I didn't like this stamp

I bought this stamp on my shopping expedition on Saturday and I got it home and decided I didn't like it any more. It is Aspire by Penny Black and I thought it was one of their brushstroke stamps, but it isn't, it's tiny little flowers.

But then Jody (TexasJodyLynn) showed me some cards she had made with the set and it was the one that I had liked when she had made her cards, so I had bought the right stamp.

You just have to use water to spray on the stamp to make it run slightly. So this is my first attempt with the stamp. I'm not 100% happy with it, but then as you are learning if you read my blog, I tend not to be happy with a lot that I make, lol. The ribbon and the layered piece are chocolate not black!

I do like the cuttlebugged piece, but I didn't make the stamp run enough. And wow, I am finally using my primas! Don't hoard is my mantra at the moment, because I just get bored with things so quickly, I need to use them up!

I nearly exploded!

Oh my goodness! Look what I got in the mail today! I nearly exploded with excitement! lol! This beautiful card is from Beate, thank you so much, I love it!

Beate also wrote the most gorgeous note inside the card too. Wow, just wow! Thank you Beate, I was so touched!

Now I have to get over my insecurity and send one to you! Consider it done! Great big hugs, sweetie!

ATC swap

I have finally done it. This is the ATC for the swap. I think it turned out well. I love the little shrinky tag.

The paper is just gorgeous, it is by Me and My Big Ideas.

So, for today, my big drama is over! :) I have done my ATCs and hopefully I will remember to put them in the mail tomorrow.

I have also sorted out my crafting messy cupboard and I found my glitters, woohoo! I have missed my glitter.

Also, I bought a stamp set yesterday and I have lost it already. I am getting scattier by the day! I really need to get more organised in life in general, so I might swing by the Fly Ladies website for some advice!

Sorry guys!

Sorry guys, no new card today. I took Fi and 2 ladies from our craft club to our favorite stamp store. It is about 50 miles from where I live, but it is so worth the journey. 50 miles is a big deal when you live in the UK, I know 50 miles is your local neighborhood in the US :).
I bought so many cute things, I bought cute scrapbooking paper, a couple wooden stamps, some really cool skateboarding boy clear stamps and ribbon slider die cuts for my Cuttlebug.
And even better I have come up with an ATC design that I am happy with, so I am so much happier today! I'll post it tomorrow, I promise!

ATC

I am a member of an ATC swap on Splitcoast and I am finding it so difficult. Afer all my protestations of I will no longer feel the pressure, I will do what I like, I am feeling stressed.

I think it is because this is only the second ATC I have made. I don't make them, so I don't feel comfortable doing them and I don't feel confident in a way I do when I make a card that I like.

Gosh, I'm neurotic, lol!

I don't really like this ATC, so back to the drawing board for me. I am going shopping tomorrow to my favorite craft store about 80 miles from me! I'll see if I can find some inspiration there, I certainly flipping hope so! :)

I don't seem to have made much since the pocket cards, but I have put all my stuff away and my craft room is tidy again, so I think I'll go and try to create! I'm an artiste, darling! :)

More pockets

Sorry, I know it's another pocket but I haven't made anything else this week as I had to make samples for the class. The ladies loved making the pocket cards, so that was really good.

I hate the day after a craft club night though, because I still have to put all my stuff away! If I don't do it

straight away, it sits there for ages whilst I try to ignore that it's there! 4 boxes and 2 great big huge bags of stamps need to be put away!

Can you believe this is the first time I have used Happy Harmony, isn't it a cute set. I love it!

Pocket cards

I have craft club tonight and Fi and I are teaching pocket cards. They are great for teaching as they are easy for beginners but you can dress them up if you are a more advanced crafter, but I must confess, I don't like them. They are too restrictive for decorating!

I may have tied the ribbon too tight on this one, lol.

The stamp is Flowahbella by www.stampingbella.com and the background is made using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. If you don't have a Cuttlebug yet, seriously consider it, because I just adore mine. I use it all the time because it is so portable, my sizzix I hated because it was too heavy and cumbersome to keep moving about!

The insert matches the card. I used the Cuttlebug embossing folder again and

then the sentiment is called Paper Tray and it is designed by Nicole Heady and you seriously have to visit her website here http://www.papertreyink.com/ I have never seen a more beautifully packaged set of stamps in all my life. They are gorgeous sentiments too. I love, love, love this set and it has become my new favorite sentiments.

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who replied to my post yesterday, your replies were so special to me! I feel that the real blessing of my crafting is the wonderful friends I have made, so thank you so much!

This is another cracked glass card that I made for my class at the weekend. It is much less bright IRL, it is very soft and subtle. What would we do without Roses in Winter, I really feel it is the most versatile set that I own! :)

Thought provoking!

You may have noted that over the past 2 weeks or so that I have started posting way more cards than I used to.

Well I decided to start making cards that I like. Let me clarify, much as I love Splitcoast, I was caught up in the comments/views race and I was completely paralysed by fear. I was so busy trying to make the perfect card that I ended up making nothing at all.

So I sat down and thought about why I craft. Why do I make cards? Do I make them for me? Or do I make them to try and impress the rest of the world? I lost why I make cards, I hardly ever send a card anymore and that was why I started, I wanted to make something filled with love that would cheer someone else's day.

