That wonderful time of year

posted December 5, 2011 in Happenings

To celebrate a banner year, we decided to go big with our holiday cards to showcase some of our favorite images from our travels. “Christmas isn’t a season, it’s a feeling,” a quote by author Edna Ferber, seemed to capture the sentiment we were after.

To design our holiday card, we used ProDPI’s 4” x 5.5” press printed accordion cards which fold into 4 panels. I got the idea from Seattle photographer Laurence Kim. He shares his tips on creating your own holiday cards in his tutorial here. The best thing is that they stand nicely on the mantel and look a bit different than a typical holiday card. I especially like that they focus more on the subjects and memories rather than holiday embellishments. Special thanks to James Christianson for creating such wonderful images from our engagement session and Roger Olsen in his ‘second-shooting’ role of photographing our actual proposal 🙂
We chose the linen texture of paper which you can see here: I find it easier to use Indesign instead of Photoshop to create the cards. Nothing like drag & drop simplicity (instead of juggling between layers). Here’s our final design as it was designed on the computer:

wpid-Fullspread4x55AccordionInside_2-2011-12-5-11-30.jpg And ready to ship:

Here’s to a peaceful and joyful holiday and a great start to 2012!
PS- I ran out of holiday cards after realizing I didn’t order enough…. so stay tuned clients and loved ones a second batch to go out in the mail soon!