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One of my favorite things each year is designing our family Christmas card. This year, I had a brilliant plan and I started early. I bought these cool vellum sleeves at Joanns, and envelopes to fit, and staged the photo way ahead of time. I designed the “Year in Review” part of the card in Publisher (an idea I borrowed from the gallery at 2Peas). As soon as the Christmas lights were up on our house, we took the photo. I addressed all the envelopes. Then I had the photo printed.

Gak! It was way too dark! You couldn’t even see the house or Darren and me in the background. It was all black. So I tweaked the photo and printed again. Then I started printing the sleeves.

Gak! The printer kept eating the vellum and wrinkling it. Sometimes the vellum came out all smeared and torn. There was a catfight going on inside my printer and there was nothing I could do to stop it. After wasting 18 vellum sleeves trying different tricks and techniques to get the dumb things to print, I finally threw up my hands in disgust and said, “I’m going to Staples!”, where I bought a pack of plain vellum sheets and a tin of shortbread cookies, which I won’t be tempted by, but it felt good to buy. *sigh*

Four hours later, 75 cards are printed, assembled, stamped and ready for tomorrow’s mail.



Don’tcha hate it when your perfect picture is horizontal and you need something vertical? Me too. Thank goodness for digital cropping. :)

:)

(For the star, I used Creative Memories’ Star Maker and “Star Dust” Stickles, which I painted on with a foam brush.)

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Posted in General on December 13th, 2006

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  1. Tracy Says:
    December 31st, 2006 at 12:36 am

    TOTALLY stealing this idea for next year. And not feeling snubbed that I didn’t get one of these beauties either. LOL :)

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