Ghetto Cards

Merry Christmas Everybody!! Isaiah 6:9 says,

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

As promised, I will now reveal the surprise I talked about working on in a previous post!

I made Christmas cards! Ever since I left town, I started making my own cards (end of term, Christmas) and giving them out to people. It's a much more affordable, and personal way for me to show them my appreciation. Here are some samples! Most of the rest of the ones I made follow these kinds of designs. I really suck at art, but the cards I find in stores don't really represent me well. Despite all that, they didn't turn out that great.. but I really tried! For this Christmas, each one of the cards has a bow of some sort at the top, also to show that this card is a present from me to them. The theme is Christmas and winter, with the design of the card centred around the gold/red/green horn-like thing. This acts as a clip to keep the card closed.

 This one is a tree with a heart and star inside, and snowflakes around.
I found symmetry helps to make it look good.

 This one is a snowman holding a heart and a star.
I tried to incorporate a heart and a star on each design to represent our friend/kinship
(they have a special place in my heart) and how my friends and family shine (like stars) in my eyes.

This one has a string thing at the bottom, which I found to represent the ground.
I started running out of the green sparkle things for the tree so I used tissue paper. 

 Then I had these random squares of felt so I put them as ornaments or presents.

I tried to make a wreath but the tissue paper didn't give me the texture I was looking for.

I like this one because of the balloon/lollipop thing on the left. 

For some reason, it just evens out the picture. 

Maybe it's that symmetry thing, countering the red star on the right.

This is a present. 

The presents also represent the card as my present to them because I have no $$.

I really like my snowmen.

I added some ornaments to this tree. This was also after I ran out of those green sparkles.

I tried to make some tissue paper snow.

Ornament and stocking combo

 This is supposed to be a reindeer.

Another snowman in a winter wonderland type thing. 

It is more clear in this photo that the green thing on the snowman's head acts 

as a clip to keep the card closed.  This was the centre and foundation of my design because 

I needed it there, so that's what made the cards so difficult to design.

This was the backing to all of my cards, my signature and logo stamp. 

  Anyway, I think this is still better than the cards I made last year. The logo is a roach; it is a visual representation of me as that is the way my nickname (Roch) is pronounced. Roaches are also similar to me in that we are both weird, small, and funny little things. I decided to put ROACH as the name of the card maker (me) since it fits nicely under the logo and helps to promote the correct pronunciation of my nickname. ROACH also represents a personalized card made by me, such that each card is unique. GHETTO CARDS is the trademark of my "card company". This name was chosen as a recognition that these cards may look ghetto, and I acknowledge that as fact. GHETTO CARDS also represents the fact that it is an authentic card made from my heart because store bought cards are just not good enough. I wish I could have made more but these cards were limited edition (I only had so much material with me). My hope is that I will be able to keep this up over the years and then everybody will eventually get a GHETTO CARD from me, and that they will look better with time.

Peace out!

PS. Check out this a capella group! They did a lovely Carol of the Bells - Pentatonix

Also read Luke 22-24! I've reached the end of Luke! That's two books down now. =)