Top Hat Snowman (and robin) Christmas card for St Benedict’s Hospice and Centre for Specialist Palliative Care in Sunderland – click on the image to go to the charity’s website
After a hectic few weeks writing Christmas cards and letters and buying gifts, it’s time to sit back and admire all the cards we have received this year. Here are just a few of the designs that caught my eye. As usual, click on the image to go to the source – mostly charities.
Here in Wales we do love our sheep…
This is one of the Oxfam cards I sent out – sadly the artist is uncredited
Feeding the Sheep – a card for Cancer Research UK
Sunset Snowscene by Joe Hush for the Robertson Collection
I Saw Three Sheeps – with white glitter decoration – for the British Heart Foundation
Then there are the birds…
Winter Thrush by Mark Hearld for the Royal Horticultural Society
Short days, long shadows, for the RSPB
The First Day of Christmas – an exotic partridge for Epilepsy Action
Pintail Ducks by Robert Gillmor for Museums & Galleries
Fluffy robins for Macmillan Cancer Support
Not forgetting the trees…
A lovely glittery card – Tree of Light by Jan Pashley for Marie Curie
Winter in France – Paul Cezanne’s Chestnut Trees in Jas de Bouffan from The Retrospect Group
A playful adaptation of the London Underground map for Centrepoint, the London charity for young homeless people
Penguins decorate a tree on this card from Marie Curie
Some snow scenes…
Rural Winters Day courtesy of Advocate Art for the National Deaf Children’s Society
Silent Footfall by Daniel Crane for the Injured Jockeys Fund
Ripon in Winter (my husband’s Yorkshire home town) by Reg Siger for Saint Michael’s Hospice in Harrogate
Over the Rooftops – decorated in copper foil – for Diabetes UK
Snow Pup by Kevin Johnson for the Dogs Trust
Snow at sea – Out on a Shout by Kirsty R Walker for the RNLI
And on the subject of the sea…
A timely reminder about our polluted oceans from the satirical magazine Private Eye
The Three Kings are a favourite motif…
Three Kings by Linda Tordoff for Marie Curie and the British Heart Foundation – both of which are mentioned elsewhere
Three Kings by Simon Taylor Kielty for Parkinson’s UK
And finally a festive wreath for Cancer Research UK – one of many pretty cards this year with a red and green film, showing winter foliage or poinsettias
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas (or any other midwinter celebration) and a Happy 2019…
The Squirrelbasket 
Oh ! They are wonderful cards Pat I love them all. so thanks for sharing. Wishing you and your family a Merry X,mas and a very Happy,healthy and prosperous New Year 2019.
And a happy new year to you! Apologies for not answering until now – bit busy over Christmas…
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I love these old cards by great artists. Thanks for sharing
Yes, I particularly like the shepherds – very Thomas Hardy…
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Delightful mixture. The wreath looks worth the effort of recreating in life.
I’ve always wanted a Christmas wreath on the door but I don’t think I have anything to hang it on…
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Thanks, I really enjoyed these, especially the RSPB landscape and I SAW THREE SHEEPS (my kind of card :))
Yes, I like gentle humour, too.
And I have seen that RSPB image in several places lately – I suppose it must be a murmuration of starlings, but I’m not sure.
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Funny thing is, I left Wales mostly because I was fed up with sheep roaming the mountainsides and coming into our garden and now I find I have an extreme fondness them!
I hope you had a wonderful day.
I guess they are better in our dreams than in reality, though I have never understood counting them…
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