{"id":1147,"date":"2019-11-12T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2020-10-24T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:05:33","slug":"go-traditional-with-your-cards-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/go-traditional-with-your-cards-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Traditional With Your Cards This Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\r\n<p>With Christmas cards, it seems now as if anything goes, humour, jokes, off-piste scenes so why not go totally traditional this Christmas and send your friends and family a classic Christmas card.\u00a0 Retro designs are all the rage so take a look at some of the popular scenes from yesteryear.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Snowy scenes \u2013 <\/strong>usually depicted as a street or a picturesque hamlet or village, pretty cottages and houses covered in snow with warm twinkling lights in the windows.\u00a0 These are designed to depict the classic white Christmas which is actually rarely seen in the UK unless you are in the far north so it is very much a stylised view of Christmas with home at the heart of the celebrations\r\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1147 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/our-top-10-selected-traditional-cards\/ag0252\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0252-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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decorations on the mantlepiece with a Christmas tree twinkling away in the corner, represent that the home is central to Christmas cheer.\u00a0 A lot of these images are a hangover from Victorian times when this type of representation was highly sentimentalised\r\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-1147 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/our-top-10-selected-traditional-cards\/ag0310\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0310-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/our-top-10-selected-traditional-cards\/ag0257\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0257-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>The Robin Redbreast \u2013<\/strong> a winter bird so it&#8217;s easy to see why he is associated with Christmas although actually, the connection came from the Victorian postman who delivered the Christmas cards and who wore a bright red uniform and were thus nicknamed, \u2018robins\u2019.\u00a0 There are some who feel that this century of domination has been a little overdone and there is room now for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/dec\/12\/robin-snowy-christmas-card-red-breast-festive\">other birds<\/a> to share the festive limelight\r\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-1147 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><div 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href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/go-traditional-with-your-cards-this-christmas\/ag0253\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AG0253-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AG0253-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AG0253-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AG0253.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Father Christmas \u2013<\/strong> again often stylised, certainly very jolly with red cheeks and a fabulous white beard and always a little portly of figure.\u00a0 Most depictions range anywhere from the Victorian sentimental through to the 1950s retro look from the Coca Cola advertisements\r\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-1147 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/our-top-10-fun-christmas-cards\/ag0303\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AG0303-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/our-top-10-selected-traditional-cards\/ag0338\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0338-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0338-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0338-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AG0338.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/santa-saint-nick-kris-kringle-father-christmas-name-correct\/ag1074\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AG1074-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Holly in a garland \u2013<\/strong> the traditional red and green of Christmas often with hanging gilded bells.\u00a0 Christmas is a Christian festival and the pointed leaves of the holly represent the crown of thorns that was placed on Jesus\u2019 head before he died on the cross.\u00a0 The red berries depict the drops of blood. \u00a0As the old carol goes, \u2018deck the halls with boughs of holly\u2019<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Many of these images have endured for decades and just because an idea is traditional, doesn\u2019t mean the card isn\u2019t classic or you can\u2019t put a slightly more contemporary twist on it.\u00a0 Use one or more of these iconic images to adorn your cards this Christmas.\u00a0 Oozing with nostalgia, they are designed to create a warm cosy glow around the season.\u00a0 Of course, you could also create a photocard based on the traditional family scene and just let the chaos take over as one American family did when their attempts to photo the perfect family Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/funny-christmas-cards_us_5c17ab2ae4b009b8aea97dbe\">all went awry<\/a>.\u00a0 Traditional depictions are all well and good but we all know that the cherished happy family Christmas with a roaring log fire and snow gently falling outside, is not often quite how things pan out in reality.<\/p>\r\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas cards, it seems now as if anything goes, humour, jokes, off-piste scenes so why not go totally traditional this Christmas and send your friends and family a classic Christmas card.\u00a0 Retro designs are all the rage so take a look at some of the popular scenes from yesteryear. 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