BLOGMAS...Day 8 Making Christmas Cards

So this is the first time I've ever managed to send out cards to any one let alone make them and do personalised cards for different people. So you can see a sneak peak of what I have sent to all my lovely relatives on my side of the family and to my lovely in-laws on the other side.I have also surprised a fellow transplant friend with her own card to put a lovely smile on her face.

The only problem is I have run out of the cards with the hole in them (aperture cards-I think they are called!) So I will have to do an emergency order off hobby craft and hope it arrives soon so I can get them sent. I also have a card which needs to be air mailed so I will have to go back to the post office tomorrow.

I have used a program called Paint.net and I found it quite good to edit these pics on. I was going to use Photoshop on my old mac but it looks like the computer has finally given up the ghost (definitely time to get a new Mac-yay!!)

So my family will probably remember the pic I made them all took a few years ago but I never got round to actually doing anything with it. Well I managed to Photoshop some Santa hats onto everyone and then I added the snow balls and then made them a bit blurry (can't actually remember what I did for that bit!) and then I added the trees in the background from google and added the snow drift at the front of the picture. This one was quite time consuming but I think it looks very effective. I then used decorative paper on the flap of the envelope, each person will have different paper picked especially for them. I then stamped our intials on the back of the card using my little letter stamping set (totally had forgotten about till I was rummaging around looking for something else and found them!)

So the ones above were a bit easier to do because I had remembered how to do it and I was using the same pic of us but with just different backgrounds. I did however have to combine the pic of the adults with the pic of the boys because I couldn't quite get a shot of all of us together which was a bit of a challenge. worked out though because they are actually covering my hubby holding a drink which I only noticed one I had started editing it-not that festive!!! In these pics we are actually all wearing real Santa hats, I had got some from Poundland the day before (otherwise I would have been editing them on and that would have taken aaaaaagesss!) I chose the background with the Santa illustration (from google) and my sister-in-law chose the more frosty/snowy scene and my friends pic, I picked a inside festive scene with Frosty the Snowman in the background. I thought it would be a lovely surprise for everyone. So then I put stamps on them all and took them to the post box to pop them in!! In reality they didn't quite fit in that post box so I had to take them round to the post office-oops!!

If you're really lucky you might be able to post your cards in one of these gold post boxes-this one is in my home town-very festive!

I'm looking forward to both families reactions!!

Right Toodles my little Panettones xx