Winchester Fiber Arts

Winchester, Massachusetts

Holiday Cards

Christmas and holiday cards where the front comes off and keeps working: a quilted mug mat, a bookmark that slides out, an ornament to keep, and a birch wood cut from sheet music.

Most of these are cards where the front does not stay a card. The mini quilt lifts off and becomes a mug mat, the ribbon band slides out and becomes a bookmark, and the ornament card carries a real ornament taped over its own photograph, for whoever opens it to keep.

They are made the same way as anything else here: small pieces, accurate edges, just at the scale of something that fits in an envelope.

A greeting card laid flat on a work surface beside a spool of thread, its front carrying a mini quilt of a house in blue patterned fabrics on white, with patterned trims down each side of the card.
This mini quilt lifts off and becomes a mug mat.
  • A greeting card covered in a holly and berry print, banded with a gold ribbon and a green ribbon tied in a flat bow.
    Closed, with the bookmark still in place.
  • The same holly-print card with its ribbon band slid off and lying beside it, showing the piece that becomes a bookmark.
    The piece slides off and turns into a bookmark.
  • A card with a night scene panel — a crescent moon and snowflakes in a dark blue sky above a pale snowy slope with a bare tree — set in a wide cream border.
    The shaker card.
  • A folded card standing open, its front showing three birch trunks cut from printed sheet music against a bright blue sky, with a small red cardinal perched on one.
    Birch trunks cut from sheet music.
  • A navy blue card with a gold-brown reindeer silhouette on the front, wearing a red collar strung with small bells.
    Reindeer card, with a belled collar.
  • A white card with a snowman drawn as two outlined circles, with dark dot eyes and mouth, an orange carrot nose, thin brown arms and a green ribbon scarf.
    Snowman card, with a ribbon scarf.
  • A folded card standing on a white surface, its front a photograph of crocheted hexagon ornaments printed at their real size, with one actual crocheted ornament fixed over its own picture.
    A photograph of all the ornaments at their real size, with one real ornament taped over its own picture for the recipient to keep.

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