3d Christmas Tree Card

We are having a family reunion at Christmas time and the winning dessert gets a gift card. I want something that is cute, cleaver, and tastes good. I was thinking something standing or "3D" would be neat. Like a Christmas tree or snowman figure. I am just not sure what to use.

You could make a Yule Log. You make it from a sponge cake filled with strawberry whipped cream and rolled up like a jelly roll. Decorate the cake with chocolate icing so it looks like a log. The decorations can be whatever you want to use. This is a picture of one I made with a little mouse on a toad stool. It makes a nice center piece and is delicious to eat. It could also be chocolate cake with a caramel filling or a spice cake with cream cheese filling....

http://www.cakegenie.com/holidays/closeu p/yulelog.jpg

2009-11-15 21:15:18 by dothandoll

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I make "homemade" greeting cards that I send out for holidays and just regular correspondence. I use cardstock, stamps, papers, and scrapbook appliques. My friends and family have suggested I make a website and sell the cards or even approach a boutique about seeling a few. How homemade is homemade? I do not "make" any of the items I use to construct the cards like the paper, ink, and especially the stickers/scrapbook appliques I use. Often times, a large scrapbook piece - like a 3D christmas tree sticker - will be the main focus on the front of the card. Can I still sell these since the design and construction is my own? Or do the items I use to construct it have to be homemade as well? Thanks, Abby.

Look, if someone goes shopping and picks up some apples, flour, baking soda, sugar, cinnimon and a gelatin mix, then goes home and bakes a pie, it the pie NOT home made because they didn't grow and grind the flour, process the sugar, manufacture the baking powder or the pie tin or the gelatin?

Is a dress not home made because the dressmaker BOUGHT the fabric?

Have you ever seen restaurant signs advertising "home made" entrees and deserts? In who's home do you think they were made.

Relax. What you are creating are what is called an "assemblage." You are CREATTING a new thing out of other, made things. Your creations are just as original, or "home made" as any classic artist's masterpiece painting, even though that artist probably did NOT "make" his own paints or canvas.

2009-12-01 12:28:44 by clareH

I make my own handmade cards, and i'm starting with my christmas lot. I found the perfect 3D embellishment for the MIL's card. It's a cat with a christmas hat and comes with a few extras like a small tree, set of presents and a stocking. So my thought was to make a fireplace scene, have the cat sitting by the fire with the tree and presents to add the christmasiness to it. But i want to make it look completely 3D like your looking at a photo and see at the dimension, so i though pop up was perfect to do that but not sure whether a 66 year old goes for pop up anymore lol What do you think?

No, I'm sure she will appreciate something like that. Anything you make yourself will be greatly valued, not for the cost of the thing, but for the special care you took to make something very special for them. You gave of yourself, and that is what counts. You are never too old to feel good when someone likes you!

And 66 is not that old, you know! haha

2008-11-21 12:58:27 by spring_rainbows