This was one of the RSPB Christmas cards I sent out this year – it’s Twilight’s Keeper by Dawn Maciocia. Click on the image to go to the RSPB website…
After a hectic few weeks in my new job at County Hall and spending all my spare time writing Christmas cards and letters, it’s time to sit back and admire all the cards we have received this year. Here are just a few of the charity-card designs that caught my eye. As usual, click on the image to go to the source.
The brightest card to warm the winter days always comes from our friend in India and again the design is beautiful – it’s Peacock Dance by Sunita Khedekar, sold in aid of the Indian children’s charity Cry…
A more traditional Christmas bird – Partridge and Pears for Diabetes UK
A Royal Horticultural Society card – Beech and Bramblings, a linocut by Robert Gillmor
This card is from the British Trust for Ornithology – it’s Frosty Breakfast – Fieldfares, by Steve Cale
You can never have too many sheep at Christmas – this Oxfam card came from friends in Yorkshire and the sheep do look rather like Swaledales
More sheep – Through the Gate by Jessica Johnson for Marie Curie Nurses…
Another one from Oxfam features a llama…
This one looks like a Highland bull but annoyingly Oxfam don’t credit the photographer or artist on these cards…
A friend of mine who is a racing journalist always sends something from the Injured Jockeys Fund – this is Arriving at Ascot by David ‘Mouse’ Cooper…
Kings From Afar by Gerry Murray Designs for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Dyn Eira (that’s Welsh for snowman) from Tenovus Cancer Care…
And finally…
Bare winter trees in Skating by Moonlight by Ronald Lampitt (1906-1988) on a card from the 1959 Group of Charities…
I hope you all have a wonderful festive season 🙂
The Squirrelbasket 
I like all the Xmas cards with birds on them. Thanks for sharing them all. Have a truly Merry Xmas and a very Happy New Year.
Hope you have a lovely time, too 🙂
Those are wonderful! … impossible to pick a favorite. Thanks for sharing.
Have a Happy Holiday 🙂
Gorgeous.
Blessings of the season to you and yours Pat. xx
And to you, as always – just decided my Christmas reading is The Summer of Impossible Things, as recommended by you.
All the best 🙂
Happy Christmas. Great selection of cards.
Merry Christmas to you, too – and enjoy your break from running for a while!
Best wishes 🙂
Lovely selection of cards, I would not like to dispose of those. Enjoy your celebrations and thank you for all your posts.
Thank you – I hope you have a lovely 2018 🙂
Merry Christmas, I particularly like the card with the bramblings.
So do I, but at first I thought they were chaffinches – I have never seen a brambling 🙂
A lovely selection of cards and all for good causes. Best wishes for 2018.
Best wishes for you and yours in 2018, too 🙂