What do you like to see on a Christmas Card??

[TheDoodleDotLady]

Hello - and help!

I have a teeny business (if you could call it that!) doing illustrations and cards.
I'm just getting myself organised to get a few Christmas card designs done, and I'm not feeling inspired 😕
What designs are you drawn too?
I mainly do animals, landscapes. I have a stag and a penguin from last year, and a robin and a polar bear that are maybes!

I am open to ideas.....hit me!!

Usually lifeboats (RNLI).

The penguin take over of Christmas mystifies me a bit. I assume the South Pole was feeling left out of the whole business?

I like my Christmas cards to be non-religious (so no three wise men etc) but fairly traditional in subject matter. Stockings, trees, mistletoe etc.

I like buildings, middle eastern buildings with flat roofs and domes or NYC-esque citiscapes.
I love dark blue as a base colour with icy white or vibrant pink/purple/green colours combined.

A pheasant.

I like a funny card. Or a reindeer and Father Christmas. Or a snowy village scene.

Stags, pheasants in the snow

I prefer a card that gives at least a nod to the nativity.

Last year's cards had a star on them.

I like a post box. Maybe with a robin. And snow. Not penguins, penguins aren't festive. And if the polar bears are with the penguins

Robins, snow and a Christingle if that's your thing

I like animals and snow, my favourite card ever was a close up of a Highland cow with snow on his head. I'm easily pleased

Thank you - some fab ideas!
I am in a pretty rural area, so I might have a go at a hare. And I think the Robin is a safe bet!
The penguin was the most popular last year - not sure what the draw to penguins is, but he was a cute one 😊

Oooh highland Coo Christmas card! I am in Scotland so that could be a good one!

Satan.

Stagecoaches. I love a good stagecoach in the snow card, and they are getting hard to find.

@namechanger22 😊

I used to like the cutsie cards but as I've got older I'm liking the more traditional type with lots of colour. I like the lovely festive scenes of kids playing in the snow and if it's a Santa type card I like the more kind of grown up versions rather than cartoon characters if that makes sense! 🎗

I like the nativity on mine in some way shape or form. It's a religious festival and I only buy cards that reflect that.

I like cards with nativity scenes, three wise men etc.

If you're selling locally you could use the local area. For example a local monument with a robin, or an interesting building covered in snow?
I love Christmas cards with wild animals though, deer, pheasants, squirrels etc.

Animals

I like a bit of silver glitter, and I'm not ashamed to admit it, so there !

I also like woodland scenes/animals, or ones with a nativity theme.

I won't buy cards that don't show a connection to the nativity. They are Christmas cards, after all.

I like grown up and classy rather than cutesy or kitch. Star over stable/three wise men/robin/snowy scene all good.

I like that the traditional cards too, and colour is really important. must have some red in there.

I usually buy two different kinds. Animals for none religious folk and something from the nativity for religious people.