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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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So.  Yes, my birthday was December 30.  Yes, my birthday PARTY was January 28th.  And YES, it is now April.  However, I didn’t get around to writing thank you notes until March… better late than never right?

I decided to pull a classic Chrystina and go with the Post Card approach.  Put some pictures of the party on one side, write a message on half of the other side AND you only have to pay for a postcard stamp (which is now 33 cents, thank you, America).  I didn’t have any pictures from the event though, so I decided to try something different.  Johanna brought a dessert to this party that we ended up calling “crack”.  It was SO good. It’s sort of caramel meets chocolate meets matzo… and it’s bite-sized.

I hope you appreciate that I used my blog background as the background of this card.  The colors are just too good to pass up.
Also, I’ve only got one comment so far from a friend that somebody that they lived with was slightly confused that they got a recipe for crack in the mail (that seemed to be more like toffee).

When’s the last time you sent somebody a postcard?

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So as you all (probably) know, I travel a lot for my job.  Somehow (I’m still not quite sure how) I got put in charge of finding people to bake for an event in the office (in Philadelphia) on a Wednesday (when I was in Louisiana).  I needed at least 5 people (out of the usual 20 people) in the office to bake.  On that day, I felt remarkably bad for anybody sitting in the Philadelphia office that I had ever spoken to for more than 10 minutes because I was pinging up a storm trying to get people to bake.  There were a bunch of people who came through – thank you, JK, SM, JS, TB, TP & NR for guiding me (unfortunately, RN was not able to help out like he said he was going to… I forgave him.).  Anyway, by the time we got done with this shuffle I felt like these people had baked as more of a personal favor to me rather than a favor to the company.  And what do you do when somebody does you a really nice favor that you’re really really grateful for?  (if you’re me)  You make them a card.  Can you believe I had just bought these stickers on clearance a month earlier?  (Can you believe they were on clearnance?!)  Perfect.

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