Before I post the Christmas Card sample up here I thought it might be good to explain the lack of action on my blog over the last few weeks. The weekend of September 12th my husband went on a backpacking trip with some guys up in Sisters OR. He had an amazing time, but unfortunately they had neglected to filter the water at one point on their trip and discovered that even glacier water isn’t completely clean. My husband got a bacterial infection called campylobactera and was completely out of commission for over a week. He had a fever ranging from 102-104 for 8 days straight and lots of other not-so-fun symptoms. He got extremely dehydrated at one point and had to be rushed to the emergency room for some fluids and work-ups. With most husbands and wives this would more or less be an inconvenience for the wife….of course she would be sympathetic, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world. Unfortunately for me, (or maybe not so unfortunately?) my husband is my biggest supporter. I literally CANNOT do my job without his help. With homeschooling my kids, managing a household and managing a very busy photography business, my time is in great demand. He does the laundry, cleans the house, cooks dinner, bathes and puts the kids to bed, and calms me in my crazy moments. I love this man to death, and am extremely blessed to have him. However, him being sick really sucked as I had to do EVERYTHING. Listen to me whine here – I had to cook, clean, homeschool, do laundry, take care of kids needs, take care of my husbands needs, grocery shop AND run a business. Yeah….call me a baby, but I’m not superwoman and something had to go. So…I dropped the ball on my blog for a couple weeks. I’ve still been very busy with work, but a lot of my sessions from the last few weeks will not be making an appearance anytime soon as I work hard to catch up from that week. My husband has fully recovered since then and is back to being the amazing support that has always been to me, but I’m still rather behind on things and I apologize in advance if I’m a little slower than normal with my response time. Thank you all for understanding!
And now for the card samples!!!!
I’m working with just one designer this year, Leah of LCH designs, I love her work and she has quite a bit of variety in what she does. She made my families card last year and I was SOOOO amazingly happy with how it turned out that I wanted to use her again this year. I do still have some of my old cards if you had a card from last year that you just loved, but I would prefer to simply offer Leah’s designs as I feel they are superb! :-) You will see that some of them are square cards – I love these as they are very unique, they come in a 5 x 5 size with envelopes and I think they are absolutely adorable in person. However most of them are still in your standard 5 x 7 format. I currently do not offer the “Wal-Mart” size of 4 x 8. Not because I hate Wal-Mart (I actually love the place!) but because I want my clients to have something unique and beautiful and not something that they could just pick up at the local one-stop shopping mart. These cards are press printed cards and can have a UV finish, pearl finish or linen texture. (I personally prefer the pearl!) If you have no idea what that means….ask me and I will be more than happy to show you!!! Also, one of the many advantages of press-printed cards is that they are double-sided, so you have the option of either (a.) leaving it as designed, (b.) writing a personal note to your family or friends on the back or (c.) adding in an extra photo or two on the back (some of them already include that). All of the wording and text are fully customizable as well.
So…without further ado, here they are:
Photos on the first set are compliments of Leah as well. :-)
ETA – I’ll be posting the retro Christmas in better detail this afternoon!
