Christmas cards and invitations, free
Seventeen Christmas cards and five invitations, painted for the readers of Keep the Christmas Magic and free for anyone who wants them.
Send (for WhatsApp, Messenger, email)
Print (A4 · US Letter)
Every card comes two ways. One to send from your phone, and one to print at home, fold, and write in properly. Use as many as you like, every year, for as long as they are useful to you. If a friend needs some, send her the link.
Sendable cards (JPG)
Just download the cards and save in your phone’s memory. From there choose a suitable one and send with a message or write on top of the card.
Printable cards (PDF)
Each printable card is a single page (double A6 or half letter) that folds in half.
Two cards per sheet. In your print settings choose 2 pages per sheet and fit to printable area (sometimes called shrink to fit). Print on A4 or US Letter, whichever your printer takes. Cut along the centre line between the two cards, then fold each one in half.
One card per sheet. If you want one larger card, print one page per sheet instead.
Open the following links, and you can print the cards direct from the browser. Or download them to your device. You can share this link with your friends, too.
- Gifts and deco · Print, cut and fold
- Bells and deco · Print,cut and fold
- Angels · Print, cut and fold
- Santa and sledge · Print, cut and fold
- Elves · Print, cut and fold
- Gingerbread · Print, cut and fold
- Wreath · Print, cut and fold
- Cones · Print, cut and fold
- Santa and gifts · Print, cut and fold
- Christmas tree · Print, cut and fold
- Reindeers · Print, cut and fold
- Santa on the roof · Print, cut and fold
- Candles · Print, cut and fold
- Fireplace · Print, cut and fold
- Snowman · Print, cut and fold
- Santa and laundry · Print, cut and fold
- Bear · Print, cut and fold
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Sendable invitations (JPG)
Just download the cards and save in your phone’s memory. From there choose a suitable one and send with a message or write on top of the card.
Printable cards (PDF)
Each printable card is a single page (double A6 or half letter) that folds in half.
- December get together · Print cut and fold
- Open House · Print cut and fold
- Christmas Dinner · Print cut and fold
- Come around · Print cut and fold
- Celebrate Christmas · Print cut and fold
- Grown-ups evening · Print cut and fold
- Gentle reminder · Print cut and fold
- Thank you from the Little Hands · Print cut and fold
- Thank you · Print cut and fold
- New Year’s Eve · Print cut and fold
The Book: Keep the Christmas Magic
These cards and invitations were made for Keep the Christmas Magic by Heidi Lund, a book about doing Christmas properly without doing all of it.
The worksheets presented in Keep the Christmas Magic are the card list, gift list, menu and September audit.
The Card List
Most people keep their Christmas card list in their head, and most people quietly lose two or three names a year without ever noticing.
There are two columns for each year: S for the cards you sent, R for the ones you received. The received column is the one that earns its place. It catches the people who thought of you when you did not think of them, and after three years it shows you, without any guesswork, who has gently stopped.
Nobody is crossed off. There is a line at the bottom marked paused, so that if a card turns up from someone you had let go, they come straight back.
Three years to a sheet, so it gets more useful every time you fill it in.
From Keep the Christmas Magic, the chapter on Christmas cards.
The Gift List
One column does almost all the work here: what I gave last year.
It prevents the repeat, it stops the slow annual escalation that nobody ever decided on, and it means you start each autumn with information instead of a blank and faintly panicky page.
Fill the Ideas column across the year rather than in November. When somebody mentions something in April, write it down that day. The best presents are nearly always the ones you overheard months earlier.
Write the budget before you shop, not afterwards in a spirit of regret.
And there are two ticks at the end, bought and wrapped. The relief of the second one is out of all proportion to the effort involved.
From Keep the Christmas Magic, the chapter on presents.
The Menu
Every Christmas menu grows by roughly one dish a year, and it never shrinks, because no single addition ever feels like too much.
So this sheet asks for two things: what you served, and what happened to it. Finished. Half went back. Untouched. Made it and forgot to put it out.
That last verdict is more common than you would think, and it is always slightly heartbreaking, and it tells you a great deal about how much you were carrying that day.
Two or three dishes on your list will turn out to exist purely out of momentum. Cut them. Not one will be missed.
Then keep what survives. A menu that repeats is not a failure of imagination, it is a tradition, and children in particular are fierce about the food being the same.
From Keep the Christmas Magic, the chapter on food.
The September Audit
What actually happened last Christmas.
September is the right month for this. If it is already November, do it anyway. Because by December you will have forgotten last year and by January you will not want to think about it.
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