Christmas Cards

In Chronological Order...

  2007
 
 
 
This is the very beginning of my card making adventures! It's a postcard combining fancy papers, computer-generated message and silver-embossed stamp, die-cut with punches. At this point my supplies were very limited.

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2008

 

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2009


 
 
 
I started sending Christmas cards to my design clients in 2009.

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2010

 
 
 
Design client card with instant coffee packets in the pocket.
 
In the beginning of my card making the emphasis was more on interesting papers I found, with a single stamp and computer-generated messages.  
 
 
 
 
 
Printed papers, border and snowflake dies, and a single stamp inside. This must have been the year I got a Sizzix "Big Shot" from my wonderful husband for my birthday!

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2011
 
 
 
 
This Christmas season I found some beautiful coordinating papers by Anna Griffin and I bought enough to use for both family and friends and design clients, short-cutting the process a bit.
 
 
Postcard for clients with coordinating custom envelope. The ornaments were all fussy-cut and layered and the snowflakes die-cut.
 
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2013

 
A year is missing here - I think it might have been due to a computer crash that lost a lot of my photo files. This is also the year I had some new PTI dies that I was very fascinated with - especially the snowflakes!
 
 
 
 
Family and friends 2013
 
 
Design clients - experimenting with a tri-fold card and ribbons passing through the center of each page.
 
 
 
 
I have a large group of E-friends on a social forum that I have participated with for a number of years. I often send Christmas cards to all of these friends.
 
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 2014

 
 
 
Family and friends - I think I had finally gotten past snowflakes!
 
 
 
 
E-friends - same concept, different colors
 
 
Single-page postcard type card for interior design clients
 
 
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 2015

 
 
 
Family and friends - well, maybe I was partially past snowflakes!
 
 
Design client card and coordinating envelopes
 
 
E-friends
 
 
 
Additional images from 2015
 
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 2016

 
 
Family and friends - a difficult card to photograph as it is all metallic.
 
 
Client postcard with more navy blue metallic paper left over from nephew's wedding invitations.
 
 
E-friends and more snowflakes
 
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2017

 
 
Family and friends - this card migrated over from my Flikr account to Pinterest and last time I looked it had over 7,000 views.
 
 
 
Design clients
 
 
E-friends
 
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 2018

 
 
 
Family and friends
 
 
 
Design Client card and coordinating envelope
 
 
E-friends
 
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2019

 
Family and friends

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2020



Family & Friends
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2021


Family & Friends

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2022

2022 was a year in which I had many Christmas cards that I had created over the year and entered in various challenges. Rather than make one design multiple times, I sent out one-of-a-kind cards to all family and friends. Here are a few examples:







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2023


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2024





1 comment:

  1. Love your lovely Christmas cards and admire all the beautiful envelopes to go with them. I can see why you were a successful designer, your creations are amazing!! Thank you for sharing them!

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