Saturday, December 4

Cheesy, Corny, Awkward Christmas Cards Wearing Bad Christmas Sweaters

by Karen Robert

Wearing ugly Christmas sweaters on Christmas cards is all the rage. Yes, you heard me, bad Christmas Sweaters are trendy. These cards are so corny , cheesy and just plain awkward that they are hysterically funny. People are having bad sweater Christmas parties, people are writing articles about them, and yes, people are wearing them in their Christmas cards. But this time, with irony. Here are my top picks for awkward, cheesy, corny, Christmas cards of people wearing ugly, bad Christmas sweaters.

I’ve posted this card before, it ‘s by Theresa Thompson, for me it’s the quintessential bad sweater Christmas card. She gets lots of points , in my eyes, for getting her teenage kids to wear the plaid vests. To see more of her cards on this site go here.

And here is another one of my favorite Bad seater Christmas cards. It’s by Trevor Navarra, he had a few pictures in my book. So many , that we actually edited this one out. I don’t know why actually since it’s so great. I love the sparkle of the tooth. Brilliant.

Yikes, this one was taken at a Sears portrait studio..I love the pose. It’s very “40 Year Old Virgin”.

By photographer John Keatley for his company card this year. He’s the one in the wheelchair.

Ever wondered what the disembodied heads of Yamaha factory riders Valentino Rossi, Ben Spies and James Stewart would look like on ghastly Christmas sweaters? Oh, I love the irony of tough motorcycle guys in bad Christmas sweaters.
These aren’t actually the worst Christmas sweaters I’ve ever seen…but the awkward spirit is there.

By Scot at scott.sphotographs.com.

Corny , Cheesy Christmas sweater Christmas card again by John Keatley again. He is available to do a corny shoot like this for you, or for your company. Both of his cards are in fact for companies. You can find him at keatleyphoto.com

Lovely couple with a lovely sense of humor…I hope. found here on picasa.

Oh, Scott…you’re so awkward.

Sony Music released this Christmas card of the cast of Glee wearing bad Christmas cards. The photo was released to promote their Glee Christmas Album which came out this month.

Even the dogs got into the action at http://littlemayra.blogspot.com

The legs are more scary than the bad sweaters on this Christmas card photo

I love the closed eyes on this card…this card sooo bad, it’s fabulous. I found it on Flickr.

Aaaaawkward

Thanks Chris and Jana Schaeffer here on Flickr.
This one was on Awkward Family Photos, but I am sure it is staged. The dog was added later on the sweater, you can tell it was photoshopped in. I love the fact that it is hard to tell if it was faked though, it makes it even more funny. …hmmmm.

Pippa’s google eyes take this card from bad to fab.

And here is an invitation to a bad Christmas sweater party found here. I love the fact that these sweaters are different, no red and green here, but snowflake inspired….niiiiice touch.

If you want to buy a bad Christmas sweater go to here, on this site you can also get some great party planning tips for throwing a bad Christmas sweater party. Parties like this are all the rage I hear.

Now that was a fun blog posting, probably the favorite one I’ve done yet this season. Remember, please send me your fun cards so I can post them for all to appreciate and admire. I have many more postings like this coming up every day. Submit your card here, or if you are a photographer with lots of fun cards to show, I would love to do an interview with you. Contact me.

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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 Robert

Putting 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. Kids in a holiday card photo holding letters JOY 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. Kids holding the words Ho Ho Ho for their Christmas card. 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. Paece to the world 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. People Spelling out Merry Christmas

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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