Happy Holidays everyone! I hope your season is shining bright!
I thought I'd share with you our annual family Christmas card. I hope you can already tell before I give it away that this card was based on my husband's favorite Christmas movie, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!
I cannot even begin to tell you how fun this year's card was to create! We started talking about ideas for it right after we finished our 2011 card and here it is a year later and it just makes me laugh out loud. I sure hope it does the same for you!
I often refer to my husband as Clark Griswold.... and I think I will cherish this card forever for that very reason. If you've ever watched the "Vacation" series, then you know Clark is a family man. Funny but invested.. that's him, my hubs! During the week, he puts his heart into his job, but when he's at home, he is 100 percent on. He plans family vacations down to the minute and although I grumble when I have to leave my glass of wine on the table in Paris because we have a tour time at the Louvre in say.. 10 minutes.. I wouldn't trade him for all the world.
So here's to the Clark Griswold's of the world, my husband included. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas Vacations filled with love of family and friends & wishing you laughter in the unexpected this holiday season!
Behind the scenes:
I hemmed and hawed over whether or not to use a photo of the real home used in Christmas Vacation or whether or not to use ours.. I finally decided that ours would be funnier.
In order to make the background scene for the card, I had to go into
Adobe Photoshop, add a night sky, stars and of course millions of
"Clark's" famous tiny lights! (Thank you to my 12 year old son, who saved me from myself! I was adding each light one by one in Photoshop - not something I had every used before in my graph design work. He walked in from school after I had been at my desk for almost an hour hand dotting each light and showed me how to run strands in about 2 seconds flat). WOW- thank you, You Tube!
Next we had to photograph each of us. Right now, I'm in love with this green screen! It makes it very easy to take us out of the background and drop us right where I need us in front of the house.
May your holidays' shine brilliantly my friends!
Merry Christmas!
