I realized that I never shared my family’s holiday card from 2020. It was an interesting year for sure. It was also the first year we opted to skip the professional photos with Santa that we’d been doing for the past six years and instead we just put my iPhone on a tripod and took photos in our bedroom. It was a year of unintended togetherness and we all survived. The photo quality wasn’t great, but it kind of fit for how 2020 went.
On the back I shared a bit about what we were all up to during the year.
This year I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. 2021 was a year of road trips for us since my husband spent the whole year on sabbatical, so we traveled during every school break and a few times during the summer. Then the second half of the year was dedicated to my oldest and I training for our taekwondo black belt test.
So we decided to have our travels be the focus of our holiday card this year. I put together a collage of Polaroid photos from some of our adventures and then the back listed some of the highlights of our year and a salutation.
The photo on the back was taken at Sand Hollow State Park by the amazing Arika Bauer from Zion Adventure Photog. She took wonderful family photos for us just after Christmas last year and I adore how they turned out. If you’re ever in southern Utah and want some fantastic photos to document your travels, or even just a beautiful backdrop for family photos, give her a call. She works great with kids and she’s even done engagements and proposals.
Both this year and last year, I had my cards printed at my local Office Depot. They’ve done a good job every time I’ve had something printed and they get it done quickly; usually done the same day. When I have the time to place an online order, I usually go with Overnight Prints.
Here’s to getting further through a pandemic and hopefully moving closer to a life that’s closer to the normal we had before. Happy New Year!
It's a little later than I wanted, but I managed to get a few new holiday cards designs and added to my Etsy shop this past week.
I'll be accepting orders for holiday cards (whether custom or in my Etsy shop) thru Sunday, December 20th. After the 20th, I will deactivate holiday card listings in my shop and spending the week of Christmas with my family.
All of these designs have a couple of options when it comes to either a text color or a background color. Clicking on an image will take you to its listing in my shop.
My sister and her fiancé, Michael wanted to send out a holiday card that shared a bit about the fun stuff they did in 2014. The biggest event was that they got engaged!! We used the polaroid photo collage that I used for my family's 2012 holiday card and made it work for their images.
As you can see, they love to be active and outside.
Congrats little sister!! Can't wait to share your wedding invitations too!
Jill purchased this holiday card from my Etsy shop and I wanted to share it since it was such a great idea! Santa photos throughout the years!
Lauren's mommy wanted to combine her birth announcement with their moving announcement and the timing on when they were getting these mailed meant we could also make this their family holiday card. Convenient!
Here's what we came up with (names and info have been changed to protect privacy).
2012 was kind of a crazy year for us. We were acclimating to living in a new state (one with real winter!) and we were traveling like mad knowing that the following year our son would be starting school. We wanted our holiday card to showcase all of the fun trips we took and a collage of polaroid photos was our final result.
You can barely see the passport stamps I added to the edges here.
I printed these with VistaPrint and I was really happy with how the turned out.
