02.01.06 - Chuck’s 2005 Christmas Thank You Cards
Approximately a month after Christmas I knew it was time to finally send out the thank you cards, because if I waited any longer people would rather just get nothing. I wanted to step it up a notch from the email thank you’s I’ve sent out in the past. I’ve learned over time that no one really cares about email thank you’s.
I needed inspiration and I needed to send out something which appropriately conveyed my gratitude. Perhaps even more importantly, I needed many 2 cent stamps because Uncle Sam decided to throw me a curve ball and raise stamp prices.
A friend sent me this link, where I found all the inspiration I needed.
If you did receive one of the cards below, consider yourself extremely lucky – I ran out of cards fast. Priority went from the oldest family members on down. Here’s a sample of some of the cards I came up with (keep in mind many of these cards were made with a member of the “older generation” in mind). Although everyone in my family celebrates Christmas, I was very careful not to bring anything related to Christmas into these “holiday” cards.

Clearly, this card was targeted for someone old. Pictured here is the mischievous work of some young ragamuffin rapscallions. Who pays for this recklessness? Not the guilty rogues behind the antics, but the helpless snowman himself.

As the sun appears from behind the clouds, the snowman knows his vacation is over.

Dream on snowman!

This is probably my favorite. Unlike the others, this one makes no sense. Note the use of “Season’s Greetings…” Who is this card going to offend? No one!

Some people have thought this is a skunk spraying its stank on a snowman. It’s in fact, Huguenot, my sister and brother-in-law’s pug. Here Hugo is relieving himself on an angry, but helpless snowman. Hugo looks onward with innocence, not realizing the ramifications of his actions.
Feel free to click on the images for higher-resolution scans which you’ll probably want to set as your computer background. From there you have to choice to center a card, or tile the card so it appears all over the place and gives an instant headache. I also give permission to print them out and send to your own relatives claiming they’re your own work, although it’s getting a little late and there’s a good chance your relatives will have already seen them here first.