'tis the season, scroogesSo, this year, I decided to be really ambitious (inspired by this) and make my own Christmas cards! I'm a new wife, why not? But THEN I realized that my printer couldn't print on cardstock. And I'd already ordered my cardstock & envelopes. #woopsie! So instead, I hand-drew 75 cards. Yup. Seventy-five. I did it one Sunday afternoon in front of a fire at my in-laws and it was highly relaxing. Materials.Blank cards & envelopes (get it recycled - save dat earth) Caligraphy pens or black pens of different tip sizes Photos (I used picmonkey to make the collage, cropped it into a 4 x 6 photo, and ordered 80 free prints from shutterfly!) Stamps Return address labels, if you want to pay for the timesaver (I got 20 for free on shutterfly!) Process.First, I taped the photo collage inside of the card using washi tape. (I got some sheets of washi tape on clearance, so I cut them into strips.) After Sam & I typed up our Christmas letter, I cut them at school on the paper cutter and glued them onto the bottom half of the card. Lastly, I hand-drew each card using faber-castel pens. I love these pens because of the different sizes that help create texture.
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