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Mumsnet Christmas Card - Vote here, vote now!

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JustineMumsnet · 11/11/2008 17:53

Following on from a marvellous thread about what a Mumsnet Christmas card would be like, we've stolen your brilliant ideas and asked our very own, newly discovered super-talented Boco to come up with some illustrations for them. Choose your fave and Boco has promised to colour in the winner so we can send it off to all our Mumsnet friends - Scheherezade, Tony P, Tana, Piers etc - just to make sure they've not forgotten us.

We'll also have them all available for you to send as festive e-cards, thereby saving you valuable pennies in these crunching times.

Remember Vote early, vote often and Merry Christmas, of course.

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Swedes · 12/11/2008 11:51

Lovely drawings Boco.

Are these cards meant to be sent between Mumsnetters?

RTKangaMummy · 12/11/2008 11:49

DEFFO BRILL

I have voted too

Justine do you have an announcemnet to make to us then?

Niecie · 12/11/2008 09:58

I voted for the one that made me laugh out loud as soon as I opened it (birthing ball one if you must know).

They are all fabby though. Well done everybody.

HollyGoHeavily · 12/11/2008 09:20

They are all fantastic - it was a hard choice to pick a winner

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JustineMumsnet · 12/11/2008 09:14

Oh Blimey yes, Soupdragon. Clearly I have selected memory loss (I'm finding that happening a lot recently - what does it mean do you think?)

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tatt · 12/11/2008 08:34

Soupdragon - but are we even allowed to mention that name without being sued?

SoupDragon · 12/11/2008 08:03

How could you have left Gina off the list of friends you're sending cards to??

NorkyButNice · 12/11/2008 08:00

Love the names one (me and the rest of MN apparently!).

Boco - apologies for not responding to your mail re illustration - you're probably going to get rushed off your feet with requests now, but will set my mind to thinking about a design for DS!

BBBee · 12/11/2008 06:53

i don't think they are 'inhouse' - i think they are indicative of a very certain dry sense of humour which is rife on mumsnet but not exclusive to it.

i would love having some actual real cards / notelets that are not christmassy too - like the zombie plan one. i send a few cards adn would love to source some really funny and personal ones.

hurrah for boco - aren;t we lucky to have her.

guyFAwkesreQuiem · 12/11/2008 00:50

I actually think the names one is very "in house" - I don't hear many coversations in "RL" about baby names.........

buy hey - I've voted for the Stop Fat one

TinkerBellesMum · 11/11/2008 23:37

Ooh thank you Justine! I mentioned on another thread the other day we could do with things we could print off (posters, postcards [for shop windows] and business cards) to spread the word for MN.

solo · 11/11/2008 23:30

I don't get the 'vote early, vote often' bit by Justine as you can only vote once anyway...

samsonara · 11/11/2008 22:57

I agree the original thread is real genius, very clever ideas. My weak tea complaint is that they are all in the same modern humorous category so you are either going to absolutely love them all or not be sure. For those who love them its a tough decision with one vote only. (Don't get me wrong as a humourless cow or something ..I do buy and have in my possession humourous cards in my cards box ).. I would like to have seen a captionless picture of a parent and child doing something christmasy with the mumsnet logo cleverly included. Anyway now I've got over my moaning I'm voting for the fat one.

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JustineMumsnet · 11/11/2008 22:53

You most certainly can suggest that TinkerBellesMum and were there a competition for helpful suggestions you would be instantly catapulted to the top of the winners' pile. .

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shopaholicDIVA · 11/11/2008 22:50

voted birthing ball. very mumsnetic

ja9 · 11/11/2008 22:47

steady justine

i'm not a complainer

you've probably hit the nail onthe head with the 'in-house' comment.

TinkerBellesMum · 11/11/2008 22:46

Can I suggest that whatever format they come in that they're a plug for MN too? That way we can send them to Mummy (and Daddy) friends and be telling them how wonderful MN is too.

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JustineMumsnet · 11/11/2008 22:40

Do email [email protected] if you've any complaints about the choice of cards.

In our defence there were lots of very funny themes we thought but some were very in-house, as it were, and wouldn't translate necessarily to a wider audience.

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ja9 · 11/11/2008 22:36

Genius - the original thread was FANTASTIC (not sure you've shortlisted all the best ideas though...)

still, have voted! lovin it!

fryalot · 11/11/2008 22:31

yay!

fryalot · 11/11/2008 22:30

They're all fab!

May I second (or third, or fourth or whatever...) the request for real cards so we can post them to our family & friends.

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

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JustineMumsnet · 11/11/2008 22:30

And we'll look into actual printing costs etc too and let you know whether we can sensibly produce/sell them in hard copy, as it were.

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JustineMumsnet · 11/11/2008 22:22

Ok so we should be able to see them after we've voted shouldn't we - will fix that tomorrow. (apologies)

wrt to various queries/points

VintageGardenia if only you'd been on the original thread!

Slur, it's a grave mistake to assume we actually read MN always best to drop us a line with your suggestions/ or post them in Site Stuff!

NotanOtter - sorry that was just a throwaway, slightly facetious remark (apologies). On balance we'd rather folks voted only once .

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ahundredtimes · 11/11/2008 22:18

Is yours the fat one MP?

ahundredtimes · 11/11/2008 22:18

I have voted for names - but all suggestions v. good indeed. I liked the zombie one on the list too - but perhaps a tad unusual for Christmas?

I agree with Slur, Justine I don't think Boco is 'newly discovered' is she? She's a illustrator ma'am.

Can we get like actual real cards or is it just for e-cards? [pushy]

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