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YOW! Advent Calendar

YOW! Advent calendar – door number 15

9 days to go until Christmas – time to write.

And for anyone who finds pre-printed cards a bit run-of-the-mill, here’s a creative idea that’s quick and easy to put together. It’s affordable yet still personalised.

  1. Buy blank cards and envelopes in various colours and sizes from a stationers’ shop.
  2. Use a cutting plotter to cut out the desired text from self-adhesive film in a colour that matches the card, weed the excess material and apply a transfer film.
  3. Position the sticker on the card and press it down firmly.
  4. Peel off the transfer film, write your personal message and post it.
Blank red folding card and matching red envelope on a white background – the basic materials for making your own Christmas cards
Plotter software on screen with a preview of the cursive lettering ‘Merry Christmas’ to you and the ‘Send’ and ‘Done’ buttons
A Secabo cutting plotter with a gold self-adhesive film inserted for plotting lettering for homemade Christmas cards
A hand holding a pen peels golden plotter foil off a white card, leaving behind the golden words ‘Merry Christmas’
A transparent application film is applied from the roll onto the plotted gold-coloured lettering ‘Merry Christmas’
A hand pulls a transparent application film off a red card with gold, plotted lettering reading ‘Merry Christmas … Martin and Sus…’
A hand uses a squeegee to apply gold lettering, plotted onto a red card; the words ‘…achten, Euch und Susann’ are legible
A hand peels the transparent application film off the red card; the gold-plotted lettering ‘Merry Christmas’ remains stuck to it
A red Christmas card with gold foil lettering reading ‘Merry Christmas from Martin and Susann’, with a red envelope beside it
An open red envelope containing a red card with the word ‘Christmas’ printed in gold foil, partially obscured
Tags Cutting plotter Self-adhesive film Transfer film Cutting plot Map