Christmas cards I have been working on

I took a break from working on wedding stuff today to make a few Christmas cards. My SIL has asked for 50 Christmas cards for this year and then her Mom also wants some so I have been working on them on and off. The let is snow one I liked so much that I did 4 of them because it was real easy and I figured that it would be alright if some of the cards were the same. The Joy one I got from an idea from one of Jeannie's Christmas cards. Thank you Jeannie. The tree one and the Let is snow with a snowman on it I took a close up because I wanted you to see the snow. I love that powder glitter stuff. It really does look like snow. Anyway, I am back off to working on wedding stuff, I just wanted to show you some of the Christmas cards I have been working on. Thank you all for commenting. I love to read what everyone says....Thanks!

Christmas Cards

We went out of town this weekend to the soon to be inlaws. While there visiting with my soon to be sister in law she was telling me that the company she works for does Christmas cards each year and that she is in charge of them. She asked me if I would be interested in doing them. I told her yeah, what would they pay me. Thinking it would be so little that it wouldn't be worth my time. Well she said that last year they paid $2.50 a card. Ok, normally if I sell a card I sell it for twice that so I am just listening at this point. Then she tells me how many. 1000 cards. My eyes and ears are wide open at this point. She said they had to be pretty simple and they couldn't say anything about Merry Christmas, which I think is bull but that is the way a lot of companies operate now. Anyway, I am thinking 1000 cards at $2.50 a pop, that is $2500.00. I am a little excited but nervous, could I make this many cards. So I came home and sat down and came up with what I call a simple card. One Cricut cut,no layering...that nearly killed me.. They have to be light enough to mail with one stamp. Well, I have exactly two Christmas stamps, one that says Happy Holidays and the other is the inside verse. Instead of just stamping on the outside verse, I embossed it in gold. I thought that made it look much more professional. Anyway, here are four cards that I emailed her today. I think the deer and the ornament are my favorites. EAch card took me about 5-10 a piece to make. With them only taking this long to make if I get the order, I should have no problem making that many by Christmas. So please keep your fingers crossed for me that I can get this order. With my wedding coming up in a few weeks I sure could use the extra money. Look at them and let me know if you think they look good enough for a company to send out as their cards. I would have them embossed with their company name on the inside too. Please let me know what you think.

Angel thank you cards

I needed to make 4 angel thank you cards for Teresa. She said that her and her husband had felt as if 4 people truly had been their angels in all of this. She wanted them just alike so this is what I came up with. I used the angel from Christmas Noel. I cut her at 3 1/4" once on regular cut and twice on blackout. I also cut her wing once on regular cut in purple and twice on blackout cut in the pearlized white paper. I hope you can see from the last picture that her wings actually bend forwards like she is flying. I also had the neatest paper for the background. the paper directly behind of the angel is clouds and one of the cards you can actually see a little bit of the ocean behind her. The very back ground paper has words all the way across it that refers to faith and living life to the fullest, I thought it worked perfect. I also used my Jasmine cart for the corners, I love those corners, I think they really can add to a card. I used lots and lots of pop glue dots and of course I stickled her wings and bottom of her dress. The inside says "You truly were a blessing in disguise, Thank you for being my angel. I hope the recipients like them as much as I enjoyed making them. Tomorrow I have to make 5 more church cards and then I think I am finished with all the thank you cards she needed. That will make 42. Thank you so much for looking and thank you so much for commenting. Don't forget to check out my blog, I have been really busy putting a lot of my cards on there. I would love to have you as a follower....

God Bless You

This is another thank you card for Teresa, the lady that I work with whose husband was in a very bad accident. She asked me to make several thank you cards for Churches also. Living in a small community is just amazing. I believe all of the churches have done something for this family. It is just amazing how everyone comes together when someone is in need. Definitely shows the power of what God can do. I didn't want this card to be over fancy because I didn't want anything to over power the verse inside. I hope you like it and please leave a comment to let me know if this is alright for a church thank you card. I wanted this one to be very special. I think I will make all the church ones pretty similiar. Thank you so much for looking...

Christmas Noel- church cut at 3 1/2" once regular cut in champagne paper, one blackout cut in yellow, once black out in chamagne, and layers cut in brown for the roof and layers cut in green for the grass.

Wild Card- God Bless You cut at 51/2"

Who needs a hug

I just love this bear from Christmas Noel. For this one I cut the bear out three times. Once on shadow and once in light brown and then I cut him out again in dark brown for the layers. I figured this would make a great card for someone that you just wanted to say hello to or for someone that was feeling a little down in the dumps. On the inside of the card I put it's here when you need it. The font is George.