December Card share

Here's a few simple ones I did today w/some papers and die cuts from Pink Paislee and some cheapy card bases and envelopes from the Target dollar spot.

Those are GREAT!  I have to try those sometime.

These are my first slimline (number 10 business envelope) cards.

I've made about 30 of these cards with a Lori Whitlock svg file, cut on my ScanNCut. I used all of the blue cardstock I had and then went and bought more shades of pale blue. The one grey card is actually a shimmery silver-grey. I tried a shimmery white with ink blending but the blue cardstock was much faster! Kraft envelopes and the sentiment is shown to the right.

Friends and family Christmas cards by jo.blackford, on Flickr

Thanks. I’d never tried this before either!
I made a couple of alterations to make the design work better for me. The original file had a single white piece with the back of the card and the fancy cut front and a score line that was done in little cuts, like perforations, plus an inner blue piece that would be the background to the forest. I didn’t like the way the score line folded (jagged-y looking) so I deleted it. I tried scoring the card by hand but that was a hassle. So I ended up cutting the main piece in half where the old score line was, and I used the plain white back piece as the inside panel of my card. I cut blue cardstock into 8x8.75” pieces and folded them at 4” to make the card bases instead of just using the blue piece as a small panel - cutting basic rectangles with the SNC just seems like a waste to me. Hope that makes sense. 

It probably wasn’t the most cost effective method, since I’m sure the blue was more expensive than my basic white cardstock, even on sale, but it worked out fine for me and I like the blue card bases. Ideally I would’ve edited the file so it only cut the fancy front piece and the birds. It’s much faster for me to cut straight lines with my trimmer and save the blade on my SNC. But I couldn’t figure out how to edit the file beyond deleting the score line. One day I’ll upgrade my skills! 

Thank you.
I felt a bit stupid today when I realized that I had sentiments that would've looked really nice on these cards... AFTER I sent out 30 of them! I'll call it minimalism, but sometimes I just forget to add finishing touches... (now I'm thinking that I could've added other embellishment too)

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joblackford why don't you cut the shape out of black cut it to size and scan it into the machine. This way you can shape it the way you want it( smallerA2, maybe square?) I have done this with die cut shapes my friends give me.
This way you only cut the front and no need editing the file.

Now that I’ve mailed all my cards for our pea card exchange, I’ve finally found my card mojo   

I’ve made 24 cards this week! Which is good since I still need to mail to friends and family! All my cards are simple but they still take me forever. I’m the worlds slowest crafter!

I made 12 of these earlier in the week.

That is awesome grammadee

My anniversary is tomorrow, I made DH this card because he loves woods/mountains/camping. It is hard to tell in the pic, but I cut the mountain out and popped it up, and watercolored the cabin. I am pretty happy with it!