If you’re a slacker in the holiday card sending department, don’t feel bad. This is the first year I’ve mailed out Christmas cards since… I can’t even remember, that’s how long it has been. I don’t even have a good excuse either, since I make and sell holiday cards! Usually by the time I finish shipping out all my holiday orders I don’t even want to look at another holiday card if I can help it, but this year I did it! They’re all signed, stamped, licked, and adorned with washi tape. In your face, Christmas!
Now that I’ve licked 20+ envelopes in a row, I realize that I need to add flavored envelopes to my inventory…
looks great! I, as a procrastinator, tend to send out happy new year cards when the holiday hubbub has died a bit.
That’s a great idea.
I think we may send out “we finished remodeling the bathroom” cards, maybe by the first of February.
With pictures of you in there? ;)
after spending a fortune on cards & stamps last year, i took a break from christmas cards this year! we are thinking of making a little video with our new kittens enjoying all the christmasness going on in our condo.
So cute! Much better than a card for sure.
Congratulations on getting your holiday cards sent out! I’m in the same boat as you – I also make cards, but I’m usually so busy filling orders that I don’t have time to send out my own cards to friends and family!
I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Love washi tape! I am working on my Happy New Years cards right now – just curious how did you handle addressing & return addressing? Labels? Hand-written? I am stumped!!!
I just wrote all the addresses by hand, which is unfortunate since my handwriting isn’t the greatest. I need to take caligraphy lessons or something!
I was just thinking this morning as I finished licking our Christmas card envelopes that someone really should invent better tasting adhesive. It would be a huge hit!
Yay you! I send out my homemade cards each year and I have received only a couple this year and it kind of makes miss the days of written mail and the tradition of sending cards. I’m trying to write a blog post about it, but I also don’t want to make people feel bad about not sending cards so not sure if I should post or not. I love the addition of tape on your envelopes – cute!
Ha! I just mailed our holiday cards this afternoon. It is a chore indeed! I love your usage of the washi tape on the envelopes. Great tip!
Your website is beautiful! Question: where does one buy attractive stamps these days? I spend so much time on a beautiful card and envelope design, and I hate to ruin it with an ugly liberty bell stamp or what have you.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks Brie! I order my stamps from usps.com. That way I can see all the designs they have available. My local post office usual has very limited stock (liberty bells, haha).