Friday Features Time for Christmas Cards

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Christmas Cards

If you are sending cards this year it’s time to start working on them as you finish off the rest of the turkey. Do any of you even send Christmas Cards?

Christmas is Catherine’s favorite holiday. For years she changed every knickknack in the house to a Christmas decoration. She has a collection of nativities, a Christmas village, and an abundance of Christmas trees with at least five different themed sets of ornaments she uses to decorate. This year we are going a bit minimal. Not much reason to decorate a lot since it’s only for us.

Christmas cards have been a big deal in our house, too. We have a long-standing tradition of writing Christmas letters, filled with news of the year, and we often create our own Christmas stationary and even create our own Christmas cards. This is another tradition that is going by the wayside this year.

Here’s one of our specially designed cards based on a Christmas window Donald painted at our church several years back. (Yes we have some artistic talent that we use on occasion.)

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Born Under the Shadow of the Cross, original copyrighted art
For permission to reuse please contact author C.D. Hersh

The original drawing on the window did not have the dark sky and the radiated ribbons of color in the upper right hand corner because we couldn’t totally paint out the window. Those elements were added into the card to give drama. At night, the back sky in the church window had the same effect as painting out the sky in the card, minus the purple lines of color. This was a dramatic window in the evening. Note how the shadow of the cross creates the rooftop of the manger.

Have you created special holiday greetings? Are you going to do any this year? We’d love to hear about them.