Happy Holidays 2012!

Wishing everyone a wonderful Holiday Season!

This year my cards were literally thrown together very quickly.  Typically I have them all planned out and ready to go by Thanksgiving, which involves hours of my time.  For this year's card, I ran over to the District by my house and took some pictures of the girls.  This involved having to bribe them with ice cream.  Once home and everyone was in bed, I made the cards in about an hours time.  I found the ornament font online to start, and based the card off of that.  I used the girls' headband as the pattern for the numbers I put on the ornaments (using Corel Paintshop Pro).  I like how they turned out, however if I had spend more time on the cards I would have done a lot of things differently. 

The final cards were printed at Vistaprint, since I had previously purchased a Groupon there.  I was very pleased with how they turned out.  I highly recommend using their heaviest card stock and gloss on all sides :)

Freebie Friday 2/10/12

Welcome back to Freebie Friday again!  The Designer Pack below has this week's free scrapbook elements.  It can be used for Valentine's Day cards or for adding some embellishments to your scrapbooking pages.  

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These free files are brought to us by MyMemories Suite.  MyMemories is my favorite digital scrapbooking software.  Please note that all of these are .png and .jpg files only, not MyMemories Suite Templates. They are usable in any software, however I hope you'll consider picking up MyMemories Suite to try it out!  Get $10 off the software with my coupon code:  STMMMS42069

Happy Valentine's Day!

Freebie Friday 2/3/12, Plus Tutorial!

Hello February and Freebie Friday!  Click the Designer Pack below to get this week's free scrapbook elements. This week's freebie features Valentine's cards.  As a special treat, I have a tutorial on how to use this download with the MyMemories Suite software!  Click here to get the tutorial. 

Click Here to Download

These free files are brought to us by MyMemories Suite.  MyMemories is my favorite digital scrapbooking software.  Please note that all of these are .png and .jpg files only, not MyMemories Suite Templates. They are usable in any software, however I hope you'll consider picking up MyMemories Suite to try it out!  Get $10 off the software with my coupon code:  STMMMS42069

Happy Scrapping!

My Holiday Card for 2011

I'm not sure why I didn't post this before Christmas!  This is the card I sent out this year to all my friends and family.  Every year I look forward to and enjoy making a holiday card and this year was the most fun! 

When I make my cards, I do the complete design on my own computer first using a standard size (this year it was 5x7").  When I'm finished, I shop around on the internet to find the cheapest place to have them printed.  This year is was Ink Garden; in the past it has been Zazzle, Uprint, Vistaprint, and Mpix.com, to name a few.  Once I find the place to print them, I sometimes will use their online services to add the text.  This is what I did this year.  I find that if you use the online services of whichever company to add the text the cards tend to turn out nicer and the text is crisper. 

What do you do for your holiday cards?  Head over to my Facebook Fan Page and post your cards - I'd love to see them!!