Potato and parsnip printed Christmas Cards

This Christmas at Site Gallery we've been running a series of Christmas Card and Decoration Making Workshops on Saturdays. I decide to impliment potato printing (along with collaging and stamping), since sourcing a life changing book, by Helen R. Haddad, published 1981 'Potato Printing' (as recently featured by Present and Correct).

Here's some snaps of the workshop and the cards I proceeded to make at home after a little experimentation during the workshops!

Little wonky robin is my only Christmas Card design this year. I ran out of potatoes and switched to a parsnip which I must say worked fine.

Take a look back at past Christmas designs I made if you like:

2011 - Watercolour squirrels & robins scene

2010 - Lino cut Robin prints

2009 - Repeat watercolour Christmas pattern for cards, advent calendar and tags

2008 - Re-interpreted Victorian Christmas Cards - Handpainted

Christmas

I've received more homemade Christmas cards this year than ever before. Its lovely to see a proud return to recycling old cards, cut-and-stick & glitter glue...Long gone is the impersonal card set - its great that the old fashioned values of giving handwritten personal cards are still relevant.

Since 2008 I've designed my own festive illustrations for christmas cards, inspired mostly by exquisite victorian christmas cards found, and traditional festive imagery drawn from memory.