Thursday, November 18, 2010

A labor of love and a contest

Every year around this time, I begin working on my Christmas cards and searching for design ideas. And every year, I promise myself that I'm going to work on them early so they can be mailed out on time and that I'm going to do something simple this year so that it's easy to make the 50 that I need. Well, this year I half succeeded. I have actually begun to make the cards this year, which is really early for me. I don't usually begin to make them until December. I think last year I wasn't able to begin making them until mid December because I had to finish my Anatomy class first and couldn't study and make cards at the same time. However, I have to laugh at my design ideas this time because I have really got myself in deep this time. I found an idea from another demonstrator, Carrie Gaskin, and the moment I saw her card, I fell in love. The theme of this card is my absolute favorite Christmas character. For our Christmas decorations, we have two of the big blow up decorations, one to represent both my and Jason's favorite Christmas characters. Well, Carrie came up with a card that incorporates my favorite character. In fact, when I showed the idea to Jason, he even said that I had to do it. So I have been working all week on the cards, and this is what I have so far:
                                  
As you can see, I didn't exactly choose a simple design of the card, each piece of the house is individual and then inked and put together to make up the house. But, I'm thrilled with the look so far, I think these are going to be my best cards yet.

So now, here's the contest. I will send a little something to the first person who comments with the correct character. And now I have to get back to work. :D

2 comments:

Kim said...

It's a snoopy card!!! I love the woodpecker in that show he's my favorite! Can't wait to see the completed cards to see if I'm right.

Jessica said...

You got it, Kim. It's Snoopy's house. I think it will be a few days still before Snoopy makes it on the cards, but I can't wait until he makes his appearance, they're turning out so cute!