The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 25

Day 25:

“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!"
– Clement C. Moore

Card by Sharon, Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.

 

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 20

Day 20:

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
– Norman Vincent Peale

Card by Sharon, Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 18

Day 18:

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
– Charles M. Schulz

Card by Sharon, Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 17

Day 17:

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
 – Bob Hope

Card by Cara Scissoria.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.
 

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 16

Day 16:

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes

Card by Papyrus.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.
 

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 15

Day 15:

“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”
– Eric Sevareid

Card by Sharon, peppermint cookies by Jim, Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 11

Day 11:

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.  But it warmed more than your body.  It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
– Bess Streeter Aldrich

Card by Papyrus.

For more about our 25 Days of Christmas Cards project, see this post.

The 25 Days of Christmas Cards: Day 1

We love paper and mixed media art here at Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies. The Christmas season provides wonderful opportunities to showcase these art forms. Cards especially, are abundant this time of year, and come in such an amazing array of styles, designs, colors.

Recently daughter Emma and I were talking about how we could bring more mixed media and paper art into our lives this holiday season. As we were musing about holiday cards and advent calendars, Emma had the great idea that we should mail ourselves a card each day during December, sort of an advent Christmas card project.

And so you have it! The 25 days of Christmas cards! We've selected 25 lovely holiday cards and are opening one a day until Christmas Day. Some of the carts are made by me, some are made by other artists, and some were purchased just because we liked the design or the sentiment. Inside each card we've inserted a seasonal greeting or quote to inspire us throughout the holiday season. We're sending these through the mail to ourselves, because what the heck, getting mail is part of the fun!

So without further ado we present you with Day 1's card and quote:

"I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year." 

-- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Card by Dorothy Jane.

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Graduation Inspiration

1920's -1930's Art Deco medals of achievement, from my personal collection

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week. We Remember.

WWII post cards to support the troops, from 1942

In war: resolution.

In defeat: defiance.

In victory: magnanimity.

In peace: goodwill.

~Winston Churchill

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Wild Roses

wild roses, near the beach at Carkeek Park, Seattle

Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.

~Walter De La Mare

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Flora and Fauna at Discovery Park

wildflower with insects, Discovery Park, Seattle

I love to smell flowers in the dark ... You get hold of their soul then.

~Lucy Maud Montgomery

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Color Inspiration

Vintage glass teardrop cabochons and rhinestones, 1950's to 1960's, my studio at Greenlake, Seattle

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

~John Lubbock

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Giving Thanks for Trees and More

Sun through maple leaves at the Japanese Garden, Seattle



i thank You God for most this amazing

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth

day of life and love and wings:and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any--lifted from the no

of all nothing--human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~e e cummings

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Red Tulips

Emma's tulips, from our garden at Greenlake, Seattle

Spring, thy name is color.

~Libbie Fudim

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival

Drummers at the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, Seattle Center

Live in simple faith...

Just as this simple cherry

Flower, fades and falls.

~Issa

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Pink Camellias

pink camellias, our garden at Greenlake, Seattle

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Spring Tulips

tulips at the Pike Place Market, Seattle

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, To A Snow-Drop

snowdrops, Discovery Park, Seattle

Lone flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they

But hardier far, once more I see thee bend

Thy forehead, as if fearful to offend,

Like an unbidden guest. Though day by day,

Storms, sallying from the mountain-tops, waylay

The rising sun, and on the plains descend;

Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friend...

~ from To A Snow-Drop by William Wordsworth

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, The Singing Bird in Your Heart

Goldfinch, Washington's State Bird.

Rendered as an original art pin cushion, displaying my vintage hat pins.

Beautiful art by Tracie Lyn Huskamp, The Red Door Studio.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

~Chinese proverb