{"id":238,"date":"2009-12-07T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/07\/the-making-of-a-christmas-card"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:34:33","slug":"the-making-of-a-christmas-card-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/the-making-of-a-christmas-card-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of a Christmas card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we participated in a card exchange. Our card looked something like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/Nov08\/santa_smaller.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/Nov08\/scrooge_smaller.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it took many, many attempts to get those two pictures, but it was fun (mostly) and we got several comments on how cute it was. Which, of course, meant that I felt a little pressure for this year&#8217;s card exchange. And this year I also had to wrangle a baby.<\/p>\n<p>A few outtakes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/Nov09\/PB150007.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/Nov09\/PB150009.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/Nov09\/PB150011.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Finally, with a little more practice and the help of Photoshop, we had a card!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/Nov09\/front_text_small.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t quite turn out as I had envisoned, but I&#8217;m still pretty happy with it. And I know the cats aren&#8217;t in it &#8211; this is what I get when I try to include them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayhaps.com\/pics\/bailey_reindeer_smaller.jpg\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we participated in a card exchange. Our card looked something like this: Of course, it took many, many attempts to get those two pictures, but it was fun (mostly) and we got several comments on how cute it was. Which, of course, meant that I felt a little pressure for this year&#8217;s card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-3Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}