Its The Thought That Counts: Give Creative Christmas Cards This Season
If youve taken any time to scan on the internet
, youll already know that there are thousands of pre-designed Christmas cards just waiting to be downloaded and printed out for you to send to your loved ones this season. But wheres the creativity? Wheres the personal touch, other than the signature inside? If were going to send people cards expressing our goodwill this season, we should do it with the appropriate thought, and spend a little time doing it.So, assuming that you want to make Christmas cards yourself, in comfort and glad tidings at home, well continue. The first thing we should explore is that, in a secular society, Christmas has many meanings and associative feelings, depending on who you ask. This is good for us. We can expand hugely upon the usual green-and-red things and bells and holly, which have, we should admit, somewhat lost their original meaning. Well hang on to this thought as we talk about designs. Which simply require your creativity and a computer and printer.
With our new blank canvas, we can think about a few ideas. Think Christmas season, and not traditional Christmas. What things go with Christmas that we particularly love, that we know our friends and family enjoy too? A great idea is to make collages describe your favourite winter walk, a crisp, snowy scene, where the empty space is the undisturbed snow, and you illuminate the features with cut-outs from magazines and newspapers. For a uniform texture, scan this into your computer, turn the image fully black-and-white, and make quality print-outs.
One quite original idea (Im sure its been done before) is to give someone a wintry treasure hunt. Along with the instructions for the hunt, print out the successive clues to be hidden, each as a mini card in itself, leading to the eventual discovery of your gift, or even just the card itself. This presumes you are regularly in this persons home; just because youre dressed as Santa doesnt mean you arent breaking-and-entering.
Think back to previous Christmas periods with family and close friends, youll no doubt have endless folders of photos from over the years. How about making a photo-board from your existing pictures with a scanner and some simple image editing software to cut out the pieces digitally, thus saving your snaps from the scissors? Once youve layered several memorable shots, you can add your seasonal message and print your cards out to stand landscape-wise as a reminder of past and future good times.
Whatever choice you make, be original, and try to divert from the norm. Use good quality paper and colour printer to make your design look the part. Plain print-out Christmas cards are just as dull as their cheap, shop-bought cousins. Change this with a little inspiration, and youll no doubt remember more clearly what this season means to you personally along the way.
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