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Christmas Countdown #25 Envelopes : Summer Christmas and Tree of Joy

 


Welcome December 2020 - I love to mark Advent with my own sort of calendar, counting down to Christmas. In the past, I have celebrated marvellous trees, Christmas firsts, an Advent alphabet and even much maligned fruit cake. In 2019, I completed #the100dayproject by creating collages on used envelopes. For this series, #25envelopes, I am revisiting that idea with of course, a Christmas theme. 

"Summer Christmas": 1/#25envelopes

1 December: 'Summer Christmas" ... Officially this is the first day of Summer here in Australia and thoughts of the beach and sunshine came to mind, especially when I found this 1977 Christmas stamp of Santa Claus riding a surfboard. The day here is Newcastle was an intense Summer day - very hot and humid and then a wild storm at night.... Christmas weather! The paper collage on this envelope tries to capture the colours of the beach with a threatening cloud forming, warning of a summer afternoon storm. 


"Tree of Joy ":  2/ #25envelopes  - Wilma Simmons 

 2 December : Tree of Joy ... For 47 years, the Rotary Club of Wallsend-Maryland has conducted its annual community service Christmas  project, " Tree of Joy ' and during that time, it has grown from distributing a few gifts to a  major community fundraising with food hampers, children's and adults' gifts being distributed to those in need. Last year, over 1,000 families were supported at Christmas , with the total value of donations estimated at approximately $50,000 . This envelope was created using a "Rotary Down Under" used envelope, with gel plate printed paper and a very appropriate  Christmas stamp, entitles "Joy" 



Both of these envelopes, for the first two days , were fun to create, and I have the materials, so I hope I will be able to continue and complete this series -  #25envelopes . Watch this space daily for updates. 

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