This is the final artwork for our upcoming Christmas series.  Oddly enough, we are doing our Christmas series in November…. and not extending it into the month of December.  The thinking behind that was actually pretty logical.  The series is about getting back to the heart and simplicity of Christmas; slowing down our busy, consumer minded lives and bring it back to the birth of a Savior.  We figured that if we did this series in December, it would be too late to get people to rethink the Christmas season, because most people’s Christmas season begins in November.

Also, I thought it would be fun to show a screenshot of the layers from the working file for this design.  There were close to 100 layers on this one, which is probably higher than normal.  I think my average layer count is in the 70’s.