Hopefully all the cards that I sent out last week have reached their recipients today and this isn’t spoiling anything! I decided to go with a design that involved a lot fewer steps than my Christmas cards, which meant that I could send out about three times as many. ^_^ One lucky person benefited from my utter failure to count properly and got a slightly different version which, no doubt thanks to Murphy’s Law, ended up looking cuter than the rest.

This year—well, last year—I decided to make my Christmas cards by hand. Thankfully I only had about half a dozen to do, because between the stamping, the drawing, the transferring, the inking, the glitter, and the lettering, these took a lot longer than I expected! Since I would like to send out more the next time around, I will either need to greatly simplify my design and crafting process or just get them printed.

As I take the opportunity of the long weekend to slowly but surely clear out my Google Reader of the backlog that’s built up over finals week, I’m finding out about so many beautiful, inspirational, and clever things out there. One of my favorite blogs, Oh So Beautiful Paper, had been reporting from the National Stationery Show and in part 5 of the roundup introduced me to a. favorite design, a letterpress studio in Chicago. The line called the designer series, which contains these greeting cards, especially caught my eye:

How geeky and adorable is the type humor in these?

I also may need to stock up with a few of these, even if the holiday season is a full five months away:

Certainly better (and funnier!) than getting a generic greeting from the grocery store.