Christmas Cards

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas?

I just wanted to show you quickly some cards I had made before Christmas. These were orders from friends and were done soo quickly as I was very short on time.

These cards were made using some Christmas stamps I got on Ebay about a year and a half ago...

The stamps were a very good buy as I got them from a seller in Hong Kong so got them ridiculously cheap and I have honestly used the stamps soo many times. I have even had people ordering them as Christmas tags after I made a batch for myself to put onto Christmas presents. 

This next lot of cards were all computerised. I don't normally make whole cards on the computer but I was very short on time and had to make them quickly.  I never had time to stamp an image, colour it and then think of layouts etc.  My friend who ordered them was chuffed with them so that is the main thing I suppose. 

I think this is the only card I made this year which featured a stamped image...

I really must make time in 2012 to handmake some Christmas cards. I always leave it until the last minute. I have a terrible habit at the moment in that I do not make cards for my friends and family and only really my closest relatives get handmade cards like my mum etc.  How terrible is that??  They all get shop bought ones.. shock horror!!!!  Now I have made the confession I really am going to have to do something about it!!  I am asked quite a lot why I don't give handmade cards and the answer is always the same ... I just don't have the time to make them.  

I think I will need to think up a quickish design that I can make up in bulk for friends and family and then do the normal 'special' cards for the other family members!  If I start early enough then I should be able to achieve it.... we shall see!!