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a personal touch

By Bujl Walshe

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The greeting v an! industry u>ok a big hit when tech nology mad* it so mn to turn pttsnMi photographs into Christmas uttk After Internet entrepreneur!*, stepped in with e-cards. the industry te likely never to be the same.

With apologies to Hallmark end its peers, there is even abetter way to create and send Christmas cards

Kathy and t made out own (for. perhaps. 10 years or so many years ago; I don't know why we drifted away front the annual rite, because it weecmtotldy more fun than chore

We (tot the idea from her unrlty a wutercolor artist of some renown in and around Front ftoywL where he lived In the late fall of the year, he would turn hfat hand to wood cutting and make a print tor Christman the wood cut was printed on hand-turn rice paper, and was. indeed, a work of art to he kept tong after the tree was taken down.

lacking his considerable skills and artistic vision, we would start looking in the toll of the year tor somethin# we could copy and fur some appropriate teat to go inside Some years — from seeking the modal and the copv to the ftnal product — were more successful than others. All of them were fUn.

C reating a woodcut is a little tricky, especially if you ate making a copy What you carve on the blin k will come out in reverse when you put the block to paper fhats usually not a problem, hut something to he awatv of

Ivetvthing you need can he found at art supply ami craft shops the linoleum-fronted wood block, the tin4s to cut it. the ink anil the roller to apply it. ami paper

A woodcut Christmas card says something personal, much mote than e-cards. more. even, that the popular family photos

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