Our Christmas Cards, etc.

Every year, I try to come up with some cool way to make Christmas cards...I haven't been that successful the last 2 years, in my opinion...but THIS year, I loved what I created! There was a contest I wanted to enter them in, but timing just wasn't on my side.
So, I bought a book of 4x6 paper, in all shapes and sizes...Glued 3 sides together

And then inserted our Holiday greeting and picture tied together. My initial inspiration for doing the picture this way were the Photo Booth pictures you can have taken at the mall or beach or something. Anyways...I couldn't find one of those Ü so I tried to re-create it! the back

But I just couldn't stop there.

For the lady I visit teach...a magnet stuck on the back so she can put it on her fridge. The paper is covering up my phone number ;). But I thought it was a pretty cute idea...I actually came up with this one myself! Can you believe it?! lol. Now I just have to go visit her! I had plans to do that today, but of course Bella is sick. I FINALLY get up the courage and I have to cancel! Oh well...

I realized my heart has been split between the very efficient Digital Scrapbooking and my first love, paper scrapping. But as I created and created this holiday season, using paper...I fell back in love and will hopefully be able to tackle a box of pictures I have sitting patiently on my shelf. I planned to use digiscrapping for a set of calendars this year...but it turned out to be uber-expensive after Artscow.com lost all my pictures (don't use them by the way, their customer service is horrible) and I had to resort to Costco...which is $1.50 for an 8x10. Not too shabby but times that by 72 and it's a pretty penny. So, I switched my plans and paper-scrapped two of the calendars and it worked out nicely. I am realizing now I didn't take ANY pictures of the presents I created for family!! So...if you are reading this, family, and you don't mind snapping a few shots and sending them my way, I'd much appreciate it!! :)