Our Christmas card this year is kind of unique. I struggled with what to name it… paper doll bunting Christmas card?  Or family photo garland Christmas card?
Little paper versions of our selves, printed, cut out, and taped to a piece of string…bunting Christmas card… 🙂
I finally decided on Family Bunting Christmas Card.
It’s both fun and, I admit, a little ridiculous/obnoxious.
Once I thought of it, it just had to be our Christmas card though, no matter how much my hand hurt after cutting out 200 Â miniature versions of our family! Â Haaaaa….I really need to get me a Silhouette or Cricut!
First, I took individual jumping photos of us.
Well…most of us were jumping. I quickly discovered how difficult it was to get a good one of the younger two jumping and looking cute. Even my husband and I had to do a few takes to get it mostly right.  Our jumping faces are kind of hilarious and I have a couple outtakes of me eating my hair. Hazards of jumping with my hair down. 😉
Even then, doing pictures this way was much easier than trying to take one with all of us in it. For realz…
You could totally do this outside with a plain background and omit the jumping factor. I just happened to have the white photo backdrop already set up for other stuff, so we took advantage. And the jumping…it was what I had originally pictured and my family was crazy enough to humor me.
Once I had everything edited just how I wanted, I cut us out of each picture and arranged us on a letter sized art board in Illustrator. I did this so I could make printing more efficient and cost effective. Â I am sure you could collage the photos in Photoshop as well.
I printed everything up at my local UPS store on 100 lb. matte paper and then got to work cutting us all out. I blew through almost half of the first season of Veronica Mars just cutting away…
I taped our paper cut outs to a piece of baker’s twine with some washi tape. It  was tedious at first, but then went by pretty quick once I got an assembly line going.
Ta da…our family bunting! 🙂
I whipped up a quick little greeting card to include with our cut outs and  printed it up, four to a page on Kraft paper.
To keep things simple (ha…well some part of this had to be!), I put our family blog address on the little card, and then wrote out a family newsletter there. That way I could link to things and put in a bunch more pictures without having to print them up.
Even though this card was a ton of work for me, I love how it turned out. It is definitely our most memorable card yet!
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays to all of you!
I hope you are enjoying this marvelous season of celebration, giving, and love!
This is adorable!!
Soooooo cool!
So unique and creative. I love it!
haha! Yes! I love this idea!
I completely understand the easier then takinh a group photo.
I know, right?! 😉
This is the best Christmas card I have EVER seen! I am going to have to try something like this next year. This year I made fabric newsletter ornaments. So fun but tedious also, ha! http://www.delineateyourdwelling.com/2014/12/fabric-newsletter-ornaments.html
Whoa! Those are amazing!!! I bow to your awesomeness! Seriously!
Love ♥ Your Christmas cards are fantastic !
Haha, I love it!!
Definately one of a kind! Everyone will love them!
Thanks Audrey!
Excellent idea! So cute, and well done!
Thank you Amy!
I love the idea to just print your family blog address and to write your Christmas newsletter online. So much easier and very eco-friendly.
Oh my goodness. Could you and your ideas be any cuter? LOVE the card. Amazing. Really.
you are so absurdly adorable that i can’t even. love 🙂
Amazing!! What a fantastic idea and how fun for the people on your Christmas card list!
Oh Delia! You are genius! Your creative brain is amazing!
I really, really love this idea! So funny, and cute, and just all-around awesome. I may have to send some Christmas cards out this year after all!
I’m also a fan of the outtakes. Some of those are pretty great. =)
This is absolutely adorable Delia! LOVE it!!
Very very cute and creative.
Hey, where are you taking your white wall pics?
Did you buy a backdrop?
Way cool! I was wondering the same as Dana … What do you use for your backdrop? Do you do the garage set up?
That is so awesome. You are so incredibly creative!
What a cute idea and the photos of everyone turned out great too!
Thank you Stephanie!
AMAZING! I can’t believe you cut those all out, but it was SO worth it!
I know! Crazy huh? Thanks Ashley!
This is fabulous! Well done and very fun!
Thank you Julie!
I’m really obsessed with these! Such a great idea!