How Do You Make English Christmas Cracker Victorian Embellishments?
A tradition in many English homes for Christmas, the loud snap of a Christmas cracker makes the holiday complete. These Victorian gift boxes filled with whimsical treats are sold in shops, online, and in kits that anyone can assemble at home. Kits include a simple metallic box, a snap, and gifts for filling the cracker, but usually no additional decoration of any kind. Whether made from online tutorials or special kits, artists can decorate their homemade English Christmas crackers with Victorian emblems and old-fashioned paper labels. Making reproductions of the original elegant designs is a simple and beautiful way to decorate hand-made Christmas crackers. Select an old-fashioned or Victorian Christmas card from a public domain site or copyright-free collection; these images are easy to find using Google, Ehow, or other search engines and sites to locate them. There are also craft books available of public domain images, many complete with CD-ROM versions of the cards and holiday ima
