Father's Day Cards

I made cute cards and photo collages for my Dad and Aaron at Kodak Picture Kiosk. Read about it on the Kodak blog.

My new favorite greeting cards

I don't come from a big card giving family. We just didn't do greeting cards when I was a kid. We didn't send out Christmas cards either. I do remember my dad getting my mom and I each a Valentines Day card though - I have an awesome one with cuts of meat saying things like "You're Grade A!" and "You're the best, no baloney!" (I have just about every card I have ever recieved by the way)

I am into Christmas cards now... because i make them myself. A lot of thought and work goes into those each year. I have a tough time with other cards though. I just can't find ones that say what I want to in a way that sounds like me. Pair that with a design that I like and it's tough to find the perfect card.

A couple nights ago I was perusing the card aisle when I spied this collection. (MAYBE if you are a person who typically gets a card from me on certain occasions you SHOULDN'T look below!)

I like what they say and even the quirky typeface they use. I like the doodles and layers of design elements.

I like the photos and the colors.

I like the use of kittens and pugs.

They are just so ME. And then I saw who wrote them. TAYLOR SWIFT! Not that I have anything against Taylor Swift - I just never would have guessed.

So there you have it. The cutest darn greeting cards won me over. I bought a stack of them for every occasion for the rest of the year!

Merry Christmas!!!

Here is our holiday card this year. It was a holiday/we moved! card. Today will be a flurry of wrapping paper and eating turkey at Grandmas. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

This is this year's holiday card... featuring our festive furry creatures. Today they will be busy unwrapping their presents!

Merry Christmas!

Now that Christmas is over, I can talk about this years theme, gingerbread men. My holiday card featured Oscar and gingerbread men. Then my gift packaging followed the same idea. I made clay tags and had a stamp made. See all the work on my project page.

A little bit ago, I knitted Oscar his own little scarf.

He liked it so much he wore it in our Christmas cards this year.

Very handsome.

(That is a mini sled. Oscar is not four feet tall)

Here is the project page for the scarf.

Now if I could just get the sweater I started for him last year finished.

 

Everyone should have gotten their Oscar holiday card in the mail by now, so I can reveal it here.

This year's theme was "Oscar the red nosed reindeer".

Kinda like "Olive the other reindeer"

Everyone thought that Oscar is really wearing a fake nose.

But no.

I added that in photoshop.

Oscar is patient, but he is not that patient.

And he really doesn't have much of a nose to stick a fake nose on.