{"id":3687,"date":"2020-12-24T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:03:35","slug":"christmas-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2020\/12\/christmas-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper.jpg\" alt=\"Stained-glass star Christmas tree topper\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/star-tree-topper-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2020 was a strange year for us all, and one of the (unimportant? privileged?) ways it impacted me is it meant I didn&#8217;t travel for Christmas for the first time in more than a decade. The nice thing about this is it gave more time and need for craft projects!<\/p>\n<p>I did multiple projects for Christmas, but a couple stand out enough that I made videos about the creation process on my YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-christmas-card.jpg\" alt=\"Letterpressed ice skater Christmas card\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-christmas-card.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-christmas-card-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-christmas-card-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-christmas-card-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-christmas-card-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We letterpress our Christmas cards every year, but this year I made a video of the process of creating them, from trying to figure out a design all the way through to trying to figure out who to send them to.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7qGD0aJp19o' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I really like how these turned out &#8211; the design is a little out of our usual Christmas card comfort zone, and I think it was all the more successful for it. Watch the video to see the process!<\/p>\n<p>The other project I videoed was a mini-project of making a stained-glass tree topper. It was my first time needing to decorate my own tree, and when we realised we didn&#8217;t have a topper, I put the skill I learned from making my cat flap (see previous post!) to work, making one out of glass.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1CrB4N9qDjQ' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The project came together surprisingly quickly, and surprisingly effectively too. Christmas champion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 was a strange year for us all, and one of the (unimportant? privileged?) ways it impacted me is it meant I didn&#8217;t travel for Christmas for the first time in more than a decade. The nice thing about this is it gave more time and need for craft projects! 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