{"id":20874,"date":"2017-01-06T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madeeveryday.com\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:00:49","slug":"merry-2016-christmas-cards-and-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeveryday.com\/merry-2016-christmas-cards-and-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry 2016 Christmas Cards and a Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy New Year friends!
\nIt’s always fun getting used to a new date, and new numbers, and re-writing a few checks because I put 2016 on there (if any of you even write checks anymore??)<\/p>\n

But yay!\u00a0 It’s 2017.\u00a0 I hope you had a great December.
\nI spent most of the month NOT blogging—as you may have noticed—and just enjoyed spending time with the family.\u00a0 We went on a road trip to Branson, MO, driving through Oklahoma and Arkansas.\u00a0\u00a0 And stopping at this stunning church<\/a> was probably the highlight for me.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 What a gem.
\nI hope your family had some fun adventures as well.\u00a0 And if you stayed inside with cookies and puzzles, that sounds perfect too.<\/p>\n

As usual, I’m sharing our Christmas card in January.\u00a0 But hey, at least it says Happy New Year on there right?
\nOr rather…a JUICY new year.
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\n\"christmas-cards-on-made-everyday-1-2\" \"christmas-cards-on-made-everyday-1-12\"The theme this year was Merry Picnic<\/em>—because summer is my favorite season.
\nAnd because, everyone dressed up in gingham???
\nIs a YES. \"christmas-cards-on-made-everyday-1\"\"christmas-cards-on-made-everyday-1-5\"I made the Everyday Neckties<\/a> for the boys, an Anywhere skirt<\/a> for me, this dress<\/a> (which is similar to this dress)<\/a> for Clara, and the rest we had in our closets.\u00a0 I’ll have to do a follow-up post on the skirt because you know…..checkers! And clothes!<\/p>\n

I really wanted to use this pic for the card…<\/p>\n

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Or this.
\nReal life stories.\"christmas-cards-on-made-everyday-1-7\"
\nBut you know it’s a tricky design balance, picking the right pic for the front, that coordinates with the back, and one of the pics should probably be a real “normal” pic.<\/p>\n

So we went with this:
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\nHere’s how we’ve done our cards the past few years:
\n\u2022 My brother took our family pictures (free!)
\n\u2022 I designed the cards in Illustrator (sort of free)
\n\u2022 We printed using this template<\/a> at Costco (great price).<\/p>\n

And there you go!\u00a0 It can get pricey sending cards out each year, which is why I love doing it this way.\u00a0 And really,\u00a0 I just love doing the Holiday Cards thing, and designing it, and addressing them (some years Lucy helps me, but this year she was busy with school projects).
\nYou can see our cards from other years here:
\n2013<\/a> (tangerines), 2014<\/a> (merry red), 2015<\/a> (mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again…or rather, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas)
\nOf course I love receiving pictures and updates from our friends and family!\u00a0 The wall of cards in the house is always a highlight for the holidays.<\/p>\n

This year I tried some fancy lettering on some of the envelopes.\u00a0 I didn’t do it on every card….but I wish I had time to because it’s GREAT handlettering practice!\u00a0 I highly recommend it.
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And just like that, it’s back to work and 2017.
\nThis year I’ve got some patterns in the works, more fabric collections, and my new Fiesta Fun Fabrics<\/a> are IN STORES now!\u00a0 Check out the full line up here.<\/a>
\n(Guess I need to do an updated post on that too).
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\nI know my blogging life has morphed over the years and I’m not on here as much as I used to be.\u00a0 But I still read and enjoy all your comments and try to respond back.\u00a0 If there’s something you’d really like to see this year, let me know!
\nHappy New Year from our family to yours.\"christmas-cards-on-made-everyday-1-11\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year friends! It’s always fun getting used to a new date, and new numbers, and re-writing a few checks because I put 2016 on there (if any of you even write checks anymore??) But yay!\u00a0 It’s 2017.\u00a0 I hope you had a great December. 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