I love traditions when they help create or reinforce community. One of my favorite traditions is holiday greetings in the mail. I especially like reminiscing about our year to find what might be worth mentioning in the couple paragraphs. Now that I have kiddos, I like thinking about how they’ve grown or matured over the year, and how to sum that up to our family and friends. And I like the connection that a holiday card can bring - a warm greeting to our elderly recipients, an affirmation of a new friendship, a welcome viewport into the lives of those we don’t get to chat with enough.
This year I went with a more traditional 4x6 card, with images on the front and our message on the back. We were fortunate to have some professional photos from a charity event over the summer, that both featured heavily and created the color palette for the card.
Everything was created in Procreate on the ipad, which is my favorite app for lettering digitally. Neon envelopes were a fun find! And of course I used vintage stamps whenever possible.
I hope everyone who received one felt a bit of the cheer my family was sending. It was such a pleasure to receive so many this year.
