Because I've been building my expertise in AI, I opted to use AI tools for our Holiday Card this year.  Here is an informal rundown of how that transpired.

I did a free trial of Photoleap because I wanted to experiment with producing a new work headshot.

The same app had fun holiday filters which got me thinking.......

I uploaded a photo of Steve and I and had some fun!!

To be fair I also have over 20 years of Photoshop experience, so next I did some slicing and dicing of images. I went out to Bing Image Creator to make a different background. Steve wanted to be totally Grinched and I liked my candy cane hair situation so I put them together. Here is the progression of images I created in Bing to get to what I wanted. I "told" the AI tool what I wanted and it adjusted along the way. This was my initial prompt, "make a forest where the trees are candy canes and they are overlapping haphazardly".