Christmas cards

Due to other time-consuming activities, such as becoming a house owner, moving into a new house, and my daughter being born, some news post have been delayed a bit. As a result, this news post is not about one, but about two Christmas cards!

Last year’s card displayed a randomized collection of dancing candles. To ensure that all candles are unique, randomization is applied to the width of the candles, the color of the flames, and the horizontal mirroring of the candles. The dancing look is realized by randomizing the vertical and horizontal positions of the candles.

This year’s card is a combination of several designs that I have made in the past: many falling circlikulair snowflakes, above a landscape of wavy snow hills, with a bright sparkling star (or exploding firework) in the sky. All printed in white ink on brown kraft paper.

Birth announcement card

Hurray! A few weeks ago, our daughter Elin was born. We wanted the design of her birth announcement card to reflect her name, and also to connect with the card we designed for our son Kai. To us, the most appealing meanings of the name Elin go in the directions of sparkling, pretty, and a waterfall. Our design focusses on a collection of bright shining stars.

After experimenting with paper and ink colors, we decided to use white and random tints of purple printed on dark green paper for the front side of the card, and random tints of purple and green printed on white paper for the back side. Again, we made eight different versions of the card, fitting neatly on A3+ sized paper.