It’s
the most wonderful time of the year (besides summertime!) and it’s the time
when I feel I can get most creative in some areas of my life. If you haven’t checked out my post about the
gingerbread, please do! In the meantime,
I will enchant you with my Christmas card journey.
My cards should have been started in
July so I wouldn’t be waiting until last minute to get it done, but my name
should be “Last Minute Jenny”.
Therefore, I’m right on time! I actually
started thinking about cards before Thanksgiving. I scoured Pinterest for card ideas as I am
not a good card idea person at all, and I found some pretty good, albeit easy,
examples.
I
started scouting my local crafting store for Christmas scrapbook paper and
finding none, thought there would be some there for Black Friday, which of
course it wasn’t. I went on-line and
found some 6x6 paper packs at scrapbook.com – all brands I had never used
before, so this would be a learning experience as well. I picked up some red 8.5x11 cardstock and Kraft
paper for my cards and envelopes and got to work getting those cut out while I
waited for my patterned paper. I used my
Cricut to cut the envelopes – all 60 of them.
Last year I did them by hand.
With a pattern. Not again.
My
patterned paper came in magically fast – I thought I would have a longer wait
than I did so I started my card prototypes.
This is important. If the card is
too difficult my boyfriend will say so and then getting him to help will be no
fun! It took several days to get started
and then I had one day all to myself and voila!
I was able to get all prototypes done and made into kits of 15 each and
they are now ready to assemble! Only one
last problem – I thought it would be easy to go to my local Joann’s and get a
set of Christmas stamps. Well, it isn’t. There was nothing Christmassy in that store
except the decorations. Once again, the
internet should have saved me but as of this writing the stamps I ordered have
not even shipped yet.
We
are headed to Michael’s over the weekend, even though it is an hour away, so we
can get the cards stamped and ready to go out by the 17th. That is my deadline. I will have to do the family picture this
weekend, have it reproduced in-house and ready to go in the cards by then. That
should not be a problem. Getting the
dogs to pose properly will be! LOL! I love them.
Last year we let the cat sit in the photo for the first time. We’ll see if he returns…
Results
and finished photos to come…
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