Holiday Cards

Every year around Thanksgiving, I go through the debate of buying holiday cards or making them.  I tend to make them if I have some inspiration, but some years (like last year) I find some awesome ones like the ones I found last year.  Typically I make them on my computer with CAD and Photoshop.  This year I got it in my head that I wanted to make my cards in the shape of ornaments, and cut them all out and I had a color scheme in mind too.  I don’t know what I was thinking. I barely have time to think lately, let alone cut out 40 some cards and piece them all together.  I didn’t think about this until I was home from paper presentation with all of my paper, stamps and envelopes contemplating returning it all because there was no way I was going to put them together.

K and her silhouette printer came to my rescue.  She told me to download the program and brought this magnificent little machine over for me to use once I found the shape I wanted in the online store.  I was going to go with more shapes, but decided to stick with one and not get too crazy.  After I cut the shapes out, I used washi tape to decorate them and stamped the inside.  I was going to be more creative with the connection of the front and back, maybe I was going to do them as postcards, I can’t even remember thanks to my fry-brain.  In the end, I just glued the top part together so you could flip them open and put a ribbon through the hole.  I also had a cute little present stamp that I put on all the envelopes and sent them out.  They were not exactly what I was thinking, but they ended up being cute and the colors were what I wanted, so I’m happy I ended up making them.  Although I still have a few that I need to hand out…

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