The last of the Passover cards (for this year!)

I have to find a better place to take pictures of my cards than my comforter. This is the last of the Passover cards, I think they turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. The bottle and the glass are from "Simply Charmed" cart, and the matzah was just me... In case anyone was curious, the verse I put in most of the cards was the following (Cause I know it off by heart now...) "Praise to God whose mercy token, Beam'd to still the raging sea; Lo, the snare is rent and broken, And our captive souls are free." From "If Our God had not Befriended".

Variations on a theme

This is similar to the purple Passover card I made, but I didn't want to make 2 identical. I like to be different, don't want things to look "canned", and I'm just having fun playing with the cartridges right now. Right now it's okay, because I'm not really making all that many cards, but if I wind up making ALL my Christmas cards, then they might all be the same. I think I am going to have to source out and start buying stamped sentiments - when I do handwriting, they just don't look right.

Another Passover card

This card is for my brother in law and his wife. They are both Jewish, but not too observant. The glasses of wine represent the 4 glasses of wine that are supposed to be drunk during the seder. On the inside of the card there is another glass of wine (you are to set out a glass of wine for the prophet Elijah). The sentiment inside is something to the effect of liking the 4 to 1 ratio of the wine distribution :)

Seder Plate card

It was actually a lot of creative thinking to come up with the images for this card. Again, the phone doesn't show the card all that well, but most of these are modified. Actually, the bone is the only image that I didn't have to play with. Starting at the top, the horseradish is just brown textured paper - that's what the pictures of horseradish looked like when I googled it. The bone is from "A Child's Year". The charoset is speckled brown paper, cut into little bits, and then I added additional brown. The lettuce leaf is a leaf from "Create a Critter, with the stem cut off. The parsley is the same leaf, then I just cut it down a little more. Finally, the egg...I had to cut an oval, and then just make it a little more "egg shaped". I like the concept of the card, but it didn't come out as well as I had hoped. Something to play with for next year, I guess.

2nd Passover card

I really like the final layout for this card. I bought a circle cutter. What a great little tool Originally, I had only intended to write "Good Pesach" on the front, but it looked so bare, and incomplete. The flourish is from "Stretch Your Imagination", and I think it was the missing element.

1st Passover card

I think I have more fun making the cards for my husband's family than mine, just because it is something new. The same way that he can listen to the Christmas carol channel on the radio at the beginning of November and still not be sick of it by Christmas, it's still a novelty. This doesn't show up too well in the photo, but the background is made of 5 different blue dominant papers. Those were hard to fine! I went to Michael's thinking it would be easy, but nope! I started thumbing through various stack books, is blue that rare a colour? Outside of little boy themed stacks, and that wasn't what I was looking for. A simple, but pretty card.