Printed Christmas Cards

 It wouldn't be Christmas without a handmade Christmas card.

I didn't think I was going to have time to make any this year, but then went to the local Arts and Crafts Society's last demonstration of the year which was Will Dyke, who is a local printer, and so was inspired.  (He's very good.)

I sketched out a quick design of a dove, then made it bigger to fit my card size.

Then I went to cut it and found my blades were all blunt.  So then I had to ask 'im outdoors if he could sharpen them, being the king of sharp things.  He did this and I tried again and has more success.

Then I tried printing with acrylic paint as I wanted some colour and I only have black or white ink, but that didn't work so well.  As I didn't have time to order any ink, I went with black and improvised.  In this case with a green Sharpie and some gold paint.  I quite like it.

 

Then I got my trusty Pritt-Stick out and stuck the prints to the cards I had.  Ta-da!

I always aim to do this in October but of course never do.  Maybe next year!  Still they got sent out in plenty of time and as far as I know arrived before the big day.