Christmas Card Logos - Various Years

I'm not going to bore you with detail of each logo.  Normally each year the logo shares something with the card theme.

Christmas 2001 - Santa Gets Hog Tied

This was done with dip pen and colored on the computer.  By this time kids are 6 and 3 so a bit of a play on them become more mischievous.

Christmas 2000 - Stock Market Crashes

I was extra ambitious in 2000 and did a card for family/friends and one for co-workers.  Both cards were done with dip pen and colored on the computer, and the family card I used computer to do the lettering.

Of all the cards I've done I think I hate this one (above) the most.  The theme is fine, there are just a lot of mistakes that I see that maybe most don't.  The theme came from the experience we had the year before where we bought a tree way too big for the room.  When we first stood it up it was bending on the ceiling.  We thought our loft ceiling was higher and didn't account for the exact spot the tree would go which was where the ceiling started to decline down.  I had to buy an extra stand, made multiple cuts to bring the height down and even then in the end I barely could reach the top to put the topper on, hence the theme.

This above card is one of my favorites and is the only time I've done one for co-workers.  I was a branch manager for a large brokerage firm at the time.  It was a play on the stock market crashing in early 2000 when the tech bubble popped.  If you were a market trader you would recognize the shape of the tree is essentially the shape of the charts of the market up to that point...straight up from 1995 to 2000 and straight from the 2000.  For those not in the know NASDAQ is the over the counter electronic stock market.

Christmas 1999

Christmas 1998 - Santa Clause Addiction

This would be about a month after my second son was born.  My oldest was addicted to the first Tim Allen Santa Clause movie and re-enacted that movie, as if he were flying a sleigh, all the time.  We began to think he would never out grow that phase.  He used to refer to the movie as Ho-Ho Fell Off the Roof.  The goofy looking ornament was a secret nod to one of my friends who would get the card.  This face is all he could draw.  He thought it was pretty cool how I sneaked that in.  I think this is the first year I used a computer to color

Christmas 1997 - Drug the Kid

This was definitely a nod to the fact as my first son got older, he was nearly 3 by now, he was not going to bed as early which caused us to have to stay up later to pull off the Santa trick.  I just notice the little white bear in front of him.  That was his best friend, Bear.  He was also beginning to understand the whole Christmas thing.  Nothing like drugging your kids to achieve a desired outcome. (we would never really do that)  

This was very clearly colored pre-copy with markers.  I used to use those Design markers, you can see how they would bleed and blend.