christmas card design - 2011.

I'm having a little bit of trouble adjusting to Blogger's new interface, but one of the things I find really fascinating is all the Google Analytics information that they've started tracking for blogs. For instance, in the past week, the post I wrote last year with a christmas card inspiration gallery from flickr, has gotten 99 views. Helps explain why the gallery itself has over 900 views.

This year, my inspiration came from an advertisement that I got from Paper Zone. I realized I hadn't ever made a wreath card, and I was planning on using green card stock this year (not blue, because I always make blue winter holiday cards). I've sent a little over half of my cards (was trying to wait until I sent all of them before posting about them, but I just can't wait anymore!), and have a couple more to make.

Here's what I came up with:


I made a guide (stencil?) with a 3x5 note card and then used that to position the holes on the card. I had purchased some biopsy punches a year and a half ago at Urban Craft Uprising and I managed to dull all 4 of them by punching 20 holes each in about 20 cards. Add a little craft ribbon, and presto, you've got yourself a wreath!

I do love making cards with cutouts, will have to think about other things I can do, especially now that I've gotten myself this handy Martha Stewart "Screw" Punch.

And that's that! If you're interested in past years' card designs, you can take a look at: last year's penguins and the retrospective from 2004-2009. Looking through those, I think I probably need to go at least another year not using blue card stock, but we'll see. Maybe I should branch out and use red or something.