When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best...But Don't.

Years ago I was the "go to" person at my office in New Orleans when someone was having a last minute birthday celebration, but no one had remembered to buy a card. A brief, personalized poem would quickly be drafted and with a bit of office-supplied card stock, and signatures all 'round, we were set. It happened so often that the office quit buying cards and started giving me a little heads up about upcoming celebrations. Eventually, I would letter a small line at the bottom back of my cards that read along these lines: "Ace* - when you care enough to send the very best...but don't."

  This year I ran across this nifty tutorial for making scrappy Christmas tree ornaments and decided they were just the thing for my card list.  [The tutorial is preceded by an ad.] Of course, I did not find the tutorial until well into November. So, though finding scraps is no problem here (there's an abundance of those), time  proved to be less easily garnered. 

So, here are the three cards I managed to put together. They are fun to do. Embellishments can take whatever turn suits your fancy. For me, though, these may be only for a chosen few. That other card manufacturer...the one with all the stores and movies and such...they're safe: no big threat from this production line.

* "Ace" is my "cyber name".