{"id":2829,"date":"2015-12-31T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2016-01-05T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:37:51","slug":"the-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2015\/12\/the-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Christmas well and truly over, hopefully everybody has received all the Santa Cruiser cards destined for them by now! Here’s the story (and a few pictures behind the design.<\/p>\n

I really wanted to do this illustration<\/a> I came up with last christmas I called ‘The Nutkraken’ for our cards this year, but even after drawing it all up properly, the idea was nixed by Lilly.<\/p>\n

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Back at the drawing board<\/del> post-it pad, I set about coming up with some other ideas, including this one I called ‘Santa and his Elvis’. This was nixed too:<\/p>\n

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Eventually we came back to trying to reflect what happened in the past year, and decided that getting bicycles was probably the biggest thing. I put Santa on various bicycles, including some more conventional bikes like our own, and fancy racing bikes like my cat stickers<\/a>, but his rotund nature meant he was best suited to a very upright cruiser bike. Here’s the final sketch, before tidying up:<\/p>\n

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Everything was manufactured and ready to print:<\/p>\n

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A photo posted by Ricky Trickartt (@trickartt)<\/a> on