Projo Holidays Blog

Just a small reminder (not really a push) to send out your Christmas cards early. With two brothers working for the United States Postal Service, I sort of have that ingrained into me.

Most of my cards have been sent. I'm sure there will be a couple along the way that I forgot to put into my address book, therefore forgot to send out. I usually send out about 40 cards. What can I say? I have a very large family.

I'm very picky about the cards I choose. Don't ask me why, but I feel I have to stick with Hallmark. Maybe it's because "I care enough to send the very best". Over the past few years, prices for boxed cards became a bit much for me. I'd rather invest the money in a gift. Not only that but also because I wasn't happy with the design AND the sentiment. I liked either one or the other.

Being a scrapbooker, I opted to create my own cards since I already have tons of cardstock, patterned papers and cutting tools.

I used to subscribe to Paper Crafts magazine. I found it to be helpful in creating and designing my own cards. I don't use exactly their patterns but something may trigger off a composition in my mind. It takes several weeks of browsing through different magazines (I also use Creating Keepsakes message board). Once I come up with an idea, it's like piecework.

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