Reindeer Cards

For those that don't know, I'm a homeschooling mom and we're involved in a christian homeschool co-op that meets the first 3 Fridays of each month and has field trips the last week of each month. All moms (and some dads) have 2 teaching jobs, either lead teaching or assisting along with an administrative job. My teaching job is lead teaching the hands-on PreK/K class and I LOVE it! PreK'ers are my FAVORITE age group! They are just too stinkin cute and I love, love, love arts & crafts which most of them love to do also! Anyways, our co-op takes a break in December after our Christmas party and then does swimming lessons in January and then meets back up for classes in February! It's a long break and I'm gonna miss my PreK/K'ers so I decided to make them each a Christmas card and mail it to them so they get to feel extra special getting their very own card from the mail! I made 16 of these cards and my wrist hurts but it's all worth it! They are a great group of kiddos!!

A simple Christmas card

Another Christmas card to add to the mix! :)

Christmas cards & a birthday card

I'm frantically busting out Christmas cards and thankfully last night I had a few hours after the kiddos went to bed to work on some cards! I made 4 Christmas cards and was making a 5th one but decided that the colors weren't "christmasy" enough for my liking so I turned it into a birthday card!







Now I've found I have a bit of an issue! I like to send out a family newsletter along with a family picture but I made most of my cards 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 so trying to cram in extra stuff isn't going to look so nice! Oh well, maybe I can condense the newsletter or something! :) I'll figure it out!

Christmas cards galore! :)

Well, this past week has been crazy! Hubby was on vacation and his best friend got married so we were busy with all that fun stuff and spent 4 days at my sister's house. One night I was actually able to get some cards made while I watched a movie with my brother-in-law (hubby was at the bachelor party and sister crashed early). It's still hard to believe that I need to make about 30 more cards but I'll bust them out this week & next week hopefully! The happy note is that I'm pretty much done with Christmas present shopping! It's nice to be ahead in that area. I hate scrambling at the last minute to fine meaningful gifts for people! It will be nice to kick back and enjoy the Christmas festivities all month and not be stressed! I LOVE LOVE LOVE CHRISTMAS!

2 More Christmas Cards

Finally I'm able to post these! For some reason Blogger has been giving me issues the past 2 days when I've tried to log in and post new blogs.

Anyways, here are 2 Christmas cards I made the other night. I was very productive that night! :) I counted out how many cards I had already completed (35 cards), put them in envelopes, put address labels on them and created my christmas card list. Come to find out I need to make about 40 more cards to mail out by December 1st so I really need to get my hiney in gear and get to busting out some more cards! Worse case scenario I do have some store bought cards that I bought on sale after Christmas last year but I really don't want to resort to that. We'll see! I still have some Christmas gifts to make too so I'm gonna be a busy little bee the next month & a half!




Happy Sunday!

Christmas Cards

October 17th I'm having a Christmas card workshop where we'll be making 10 cards. I'm trying to get my samples finished up so last night I added some embellishments to the 4 cards that weren't quite done and then created 2 more. The card that had trees on it I just left the same so I'm not posting that picture again.


Here are the 4 that I had already posted pictures of previously but thought I'd show the finished work.






And here are the 2 cards I made up last night:

Christmas Cards with help from KP!!

First of all, I just LOVE Karen Pedersen's work! She is extremely talented and I'm always drooling over her stuff! Last night I sat down to come up with some cards to make for an upcoming Christmas card workshop and I came across some of her Christmas cards and had to steal some of her layouts!! I think her cards are way better than mine but I gave them a shot! :O)

Here are the 5 I made last night:






Be sure to stop by Karen's blog (HERE), you won't be sorry!!!

Had a few extra minutes...

I'm wasting the last few more minutes before we have to head to dinner so I'll post the rest of the Christmas cards I did this afternoon. Now keep in mind that some of them are not totally finished. I left spaces for when I buy Christmas stamps to add to them. I wanted to at least get a base done so all I had to do was stamp or add embellishments!

Here they are:

I'm on a roll today!!

This afternoon my son went to a birthday party at the local bowling alley so while he was doing that my daughter and I went cruising around the mall which kept her awake longer than normal. After we picked up my son and came home Tatym napped for 2 hours (my hubby just woke her up since we have dinner plans with friends) so I worked on Christmas cards again! I was able to bust out 10 more so now I've got something like 15 done! HOORAY!! I better slow down because I know I'm gonna buy some CTMH Christmas papers and stamps when the new Idea Book comes out and I don't want all my cards already done before I get to use my new stuff!

Here are 5 of the cards I just finished. I'll post the other 5 after we get home from dinner.

Christmas Cards In July

Every year I mail out about 50-60 cards for Christmas and this is the first year that I'm going to make my own cards so I've decided to start now so I'm not scrambling later on! I got 5 made this morning while my daughter napped. WOO HOO! Some of them aren't quite finished because I don't have any Christmas stamps just yet. I can't wait for the Fall/Winter CTMH Idea Book to come out so I can order some and then I'll go back and finish up the cards that need a little more pizazz! This is so much fun because no one will get the same card as someone else!!

Here they are: