Conjuring Up A Christmas Spirit

Admittedly, I am not one to get into the holiday spirit around Christmas. I used to love Thanksgiving just because it was about food and fellowship, but lately, I mainly get to the last part of November and begin mentally imagining myself in a calmer, less stressful time -- say January 2nd of the next year. But in past years I have tried to get out of my holiday grumpiness and this year, that has led me to begin creating Christmas cards to sell on FAA and Pixels. One thing I realized pretty quicky was that I had not taken many Christmas pictures over the years. None that didn't include a train anyway.



For a few years (I'm not sure about this year) the railroad in my hometown has run Santa Trains out of Lancaster, SC. So those have been easy to make into cards. For this series, I used blue font to match the train locomotive on some and red font to match the season on others.



Both of these versions are done with "Merry Christmas" or "Hapy Holidays" written across the top with "from Lancaster, SC" at the bottom. Naturally, this may limit who would want to buy and send them out, so I also made one without the town's name written across the card --



Another series of holiday greeting cards I did was a snow scene of the South Carolina State House. Again, I did two version --





Then I remembered a shot I took on Main Street in Lancaster when city leaders haddecorated it for Christmas. I had shot one of the iconic landmarks in town for the Landmark Hunter Dot Com web site and realized I could use that scene for anotehr hometown-centric Christmas card.

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I also created two cards using both the building on Main Street as well as the Santa Train. To finish out the card and give it more of a Christmasy feel, I used some free clip art.



The second version uses a Happy New Years greeting to replace the name of my hometown.



I'm not sure any of this is helping me get ready for the coling holidays, but it has been cool to create something with my photographs like this. The last two examples are my favorites. All of these cards are priced to sell for the holiday season. The inside of the card is blank and ready for a personalized message from you. Leave time after you order to get these shipped to your home or office so you can personalize them. You can also choose to enter a message on the inside of a card using at check out.

Buying in packs of 10 or 25 will greatly reduce the price of each card.

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