One more for today...Christmas Cards

Even as a stamper, I have only sent out Christmas cards once (I think I made a dozen or so.) This year, I wanted to play with my Adobe Photoshop and see if I could make something economical. I was inspired at the end of the summer when I started seeing this Gray's Anatomy billboard that used narrow rectangular pictures of all the characters. So, I set to work. I'd like to say it was easy, but I encountered quite a few problems along the way...sizes of photos, converting to black and white, filling the background with color... Anyway, I was relieved when I got something passable (I wish my pictures were "crisper"). I put three on a page to be able to use regular legal-size envelopes. I saved everything as a "jpeg" and burned it onto a disc. CopyMax put the file on one of their computers and sent it to their printer so I could have good color copies on glossy cardstock. It cost about $.35 per card. I was happy!

Still, I find that I've sent the 60 cards I had made and need more. This is something I am NOT going to have time to do before Christmas. So, I got the brainstorm to go back to my photoshop document and change the text to reflect a new year greeting and I'll print the new ones once I have some more leisurely minutes to write them out.

(I think I'm so clever!)