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- 09/19/2007
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- Kellie
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Christmas On The Brain… and other stuff
I am back from vacation! Yea!! I had such a great time being with my family and seeing friends but I am glad to be home. I missed my husband! Also, this time, I know we will be going back for Christmas so it makes it easier to leave when I know I will see them soon.
So, having just arrived home last week, I jumped back into things with both feet. I have about a gazillion custom orders to accomplish which I enjoy… most of the time. I am definitely thankful for the orders, they just take a lot of extra time. But I’m plowing through them and should be back to a normal schedule next week.
I have so many ideas on the brain right now and I am just dying to get some of them in my store. So I worked on a couple last night and posted them today. I have really been thinking about Christmas tags and I know I need to get them in the store since people like to purchase these things early. I didn’t open my store until the end of January so this will be my first Christmas selling items for the holiday. Here is the first set of Christmas tags I have made:
Don’t worry, there will be more to come! This is just the start. I already have some others in the works, they just aren’t finalized yet.
Since I was creating Christmas tags, I thought, what about Thanksgiving? So to start off with, here are some place cards I made although they would be cute in a scrapbook too:
In the midst of creating, I was noticing the steps it takes to get the final version. I thought it would be fun to share so I took a picture of the versions that I printed before the final one. These particular tags all started last Christmas when I designed them for myself to use on gifts. Here is a picture of my mom holding her “Sugar” tag (of course my mom would be sugar. I think I gave my brothers the naughty tags!):
And now for the revising process:
When making them for the store, I decided to make them smaller. The tags I had made for my family and friends were too time consuming so I definitely had to revise them. The first tag was my first attempt. I felt like it was a little plain so I added the double line and hole embellishment. I decided then that it need a little more color variation than just the small hole so I changed the outline to green and made the hole embellishment a little bigger. I ended up not liking the bigger hole so I made it smaller and ta-da! I have a finished tag. From there, I thought it would be fun to have a tag that you can check which adjective your gift recipient is; so along came the last one (see first picture). And there you have my creative process. Now that you know all of my secrets, don’t tell anyone :)
Another thing on my to do list once I returned home was to make invitations for a baby shower I am throwing for my friend Heather. She is due in November and she had a shower while I was gone. Since I had really wanted to be there I decided she should have another one at my house so I could attend! We thought it would be fun to have a couple’s shower (I hope the boys think it’s as fun as we do). I’m really looking forward to it. Since it is going to be for boys and girls, I didn’t want the shower invitations to be pink (she is having a girl) because these colors will be used for the whole shower. After much consideration (I wanted green and tiffany blue but felt it would look too much like a baby boy shower), I chose purple and green and will probably play up on the green a lot. It’s amazing how many silly details have to go into one event! So here is the shower invitation:
I blotted out my phone number for this post…
As if all of this creating wasn’t enough to have accomplished in one week, I also spent all of Saturday scrapbooking the pictures from my vacation. When I have new pictures I almost can’t wait. That, along with new supplies, makes scrapbooking almost irresistible. So hopefully I will have a chance to work on it again this Saturday and have some new scrapbooking pictures to post!
There you have it. Like I said, I’m back and in full force!
Comments
Wonderful! I love it all. (I’m thinking I may have to have some of those place cards for Thanksgiving once I figure out who is coming!) Great job. I’m so glad you love your job so much. Love you
Love all of this too much to contain myself! The Christmas and Thanksgiving stuff is perfect, and the invitation for my shower, well, you have outdone yourself. Somehow it manages to be beautiful and artistic, cute, and lovely all at the same time. Kudos, Kellie!