the card swap continues
Last week i started to show some designs that i received from the Brooklyn Bride holiday card swap. I was hesitant to post photos of my own design that i sent out because i didn’t want the girls involved to see their card before they received it. I’m pretty sure (OK… so 99.9% sure) they have received them now, so i wanted to share. First though, i got another card in the mail on Saturday and wanted to show that one too. The dimensional star is my favorite part and i can’t quite figure out how it was done! But i love it and getting these cards is so much better than bills! It is like a treat each time i visit my mailbox.
{ from Leah }
This is the card i sent out. I custom designed the envelope and size. I cut the paper from a roll of craft wrap and lined with a festive paper! The inner envelope was made from a really cool wood textured paper from GMUND. After printing on heavy vellum, i heat embossed the design and added a red pearl for Rudolph’s nose.
This was the first time i participated in this exchange and it was fun. It is great because i’m like my own client and i can do whatever i want. Now granted, i did get in a bit over my head with the sewing machine. I lost the battle with it and so only one person got the inner envelope, but i still hope they were enjoyed regardless. I’m looking forward to next years!
Holiday card swap
This year i had the pleasure to part of a holiday card swap that Brooklyn Bride hosted. The minute i saw this on her blog, it was right up my alley. All the names of the interested participants (designers or not) were collected and emailed in groups. So i received 5 names of people to design and send a card to, and i’ll receive the same. I have already received 2! So fun to get cards and not bills or junk mail. I did photograph what i designed, but i don’t want to post yet just incase they are reading my blog. I will say though, it included thick vellum, a heat embosser, ribbon, a very complicated envelope template that i designed with kraft paper and of course… dum, dum, dum… the 25 year old sewing machine that i lost a battle with. Crap. So only one lucky person that i had to send to got the sewn inner envelope. I probably would have kept trying to make the whole thing work, except i used up 2 bobbins of thread, poked myself and nearly cried trying to get this darn thing to work. You see, i don’t really sew. I have always wanted to and was very intrigued by it, but i just never got it. So i’ll stick to the computer and have someone help me next year if i decided that i’m going to go completely overboard with a design. (which i love by the way).
Here are the 2 i have received so far:
{ from Laci }
{ from Brooklyn Bride } I love the photograph and the kraft envelope too!
