I started by looking at some styles of current christmas cards. Many of these cards were animated and not actually photographs, as seen here, some of the less comical ones I do like, for example the one below which is more elegant and more similar to a style of card that I would want to produce.
Both of these images are in a style that I like, I like the use of the tree and the colour green. The image on the right is more animated, however I think I can recreate the style of the image on the left with light drawings in a studio or dark area.
Light drawings
'Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. Light Painting Photography can be traced back to the year 1914 when Frank Gilbreth, along with his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth, used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. Man Ray, in his 1935 series "Space Writing," was the first known art photographer to use the technique.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_painting
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