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Ding Dong!

Christmas Card

Posted in Ding Dong!. on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by annie

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If you rang my doorbell right now, you’d find me at my desk, with a pile of 200 cards that look exactly like this one – except the left & bottom eighth of an inch would be strangely, no, sadly cropped off.  Let me explain.

This year, with adorable cards pouring in from friends and loved ones all over the country, I was inspired to create my own photo card.  I had way too much fun playing with photoshop.   My very patient  and web savvy husband, Ted, has taught me some photoshop basics over the past few years – enough to create graphics for this blog, images for evites and such,  but this was my first attempt at a printable project all on my own.  I’m most proud of the dotted lines, mostly because it’s a trick Ted, somehow, didn’t know how to accomplish… (Okay, so I did cave and ask him for help!  But I ended up figuring out with a little help from designer/illustrator Marlina who blogs over at Lovely Room, not from Ted!)

So, the design was a great success.  Sadly, I had them printed at a less then apt printing establishment, whose name I shall not defame here but whose services I will never again use, and while I was able to recover the cashola I paid for the pitiful printing mess, I was out of time to send them for 2009.  Maybe next year… Regardless, I hope all of you thoroughly enjoyed the Holidays!  We had a several wonderful days with family, the surprise homecoming of my cousin who is stationed far away with the Air Force, a Christmas Eve Pageant with live animals and beautiful hymns in a stone church that borders Central Park, and two little girls with twinkles in their eyes & awe in their hearts at the mystery of a baby King in a stable.  And, like my cards, our holiday memories weren’t perfect, but making them was a blast!

3 Comments

  1. Vineeta on January 17th, 2010

    Love this design & love the design of your blog (also love Nutella!) Just hopped over from the ‘blog roll’ I’m excited about meeting everybody & checking out a whole new world of blogs :)

  2. Melinda on January 18th, 2010

    Those are gorgeous! whcc.com is a great printing company and they give you templetes with a “safe” line so that you know your design isn’t going to get cut off :)

  3. annie on January 20th, 2010

    Thanks, Vineeta. I’ve loved checking out artnlight. Love your header! Melinda, thanks for the tip. I was so disappointed, but hopefully next year…



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