Spoiler Alert if you are in our holiday exchange! Sadly, I couldn’t get these out until this past Thursday so they aren’t showing up before tomorrow! But hopefully before New Years.
This year’s card was a true labor of love. I was inspired by a C.C. Canan bird flourish. But where he saw a bird, I saw a snow globe. I also did a bit more detailed flourishing. Since I had these printed at a local printshop, I could choose the paper size. To capture as much detail as possible, I did a 7 3/4” x 13” trifold. Once printed, I added some flourishing in gold watercolor and some sparkly glue dots for snow. All in, I spent over 96 hours creating these, not including calligraphing the envelopes. I thought I would make it easy this year and not do a family photo card and just use my calligraphy card for both my personal and calligraphy lists. That turned into another timely decision. LOL!
Anyhoo, I am sharing the original design before printing, photos of the printed cards, and the original black and white design which was done in ProCreate.
Merry Christmas!
