I got started on the family holiday card a little early this year. Last year it was well into December before I got it done – and it was simple. The past few years, the card design has been left up to me, which I don’t mind – its fun! This year I decided I wanted to do something a little different. We had this adorable photo that my dad took of Oliver on Christmas Eve last year and we all knew we wanted that to be incorporated into our card this year.
I didn’t want to go the “traditional” photo card route, because that is what I did last year and they can get a little boring. I was looking at pre-made cards online for inspiration, and I saw one that said “let it Snow” and had a snowglobe in place of the “o”. I liked the idea of using a snowglobe in the card, and played around with making some in Illustrator, but those didn’t feel right. I knew something could probably be done in Photoshop, so I poked around online and found an old photoshop snowglobe tutorial. I based my snowglobe off of the tutorial but changed a lot of the settings and changed the base to come up with something that looked (in my opinion) very nice.
I decided to put the picture of Oliver inside of the snowglobe, but it was decided that the photo needed some editing – bits needed to be removed and changed. So after some manipulation in Photoshop I came up with this:
I inserted that photo into my snowglobe file, created a gradient background with the snowflake brushes I forgot Photoshop had, and did several test prints for color and bam - our 2010 Holiday Card:
