Personalized Christmas Cards

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There are literally hundreds of picture subjects around your house or homestead that could inspire fine sketches for your personalized holiday greeting cards.
There are literally hundreds of picture subjects around your house or homestead that could inspire fine sketches for your personalized holiday greeting cards.
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Homemade personalized greetings also allow each member of the family to add his or her own distinctive illustration to the card.
Homemade personalized greetings also allow each member of the family to add his or her own distinctive illustration to the card.

If your household is anything like ours, December is one of the busiest months of the year. Consequently, the mere suggestion of squeezing in time to make handcrafted Christmas cards (no matter how much fun it’d be or how much money you’d save) probably makes you want to throw your hands up in despair, right? But — take it from a seasoned greetings-maker — you can do it with time to spare. . . that is, if you follow the Browne Family Card-Creating Recipe. With our special formula, you’ll not only be able to make a hundred or more uniquely-yours notes, but you’ll be able to manufacture these yuletide treasures for as little as 7 cents to 15 cents a card.

No kidding, all you’ll need to produce our brand of homemade cards is a design (either original or transposed from another source) and a greeting . . . pasted up on a master card. Your local printer will take care of the rest. What could be simpler?

Here’s What You Do . . .

Using india ink, draw (or trace from a favorite old greeting card) your chosen design on a 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″ piece of good-quality white bond paper. Be careful to leave a half inch border around the paper. If your family doesn’t boast an adult “Rembrandt” who can sketch your home’s landscape — or create some other desired picture — don’t overlook how precious a young child’s drawing can be on a holiday card.

Next, have the family calligrapher print or write your season’s message in india ink on a separate sheet of the same-sized paper.

  • Published on Nov 1, 1983
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