For my IRL (In Real Life) friends that have already sent us Christmas cards….we are LOVING seeing new pictures of your family and hearing what you’ve been up to in 2008. Ours has not been sent yet because we wanted to have a professional photo taken on the slopes at Angel Fire. We went with Neal’s whole family this past week and drove home on Christmas Eve.

I ended up using a photo taken with my camera because it was just too far for me to drag an uncooperative Raeleigh and for Danielle and Neal to walk in their snow boots. Thanks to Brandy for getting Raeleigh to smile, this was the best shot we could manage. I’m sure those who have been through the three year old stage can relate!

The paper and design elements are mostly from Designer Digitals, except for the tag which is from Two Peas in a Bucket. The green polka dot paper was a freebie at Designer Digitals.

• Festive Song Solids Paperie
• Posted Santa Postage Stamps
• Crystalized Postage Frames
• Postmarked Holidays Brushes and Stamps No. 02
• Chance of Flurries: Glittered
• Glitter Thread Stitches No. 02
• Tia Bennet Holiday Journalling (tag)

I really enjoyed digitally designing our card this year! It was all done in Photoshop. It was nice to not be limited to the designs that Moto Photo had to choose from. I actually designed our card in 2005 when Raeleigh was born because Moto Photo didn’t have a “Pink Christmas” birth announcement/Christmas combo. But I didn’t know about the whole world of online digital scrapbook shopping and scanned in my paper choices! This was much easier!

Kudos to those of you that actually handcraft your cards! I’d never finish that many of them and am happy to be sending these off to WalMart to be printed today!

Oh, and by the way, in case you didn’t know it, Santa snowboards and Mrs. Claus skis! Danielle met Santa while she was skiing, he gave her a candy cane!