As with every year, I wanted to send some cards to celebrate the new year. It’s been a bit of a draining time with lots of stuff to do around work and personal life so inspiration was slow to flow. At some point I resorted to Pinteresting just to see if there could be some idea available. I found something that I liked in this pin. It’s the year turned sideways to create a Christmas tree and some well wishes below. I figured I could use my extensive word-art skills to achieve something like that.
I decided that I wanted to make the trunk of the tree out of other well wishes and that it of course needed an exclamation mark in the year. So I put those in and then tried just about every font in the Word catalogue, before settling on Rage Italic – not sure the name is very Christmassy, but ey. I chose healthy and happy because they fit in well with the angle of the first 2. And of course because everyone deserves health and happiness. The trunk needed to be brown and the year green, for optimal tree effect. A light coloured circle was put around it so I could cut them to shape on the off-white linnen paper. Once that was done, I punched a star hole at the top of the tree. Et voilà: card.
So to everyone, a healthy a happy 2023!
