Christmas cards for the troops 2012 video

Tonight I have something a little different. Nathan put together a short video of our marathon cardmaking day for the troops last Friday, and I thought i would share it with you all. As you can see we made a lot of cards, quite a bit of a mess and had a great time !

xmas cards made with non – xmas paper!

I know it’s really early for a christmas card, but today was our annual xmas cards for the troops marathon, and it all went like clockwork. We had lots of helpers for inserts, fussy cutting and bagging, and Nathan roamed around taking photos, so I am sure there will be some kind of video clip to show you soon! We made just over 300 cards, our best effort to date.Before I dug out my xmas boxes I made a few cards using non xmas paper, so I thought I would put them up here over the next day or two to show you all.Here I used scraps of blue and white patterned paper, white cardstock and my Stampin Up dasher stamp.I punched both the layers with a scallop edge bored punch, and I tied white seam binding around the base and tied it into a big generous floppy bow.We had to be careful what bling we put on the cards as they were being sent overseas so the cards had to stay relatively flat, but you could add rhinestones or pearls to this one.Til tomorrow….