Nicole here!
Can you believe that Christmas is peeking around the corner?
I'll tell you a little secret - I don't make hand made Christmas cards.
Nope, every year my husband and I have been married (and the year we were engaged) I've sent out picture cards. It's been an awesome tradition and this year will make 6 picture cards - so I plan to have the first 6 framed. I hope to do this tradition year after year.
AND, wanna know the best part - I'm not making 50+ Christmas cards by hand. Fact is, I'd hate it. I'd make 3 or 4 and then - it would seem like this huge chore - and the cards would get increasingly sloppy as I 'just wanted to be done' --- and it's just not how I want to spend my crafty Christmas time. Ya know?
To be honest - it took me a lot of years to not have the 'home made' card guilt. I always worry that people think they didn't get something homemade from me because I don't love them. But, that's all in my own head - people are happy to get anything sent to them. Home made or not, it's the thought that counts!
I still make a couple Christmas cards - but, I usually box them up for my grandma to send out - that way she get's the joy of getting my home made cards AND she gets to send them off to her friends. Best of both worlds - dontcha think?
Here is a Christmas card I made with the 'Sweet Alpha Doodles' and the 'Holiday Sentiments' sets - I really like how it turned out!
What's your Christmas card tradition? Do you feel the home made guilt?
I say - deck those halls ... and craft what makes YOU feel good! The rest is gravy!
Happy Holiday Season!
N.
Love the Alpha Doodle Ornaments...lots!
ReplyDeletethat is amazing!!!!!!!! what an ingenius way to make the ornaments! :)
ReplyDeleteand what a wonderful idea - to have your grandma send out some of your homemade cards!!!
love it!
Ummm, hello, that is completely genius. LOVE IT
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this. I totally have the same guilt, and so often I just don't get around to sending out Christmas cards at all. This year I took the plunge and bought some unique(ish) premade ones. I feel guilty, but less guilty than I feel about not sending anything at all. I'll made a few, but like you, just for fun.
ReplyDeleteYour world is filled with closet friends just like you! Me too! Cute card!
ReplyDeleteSome years I make cards and other years I don't. But I've continued my mother's tradition of sending a Christmas Letter with (sometimes instead of) a card. We've been doing this for over 30 years and last year, I copied all the letters and created handbound Newsletter books for family members. It was a big hit! So fun to read about us and the grandkids growing up as well as see mother's handwriting on her first letters.
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