Relaxing Birthday

For: Claire
Occasion: her birthday

Claire is one of my favorite early bedtime/curly-haired ladies, so to celebrate her birthday, I featured a cute cartoon of her snuggled up under a blanket and reading a book while eating cookies and drinking coffee. I love Claire so much and miss her so much it's really ridiculous. I hope she has an amazing birthday and a great 2017!

Sweet Balloon Birthday

For: Riley
Occasion: her birthday

Mike's niece Riley is turning seven! To help celebrate her birthday, I created a cute caricature of her with a bow in her hair and freckles on her face--and, true to life, her bangs are all grown out! This card makes me so happy, and makes me miss this little munchkin so much. We hope she has a great day and can't wait to see her and the rest of the Keane clan in 2017!

Painter Birthday

For: Uncle Jer
Occasion: his birthday

My uncle Jer is an amazing artist, so for his birthday card this year, I featured a Harold and the Purple Crayon-esque drawing of him creating a hand-themed masterpiece! As everyone knows, hands are the hardest to draw, so I was pretty proud of how these came out. I had such a great time making this card and I am so glad Uncle Jer liked it so much. Here's hoping he gets the chance to pursue all kinds of awesome art this year!

St. Lawrence Birthday

For: Uncle Ned
Occasion: his birthday

Aunt Beth asked me to make a card to help celebrate Uncle Ned's 70th birthday! The St. Lawrence River is a very important place to Uncle Ned, so at Aunt Beth's suggestion I featured him aboard the Miss Kate and fishing at sunrise. My favorite detail on this card are the little fishies headed towards his bait! Making this card was very relaxing for me, so I hope he feels relaxed on his big day as well.

Weirdsmobile Christmas

For: Mike
Occasion: Christmas

While watching A White Christmas this year, I discovered the most amazing quote. When Bob admonishes Phil and Judy for their fake engagement, he tells Judy, "You might have been stuck with this weirdsmobile for life!" 'Weirdsmobile' is amazing, so I featured it in Mike's Christmas card; it was especially apropos as a big part of his Christmas gift was vehicle-related this year. I drew his car with a Christmas tree tied on top to complete the theme. I love Mike so much it's silly, and I hope he enjoyed our Christmas together!

Golden Rings Christmas

For: The Rings
Occasion: Christmas

The Rings graciously invited us over for Christmas dinner, so to thank them and wish them a Merry Christmas, I created a 5 golden rings card. Because, rings! It's their name! The math doesn't work out exactly, because there are seven Rings (people) total, but what can you do. (Swans a-swimming are pretty lame, anyway.) We had so much fun celebrating and were honored to be part of the festivities!

Twins Honk Christmas

For: The Twin
Occasion: Christmas

Christy has a "Think Snow" block-letter Christmas decoration, and once upon an epic rearranging, I changed it to say "Twins Honk!" We haven't even stopped laughing about it yet. For her Christmas card this year, I featured some honking Christmas geese twins with the letter blocks cluing her into the joke, not that she'd need the context. I love this card, I love my twin, and I hope she has an amazing Christmas!

Mech Christmas

For: Nathan
Occasion: Christmas

Nathan has an awesome board game called Mechs vs. Minions that we got to play a bunch while we were home for Thanksgiving. His favorite character is called Corki, obviously. I mean, he rides on a robotic dinosaur with a rocket launcher in his mouth. I gave Corki a Santa Hat for some extra Christmas spirit, and voila! An awesome Christmas card for my brother bear. I hope he has a great holiday and enjoys his week down on the farm!

Heat Miser Snow Miser Christmas

For: Mom
Occasion: Christmas

My mom loves the Heat Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus, so I featured him and his brother, the Snow Miser, in her Christmas card this year. I had such a blast making this card and even had the movie on in the background! I hope Mom got to watch all our holiday favorites this year and has a wonderful Christmas.

Running Rudolph

For: Dad

Occasion: Christmas

My dad and I got to run in a Turkey Trot together over Thanksgiving, so for his Christmas card this year, I created a Rudolph up to the same tricks! His bib number is 1225, for December 25th! I love my dad so much and hope he has been up to some great winter running.

Funzo Christmas

For: Ames
Occasion: Christmas

Poor Ames has been the resistant recipient of me singing "Hoarding Funzos in my sack, makes me happy, makes me hurt my baaaaaaack," which is my spin on a song Homer sings in the season 11 Christmas special. I get is stuck in my head endlessly over the Christmas holidays, but sadly, I'm not in Chicago this year to serenade her. To make up for my absence, I featured Homer dressed as Santa with a  sack full of Funzos in her card! I hope she has a great Christmas and doesn't hate this card too, too much.

Secret Santa

For: Alli
Occasion: Christmas

We drew Alli in the Keane sibs Secret Santa, so to accompany her gift, I made her a card of Santa in disguise glasses! I'm amazed this idea has never occurred to me before, but man I want to use it again as often as possible. The background is a funky red and green abstract thing, because sometimes that happens. We hope she has a great time hosting her first Christmas this year!