2012 Family Christmas cards

I made Christmas cards when I was on mat leave with Aidan (back in 2009), but after I went back to work it was impossible to have the time to make them. My friend Jenn has been asking me why I haven't made any cards (she still has our 2009 family Christmas card up in her house) since so I decided to make them again this year. It was a lot of work, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

My mock-up on my computer screen. I wanted to incorporate our family portrait that we take
every year. I had the portrait shots printed at Costco in a glossy paper and punched them out
with my 2" circle punch. That way it really stands out against the matte card stock paper.
I glued it on the area I had left blank for the photo.

I made coordinating envelopes for each card. I found a template for a vertical envelope
online and did a few test print-outs before I was completely happy with it.
I stuck a washi tape to seal the envelope.

I used my white opaque marker that I got from an art supply store to write to the card
was for.

I made green and red envelopes and different washi tape patterns to seal the envelope.

Another view.

And here's a behind-the-scenes look at the mess on my office floor.
Whenever I have a project that I'm working on, my office is super messy. You can also see here
that I glued the back of each cards (with a spray glue) with different-coloured (light brown and
brown) card stock paper. I did that to make the card more sturdy. 

The only bad news is that while I was working on these cards my printer broke :-(

I'm going to have to look into buying another inkjet printer soon. I'll probably start looking once the holidays are over. There will probably be lots of sales going on.