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December 17th, 2005

Making Christmas cards (continued)

Nefertiki on the Wibsite has been inspired by my ‘how to make Christmas cards‘ post and has been making some home made cards. For Christmas 2006.

I was recently aroused to creative action by the “million ideas for making christmas cards” link on home page. I was inspired to make one. After several weeks of hard work with a few pine trees, stars, angels, tough-looking cherubs, and drunken-looking angels with wings and trumpets, all done in collage pasted on water-color painted sky and foreground, with some spaghetti (uncooked) which looked quite effective, I still had not put all that stuff together. Besides the materials were spread out on my kitchen table leaving me a mere corner to prepare and eat meals. (I didn’t mind that last part because I prefer eating off a tray in the living room with the TV blasting.} It’s just not going to happen this year. I feel off the hook somehow now that I have quite a long time to finish that card, and perhaps others, in time for Christmas 2006.

Fantastic. Has anyone else been making cards? Do tell us about it.

I wouldn’t go as far as asking you to send me one of course, as that would just be impolite.

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  1. Arti says:

    Ohh I’ve been making some with the kids at the craft club I’ve been running! Wrapping paper cut-outs, mounted on card and stuck with sticky pads for slight 3D effect then decorated with anything they like! Sounds a bit quicker that Nefertiki’s but not quite so elegant!

    December 17th, 2005 at 11:51 am
  2. Nefertiki says:

    Thanks, Arti, for calling my not-yet-completed cards elegant. That’s certainly what I am trying for.

    I would like to submit another idea for materials for card-making: aspirins. Really. All you need is child’s set of watercolor paints. (First get’s child’s permission to use or buy your own.) Don’t use too much water. Don’t use brush strokes, just drop color on tablet (cold tablets work too) until you have good rich color. Let dry. Repeat process if you like. Very pretty effect and fun to do.

    I used them on a collage which I had the gall to enter in an art exhibit. The title was something like “Garden of Pharmacopoeia.” I mostly glued them to cut-out flowers. The idea was to supposedly extol the wonders of modern pharmacology while actually pointing up the awful side effects of some drugs. Side effects like death and dementia, and many others not necessarily starting with D. Some day perhaps someone who is not so technically impaired as I am will manage to get them up on one of Dave’s excellent websites. If anyone can suggest other uses for painted aspirins in card-making I’d love to hear about them as aspirin is cheap and plentiful.

    December 19th, 2005 at 5:32 pm