Woman creates Christmas cards with ‘fake family’ – including fictional kids

Brynn Shuller wanted to send out a personalised Christmas card but she didn’t have a family of her own to feature in the picture, so she had to get creative with it

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Single woman creates Christmas cards with ‘fake family’

A woman has created her own Christmas cards with a ‘fake family’, complete with a fictional husband and made-up children. Brynn Shuller, 32, wanted to join in the festive fun by sending out unique cards to her family but she had no clan of her own to speak of, so she had to get creative.

Brynn decided to create her own creepy family in October 2015 and dressed up and played all the characters herself, even donning a fake moustache for Mr Brynn. Her first card went down a storm and now it’s become an annual tradition, and each year she creates a new card from The Brynns, showing them on one of their family adventures.

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Brynn, a graphic designer, from Cincinnati, Ohio, US, said: “I just saw this costume chest hair and it just gave me an idea. It was really random, but it seemed fun to play characters of an awkward family and photoshop it together.

“I wasn’t expecting my family to love it quite so much and now lots of people love my cards. I go to different locations and dress up in the different costumes to take photos and make the cards.

“It’s hilarious.”

Brynn already had a passion for creating fun photoshopped images when the idea to create the quirky family photos came to her in October 2015.

“I had already been photoshopping my face into movie posters,” she said.

“After seeing the funny chest hair, I started planning my family. Byron, the dad, is awkward and always excited and happy.

“Brynnda, the mum, is always trying to make everyone happy but she is probably aggravated on the inside. Brynnie, the daughter, is so young and happy go lucky. Frank, the teenage son, is an outcast and is always grumpy and never enjoys the family photos.”

The cards take Brynn a few weeks to plan, two hours to shoot and four to six hours to edit, as she goes to different locations to get the scenery right before combining them all together later.

“My favourites have been Disneyland,” she said.

“I did a photo on a log flume, and I had to keep queuing with the different costumes on to get the next snap. It was so much fun.”

Brynn has also trekked two hours to get to the perfect spot to create her family fishing trip card.

“I even fell in the water,” she said. “It can be hard to find men’s clothes that fit me so it takes a few weeks of planning and ordering to get everything together.”

This year she is taking ‘the Brynn’s’ card one step further and creating a 2023 calendar by compiling photos from each month of the year.

“I’m spending this year taking a photo for the month that will go into the calendar,” she said. “So far I have done up to October and am planning my November one.

“I plan for December to be a snowy one. It’s so much fun creating the cards and playing the characters – I love it.”

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