Sunday, December 27
This Card is the Cat’s Meow
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Tuesday, December 22
Put Your Greeting Inside the Photo
by Karen RobertPutting the Holiday Greeting inside the photo is a fun and easy way of saying Happy Holidays, but it also gives the kids something to do in a photo. Without something to dothe kids run out of patience before you have the shot and you are left there pleading “just three more shots…please!!”
Here are a few which made it into my book, “Merry Christmas From…150 Christmas cards you wish you’d Received.” There are numerous shots out there where the kids are holding letters spelling out a word. This one where the dog has the ‘O’ around his neck , I think is particularly successful.
It was shot by photographer xxxxx. I love also how the little girl is chewing on the ‘Y”. You know she would have had a hard time sitting there without a prop.
This Christmas card spelling out Ho Ho Ho uses the same concept. 
It was taken by photographer Shaelyn O’Neil. You know the kids will remember this card for years to come.
Another way of putting the words in the picture is simply to have your children holding a sign. This picture was also in my book.(add photo) It was taken by photographer Jay Shoots for his Christmas card one year. His daughter is standing inside a cranberry bog. I adore the simplicity of this. The handmade sign makes it incredibly charming. Had she just been standing there with no sign, it would have been a sweet picture, but something would have been missing.
Here is another picture where the child is holding a sign. 
This picture was taken by my friend Tanya Mallot who is an amazing wedding and children’s photographer. She sent this out one year for her Christmas card. I think it is incredibly charming; I especially love the shadow the ‘Peace’ sign casts on the wall behind him.
Tanya Mallott also took the photos for my Christmas Card which I sent out many years ago. I did an iron on transfer on T-shirts for the words on both on the front and back of the kids’ shirts. The fornt of the card was the front of their shirts and the back of the cards was the back of their shirts. I have a particular passion for cards which have fronts and backs. It makes them almost 3-dimensional.
Lately I’ve seen quite a few cards where people are using children’s blocks for their Christmas message., like in this photo. What a great way also of informing people of an upcoming birth.
If you are really adventurous, try doing a card like this. It will take some photoshop skills, but it is absolutely fabulous. I wish I had found it in time for my book. This is also in the favorites section at the moment, under the corporate cards section. They are evidently an ambitious and creative team.
IHere is another take on that theme, this couple didn’t actually need Photo Shop for this , they just laid on their bed and spelled out “melekelikimaka”, that’s Merry Christmas in Hawaiian in case you are like me and didn’t know. (add photo)
As usual, if you have any ideas for cards, or if you have a fun card to show everyone, Go to the “Submit a Card” section on this site. Don’t forget to tell me who you are so I can give you credit for your idea.
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Monday, December 21
Wedding Theme: Corny Christmas sweaters
A Christmas Sweater Wedding
This couple decided to have a wedding with the theme of bad Christmas sweaters. What a fun wedding this must have been.
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Monday, December 21
Wide eyed and be-sweatered
wide eyed and be-sweatered
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Monday, December 21
At the Doorstep for Christmas
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Saturday, December 12
Cut Out Christmas card
From Cheeky Magpie.com
This is one of those projects that is a true glimpse in to the depths of my creative insanity. I see something and then I ponder it until I resolve whatever design dilemmas it involves. (And I’ve had a lot of time to ponder.)Then I create.
Cards are always a bit of a struggle for me and Christmas cards are even harder. Why on Earth would I think this might be easy, I don’t know. I’ll have the boys make all the presents in the sled once they get past the initial humiliation of the card. I’ll probably have to lie to them about who I am sending it to or I won’t get any help. And I’ll only make five of them. I am notorious for making crazy, over-the-top cards and never sending them. I am a bad crafter.
Let me preface this project by noting my *ever so slight* interest in pop-up books. Nay, I confess that I bow to the designers of those dimensional pieces of art. If I had my druthers, I’d make them myself. For this is the paper world I live in…the fact that it fits nicely in an envelope is a bonus.
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