it's new year's miracle

Stop the presses, people!
I actually have my New Year's cards made and mailed in the first week of January.
Normally, about now, i might have a design in mind or mayhaps even be prototyping.
 But this year, i'm DONE.
{okay, technically i still have to write inside the ones i am taking to work, but that's on the agenda for tonite}
Thanks to that extra day off, courtesy of my awesome team, i was able to really bust them out over a 3 day period.
The magic number this year was 75 and since i am neck deep in getting ready for the jewelry show I deliberately made the design a little easier to execute this year. It isn't completely stripped down like 2007, but it certainly isn't the double-sided, hand-painted odyssey of 2010 either. A lot of the visual interest was done with cutting; once it was designed i could set up an assembly line and get busy with my table top rotary cutter. There was a beaded element that took a bit of time, but i checked Season Three of Castle out from the library and did an 11 episode marathon to get it done.

NEXT!