I have never bought a card – not one Christmas card, not one birthday card… If you want to invent, I would recommend that you do the same. What a perfect opportunity for a little creativity.
You might say, “but I do not have time to make cards”. Well… you can either not give out so many (and hook up with someone who will handle the general card sending) or you can apply inventive means to the production. Of course digital production makes it fairly easy but this post explores an example of a physical production – well human scale physical production (we should always hesitate when we suggest that a computer is not physical).
This Zen Mix mini-mash shows the simple production of Snowflake cards – 50 snowflake cards in about 20 minutes. I handed them out to students and staff at the College and let them float softly down at their desks. It was very beautiful to see their smiles of wonder.
Just cut squares of everyday wax paper and fold them diagonally then in half a few times, twist the center point and twist the outer point and open them up! Each one is different and you can experiment with the types of folds and twists to add even more variety. They are very pretty when you hold them up to the light.
Snowflakes aside… cards can be made from anything – I like old wallpaper or wrappings, but wood or stone and a the dremel can be fun, tubes are very interesting to write on. Always keep tubes around and you can saw them to make smaller tubes if necessary. Cards on long strips of paper are exciting… try carefully burning the edges of your cards for a lost look, you get the idea.
