May your Holidays be stuffed with JOY! From our house to yours.

HO HO HO!

Merry Christmas!

I'm SO excited to share this year's Christmas card with you all!

We've been working on this for the past couple of weeks,

pulling super late nights,

and sacrificing my fun crafty time.

(now, that's some dedication!)

For the past 10 years, my husband and I have been getting creative

and have been making handmade cards.

These cards are not just 'handmade' -

we also try to pick a theme or some sort of original idea to present it.

This year, I decided to go with a 'mailbox' theme,

and our letters would be written on several 'letters' that would be stuffed into the mailbox.

Of course, coming up with the idea on what to do is the hardest part,

but the second challenge is how I would execute my idea.

Should I print them all? 

Do print and cut? 

Are there some SVGs that would work perfectly for this?

... and I was so thrilled when I realized that SVG Cuts had the PERFECT file - a mail box Valentine!

I can just use Christmas papers and it would totally work!

Believe me,  this is A LOT OF WORK.

You need commitment to do this.

You need sacrifice whatever you like doing for a couple of weeks.

However, the satisfaction that I get out from making them is IMMENSE,

and it's even better, when I hear back from the recipients to let me know how much they enjoyed the card.

Well, here goes!

Here's Santa holding our card!

Yes, that's just ONE card.

And here's a pic showing you a glimpse of just how many I had to make!
That sentiment that I found (it's a stamp from Unity Stamp Company) was PERFECT for my mailbox!
I stamped it on a cotton muslin fabric and FRAYED EACH ONE!

I found the perfect kraft Christmas papers from DCWV,
and that made me HAPPY!
It just wouldn't be the same to use other papers...

You can see that all the 'envelopes' that are stuffed into each of the mailbox are Christmas envelopes. 

It even had our return address on them!

Inside these envelopes, was our family letter :)

So, for those of you that 'care' enough about our family, I thought that I'd share our letter, too! 

My husband (in my opinion) has a knack for writing and I think that it needs to be shared! :)

Not too bad, huh? 

I hope that it kept you entertained!

Oh, and lastly but not least, I'll share our family photo! 

(which was printed on a back of a tiny postcard where we wrote personal messages :)

So... that's our card.

I hope that you appreciate our work that goes behind this all, 

and I thank you for stopping by my blog!

May you have the best Christmas EVER filled with lots of love and joy.

Cherish each moment for we never know what will bring us tomorrow.

I'm sending you much happiness to all YOUR homes :)

Thanks for being my friend!