While in previous years many of my holiday cards were made completely digital (such as this web/Twitter holiday mashup), the tactility of paper won out for my 2012 cards. I used scrapbook and other paper samples to create collage illustrations of a star tree-topper blowing a bubble off of a gumball-bedecked Christmas tree. Each of these little guys is only 3.5″ x 2.5″ in size.

Creating 12 cards took almost a whole day, so this year I could only hand them out to a small number of acquaintances. Depending on their reception, I might put these in the pipeline to produce and sell more of next year.