Awkward Family Christmas Cards

We are huge fans of awkward family Christmas photos. You can go here and here for inspiration. Over the past few years we’ve strived to achieve our own little measure of awkwardness at Chrissy time. I’ve always felt a bit shy to share these on the blog, but have a devil-may-care attitude this year. Cheesy Christmas cards are fun to do even though they’re a lot more effort than you’d imagine. My tips are to wear matching outfits, use a camera with a tripod / timer or take individual shots and crop and position the images into a collage. This year’s creative effort involved reindeers – which are a huge deal in the world of three year olds – and my newly acquired photoshop skills.Last year we dressed up as life-sized presents. We were way too big and boxy to fit in the same shot so instead we achieved a nice effect by taking individual photos against a plain white wall and creating a simple collage. Our inaugural effort in 2013 involved matching outfits with iron-on transfer mistletoe. Husband grew a mo and we put our scratchy cat into a Santa suit. It was impossible to get everyone looking and smiling at the same time, so we let them just do their thing and I loved the way it ended up. Who said ‘never work with animals or children’?!

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