Christmas Card 2024

My photograph for 2024 was of Ipswich Cemetery in the snow of 2009. That snow was unusual for Suffolk in being sticky. It stuck to trees bending them down, making the fir trees look incongruously like palm trees.

It was in the "Old Cemetery", a slightly misleading name as it was created in 1855 so there are many older cemeteries in Ipswich. The others are much smaller church and similar ones, this being the oldest of the big Ipswich Corporation ones. Less misleading than the "New Cemetery" which is the second oldest of the corporation's ones and dates from 1937.

Camera = Panasonic TZ5.

The border was a duplicate of the one I have used most years from 2004.

Downloads

• Photograph in screen resolution (as above).
• Photograph in original full resolution for printing.
• Border in original LibreOffice Draw format.
• Border converted to PDF format.

Card assembly instructions to duplicate the original:

1. Get the full resolution photograph printed at 6"x4.5" on photographic paper.
2. Print the border using a laser printer (or print once and duplicate by photocopier) on A4 160 g/m² white cardboard.
3. Fold the printed cardboard into an A5 greetings card with one straight crease.
4. Glue (or double sided selotape or similar) the photograph to the card in the correct orientation. Take care not to make the photograph too soggy.

Printing the border & photograph together on a normal home or office colour printer does not give as good results and gives a more mass-produced look.

More Christmas Cards

For the rest of my Christmas cards, go up to my Christmas card gallery page.

By Andrew Hardwick.
Distributable under GPL or CC-by-sa freeware licences.
Written 2025/11/29.
Available on-line at http://duramecho.com.