Large cards - have you made them other than invites?

[pigfingers]

I have a bunch of envelopes left over from making invites for my niece and thought I would use them for special Christmas cards (10 or so) for those handful of people special in my life.

Anyone done this large a card before? I am enclosing photos or incorporating them into the card. The card will be the size of an 8/12 x 11 sheet c/s folded in half. I guess that makes it 5.5 x 8.5 then.

I am so used to doing the A2 size cards I am kind of laughing at the size, such a big "canvas" to work with. Any in anybody's gallery to see?

Dayna

[steubner]

Hi Dayna,
This is a large card I made using a die cut template from my lss.
It is one of my favorites and looks great! (IMO!)

[steubner]

Gallery at Splitcoaststampers

this might help...

[GarnetJ]

Wow Shannan... that's gorgeous.
I have not made any quite as big as you need, but I have a couple of rubber stamps that seem to "require" a larger card. Here is one I did last year for a "Large Card Swap." Golden Grapes Size is 5 by 7.75

[etsdas]

I have been at a couple of small craft sales where a vendor or two had only 8.5 x 11 cards. They seemed pretty popular. And of course if you go to the card store there are tons of large cards (with equally large price tags). I know that before I started making my own dh - and others- sort of felt like one was being cheap if the purchased cards was not a super sized one. So I would say go for it!

[stampintoo]

Attached is a larger card I made for my DD that has a layout using a photo (she's a photographer and took the self portrait). Although I didn't use stamps, the layout could easily be done using background stamps for the paper and decorative stamps instead of the epoxy stickers. I'm pretty sure I used a full sheet of CS folded in half but there's a chance it could be 5x7. Sorry I can't remember. Guess I should start making notes of the sizes of my cards.

For more large cards, here's a link to my gallery:
stampintoo's Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
The Copper Butterfly cards show the difference between a full sheet of CS folded in half and a 5x7. (These were when I first started stamping and I hate the fiber and the strips of paper on the bottom - I use ribbon now.)

Beauty and the Butterfly is a half-fold size, too, either that or 5x7.

5x7s - Bud Basics Shabby Velvet and I think Cute & Screwy Birthday Truck is too. (I really am going to start including sizes, sheesh!)

HTH. Enjoy making your special Christmas cards.
April

[stamping_KML]

Yes, I make large cards sometimes. I usually make them for work, since there's more room for co-workers to sign their names. I have 6 Christmas cards and 3 Boss's Day cards in my gallery. The large cards that I made were aprox. 7 3/4" x 5 1/4". The large cards are more of a challenge, like you said, since there's more "canvas" to work with.

[SmurfBE]

This is the one and only large card I have ever made. It was for a girl who worked with us part time while she finished high school. It was really fun to do the bigger card.

[4815162342]

This was made with a full sheet of red card folded in half Mirkwood designs did the apron template which I enlarged a little and if you don't have the pocket fun donovan.com do a pocket, Apron made of holly background paper you might not like it my cards are a bit rubbish but maybe it might spark some inspiration for you.
wasn't sure how everyone else had done the link so copied everything at the top of the card!
see Gallery at Splitcoaststampers