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We’ve reached a new level of my greeting card making.  We’ve gotten to the point that I am taking requests from people about making the greeting cards.  Recently I made three different sets of greeting cards based on very few facts that people gave me.  It was actually a lot of fun to take the basics and make something cool with it.  Actually, I equivocate it a lot to one of those really fun bars that you go into and you say I want something made with gin and ginger and that tastes refreshing – ready go?  (That’s my usual.  Any other gin drinkers out there?)  Check out some of my creations this past week:

The Request: Greeting cards that are red, black, and white

Red Black and White Greeting Cards With Flowers

favorite part: the way the flower compliments the cards
the challenge: choosing the right shade of red – some paper I had was too Christmasy, some was too burgundy, some was almost maroon

 

The Request: Thank You cards with hearts on them

Thank You Cards With Hearts

favorite part: I really love that heart paper.
the challenge: poking the fasteners through the paper without hurting myself

 

The Request: Turquoise and lime green cards

2013-03-24 Handmade Turquoise and Lime Green Greeting Cards

favorite part: the black photo mounting corners
the challenge: figuring out how to make a classy lime green and turquoise card

Fun, right?  What kind of cards would you ask for?

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2013-01-28, introduction to the card giveaway

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a chance to reintroduce myself to everybody who has recently stopped by (thank you!!).  Over the past year, this blog has become a space for me to capture greeting cards, party ideas, and life ramblings – and I like to think that I embody the phrase “engineer by day, hostess by night.”  If you look at how I eat M&Ms, you’d see why I’m an engineer.  If you look at my Prom 21st birthday party, you’d see why I’m a hostess.  And if you look at my guide for planning Wine and Cheese events, you’d see why I’m a pretty good combination of the two.

Recently this blog has been slacking on the “hostess” component though, but the good news is that I just bought a couch futon, so now I can start hosting (small) parties again.  But there are plenty of other posts to keep you entertained in the meantime.

Somebody once asked me what my “thing” is in life – and my answer to that is people.  I love meeting people, getting to know them, making them happy, introducing them, and learning what makes them tick.

I usually make decisions with my heart instead of my head (I made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins for some people in the office last week because my heart hurt when I found out that they were working until after 11:00pm again).  I also like to talk my way out loud to solutions to problems and conclusions of thoughts (you can ask my roommate about that hot mess).

Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it.  I appreciate every visit, every comment, and every share, so now it’s time that I share something with you.

. . . . WIN THESE GREETING CARDS . . . .

2013-01-26, Purple Cards for Blog Giveaway

Enter to win these 6 purple greeting cards.  The contest ends at 11:59 on February 3.  There are 4 ways to enter.  You can do 1 or all 4 – which would result in leaving 4 separate comments below.  (Note: if you already following on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, you can just leave a comment saying that.)

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Bossman and I were having a conversation last month (yes, I actually call him bossman sometimes) about greeting cards (he humors me sometimes).  I learned that he doesn’t save any greeting cards at all.  Not even the awesome madlibs greeting card that I made him last year.  I started wondering if other people didn’t save greeting cards either.  So I went to some of my favorite people in the blogging world and I asked them three questions:

a) how long do you save your greeting cards?
b) what’s special about the ones you save?
c) where do you save them?

 

Meet Janine from Shambolic Living – We went through a Smores Adventure last year together.  Her blog’s catch phrase is “Janine Fitzpatrick, a wannabe blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends” … which is awesome.

how Janine from Shambolic Living saves greeting cards

 

Meet Leslie from Leslie Reese – her blog photography is incredible and I just made a florentine white bean soup recipe from off of her blog for dinner because it just looked so delicious.

how Leslie from Leslie Reese saves greeting cards

 

Meet Lucy from A Small Insight – she and I share a love of tea and mugs and her blog is full of fun photography and recipes as well – and a fun idea for storing jewelry.

how Lucy from A Small Insight saves greeting cards

 

Meet Tori from one eleven – she makes beautiful clutches (and more) and always has some inspirational posts.

how Tori from one eleven saves greeting cards

 

And finally, meet Virginia from Yes, Virginia – (maybe her card saving answer is bias?  kind of like mine) she made a beautiful butterfly card that I got in the mail last year and blogs about greeting cards and her family’s (always fun) adventures.

how Virginia from Yes, Virginia saves greeting cards

How about you, how long do you save your greeting cards?

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I wanted to share with all of you my Christmas and New Year’s card that I created this year.  I wanted to wait until I thought that all of the New Year’s cards had arrived at their respective locations – which if they haven’t, I’m sorry!!

As for the card creation – I  bought myself a graphics tablet and I was SUPER excited to use it.  I designed them sitting in a hotel room in Louisiana between the hours of 6:30pm and 9:00pm on a Friday night (because that’s when all good things get done).  Then I got them printed at Kinkos the next day (2 per page), and spent the next morning cutting them apart and folding them in the lobby (the other awesome place where things get done).  I was pretty thrilled about how they came out.

Christmas and New Year's Cards 2012, front

the front side

Christmas and New Year's Cards 2012, back

the back side

Does anybody else send out New Year’s Cards or is it just me?  I find that it’s easier to avoid the whole controversy of “Happy Holidays” – and you never have to say “Happy Holidays” – which is super generic and impersonal I feel like.  Although, we did decide that “Season’s Greeting’s” is even worse than Happy Holidays.  How do you wish people a “Happy Holidays”?

Also, in case anybody’s curious about how my – send only one card to everybody between Halloween and New Year’s idea – went, I sent out approximately 60 cards in that time.  I actually have a list of 18 left.  Maybe they’ll get Valentine’s Day cards, who knows.  How do people handle all of the cards that they send out?  Maybe I’m writing too much inside…

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