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making the card for 2007

I know the 13th December is a bit late to start making cards for Christmas, but I had to start some time. Every year I say I will make them in the summer, but nothing changes.

I designed the card on a vector based design package. It is actually just made of four broken lines that are repeated through 30^o from the centre of the circle.

I gave the file to Pete Griffiths, who used his plotter to cut the shape out of vinyl. After "weeding" the vinyl it was stuck onto a clean piece of copper. I sprayed the plate with several layers of car spray then peeled off the rest of the vinyl.
        Copper Plate with weeded vinyl sheets
        Copper plate resting next to shelf and Copper plate with light hitting the centre.
        Copper plate and printed card.
        The card as it looks when it is printed. I included the cranes as they would be impossible to avoid.