I had a blast working on this fun holiday card for a firm in northern California. They work with clients in the dairy industry, hence the milk references.
This simple message was on the inside of the folded card:
The following year we changed up the colors and fonts a little bit, but kept the same overall look.
When my family first moved from southern California to Utah, our son had just turned two and we were excited and a little apprehensive about moving to a place with a real winter... you know, the kind where it snows and the temperature might go below 50°!
I wanted our holiday card that year to reflect our new home and I thought of the card I sent in 2008. We didn't have an opportunity to take any family photos, so I created a watercolor painting of the three of us and printed them on watercolor paper on my trusty HP printer.
Notice I have no holiday cards for 2009 and 2010. I was a brand new mom on maternity leave in the winter of 2009. It took me almost six months to even main his birth announcements! And 2010? It wasn’t happening.
For the back, I just happened to take a lovely photo of our son admiring an ornament on my grandmother's Christmas tree a few weeks before Christmas. It worked!
I totally scrounged together whatever pieces of scrap card stock I had to print these too. Some had purple card stock, some had navy blue, some had a lighter blue. And I just changed the color of the text on the back to fit with the card stock. I even used leftover envelopes I had from a previous project.
It was created last minute and in a bit of a rush, but it's still one of my favorite holiday cards that we've mailed.
In 2008, my husband and I were newly married and happily living life in southern California. It was the first year we were sending out a holiday card as a married couple and I wanted to do something fun. This watercolor painting was the result.
Yup, snow angels in the sand.
I printed them onto card stock and mounted them onto pre-made red and white note cards that came with red envelopes from Target. I added a short, hand-written message on the inside too. Simple and fun.
