Weird christmas cards

Digitally printed cards on heavyweight stock Uncoated blank interior provides a superior writing surface Each card comes with an envelope for mailing or gifting Since every item is made just for you by your local third-party fulfiller, there may be slight variances in the product received

Some cards were drawn faster than others, I think.

LOBSTER PARADE 1905 CHRISTMAS postcard from

Today, you will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. You know what, scratch that. We’re experiencing the present, and the future is too unpredictable. Let’s just focus on the past!

cross stitch, needlework, samplers, folk art, embroidery, applique, punch needle, primitive, notforgotten farm, lori brechlin, rug hooking

Christmas cards in 2015 might carry a cheery Norwegian fir or a cheeky Santa but wind back the clock by 150 years and you'll find festive missives with an altogether more unusual flavour.

Victorian Christmas card girl in shell

CHRISTMAS CANDLE FACE 03 12 15 04

All things holly, jolly, and odd-ly. (Craig Kringle, Weird Xmas Podcast & ReReading Wolfe) Old cards! Anachronism! Murdering frogs and dead birds! Ho/ho/(ho)

The first Christmas card was sent by a wealthy English businessman in 1843. Needless to say, these first holiday cards were only for the affluent. ...

Oh hell yes. This is what I live for.

This is an acrylic I did in December for a Christmas card commission

The most wonderful time of year? Tell that to the illustrators of the 19th century, who seemed to love nothing more than drawing scenes of violent frogs and creepy onion people