Mailing out Christmas cards is one of my favorite things to do.  We've done a photo Christmas card for the last three years.  This year we used one of the photos from our 5-year anniversary shoot.  I scanned in our Christmas card so you can see the design we choose this year.

To make this letter cookies, I used this cookie cutter.  I piped and flooded it with white icing and allowed it to dry overnight.   The next day I made the stripes.  I took this stencil and lined it up with the edge of the cookie.  I used red and blue food coloring marker to color every other line.  To create the address, I used a small alphabet stamp set.  It was Studio G brand from the dollar section at Joann Fabric's.  I used watered down black food coloring to stamp the letters.  I've found that using a paint brush to apply the food coloring to stamp works best. This way not too much food coloring gets on the stamp and you get a cleaner stamp.  I used the same watered down food coloring to paint on the postmark.  I ended up going with a North Pole postmark because it felt more festive.  It's just a cookie after all.