Every Christmas for about thirty years I used to make handmade Christmas cards to exchange with many friends who also did the same thing. Sadly, in the past few years most of us have stopped doing this.
It seems that the most popular of these cards were two that I made in 2004 and 2005 from perspex.
In 2004 I etched a piece of perspex with a Christmas tree and finished off the edges with some copper foil that I used in stained glass making.
In 2005 after etching the perspex I glued on an arch-shaped fragment from a canvas painting to form a stained glass window.
Holes were then drilled and fishing line attached to enable the cards to be hung.
While many paper/card Christmas greetings tend to get thrown out after Christmas (or go into recycling bins) it's very pleasing to know that these two were kept by a number of people and reappear every year as a Christmas decoration.
Merry Christmas 2021
2 comments:
All your Christmas cards are stunning Helen, but these two are indeed remarkable. They most likely ended up with the annual Christmas decor of their new homes. I too bemoan the passing of such a beautiful and rewarding exchange of cards every year but still send and receive a few.
Hello Helen. Have had a lovely wander backwards and forwards through your posts and always enjoy your work, and loved that you also showed some of Jack’s work too. Once this pandemic tames down, and who knows when, it would be so lovely for you two and Robyn to come and visit with us up here again.
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