3D Christmas Train Card

A 3D Christmas train card, 6.1 by 8.07 inches closed and 0.11 pounds. A train is the longest thing we build in paper, and a card has to work hard to hold one.

Length Inside a Small Format

A tree rises, a reindeer stands, a train runs across. Fitting that into a card 6.1 inches wide means the engine and carriages have to be arranged in depth rather than in a line, which is why this design has more going on at different distances from the eye than the others in the range.

Who Buys a Train

Christmas trains belong to a particular tradition, the model railway around the base of the tree, and that association does the work here. It is sent to households that already decorate that way, and to people who like trains in general, which is a surprisingly reliable category.

Weight

0.11 pounds, in the heavier half of the Christmas cards, where the lightest is the yellow reindeer at 0.07 and the simplest tree at 0.08. More paper, more layers, more to open.

Specification

Christmas train card, 6.1 by 8.07 inches closed, 0.08 inches thick flat, 0.11 pounds.

Nothing is personalised and no proof is needed.

At 0.08 inches folded it posts in an ordinary envelope.

Write the message yourself; the card arrives blank inside.

Order early, since December post runs slower and the date cannot be moved.

It folds flat afterwards and can be kept as a decoration for the following year.

Cut paper holds its colour where printed ink fades.

Tree, reindeer, sleigh and workshop designs are the other Christmas cards in the range.

A short handwritten line underneath is enough, since the card carries the occasion.

A pop-up is a decoration that posts flat, which is the whole reason the format exists.

Because nothing is personalised, there is no proof to approve and nothing can arrive wrong.

At 6.1 by 8.07 inches it takes the same envelope as the big tree, big sleigh and red reindeer cards.

A train also reads as a card for an adult as easily as for a child, which Santa does not.

Among the Christmas designs this is the one most often bought for a grandparent, for reasons nobody has ever fully explained.

Made in 1-2 business days, US delivery in 3-5.