Christmas Card 2012
Every year I like to draw up a Christmas Card to send out to my friends and family. When I was younger I remember my dad drawing a card every year, which he still does to everyone's delight. You could flip through them to see an animation of my family growing up. My aunt also draws a card up.
This is my card for 2012. It's showing my nephew and I walking up to meet my mother, who passed away this year, in the reconstructed house of our ancestors in Ireland. In the second slide I have some annotations as to what everything is.
I've been making cards since 2004 and I like to make them funny, cute, and touching. This year I went out on a limb a bit by making one about something very personal, my mom. I felt that, if I am going to put this out to all of my friends I should share it with the Instructables community too.
Happy holidays to you all and I'd love to see your card ideas! If this goes well I might put up some past cards also.
I made this gallery to also show the steps I took to make the card. I use a light box I had built for this, which I hope to make an Instructable later.
Materials:
Software:
Services:
Cost: $0.60 - $5.00 per card depending on if you use color, card material, postage, etc...
This is my card for 2012. It's showing my nephew and I walking up to meet my mother, who passed away this year, in the reconstructed house of our ancestors in Ireland. In the second slide I have some annotations as to what everything is.
I've been making cards since 2004 and I like to make them funny, cute, and touching. This year I went out on a limb a bit by making one about something very personal, my mom. I felt that, if I am going to put this out to all of my friends I should share it with the Instructables community too.
Happy holidays to you all and I'd love to see your card ideas! If this goes well I might put up some past cards also.
I made this gallery to also show the steps I took to make the card. I use a light box I had built for this, which I hope to make an Instructable later.
Materials:
- Scratch Paper
- Bristol Board
- Pencils
- Pens
Software:
- GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
- Word Processor (MS Word, Open Office, etc...)
Services:
- FexEx Office (http://www.fedex.com/us/office/) or your local copy store.
Cost: $0.60 - $5.00 per card depending on if you use color, card material, postage, etc...