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…and buy them a MEGA pack of coat hanngers or some plastic cups :crazy_dru

na if you make a masive card yourself out of shit and put a bit of time into it .. then im sure that will be apreciated .. you could get the materials from the pound shop:laugh_at:

my bro did one of these for my sister out of porno’s, that was amusing :laugh_at:

lol … i’m gonna have to make a few of them for peeps … better buy some new porno tho .. not sure my m8s would apreciate ones i um well you know lol

alltho we are suposed to be makeing presants on the cheep in this thread …so if i kept my old porn ..it would save me buying glue :laugh_at:

eek :yakk:

Paint a stone :weee:

there was this really cool hippy dude at lulworth cove selling fantastic painted stones, brought Mr Tank one of the ‘man’ in the hill with the big willie 😉

I am having a very skint Christmas myself. Am on strict (ish) budget to clear my debts. So – Have been officially excused from buying any presents, most of family supportive on that one – my son’s idea.

However, even though they don’t mind, I thought i would show them i care by making their cards. 💡 – Which sounds lovely, except i am not blessed with creativity in the card-making dept lol. Music – no probs, my juices flow. Especially when oiled :crazy_dru

ANYWAYYY . . .My handy hints for fellow paupers this year –

– Print photos/pictures from computer – hand-pick for each individual, something that relates to them personally, either a funny pic, or maybe a family photo, or even an ‘inspirational’ jpg, with text on it. I googled ‘free Christmas backgrounds and graphics’ and got some cool stuff for my cards. Also worth trying Scrapbooking sites, they have loadsa stuff too.

– Stick photo over the picture on left over cards from last year, or use card that came out of product packaging, ie – shirts

– Then, grab some of the old decorations u don’t need – or scrounge some.
– And stick stuff on/in card. I just had a glue-stick so put some round the edge of the photo and sprinkled some finely chopped tinsel all along. Added some red ribbon.

Coulda done with some glitter really but I literally had NO money for this project. All i got is this laptop, and my HP Photosmart printer (only does photos though) – Got it for xmas last year, still a mere novice though.

I took photos of some of my efforts, i’ll see if i can get them up here soon, they r a poor show really, but i haven’t done anything like that since i was about 10 hehe! And as my mum always said – It’s the thought that counts!

Hope some of this helps someone a bit. Post up piccies when your done, and – btw, if anyone out there is actually crappier than me, feel free to use one of my masterpieces lol. Hopefully better artists will put theirs up though 😉

Here’s my 1st attempts for . . . u don’t wanna know how long!

But these are the ones i’d rather have sent – i’m just too well-behaved for my liking these days grr

One of my mates gives painted stones instead of birthday cards. She is a proper hippy tho.