Christmas--homemade style

 When December rolled around this year I decided I wanted to make holiday cards to send out to our friends and family.

Honestly, I never really thought of myself as the type of person who would send out cards, but I got excited at the opportunity to get my creative juices flowing. 

Plus, I thought it would be nice to connect with some of the special people in our lives that we don't get to see as often as we would like. 

I ended up making the cards for less than $1 each before the cost of stamps.  I'm not sure if it's much more for the store bought ones, but they sure were fun to make.

I went to A.C. Moore and bought some supplies without having a clear idea of what I was going to create, soooooo I ended up making about five different types of cards...typical me. 

This was my funky version of a Christmas tree I found here.

Love how they turned out. 

I used up a large portion of my button collection to make these ones, but I think it was worth it.

The Happy Holidays greeting was done by a stamp I got for a dollar or two.

For some, I just decorated the card with paper and ribbon then added the stamp.

I was inspired by this to make the cards a few pictures down and these stockings.

I was finally able to use this Happy Everything stamp I got for really cheap a while back at Michael's.

Again, inspiration for these here.

For some I used fabric for the mittens and others I used paper.  I like how they both turned out.

The inside contained a little update/message from our family and a recent picture taken by my lovely mama.

The assembly line. 

These suckers ended up taking up all of my cherished "nap time" and late night time for a good week or two, but I enjoyed seeing the end product and finally being able to stuff them into envelopes.
Oh, and just fyi, the fabric in the background of the pictures is a beautiful tablecloth I bought at World Market for ten dollars--so purdy!! 

Good today: Amber got to come to music class with me and Cambria. 

Bad today: Cammy didn't take a nap until almost 3 this afternoon...She usually goes down around 12...