Organize Your Christmas Cards in 2015!

Wanted to post a reminder about my Christmas Card Book Covers! In 2012, I posted instructions on how to create your books once you've ordered your covers, but just wanted to post some updated photos and a little reminder of how to create your books here.

First stack up all your cards. Then take 2 or 3 at a time and hole punch them using 2 holes of a 3 hole puncher.

After you've done that, take a few minutes to ooh and aww over your friends cute families. :)

Then put your book together using binder rings that you can purchase at office supply stores or even grocery stores. 

I like to put our family Christmas card as the first card in my books! 

That's pretty much it. Pretty simple. If you want to ensure that your covers last, feel free to laminate them yourself. I've had some of my covers for a few years now though & they are fine! Its up to you.

I love having all of my Christmas cards in organized books to display each Christmas season or flip through when I want to go down memory lane. 

Order yours today in my Etsy shop. If you want to order more than 5, send me an email (eleanorboynton@gmail.com) or Etsy message and I'll get a reserved listing set up for you to purchase. Let me know if you have any questions! 

Happy 2015!

Eleanor

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Christmas Card Book Covers on Etsy!

I posted a how-to on my DIY Christmas Card Book Covers last year, but wanted to share that these are now available to order on Etsy! Here are some pics to remind you of how oh-so-coooool and fun these little covers are. And here is the link on Etsy!

Choose red and green or creme

Order as many years as you'd like!

Display them in a basket...

Or hang them on the wall!

This is definitely the easiest and cutest way to organize your Christmas cards... get yours ready for the holiday season NOW! :) Oh Louise! Christmas Card Book Covers

Oh Louise! Christmas Is Here!

I finally got around to putting up some Christmas items in my shop! Now I'm reallllyyyy feeling the Christmas spirit and can't wait for all the holiday festivities to begin. Community group Thanksgiving in less than a week is first on the list! Anywayyy, here are some of the new items for sale this holiday season!

Jolly Chevron Christmas Print

Herringbone Merry Christmas Notepad

Merry Christmas Wreath Cards - Set of 12

Merry Christmas Wreath Enclosure Cards - Set of 12 with bakers twine

Chevron Watercolor Christmas Notepad

And some of last years best sellers are for sale again!

Wear Earmuffs Owl Christmas Cards - Set of 12

Santa Makes Me Happy Christmas Cards - Set of 12

Rudolph Damask Christmas Cards - Set of 12

Merrrryyyy Christmas everyone!

New Stationery Designs!

Check out my Etsy shop to see these new stationery designs and more! And as always, you can choose your colors and fonts to make the cards even more personalized to your taste. :) Hope you enjoy!

Polka Dots Personalized Stationery

Houndstooth Personalized & Houndstooth Monogrammed Stationery

Leopard Print Personalized Stationery

Triangles Personalized Stationery

Check back in a week or so for other new items as well... new notepads & a 2013 calendar to name a couple!

A Succulent Bridal Shower!

My best friend Lindsay got married last weekend in Austin & we threw a bridal luncheon for her on the Friday before her wedding at Abel's on the Lake. We decided to go with a succulent theme (just cause it sounded fun!) -- here are some pics below!

The invitations for the shower had a yellow chevron background with aqua and coral succulents (made by Oh Louise! of course!). For each place setting we planted a succulent in a mercury jar vase from West Elm. I used metal stamps to put each guests initials on a vintage silver plated spoon (this was also their partay favor). 

I found a couple of old wooden crates in Canton for $5 a piece and stained them to get them the right color. Then we had Dirt (a florist specializing in succulents in Bishop Arts in Dallas) fill both crates with a variety of succulents and a few flowers that coordinated with the invitation colors.

We also had a menu at each place setting that coordinated with the invitations.

One of the tables all finished!

Another pic of a place setting.

My sister posing with her mimosa :)

We spray painted this frame from ikea to use as a photo prop!

The wedding party with the bride!

Beautiful succulent petit fours for dessert made by Red Raspberry. They were a huge hit! :) 

yummm

The end!! Hope you enjoyed our succulent shower! :)

DIY Christmas Card Books

This Christmas my sister-in-law asked if I had any ideas on good ways to store/display/organize the many Christmas cards we receive each year. I didn't have any ideas at the time, but love me a good challenge so I started hunting for ideas! We wanted something cute, but that would be easy to do year after year. I googled and pinterested around and couldn't find much until my mom forwarded me a blog post one day with the great idea to make books for each year of christmas cards. I loved the idea & it seemed simple enough, so I created some covers and made my own version for my 3 years of cards... I'm in love!!

Once I tested things out and decided this was the way to go, I emailed my sister-in-law with the instructions and she began making her books.. Her house has lots of clean, pretty neutrals, so we decided to go that route for her covers and I think they turned out so cute! 

So many years of xmas cards with cute family pics to look at -- love it! 

As for instructions on making the books, it's really pretty simple.

1. Print your own 5x7 covers for each year on card stock or purchase them from me (see details & pricing at the bottom of this post!)

2. Stack your cover and cards as neatly as you can, turning vertical cards in the same direction.

3. Using 2 punchers of a 3 hole punch, make 2 holes in the top center of your cards.. I did 2 or 3 cards at a time, but I suppose you could do more if you have a fancy-schmancy hole punch. 

4. Use binder rings to hook your cards together (mine are the 1" size but you might need larger ones if you have more friends than me :) -- you can find the rings at office stores and I even saw them at kroger) 

**A good idea is to put your family christmas card as the first card after the cover for each year...

Once you're finished, you'll have lots of cute books to have out during the holiday season! There are many ways to display them. You could hang them on a wall...

Or display them in a cute basket...  whatever works best for you!

Hope this inspires many of you to start saving your christmas cards or if you're like me, to get them out of the dusty storage closet & into cute, organized books that can be displayed year after year! 

**As I said above, my christmas card book covers are available to purchase! 

Here are the details:

Choose between red & green or neutral. Fonts will be as shown in the photos of my sister-in-law's books (above). There are 9 fonts used that will repeat themselves throughout the years. Covers are printed on smooth white 100 lb cover stock. ***ALL PAST AND FUTURE YEARS ARE AVAILABLE!! I can go as far into the future as you'd like! :) Email me at eleanorboynton@gmail.com with the years and colors you would like and I will send you a paypal invoice to make your payment. 

Cover Pricing

1 to 5 covers - $3 each

6 to 15 covers - $2.50 each

16+ covers - $2 each

***US Shipping is $2 regardless of how many covers ordered

Please let me know if you have any questions! --Eleanor (Oh Louise!)