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From December 2008 through December 2011- our group of ladies have sent 6,117 cards to the troops.

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Christmas Cards #17 & #18

Santa Claus is the subject of these  2 cards. All images were colored with Copic Sketch Markers.

A little bit of christmas history.

At the beginning of the 1930s the Swedish painter Haddon Sundblom introduced Santa's dress code, which has been valid to this day. In the course of a Christmas advertising campaign of the Coca-Cola Company, Santa Claus was dressed in red-and-white clothing, the brand's colour. Ever since, Santa's suit has been red with white fur trim. It were European emigrants who took the character "Santa Claus" with them to America and it was America who introduced a new dress-code to Santa and spread it throughout the world.

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