Holiday card design question

Mostly all alike because I find it hard enough to come up early th one design let alone more! I normally test out a few options and go with the one I like best.

The ones I send tend to all be different, although sometimes if I come up with a design I really like, I'll make half a dozen the same. For my customers, I give them about thirty different designs to choose from, but I hate when they all go for the same ones!

I used to make them different but since having my kid I do them the same because now I do photo cards. Everyone wants pics of our kid because we don’t ever post them on Facebook.

I get tired of making the same thing.  I have to make a few different designs, otherwise I lose interest really quick and it feels more like a chore than like crafting / creating.  I'm making about 150 cards- for the swap here, and for friends/family- and I have about 5-6 different card designs I'm using for inspiration.  

12 cards per design. Boredom sets in earlier but I'm not sure I can come up with more than 20 designs per year.

I make 100 to 150 cards each year for the past 8 years plus this year. They are all the same for several reasons.
1. It's hard to come up with a design in the first place.
2. I have known the recipients ("cyber-ly") for many years, and they know each other. I don't want anyone to feel someone got a better card.
3. It is easier for me to make all the parts, then assemble them.
4. I make my own envelopes because they should match the cards.
5. having a dedicated studio, I can just leave everything out and come back days later and pick up where I left off.
6. I truly like the whole process.

I can barely make two cards exactly the same to save myself, unless they're the simplest sticking a cut-apart on the front of a base type of card - but then they're all the same but still different. I'm working with a pretty limited number of variations, I guess, but they're not identical (unless it's a photo card type of thing). My cards aren't highly creative compared to many people's, but I tend to work with the pieces I have in front of me and come up with something that works for that die cut+paper. If I was stamping I would do more cards the same.

I've made 60 simple cards in the last 2 days for a card drive, and I have another 140 in a stack for the card exchange, plus the 50 or so that I made in July to sell. I don't think more than a handful are identical.

The problem I have is that I make all these different cards and then have to decide who gets which one. It would be a lot easier if they were all identical! And the recipients don't mind either way.

I do one design. I like to just do an assembly line thing to get them done. My family has come to expect a great card from me, and I think would be disappointed if card a was better than card b. But I'm now always trying to top myself. Last year I did a slider. This year the entire front of the card is a shaker!

I do cards in batches so for example last year for the peas Christmas card swap I had several different designs. I try to make at least 8 of one design. I did a few one sheet wonder sets last year those are great for cranking out a bunch of cards in one sitting!

I found some instructions for cards that were similar to this using 5 or 6 pieces of coordinating 6x6 papers; it was great for making a set of coordinated colored cards very quickly. (of course, now I can't find where I put the directions, lol.)

thanks!

I make them all alike and make them assembly line style.
Cut and fold all the base cards.
Cut all the panels, etc.

I make about 30-ish cards.

I will pick out the cards that turned out best, or maybe add a few extra details to a couple, and make those the ones I send to my family members. But that's about it for the special-ness of them. That is, since my BF's Grandma passed away, anyway- she LOVED getting handmade cards from us every holiday; no one else really says anything about it.

Awwwww, that is SO sweet!