So here I am, staying up past Clint on a Thursday night (as I don't work on Fridays. Snicker, snicker.), crafting away my stresses. Can you think of any better way to re-balance your chi?
So here's this year's Christmas card that I'm sending to all my friends and family. Oh, I suppose I should have listed that as a spoiler alert, but I don't think any of the recipients read this blog anyway, so I suppose it doesn't matter.
The gals over at A Passion For Papertry made this fortnight's challenge a Christmas card featuring green. Now my card definitely has a Simply Chartreuse tree, but to me, this challenge was more along the lines of "how to use 196 pieces of left over 4" x 12" navy card stock from making wedding invitations and favors from Kevin's and Alissa's wedding." I think this year's Christmas cards, and birthday cards...and thank you cards, and baby shower cards, and get well cards...OK, you get the point, but they will surely all feature this lovely textured navy card stock. I still have about 180 pieces left...See the pictures below to realize just how much card stock this is.
So anyway, on to this year's *official* Tremper Christmas Card.
Disclaimer: because the lighting is so bad in my craft room, these have been edited to try to convey the true colors of my card. Santa, please bring me better lights for Christmas!
Yes, that is a star-shaped brad topping my tree.
In my prototype, I had scarlet ornaments and a scarlet banner with the sentiment across, but I thought the look of the white and vellum was more refreshing, crisp and clean. Love the heavyweight vellum!
OK, so on to that stack of navy card stock? I don't actually know how many sheets are heft, but here is what my stack looks like. I had the pleasure of creating the invitations for my dear friends' wedding this past August. Their colors were navy and lavender and looked SO ELEGANT! However, in order to get the correct quantity of navy card stock, I had to purchase it in bundles of 1/2 smooth and 1/2 textured. So after the invitations were made, I was left with just as much card stock, only textured, as I had just used to make the invitations! So most of those went into making favor boxes where the texture of the card stock didn't matter. However, it resulted in these odd 4" x 12" left over pieces, which I will slowly be making my way through over the next decade...
You can see that my stack is about 1" tall, as my ruled cutting pad has a 1/2" border at the bottom. I'd say that stacks up pretty well. Hah hah; get it? Stacks up! LOL. Oh bother...
So that's that for me tonight. I hope you enjoyed my resurgence into blog land. Don't get used to it.
Cheers!
