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I know, I know it's still October...but my daffy neighbour across the road is putting up her Christmas tree...I have told her she is daffy .
But over many years I have always done my own cards . Initially I drew ,painted about a hundred all by hand, then One year stuck on a cut out tree ,covered in glitter which fell apart in the envelopes and recipients made their own.
Then I had years when I printed them from my PC ,but the last few years I have done a design sent it off to be printed to Snapfish then stuck onto blanks...it works for me .
Anyone else "do their own "?
I even have one person who has kept all my cards over about a million years
even the DIY one.
Apology's for title that has gone wrong, for some reason I can't edit it grrrrr
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by Sylvia Evans
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Yes, I always do my own. But NOT in October! I've got a birthday to get through yet, number 73, November 18th - I prefer cash, by the way, and cards are optional.
Usually, I try to be generally comical - though Lord knows it's a real job a) thinking of new designs every year, b) finding much to laugh at in today's world. It probably is time I had good think about what to do this year, all the same. Will it be rats again..... you know, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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Even though I don’t like thinking about Christmas so soon, I’ve done my own cards for the last 5 years and even though it’s only October I usually get them printed now because Vistaprint usually has a 60% off cards around this time which makes them much cheaper to do. The nice thing is that the recipients usually comment that they enjoy receiving them. 
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I suppose it's not too early to start making Christmas Cards. Every year I promise myself I will, and every year (almost) I don't. The last time I managed it was three years ago. They were sent to family only. I bought some blank cards, printed off my painting and stuck them in the cards. It worked quite well, because I could personalise the text greeting on them. About twenty cards, and that was a bit of chore...I wouldn't do that for everyone we send cards to.
Some smashing cards above.
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by Lewis Cooper
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Not that early if you’re painting, printing (Lino, woodcut etc) your own cards really, I’m doing mine at the moment. I’ve done my own for a few years, started hand painting everyone, a different scene/topic for individuals….about 40 or so. One year I did individual Lino prints and printed every one on handmade paper, and because I used oil based ink it took a month for them to dry properly! That was the first, and last year I did that!
Now, I paint a couple of landscapes and send them off to the printers…..except for the ones I send to my sisters.
I printed one from one of hubby’s photo’s, after a little tweaking, one year as well….couldn’t resist that face.
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by Fiona Phipps
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Awe who could resist this bunny. I'm glad it's nit me alone who starts them now.this years is incredibly simple and I've already rejected tge first print off so hopefully the new ones will be better.
Nothing clever or posh just a boring bit of holly from my hedge before the Fieldfares strip all the berries.
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Totally different, totally more refreshing, to see a card you've made yourself. I don't send many, so use Publisher and a bubble-jet printer; if I sent more, I'd have a go with giclée prints and all the rest of it. Loving the bunny, and earlier, the sheep. And now the holly - you're lucky to have Fieldfares - vanishingly rare around her.
I make individual birthday cards too, or did - my mother died a couple of years ago, at the age of 94; for year upon year I had to think of a different image for her birthday card.... she liked an animal theme, and had a fanatical devotion to the domestic pig, which I never noticed impeding her consumption of bacon and pork; I got so fed up with perishing porkers - there really are only so many ways in which you can paint a pig - I had a crooning pig, an apple-stealing pig, a carrot crunching pig, Lord knows how many more wretched pigs, but also painted dogs, rabbits, grizzly bears, a bison, rhinoceros, hippo, a mole, a water vole: I was in serious danger of running out .... elephants, cape buffalo, lioness (very apt), tortoise.... The one thing I couldn't do was cats: she had inherited her mother's allurophobia. (Didn't mind big cats: it was the slinky, climb on your lap type cat she feared.)
All that work and invention, but since she died I've wondered: did she really think I was too mean to buy her a proper birthday card? Even though my efforts were always in watercolour or acrylic on heavy duty watercolour paper, as stiff as card?
Well, if she did, I can only say ingrate! I slaved over those damn' cards!
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by Robert Jones, NAPA
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I’m busy right now designing some cards that I will use in a November workshop at Hughenden Manor. Only short works two the same days with fifteen participants in each session, the aim is to help people to make there own cards by demonstrating and then having a go at a couple. Hopefully they will be fired up enough to then continue at home . I have produced my own hand painted card for quite a few years , fortunately now I’m retired I don’t have so many to do anymore.