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For anyone who follows my photostream, you might be aware I am very fortunate to be surrounded by some wonderfully artistic and creative friends. This includes my very dear friend Maria who creates some truly beautiful and amazing cards from recycled paper and cardboard.
This colourful heart is amongst a selection of Maria’s cards that I currently have at my disposal for family and friends whom I think would like to receive one. To quote Maria’s inserts that go with these cards:
“Just like our loved ones, no two hearts are the same. Unique and individual, this card can be used for multiple celebrations. The heart card was born from a desire to re-purpose paper destined for the bin.”
If you want to see more of Maria’s work, visit her Instagram page at: www.instagram.com/daisyandme33/?hl=en
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 28th of July is "made of paper", and Maria’s cards immediately sprung to mind, as I love how she re-purposes papers we would have otherwise thrown away. This card contains pieces made from some of my old Alphonse Mucha calendars, Christmas cards and tea packet sachets that I give her. It also has pieces of magazines, tissue boxes and grocery packaging. Even the sparky butterfly is made from an old gift bag! Who would have thought such beauty could come from what we generally consider to be rubbish. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
The first modern Christmas card was sent in 1843, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London, who wanted a simpler way to send holiday greetings. Designed by artist John Callcott Horsley, the card depicted a family celebrating and scenes of charity, kicking off the tradition of commercial Christmas cards, with about one thousand printed initially for a shilling each. By the time this three dimensional card of the Adoration of the Magi was produced in 1905, production values and printing quality had improved vastly, as this chromolithographed card shows.
I am not an overly religious person, but I know there are a number of my Flickr friends and followers, for whom their religious beliefs are an intrinsic part of them, and others gain comfort and valuable insights about life lessons and how to navigate our ever more complex world from readings of their Holy texts. Regardless of whether you are religious or not, or whether you read the Bible, the Torah, the Qur'an or something else entirely, one cannot deny the valuable lessons our Holy texts teach. They teach us to have humility, be kind to our fellow human beings, compassionate, caring and considerate.
So this Christmas, amongst all the tinsel, festive garlands and baubles, please take a moment to show kindness, compassion, care and consideration to those around you. I firmly believe that you reap what you sow, so making a difference starts with you. You have great power at your very fingertips to make a positive difference to someone with a single gesture: a kind word, a smile, a helping hand or an act of generosity.
The festive season is one of good cheer and goodwill to all, and this world needs as much of that as we can muster collectively.
Merry Christmas!
Feliz año nuevo !
Feliz ano novo!
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Frohes neues Jahr!
Bonne année!
Felice anno nuovo!
Hyvää uutta vuotta!
Sretna Nova godina!
Ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος!
С новым годом!
Gott nytt år!
Boldog új évet!
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Just to give you the perspective Aiko decided to walk into my photo, lots of animal tracks to sniff here ❄❄
I'm starting on my xmas cards, all my cards are usually painfully hand drawn and customised for the person! This year I've decided to do cute sushi doodles on the back of each card on top of the customised front cover. I'm hopefully going to make loads of different doodles but if I run out of ideas I'll just redraw some! Best viewed in large
So yeah, I haven't gone round asking for addresses yet but if you feel you know me well enough, send me your address and I'll get cracking on to it :D If you want my address feel free to contact me for it too :)
Oh and EXPECT them to be late, i'd rather take the time to do them then have rushed bits and bobs :)
Do you like this???
These are made from mainly Hero Arts Xmas stamps!!
Hope you will like it... thanks for viewing!
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Thanks so much!!
I am very fortunate to be surrounded by some wonderfully artistic and creative friends. This includes my very dear friend Maria who creates some truly beautiful and amazing cards from recycled paper and cardboard.
Christmas 2019, another dear friend gave me gifts wrapped up in the most exquisite red and gold embossed paper. I salvaged as much as I could as a keepsake, but I was left with some tattered remnants. However, rather than throw them in the bin, recycling bin or otherwise, I put them with the Christmas cards I was not keeping and went on a stroll to see Maria, who by chance lives quite closely to me. I asked Maria if she could please make me some cards for Christmas 2020 using the scrap pieces of Christmas wrapping. This is just one example of twelve very different Christmas cards that she made me using that paper. The wreath is my favourite design, and Maria’s too. I gave this card to my partner for Christmas this year. Each flower in the wreath is made using my wrapping paper scraps. The red bow is cut from a paper gift bag, the green holly leaves and red berries are made from a cardboard tissue box and the gold acorns, candy canes and pine cones are cut from the gold lining of a chocolate box. It just shows you that what is rubbish to many, can be recycled into treasures when passed through the right hands.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” this week is “recycled”. As soon as I saw the theme, I immediately thought of my artist friend Maria and her amazing cards. The difficulty was choosing which to photograph. I hope you will forgive me selecting a Christmas one after Christmas is over.
Papermania Enchanted range. from The Range £2.25 or on ebay. The pack makes one card envelope and mounting card included.
Another busy pre-Christmas week has finished and it's time for a work & school break over here.
We are all looking forward to having time off with family and friends, at a much slower pace than these past weeks!
From all of us.....we sincerely hope your Christmas is a wonderful one, enjoy the holidays!! :)
Simple Joy.
Every gift she got she carefully unwrapped and said Aaaa or Ooooo and was thrilled and started playing with it.
She used long time and enjoyed them all.
The other guests had to wait unwrapping their own presents because grandma couldn't move away from something so simple and precious as this lil precious one 🙏
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all, and to all a very good night â indeed many good and clear nights in 2017!
This is a scene of Venus, now bright as an evening star, in the sky over the old rustic house on my acreage, taken winter solstice day, December 21, 2016 in the evening twilight.
I send it for the "
~ Challenge 164.0 ~ Merry Christmas Card ~ The Award Tree Group"
Poste Restante: a system in which a post office keeps someone's post until it can be collected, usually used by people who are travelling or homeless....
Sarajevo Under Ground Series N21
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I love them all.Thank you again Blythe friends and non Blythe friends for sending us them in Christmas,they will be stored away and cherished in my treasure box.Coming down tomorrow *sniff*
C is for Cows and Cars at Christmas. (Along with Father Christmas).
If I took this photo once then I took it more times than I've had hot dinners. None of the photos came out. This was about my last attempt, before I went round the bend and it will have to do.
Have since retaken this and feel that the new version is a little bit better, which wouldn't be that difficult !!
Better viewed large, but thank you for your favourites.
Just posted all the Crimbo Cards, so here is yours
The picture in the sphere is of my local Court Hey Park in Liverpool taken a few years ago in the snow
The end of the year is a time to pass on my gratitude and to thank all of you who have visited my stream and taken the trouble to view, fave or comment on my photos, I really do appreciate that. I would also like to wish you Seasonal Greetings and a Snappy New Year
Health, Success and Happiness to you all.
ps: Santa said "take your Beer Bottles home Rob" and he will bring you a big case full, lol