You might remember me talking about this brilliant idea last year over in this post. I wish I could take credit for this... but I can't. This is another genius idea from Ali Edwards. Maybe one day I'll come up with my own brilliant ideas, but until then... I'm perfectly okay with playing copy cat. As a good friend always reminds me, "All great ideas are meant to be recycled."
I ordered this awesome square punch, the Marvy Uchida. I totally copied Ali again here, and purchased the same square punch she recommended on her blog. This punch was the perfect size, and for the most part allowed me to crop everyone inside the square. There were a few families who apparently don't like to stand very close to one another during Christmas photos... and for them, I'm sad to say I had to either separate them into two squares, or cut off some ears...
After punching out all the cards, I had to decide on some type of layout. I tried not to be too OCD about this, and really just tried to mix up the colors. You'll notice that I tried to select a good mix of both pictures and good old fashioned Christmas cards. I like the variation of it all.
Then I just used my favorite adhesive to paste the squares on some red 8x11 paper. I knew I would be using 8x11 sheets, so I let that determine how many squares would go on each page. I changed my layout ever-so-slightly (I guess the OCD did get the best of me) and called it finished. I ended up with 4 pages with 12 squares each.
Last year, I put these in the back of my December Daily book... which I think I will do again. I'm a huge fan. I wonder if this process would work for all of the other zillions of cards I have stored away?
4 comments:
So freakin' creative!
This is a fabulous idea! Adorable. :)
Too cute! I may have to steal this from you!
i hate throwing the cards away too, but my project is much less labor intensive and therefore a lot less cute. but, i just punch a hole and put them on a binder ring. then, jack (& soon sam) can flip through his photos of friends all year long.
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