Jodie's Christmas Cards

While Jodie was home over Thanksgiving break, she was feeling pretty stressed out. It was right before finals and she was completing the first edition of the new student magazine for which she is the editor. So she asked me to help her de-stress by crafting with her.

She found a cute idea for a Christmas card on Pinterest. She had brought along her chalks and a silver Sharpie. I supplied the black construction paper. We sat in my Studio on night after dinner and went to town.

It took a few tries to figure out the proper shape for the light bulbs. Then it took more than a few more attempts to come up with a good technique to make the bulbs look like they are glowing. I was inspired to grab some cotton swabs to smear the chalk line instead of using our fingers. It worked really well.

We got into a rhythm of outlining with chalk, smearing,

adding the bulb caps,

then drawing on the wire.

We talked and laughed and de-stressed in general. As each card was finished, we used double-sided tape to adhere a 4 x 6 index card to the back on which she wrote her personal messages. We separated the stacked cards with pieces of scrap paper to keep the chalk from getting where we didn't want it to go.

The process ended up taking much more time than we'd anticipated. I finally had to call it quits when my eyes wouldn't stay open any more. Jodie finished the cards up when she got back to Corvallis. I received this one in the mail.

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We were inspired by artwork from Buggy and Buddy: