DIY Christmas Card • 2013

I again continued my tradition of hand-crafting my annual Christmas Card. The design for 2013 shows my increasing exploration of the possibilities with a Silhouette cutting machine, combined with my most frequent subject matter - the Christmas Tree. Save this as an idea for 2014.

I used a classic accordion card construction and combined it with a bezier curve tree I sketched in the software. It is cut from two pieces of card stock, that when glued together, create a 3-D self-standing card.

I also used a contemporary font to cut the message and the year into one layer of the card stock.

I mailed it in an evergreen envelope with a shorty Christmas letter on a red insert. I did mail all 70 of them on Monday, Dec. 16th but have learned that many on my list hadn't received theirs by the 25th. US Postal fail!

• If you are interested in creating this type of design, visit my sister blog, Ashbee Design Silhouette Tutorials for a step-by step tutorial.
• The cutting file is available here at the Silhouette online store.
• Links to other Christmas Card Designs by me:
• My House Card Design • 2012
• DIY Santa Christmas Card 2011 * One Year Later ( a tutorial)
• DIY Christmas Card 2011
• Three Decades of Handmade Christmas Cards
• DIY Christmas Cards • Truly Unique
• DIY Christmas Cards • Technology Influenced
• DIY Christmas Cards • Mixed Media
• DIY Christmas Cards • Trees as a Theme
• DIY Christmas Cards • Woven Paper Designs
• DIY Christmas Cards • Pierced Designs
• DIY Christmas Cards • Pop-up Cards

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© 2013 Marji Roy, Ashbee Design

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