Then they planned to spend a family Christmas in Palm Beach ... of the White House each year they had lived there. The inside of the card featured an embossed seal of an American eagle holding ...

The Blue Peter Christmas card ... super cool picture-reveal card to wow your friends and family. Using the folded tabs, place the outside cm on the back and the inside cm on the door side.

The thick brushstrokes and cartoon-like blazing fireplace in Philip Guston's 1970s Christmas card are unmistakably his, reminiscent of his darkly primitive renderings of hooded Ku Klux Klan members.

But among the prolific Hellman's other work are these Christmas card designs, shown here in a range of finished designs and preliminary sketches, from the more serious to the satirical and salubrious.