Last year, due to the general craziness of school, the cottage being painted and other things going on, I never mailed out Christmas cards. Instead I made, “Happy New Year” cards in January and mailed those out. Since we were already being non-traditional, we kept it that way and had our design printed up on postcards with envelopes to mail them in.
I had so much fun doing that, that this year, I decided that I would do it again. I created a design to fit on a postcard and this time I had the help of Mr. Michie, Goose Girl & Foxy.
I gathered up a few of my Christmas items, GiGi & Foxy invited over some gnomes and deer to the party and we got to work.
We set up a green screen, laid down “snow” and set up lighting. It was a regular little photography studio we had going on here.
We posed everyone in different positions, until we found one that would work best, after going through all the proofs, we picked a few images to work with and got going.
Through Photoshop, I extracted out the background, placed in an image we found, that seemed to work in harmony with everything else and adjusted the lighting, placed an overlay on the top, to create a frosty feel and added in a “Merry Christmas” banner, drawn by Mr. Michie.
We designed a back for the postcard as well, with a small Christmas message and a vintage picture of Santa. This was a project I truly enjoyed working on and I can’t wait till next year, I already have ideas like sugarplums dancing in my head!!
(My work is my own, please do not use it for your own purposes! Thank you.)
