Holiday Card 2023 (Throwback Edition)

 Holiday Card 2023

Throwback Edition

 

I saw this trend on TikTok/Insta, and thought it was hilarious.  

If you are interested in downloading my design to create your own holiday cards, here is the link to my Leap storefront page. 

Friends/siblings/families will surprise each other by taking a shopping trip to JCPenneyes to pick out their wardrobe (think 80s and denim-on-denim), and then visit the JCPenney Portraits studio by Lifetouch. This is where they recreate those awesomely awkward poses that have flooded the childhood homes of many 70s/80s babies.  

 

Here are 2 videos for example, but a quick google search will reveal some of these photos I’m talking about.  

 

I asked Matt if we could do this. But. To save money. We shopped our own closets, setup my iphone on self-timer, and got to work moving the couch in the family room. 

 

 

These are jeans I currently wear. The denim studded vest is from my ever-trendy best friend Morgan. And those velvety chucks? Those are my sneaks from middle school. Yup. I wore those in 7th grade. And yes. They still have gel pen colored all over the sides of them, bc gel pens were cool when I was in that age, along with drawing on your shoes when you were bored in class. 

Matthew tucked in his denim shirt and viola. Hahahaah

 

Thanks to some videos we found online, we knew what poses we were going for.

 

Matt didn’t seem too into it at first. But when it came time for the jumping/holding poses, that had to be done in under 10 seconds for the timer, he couldn’t keep it together. Anytime he had to hold eye contact with me and maintain a straight face, he lost it. Caused lotsssss of outtakes. But that also led to some great candids. 

 

 

 

We had a lot of photos to choose from. And honestly. Some of them I think are actually pretty cute hahah.

 

 

We narrowed it down to a few, and decided to make a Holiday card.

I have always been one of those ppl that judged other ppl for sending out Holiday/Christmas cards. But this was just too good. I couldn't wait to share it with friends, and their reactions were great. 

 

I created this design on Canva, and have it formatted perfectly for a 5x7 postcard print (front and back). 

If you are interested in downloading my design to create your own holiday cards, here is the link to my Leap storefront page.

I ordered prints through canva, bc after shopping around, that was the best price. And free shipping! 

 

We had a fun time with this JCPenney photo shoot trend, and wonder if we can be as silly & creative for next year.