‘Tis the holiday season for sending out greeting cards to friends and family. And my friend Irene mentioning that gave me the inspiration for today’s Fun Day Sunday activity:
Holiday Cards, CRAzy Captioning Style
As before, I will start us off with six Richard Armitage character holiday cards–with added 
holiday graphics–and a sample holiday greeting. Thanks to my gal pals over on FB who voted about which RA roles to draw upon for inspiration. But, the actual images chosen by me have been a secret until now. So I hope you enjoy the graphics that I created. Then you can comment and suggest alternative holiday greetings to these sample holiday card graphics, if you wish.
And let me say what a treat it is for me to combine two fun activities–admiring Richard Armitage’s character portrayals and the December Holidays.
And as we all prepare to celebrate our own holiday times with family and friends, I’m sure that we all send Mr. Armitage our warmest wishes for his own holidays.
Enjoy and Holiday Cheers! Grati ;->
P.S. As I made the composite images, I listened to and watched this festive video “Richard Armitage – All I want For Christmas” created by utubeacct2008 (song sung by Mariah Carey). So, I thought you would enjoy the video as well to start us off:
12/04/11–Holiday Greeting Cards: CRAzy Captioning Style
Image A: Sir Guy of Gisborne of the BBC’s “Robin Hood” (2006 – 2009)
Image B: John Thornton of the BBC’s “North & South” (2004)
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/nands/album/episode1/slides/ns1-106.html
Image C: Lucas North of the BBC’s “Spooks” (2008 – 2010)
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/Spooks/spookspromo/album/slides/series8-32.html
Image D: Harry Kennedy kissing the Vicar (played by Dawn French) of the BBC’s “The Vicar of Dibley” (two part Christmas Special 2006)
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/VOD/album/VOD1/slides/vod1-234.html
Image E: John Porter of Sky1 TV’s “Chris Ryan’s Strike Back” (series 1 in 2010)
Image F: Collage of various other RA roles
Heinz Kruger in “Captain America: The First Avengers” (2011); Dr. Alex Track in “The Golden Hour” (2005); Claude Monet in “The Impressionists” (2006); and Ricky Deeming in “George Gently” (2007)
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/Impressionists/album/ep2/slides/TI2_064.html
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/TGH/album/TGH4/slides/TGH4-30.html
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/georgegently/GGPromo/album/slides/GG04.html
Abbreviated References
(1) All Richard Armitage role screencaps are courtesy of RANet (www.RichardArmitageNet.com), unless otherwise indicated. Such as, the Thorin screencap image (“The Hobbit”, 2012 and 2013) on the Holiday Card’s title graphic was made by Dhana.
(2) I have put Richard Armitage’s years of performance in these shows in parentheses for each holiday card label. If you would like to purchase these or other program titles of Mr. Armitage’s artistic projects–several dvds are on my wish list for my hubby to give me–you can do so through the RANet web site which has now become an Amazon affiliate. And RANet (www.RichardArmitageNet.com) will return the commissions earned to one of Mr. Armitage’s chosen charities. Here is that RANet Amazon link for both the US and the UK http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/raondvd.html
(3) You may also donate to one of Richard Armitage’s chosen charities directly by visiting the Just Giving link that is also found on the RANet site as well as in my resources list to the right of your screen http://www.justgiving.com/Richard-Armitage
(4) Holiday graphic clips are from MSOffice. I composited the images using MS Powerpoint and Adobe Photoshop. These photo manipulations that I created are all intended to be in good fun and for personal use only, no copyright infringement intended. Please do not repost these images elsewhere.
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Image A: For completeness’ sake on the image references, Lady Marian was portrayed by Lucy Griffiths.
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These are fun festive greeting cards! :) You certainly have the creative Christmas spirit!
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Hi Bccmee!
Thanks for your very kind note! I’m honored by your compliment–considering you are one of the most creative persons on the planet that I know. And I do love the holidays!
Cheers! Grati ;->
P.S. Readers, for something truly creative, be sure to check out Bccmee’s blog each day for her 12 Days of Guyness mediated image activities. You’ll be glad you did. Bccmee’s blog link is in my blogroll to the right. And here also is her blog link again for your convenience: http://fanvideos.wordpress.com
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These are great! I wish we could all exchange these cards! I would like to hang them up on my wall! I can especially relate to Lucas running to get his shopping done! LOL
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Hi Phylly3,
Thanks for your nice note! I appreciate it!
You and others are welcome to download the holiday greeting images (A through F) I created–for your personal use. I’ve noted that some people have already done so–per my blog stats. Just click on the image, and that opens a new window and you can save my composited jpeg image file from there to your computer.
I simply ask that these images not be reposted onto other web sites. Rather, just make a link back here to my blog–because I have the image crediting reference info included here.
Thanks for visiting and commenting! Holiday Cheers! Grati ;->
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The 22 shopping days – that had me on the floor in hysterics! Excellent cards, Gratia. :D
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Hi Fitzg,
Thanks for your nice note. Yes, even “virile sex god” heartthrobs–that’s his “proper” name, I think, in the British mags, ha!–such as Richard Armitage, might need a little holiday shopping help now and then.
Cheers! Grati ;->
P.S. Ooh! There’s an idea for a personal assistant position amongst Richard Armitage’s staff. That is, if he has a staff. Ha! I would be first in line to apply. I’m reasonable, not cheap, as salaries go. I’m frugal, so I’ll pinch your shillings for you. And, I make great cornish pastys, almond bark candies, and hot mulled cider spiked with rum. So Richard, what’s your pleasure? Ha!
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CORNISH PASTIES!!! :) Is it dinner time yet? Please say yes.
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Hi Fitzg,
It’s now past dinner time in the Midwest. Ha! I actually made pasty’s a few weeks ago–I spell it that way because the other way makes me think of strategic tassels and not food. Ha!
My Dad’s side is English–that side of the family came over back in the early 1800’s. He always told the story of the Cornish miners taking the meat pies–pasty’s–down into the mine with them. Whether or not that was true, we still enjoyed this family favorite.
We make our pasty’s with diced meat and potatoes, and finely diced onions and rutabega. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and add slabs of butter. Wrap the concoction into a pastry shell–half moon style, and bake on parchment baking paper for 1 hour at 350 degrees F.
Hungry men eat a whole half moon pasty. Ladies like myself eat half a half moon. It’s yummy reheated the next day, too. Oh and if I were making Richard Pasty’s, then I would put him to work doing the fine chopping on the rutabega–my hubby does this for me in our home. Rutabega’s are a very hard turnip and takes someone strong to chop them up. We typically, put half a small rutabega finely diced into the pasty’s, then more largely dice the rest and cook it up in a saucepan. to have on the side. Yummm.
Cheers! Grati ;->
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Bravo for these great and wonderful card Gratiana ! :-)
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Thanks April,
I’m glad that you liked them. I had fun making them.
Holiday Cheers! Grati ;->
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And I have fun watching them… ;-)
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These cards made me laugh quite a bit!
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Hi DarkJackal,
Thanks for you nice note! I had fun making the cards.
Holiday Cheers! Grati ;->
P.S. By the way, I LOOOOOOVE your Thorin Pencil drawing! It is exquisite! I posted it here on my blog a while back and directed people over to your site. You’re very talented.
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