sometimes things don’t work out the way you think they are going to. as i had mentioned in an earlier post i had a rough idea of what i wanted my holiday cards to look like:

i did lots of tweaking but nothing seemed to work. the tree seemed sad and not at all festive. not that i was looking to design a card with a large jolly man on it or anything but just something that was happy without being overly “christmasey”. eventually after much trial and error i came up with this:

and this: