added three layers, a rectangle, another rectangle and an ellipse with the colors shown in the image. The white rectangle has also a small size Drop Shadow effect.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

As the previous images are no longer available, use one of these santa claus Christmas vector graphics.

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Around the santa claus you can add some Christmas vector shapes; I've used snowflake custom shapes but you can use any xmas shape you want. Use

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

I will type "MERRY XMAS" using the intro free font. Learn how to install font in Photoshop from this quick tutoial for beginners.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Now we'll create the knitted fabric effect. Copy this knitted texture in your PSD file. You might have to resize the image to your liking. Also go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Place the texture above all the other layers so that it covers the white rectangle. Set the blend mode to Hard Light

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Save the two PSB files and close it to return to the initial file the one with the greeting card. Your result should now look like this. You can use with this fabric texture some stitch brushes to create interesting stitching and sewing effects.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

You can also add some snowflake shapes on the card border. You can use a simple white color or you can give a letterpress style like I did.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

For the final touches I have also added a bow PNG stock image. Use a Brightness/Contrast and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layers to change the color of the bow from purple to red.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Open the layer style window of the Bow Layer and add Drop Shadow and Inner Shadow styles.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

To create that vintage old look I have added a old paper texture, blend mode Multiply for the two greeting card pages. So here is the final result for the vintage Christmas greeting card, hope you like it!

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Knitted and Fur Photoshop Creator

This set contains 6 Photoshop actions that will allow you to create realistic knitted and fur effects out of any text, shape, raster. The knitted furry effect can easily be modified and customized after the action is ended.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Knitted Sweater Photoshop Effect

This set contains 4 actions with styles to create realistic knitted pattern effects in Photoshop out of any text, shape, graphics or any other image.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card

Online Christmas Card Maker

Did you know you can use online tools like MockoFun to make Christmas cards?
Combine Christmas vector shapes with text and create some amazing Christmas cards. MockoFun provides pre-made templates for making Christmas cards online in just a few minutes.

Check out this awesome list of over 50 Christmas fonts that you can use online or download for free to use in Photoshop. Combine Christmas fonts with text symbols like a star symbol for example.

Check out this tutorial on how to use the online Christmas Card Maker and all the awesome features that MockoFun has to offer.

Vintage Christmas Greeting Card
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22 comment(s) for "Vintage Christmas Greeting Card in Photoshop"

John
12:45 AM Saturday, November 23, 2013
Your knitted Christmas card looks great, better than mine :) reply
Harriet
Harriet
1:09 AM Monday, November 25, 2013
Wow, this is so cool! Thanks so much, excellent work! reply
Diego Solis
Diego Solis
1:09 AM Monday, November 25, 2013
Very cool! Can't wait to try it. reply
Mireille D
Mireille D
1:09 AM Monday, November 25, 2013
Thank you very much, this is nice! reply
John
4:27 AM Friday, November 29, 2013
Snowman Christmas Card inspired by this tutorial made by Franco www.facebook.com/franco.giovo.9 reply
Ksusha
Ksusha
1:07 AM Saturday, November 30, 2013
What a nice tut!!! I enjoyed doing it greatly. Thanks a lot for the idea and the materials! Here's my result. reply
John
1:10 AM Saturday, November 30, 2013
Really cute Christmas card, I love it! reply
John
12:55 AM Friday, December 6, 2013
Christmas Greeting Card made by our facebook friend Franco Giovo reply
John
2:10 AM Tuesday, December 24, 2013
This tutorial was translated in Russian by photoshop-master.ru team and I picked up some of my favorite greeting cards inspired by this tutorial, to feature on my blog.
This beautiful Snowman Christmas greeting card Photoshop template is made by nata_geo reply
John
1:30 PM Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Cute Santa Claus Festive Greeting Card made by Svetlana, that is perfect for Christmas and New Year holidays! reply
cwb
cwb
2:24 AM Friday, January 3, 2014
???? reply
John
2:25 AM Friday, January 3, 2014
this is a really cute Christmas greeting card :) reply
hugevon
hugevon
2:33 AM Friday, November 11, 2016
Do you have a .PSD of this? I got to Page 2 and I was lost. reply
PSDDude
2:35 AM Friday, November 11, 2016
I don't have a PSD file for this tutorial but I can help you if you tell me what you don't understand! reply
hugevon
hugevon
2:35 AM Saturday, November 12, 2016
Thanks for helping me.

I can get as far as creating the design I want, but I do not know how to apply the knitting effect to it. This is as far as I can get.

http://imgur.com/6Ap76ar reply
PSDDude
2:49 AM Saturday, November 12, 2016
1. You add the Knitted Texture in a new layer with copy paste.
2. You set the blend mode of the Knitted Texture layer to Hard Light (you can try the other blend modes to see if another one looks better)
reply
hugevon
hugevon
12:14 PM Saturday, November 12, 2016
Got it now. Thank you for your help. :-) reply
Bill Blum
Bill Blum
6:16 AM Monday, October 30, 2017
Hi there I know this is an old tutorial, but when I click the link for the vector files.. it sends me to a web hosting company.. any place else these files might be? reply
PSDDude
6:18 AM Monday, October 30, 2017
Hi Bill,

I have updated the link in the tutorial with other set of Santa Claus and other Christmas vector graphics. reply
Bill Blum
Bill Blum
11:59 AM Monday, October 30, 2017
Thank You. reply
Mireille D
Mireille D
1:06 PM Monday, April 29, 2019
Thank you for this tutorial, I loved it!
My realization:
http://www.chez-mireilled.com/article-carte-de-noel-brodee-121244812.html reply
Carla Mindassi
Carla Mindassi
1:06 PM Monday, April 29, 2019
Thank you for this tutorial! reply

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