Design Crafters

Many things can be a masterpiece.  Perhaps your initial thought might be that the word “masterpiece” is being used in reference to a glorious piece of classical music being played by a major symphony orchestra or breathtaking oil painting that hangs in a world-famous art museum.  But it’s possible to apply that word to other, smaller-scale things.   Such things could include elementary school student artwork, carefully tended gardens, spectacular nature photography, and, yes, even Christmas cards.

Okay, so maybe you’re not sure about this and have doubts about the masterpiece potential in things like Christmas cards, but if you’ve ever yourself worked for days and days on designing your family’s card to send out to family and friends, you know the feeling when you’ve gotten it exactly right.  When you realize you couldn’t possibly get your Christmas card any more perfect, that is when it’s the masterpiece.  When you start getting calls and letters from people who received the cards and they are all raving about how fabulous your cards were, that’s when it’s a masterpiece.  When, years after the fact, you run into friends you haven’t seen in ages and ages and the first thing they say to you is “that Christmas card you sent 6 years ago was fantastic!”….that’s when it’s a masterpiece.

Some may argue that a great many folks don’t need to have a mailbox full of masterpieces each holiday season; they’re thrilled with any kind of Christmas correspondence:  postcards, newsletters, video messages, or the traditional kind of Christmas card.  The fact of the matter is that, masterpiece or not, the odds are very high that your card will be treasured by a great many people.