Christmas Thank You Cards

After creating my homemade Christmas cards, my old man had the awesome suggestion of making thank you notes with the same motif, and of course I instantly loved the idea.  After all, I had already done the designing, I had so many supplies left over (envelopes, gold stars, sheets of cardstock), and it would be a relative breeze to put together.  Done!

So, while the Christmas cards were designed to be a portrait view...

I thought a good way to differentiate would be to make the thank yous in landscape, and make the written portion look like a postcard.

There were two things that went "wrong" -- 1) I didn't realize before I came up with the postcard idea that the gold star would definitely not stay on through the whole mailing process, so I sort of faked the whole post-card thing, and slipped them in envelopes anyway.  2) Once I knew I was going to put them in envelopes, I added a little Christmas tree on the backside of the card that I really wanted to put a stamp like border around, but I couldn't figure it out

I think they turned out cute, and if I make my Christmas cards again, I will definitely do corresponding thank you notes.  It really ties it together, doesn't it?!

Sidenote: I realize I used Doug and Rachelle's envelope as my picture in the original homemade Christmas card post.  Rachelle died on December 28th after a serious battle with cancer.  I can still hear her laugh.  She will be missed dearly.  

Tah tah, for now...