Christmas Card Reveal & Outtakes!

Now that all the cards are sent, I can participate in this year's Christmas Card Carousel & a linkup hosted by Kimberly's Korner -- where you get to share your cards! Great idea. I'm glad I sent mine off early this year!

Also linked up and shared with Kimberly's Korner.

I knew I wanted a card with all the dogs, but it's impossible to get them to sit still... So I decided to go cheesy funny this year. Christmas Props. Dog Treats. Tripod. It worked out well. Luckily I found a card that had a perfect layout for both the picture of the humans and the pictures of the pups. :-)

Merry Little Stripes Christmas Card

Customize your Christmas cards this holiday at Shutterfly.com.

View the entire collection of cards.

Obviously -- used Shutterfly. They had super fast shipping... let's see... The color is much more vibrant in person and not so dullsky. I ordered about 50 of these and sent them out to the same group of people that got wedding invitations and a few others we added to our list along the year!

I also ordered several watercolor cards that I sent to blog friends to spread the FL sunshine! So -- you probably received one of the following three:

Santa is a pirate!


Holiday Palm Trees -- our version of Christmas trees :)

Or...

The holiday porch in Florida!

These are all from the Caswell Galleries and they have other cards/prints as well -- East Coast, West Coast, etc. I saved one of each so I could frame and make part of our holiday decor in coming years.

Even more, I ordered some cupcake cards from Vistaprint for some other special people on Swap-Bot... and even more $1 tree cards for random Christmas card swaps! I think I've sent out over 150 Christmas cards this year. Sheeeeesh! It didn't feel like a lot as I was doing them since I did a few at a time, but my mailbox has sure been happy lately with all the fun Christmasy mail!

This weekend I plan to display all the cards until the New Year with a DIY I found on Pinterest. Of course. I needed something that could hold a LOT of cards. I think I found just the thing! :)

But, without further adieu, some outtakes from "Let's Take a Semi-Attractive Christmas Card Picture" day:

NOT amused.


DIRTY dog. Refused to get out of dirt.




STOP MOVING!


Though -- this is a favorite. I got this one blown up and framed!