Cupcake Burnout

These are the makings of 20 cupcake invitations that have occupied my entire last 2 weeks. Here's the deal.  I love having a project.  It allows me to be creative and get paid at the same time.  It's usually fun. However, here's the thing.  People who need tons of one thing, have a certain level of perfection.  They like to get every little detail perfect so that requires LOTS of prototypes - I think the final design may just be the 8th version.  

And now that we have a final version, I've got a serious case of cupcake burnout. They were cute at first but now they're just multiplying at an alarming rate and I'm sort of done with them.  I cannot wait to get these darn things off my desk on Friday.  Of course, that's provided I can get what needs to be printed, printed tomorrow evening without spending my entire budget at Office Depot. The worst part is, that there's also a banner yet to be made - out of, you guessed it: more cupcakes! 

Of course, along the way there were some lessons learned.  The top of the list is corner rounding.  Don't round the corners of the original prototype.  While it looks cute on one, it's a MAJOR pain in the butt to actually do 8 corners (2 pieces of paper for each) of 20 invitations. Also, if you're too accommodating, your customer, will continue to add things to your list of things to do which requires many, many trips to craft stores.  Particular craft stores mind you because AC Moore, Michael's and Joann's all have different paper stock. 

But I have to say, in the end, as long as they're cute, I'll be happy - I'll never be making cupcakes again, but I'll be happy : )