Era Era Holiday CardsHoliday Cards

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• To create your Victorian Holiday card:

– Choose a picture and print it on paper– Choose a quote from A Christmas Carol or

David Perdue’s website for the message inside– Trim your your card & decorate it in the

Victorian style to turn in – Put your logo on the back of the card (name

period and date)

Resources• Holiday cards became popular during Dickens lifetime.

However, they looked quite different from our cards today.

• Refer to the following site for information about cards during this era:

• Victorian Christmas cards with descriptions of the examples, pictures and text.

http://http://www.victoriana.com/christmas/xmas-side.htm

• David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens

Resources

• Use these slides of pictures to create your own version of Victorian Era Holiday cards.

• Remember:– Use any graphic picture you choose—

you do not have to include all pictures on a slide.

– Resize the pictures so they fit the scheme of your card.

– To save a picture, right-click on the picture and “Save picture as” on your desktop

»OR•Right-click on the picture and “copy” it, then

•Right-click on the document where you want the picture and “paste” it.

•Resize the picture so it looks the way you desire.

Cameos

Victorian Era Holiday Cards--Victorian Era Holiday Cards--examplesexamples

More examplesMore examples

•Victorianahttp://www.victoriana.com/antiques/greeting-cards/greeting-cards1.htm

Check out the following sites for more information and graphics:

•David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens

•Charles Dickens Victorian Web Sitehttp://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html

•Victoriana http://www.victoriana.com/welcome/

•Victorian Women Writers Project

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/