Four years ago we began a Christmas Postcard tradition. The first one was the result of an after-dinner conversation. We invested a good five minutes in it, but it still turned out OK. In 2006 we went all out. I had the idea of putting the pictures on the tree months before Christmas. It was a good thing because it seemed like it took months to put the card together.
Last year we streamlined things a bit and went with a simple design which included a picture of our favorite ornament. And this year is completely minimalist with only three pictures. We did add the personal touch of signing the card.
Some postcard trivia:
1 – Brutus the Buckeye started appearing on each card in 2006. Can you find him in the 2008 picture?
2 – Someone in the family has taken each picture except the Brutus on the 2006 card.
3 – Photoshop has never been used to create our postcard. Instead I use a program called Xara (my favorite graphic editor). We send a JPEG of the final version to Snapfish for printing.
4 – We all signed the 2008 card using a tablet computer, but Kayla was away at college. She sent me an Adobe Illustrator file with her signature and I imported it into Xara.
5 – To make our card grammatically correct, we dropped the apostrophe in 2008. We are plural and not possessive.
Seeing all the cards on one page, we have decided to make the 2009 card red.
