christmas cards

Last year was the first time I made Christmas cards which I sold for charity.

This year I want to repeat that and do even better, I want to sell (and make) double the amount of cards and by doing so raising more money for Unicef.

Unlike last year when I only came up with this idea end of November and I had to make a whole lot of cards in a short amount of time, I wanted to be well prepared this year.

So I started already in August, I must say it was a little bit strange making Christmas cards when it was 25°C outside.

First I spent a weekend on designing 5 cards which were simple to make and wouldn’t be time-consuming (because if you are planning on making 300 cards that’s something you really can miss)

These are the designs I came up with:

I set up my very own production line, I cleared a table and put 5 shoeboxes on it, 1 for every design.

They contain the materials needed to make the card: stamps, embossingfolder, die-cuts…

So I can easily grab a box and make some cards.

And I set myself the goal of making a minimum of 20 cards/week, so by now I have 300 cards and I can start selling.

Christmas cards for Unicef

After seeing the devistation that typhoon Haiyan caused in the Phillipines I had to do something to help those unfortunate people.

Slowly the idea rose to combine what I love doing and raising some money.

Because Christmas is only just around the corner I thought it would be a good idea to make Christmas cards (everyone needs some cards, no?) and the money I raise is for Unicef,

I saw this post from Izzy over at The Craft Barn on how to make a lot of cards in a short amount of time and they still look stunning. So this became my design.

The only thing you really need is a bunge of gelli prints, o what a job J NOT

So for the coming weeks I will be busy gelli printing, cutting, gluing trees on the cards and stamping a sentiment on them.

So I predict that the upcoming posts will involve a lot of prints J