Dood...

It's hard enough for me to keep up with one blog...two?  It ain't gonna happen.

Anyways...the holidays are over and with it most of the stress (albeit there's still some butt-hurt).  This last year I did something I really, really dislike - I waited until the very last possible moment to start making the gifts.  Granted, they were all edible and we couldn't have done them much sooner, but it still bothered me.

Many years ago I came to the conclusion that it was best to start buying/making Giftmas gifts around August.  This way I was able to spend more money/time on each one and when December comes around, I can lay back and relax.

This year (2013), I'll try to start even sooner - as in right now.  One of the gifts I want to make is a set of cards+envelopes.  I've been looking around Pinterest and blogs to find ideas and a few templates I can use.  The idea is to have a good number of cards for different situations (birthdays, holidays, thank you cards...).

I think I want all the cards in the set to have some kind of cohesiveness.  It could be a design element, a color or the way the cards fold.  I guess the best way to achieve this and still have cards that are appropriate for all occasions would be to keep the card template the same throughout the set.

I also want to use the Pazzles as much as I can, because doing more than one of anything by hand isn't my idea of a good time.  So, I have to come up with something that is, at the same time, good-looking without the big store look and not too complicated (that to me will be the hard part).