Christmas postcards

I worked on my Christmas postcards for the swap over the weekend.  I was going to use my Gocco and do some cool prints, those cool prints didn't turn out so cool so i went back to my original idea and i'm SO glad i did.
I've been saving the toilet roll tubes (recycled of course) for the past month with the intention of using them in my postcard creations.  I had an old dictionary that i had picked up at an op shop a while back and used some of the pages which i printed with 'Merry Christmas!' in different fonts to cover the outside of the tubes. 

"What is that inside?" i hear you ask.  Well, inside the tube is my miniature postcard made from a scrap piece of recycled cardboard on which you will find a cute little peg dolly.  I used some scraps of fabric and ribbon for her dress and acrylic paints for her face and hair, she has a little flower in her hair too!

She has a magnet attached to her back so she can be used all year round :)  And on the back is a holiday message.  I almost sliced off my thumb last night while cutting the messages out with a craft knife to stick onto the cards.  Ouch!  My Mam will be proud though, she's good at doing silly stuff like that.

As you saw in the first photo i have tied the tube up with twine and inside along with the dolly postcard is a little scroll with a note to the recipient printed on recycled paper.
And finally they will be posted in these little sacks that i made from some calico in my stash.  I printed the addresses onto recycled paper and sewed them onto the calico along with a piece that i can stick the stamp onto.

I really enjoyed putting these together and hope my swap partners like them :)