So this year I endeavoured to make Christmas cards again. This time, there were three versions that ended up making the cut. The extended version, the ‘just the essentials’-version and the ‘I ran out of snowmen’-version. I cannot remember where I got the idea exactly, but it probably involved pinterest, snowmen and a written ‘super’ on a card somewhere. I also found a bunch of wooden Christmas trees that I figured I could incorporate a la this pin.
In any case, I figured I would make snowmen with capes, to signify the super I was going to use in the wording of the card. I bought some crepe paper in Christmas colours, and got to work by grabbing some coloured cardboard from some previous years cards.
Extended version
The extended version included a wooden Christmas tree behind a diagonally cut strip, a snowman with a cape, orange nose, broomstick arms and eyes and the text ‘wishing you 365 days with Super moments!’. The orange nose was a cardboard triangle, the broomstick arms and eyes drawn on with a felt tip pen. The snowman and his cape were made of crepe paper and a lot of glue was involved in the processes. I managed to ruin at least 5 cards by writing ‘whishing’ which I couldn’t sent, but some I cut op to only have the snowman and adding a new text.
‘Just the essentials’-version
For my colleagues at work I made a version with a smaller snowman on black paper. I also cut out a star with my special star-punch. These were received very positively. I must say I almost prefer these over the extended versions. I also think the text is better ‘Wishing you a Super 2018!’ and just completely ignoring Christmas itself.
‘I ran out of snowmen’-version
Right before Christmas I remembered that I was going to visit my family on Saturday, so had to make some cards for them too. I did not have enough of the other versions available, nor did I have enough snowmen to make another card. So this one got cute stars (i.e. the leftovers of other cards). I quite like these too, and I may incorporate something like this next year, perhaps.
So that was the paper crafts completed for 2017, most likely. In any case, I also hope you had good holidays and I wish you a Super 2018!
