Customizing your Christmas

Celebrating special moments with family and friends is one of my favorite things.  As always where there is a special occassion a gift or card often follows.  These are perfect opportunities to break out your creativity and come up with that special personalized treasure for your loved one. 

With Christmas just around the corner it's never to soon to start coming up with those custom gifts and cards.  But wait....your schedule is packed and you have no time to hand craft cards for each family member and don't forget all those friends?  Have no fear there are still ways to come up with a prim and polished customized card that will leave your recipient in aww.  Just turn to Shutterfly.com.  This site provides many wonderful cards that you can match up with your favorite photos and click order.  In no time at all you will have a perfect batch of cards.  

For my card this year I'm going to take a picture of me in front of my new house after the first snow and use that on the front of my card.  Here are a few of the designs I'm might pick from this year. 

   

Which design would you use? Check them out here and let me know. 

Alice's singing garden

Today's card was inspired by 2 creative blogs and a photo I took while visiting Disneyland:

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  365 Cards Movie Monday Challenge - create a card based on the movie Alice in Wonderland. 
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  Card Patterns Sketch 56 
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  The picture was taken of the Alice in Wonderland float during the daily parade at Disneyland.

And here is what I came up with:

Cherish your surroundings

This card was created based on a sketch from 365 cards blog and is a good reminder to cherish everything around you.