Easy Christmas Cards

I made these up for a good friend of mine, she had already bought these cards a couple years ago and wanted this poem on the inside, she also wanted it printed on vellum so I got out the green and it was a winner! After we got that figured out I asked her how she was going to attch the peom to the inside and she said that she had photo corners... well that just wouldnt do for me I asked her if it would be ok if I used some ribbon to attach them and she loved the idea so this is it, I found gold ribbon punched 2 holes in the top and attached the vellum, she loved how they turned out :)

This is what the poem says:

KEEPING CHRISTMAS

Henry Van Dyke

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas Day, and that is KEEPING CHRISTMAS.

ARE YOU WILLING to forget what you have done for other people and to remember what other people have done for you? To ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world? To admit that the only good reason for your existences is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life?

ARE YOU WILLING to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children? To remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old? To stop asking how much your friends like you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough? To try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you? To make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open?

ARE YOU WILLING to do these things even for a day? Then you can KEEP CHRISTMAS.

ARE YOU WILLING to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world -- stronger than hate, stronger than death -- and that the blessed Life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of Eternal Love?

Then you can KEEP CHRISTMAS.