In issue 42

It could be the principle or simple economics but there are people who choose not to spank their hard-earned at Hallmark but to make their own cards instead; keeping Mum happy by taking her advice and producing cute collaged snowmen/birds/cakes with glitter and pinking shears. They are not, perhaps, the craft-fair sensation she was hoping for but a personalised memento of the occasion that gives pleasure to the receiver and a bite-sized little creative workout for the maker.

This is not the smug, here's the family, Christmas newsletter with young Neville slumped in a cardboard sleigh behind Prince Harry the spaniel with Mom and Pop grinning delightedly in the background and a paragraph about the new hedge. It is a decent, considered card, made for the occasion and 'specially for you. And it's got to stand up. Postcards aren't good enough. If it needs to be propped-up then it's failed. There aren't that many design considerations, so think it through. Read on...

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Dark is the Night — Jordan Baseman

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Dark is the Night — Jordan Baseman

 

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