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Ann, thank you so much for continuing to host this challenge! I was unable to keep up with my commitment last year but still had many cards from previous years to mail.
This year I definitely need to create more so I will commit to 8-10 per month. I am hoping to keep up so I can mail more this year.
For two years I signed up for the challenge, but never posted anything.
My name is Denise and my grown daughter and I sell handmade gift card holders at craft fairs in November and December. Last year she set a goal of 500 for us, and believe it or not that wasn't enough!
So this year I am setting a goal of 50 per month for the first half of the year, and increase the quota after June. And I have to learn how to post pictures of at least a few, especially if they fit the monthly theme.
Hey All It's Me... ( I have a sister-in-law that that was the joke every time one of us called it was never a name given)
at any rate I "plan" on doing about 4 ish a month, will I skip it when I am too hot to be upstairs (you bet) will I do extras when the mood swings that way? Yep.
Of course I'm back again, thank you for the fun challenges and the helping hand to make us create Christmas cards, Happy New Year Ann and all members !!
For two years I signed up for the challenge, but never posted anything.
My name is Denise and my grown daughter and I sell handmade gift card holders at craft fairs in November and December. Last year she set a goal of 500 for us, and believe it or not that wasn't enough!
So this year I am setting a goal of 50 per month for the first half of the year, and increase the quota after June. And I have to learn how to post pictures of at least a few, especially if they fit the monthly theme.
Please post them all! Everyone likes to see whatever cards are uploaded.
You could post them in groups if that saves you time. The theme is just for fun and to motivate you. This is a no-stress challenge. We like everything!
I only sent 20 cards in 2019 and have at least that many still in my stash so I won't need more than a couple for this year, but I will be lurking to see what all of you create.
Hi everyone!! So glad to see new people joining and lots of others back again!!
Sorry for being late in my response but I was sick with a virus since Christmas Day.
Had bronchitis, ear infections, and sinus infection. Still has not left me entirely.
My entire family was sick with this virus and two of my granddaughters got holes in their eardrums and may require surgery after the infections heal.
Thank you Kathy, for your responses to people in my absence, so appreciated!
I love to make Christmas cards so I choose to make them all year round as I too send out about 150 cards or more each year.
I have a large stash of Christmas cards and I still can't stop making them! I'm hooked!
Hugs to all of you, and remember post all your holiday cards each month even if they do not fit the monthly theme! We are here to encourage and support each other!!
Wow, Ann, I sure hope you're on the mend now! Not a fun way to start the new year! It's so good to see you back here! Take care!
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Ann, I am hoping you recover fully from this. I have had it in one form or another since Thanksgiving. It gets better, then morphs to somewhere else. I also had the "cold" virus, then upper resp crap, then a horrid sinus thing behind my eyes, and now it's making my right ear miserable along with my teeth and jaw. It's a very strange virus! xoxo
Oh Aimeslee, so sorry to hear that you are fighting this virus too!! It sure is wicked! I know exactly what you are saying about your teeth and jaw hurting from the ears!! I too had that along with my spouse.
I got over the counter ear drops to help with the pain, they are called Marie's Original earache relief drops by trulore. These worked better then another brand my spouse brought home.
I'm still fighting this virus and this morning coughed up some yellow slime! It's never ending!
I am back for this year. I have done 5 cards per month the last few years, but I need to up that to about 8 per to have enough cards. So I'll commit to 8 and hope I can achieve that goal.
Thanks Ann for doing this again this year. the themes sound great. I have a few ideas already and guess I had better get going. the month is almost over and I haven't even started.
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Just checking in. I just wrote my goal down in my Miss Maker Mini planner so I'd remember A - how many I pledged and B- that I'd get them done. LOL
One way is to work on them for my Reindeer Club post. I'll have a video up on YouTube and a post on my blog the 25th of every month. If it's on my to do list, I might get them done :-)
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Ann, you poor baby, I feelz your pain! Thanks for the tip, just went to Amazon and ordered some Marie's. Prayers that we both find somewhere to lose this thing, lol. XOX
well--I finished 16 cards Friday.....for the second time in the 25 years I have been paper crafting, I purchased a kit....It said supplies for 12 cards and there were only 12 envelopes, card bases and mats --but enough vellum and stickers to do a full 16 cards....They are pretty--but found out I am not a fan of making cards using stickers......
So now I am ready to hit my leftovers box for Christmas---when doing my cleanup from the holidays I filled 3 of the largest clamshells SU ever sold with already colored, die cut and ready to use images, stamped images, and card parts left from cards I had made in past Christmas creation times----so I says to my self---Self there is no good reason for these to be left in boxes....get them out get then used and then in all the free space you can purchase more supplies to use for something, sometime....So that is my next goal. LOL! That part begins tomorrow.......
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
Well obviously I didn't listen to myself as no Christmas cards magically appeared on my work desk.....so now I am behind.....and why? Well because I decided to unmount all my wooden stamps and remount onto cling foam...14 sheets of EZ Cling later I am still not done....but close...so I hope to complete that task AND do my Feb and March cards before April 1. Cross your fingers for me (if you don't need them to make cards with).
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
Well-- a photo trip a friend and I were really looking forward too received two blows--virus caused the site that was renting our bird blind to shut down and cancel our reservation----so we made an alternate plan---I was to pick her up today after lunch for the drive to the site......last night at 8:30 our State Extension Service- her employer---canceled ALL meetings that involved youth, volunteers, staff and any combination of the above at least until April 4 or 6 with possibilities of it going longer....she is director of her county office and so relunctantly she called and we decided she needed to be in the office tomorrow to help with the thousand's of calls about canceled events. Disappointed---yes
Mad--no--we are grown up enough to understand that life can cause changes.
SO--plans? well,,,I have a few projects in mind.....and because my kids had already made arrangements of the grands in my absence--I won't have grand duty either..... so off to the room of chaos I intend to inhabit this week.
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
Well--look who is now behind on Christmas cards having posted none for February, March, April, but I do have about 12 made that I will count so that knocks off Febrauary, and March...so now I am only behind April and maybe May if I don't get cracking......I have been making cards but mostly emergency need right now cards....so back to Christmas cards I go.......Don't hold your breath though.....
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
Well I'm late starting the Christmas challenges. I need 150 Christmas cards and want to use every Christmas stamp set I own which is about 30. And having seen the new Christmas catalog I know I'll be buying several new ones!
Even though I didn't post here,,,most of the 100+ cards I made are in the mail---I sent half of them to a BFF--she loves getting a box of cards twice a year from me and I mean a box of cards---had almost 200 in this year's box of fall, winter, Christmas and the box in May(her birthday month) had more than 150 spring, summer. I send her birthday cards, sympathy cards, thinking of you cards as well has holiday cards.
With 3 grandsons currently doing remote learning school at my house there is not much time to craft except weekends when I need to catch up with house chores and stock the pantry for the next week of "school". Hoping to do better at posting and creating along the year this year.
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
