Monday, February 11, 2013

February 11, 2013

Christmas 2013 Card Design
February 11, 2013

So where have I been you ask? Well, the holidays took up a lot of time completing projects like the card above. two stained glass windows, a variety of stained glass ornaments for friends and family, holiday baking, cookies, Stollen, Gingerbread, breads, traveling, preparing for an exhibit, completing new pieces and working on illustrations for an acquaintances book of Astronomy articles.

So Now I'm back and will try to keep up with blog -

Worked on this card design for approximately four weeks. Started this project with an unfinished design which I will post tomorrow. My chief critic and generally excellent fan told me that this original idea just wasn't going to work.

So, back to the old brainstorming until I came up with the idea of Santa's countdown clock. First the month's until December is reached and then the days till Christmas. As always the Elves are surrounding Santa and carrying out his directive to clean and polish the clock as he looks over his never ending list of gift receivers. Have they been good or bad?

The elves represent as always my grandchildren and the paraphernalia surrounding the clock and on the shelves all have meaning related to the family seasonal celebration.

Here is the card before the color was added.

See you next time with some more information on my Christmas cards.