pleasant productivity.

Hello again! It's Monday--and per usual, I'm asking myself where this weekend went! This was the first time {cv} and I were both in Providence for a weekend since early November. Suffice it to say, we had plenty to do around the apartment. Though we don't have a lot of photos from the weekend, I do have some from our holiday card madness. With them, I'm linking up with Ashley at  a {little dash of ash} for her Instagram Mondays!

Last year, I ordered our cards from Minted--and I positively loved them. We used one of our wedding photos and it came together beautifully. After taking a few classes at RISD over the course of 2011, I decided to tackle our holiday cards myself! I printed the cards I designed via smartpress.com and was happy with the results :) I decided to print on both sides to maximize the fun photo from our trip to California in May and still share our sentiments on the back. {I blanked out our full names--it doesn't look that weird in real life, I promise!}

The envelopes and labels I chose were from a perennial favorite store--Paper Source. I loved designing everything, right down to the return address labels. More than 200 cards later, I'm happy to report that I'm taking these beauties to the post office to this morning! The best part of it all?! We saved a BOATLOAD of money compared to what we spent on our cards last year. yay!

I love sending and receiving cards, so this project was fun for me, even if it took nearly all of my Sunday. This may be the extent of my crazy crafting this holiday season, but I'm more than ok with that. I haven't decided if I'm going to make designing cards a regular thing, but I'd love to hear what you think! If you sent out cards this year, where did you get them? What type of holiday cards are your favorite to receive? I hope each of you have a fantastic start to this very festive week :) All my love!