Then just as I was deciding this, I read a post on Joan's blog here that completely encapsulated how I was feeling. It really brought home that I should be making cards that I LOVE, if I get 50 comments, great, but if I get 1 comment, that's fantastic too, one other person in the world took the time to comment on one of my cards and that's a gift!

So that is how I have now started to develop a style that I am really enjoying at the moment. I have simplified my cards, no more how much of the latest trend can I chuck on one card at the same time, no more agonising about will this impress people. I'm just having FUN and playing with sets that I have bought and haven't used.

This card I love! It is In Full Bloom embossed in gold on Fabriano card and colored using REally Rust and Old Olive reinkers. Then I just tied gold organza ribbon around the card and voila a simple, but I think, really elegant card.

Cracked glass class

I taught a class yesterday on intermediate stamping. This was one of the example cards I made for cracked glass. I love this technique, it is so simple but lots of fun at the same time.

Who doesn't like the excitement of getting your stamped piece out of the freezer and then trying to crack it.

The set I used is SU Woodland Cottage and it is very different from my usual style, it's why I bought it! I love the Englishness of it and who wouldn't want to live in this cottage? :)

I am so blown away!

One of my favorite stampers in the world ever today contacted me and asked me if I wanted to blog link my blog with hers. So you will find Beate's link on the right hand side of my blog. Please go and check it out, it is amazing, she really does have more talent in her little finger than most of us have in our entire bodies.
Beate is the lady that writes nearly all the tutorials for Splitcoaststampers techniques. They are my favorite resource in the world when I am getting ready for a class or a craft club meeting. You can always trust Beate to write a clear, well photographed tutorial and most importantly, you can always rely on her techniques to work. Go and check them out, the Splitcoast link is near the bottom of my links and when you get to the homepage, in the top right you will see a link for resources.
So thank you Beate for making my weekend! :)

I love black and white

This is a card that I made using my favorite color scheme of black and white. I used my cuttlebug embossing folder on the background and the image is Stampendous Sassy Silhouettes, how cute is that image, finished off with some gingham ribbon! Voila, 5 minute card!

It's a Girl Thing!

This is the girl version of the boy card that I did yesterday. The baby background was made using A Muse polka dot alphabet stamps. I used the same stamp as yesterday, but I think the card looks really different, especially with the heart buttons in the bottom corner.
I urge everyone in the UK to rush out and buy the circle and oval scalloped punches, I love mine. They are made by Woodware over here and are much easier to find than in the US. Marvy make them in the US and they are virtually impossible to buy!

What I did last week!

This was another simple card that I did last week for submission. It is so simple but hopefully still cute.

The ribbon is from Jody and I have fallen head over heels in love with my stripy ribbon!

I heard from the Rubber Stamper today and they are interested in some of the cards that I emailed them. I am so blown away, I really wasn't expecting anything, but shows you that you should just try and see what happens.

My redesigned card

I am a much happier bunny today. I went back and redid the insert for my criss cross card, I never redesign, I always throw away, so I am really proud of myself. I really like how it turned out and I am glad I went back and had another go.

I will make another card with the old insert.

Another card

I made this card during my cardmaking frenzy, I think it's going to either be a card submission or my mom's mother's day card. It is such an easy card to make, just stamped in Almost Amethyst and Lovely Lilac. Then the leaves are stamped in Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke.

I used Itty Bitty Backgrounds for the aging and I also sponged the cardstock with Mellow Moss.

I used more of Jody's ribbon and I cuttlebugged the main card.

Voila, one very quick, very straightforward card.

Not a happy bunny!

This is the card I made for the Technique Lover's Challenge on SCS and I'm not happy with it, it's way toooooooo busy!

I really like the envelope of the criss cross, I just don't like the insert, I may have to redo that. I like how the trees Three turned out I just don't think it goes with the Big Pieces and designer paper, they are all competing too much for the eye.

I completely forgot that I am teaching a class on Saturday morning and I have done no preparation. I am teaching intermediate stamping, so I think I'm going to do cracked glass, waterfall and coloring onto stamps, there's nothing like being ambitions, hahahahaha! So off to make some samples! :)

Productive weekend

I was just playing with some of my new sets over the weekend and this is one of them, what a cute set, I really like it!

I actually managed to get more cards done in a weekend than I usually do in a month! Huh!

Anyway, I have been really good about cutting into my new 12 x 12 paper, it is soooo cute and I watercolored with reinkers, such an easy quick card, I need to make more of these than the 27 layers, 4 sheets of cardstock productions that I usually do, lol.

On the Bleach

I am trying to make some cards to submit to various magazines and this is one I came up with last night.

I think it looks quite cute. The main image is bleached out and then recolored in with bleach in an aquapainter.

One of my favorite stampers, Linda Bullard, does this a lot and her cards are just amazing, so I decided to do a simple version of her cards.

Jody, your ribbon makes all the difference to how professional my cards look. So thank you honey!

So do you think I should submit this to a magazine?

Is It Summer Yet?

This is a card I did for Friday's challenge on SCS, it was to make a summer card. I don't really have any summer stamps and the ones I do have, Fi has borrowed and taken with her to her mum's.

So what could I do for the challenge. I know, use my cricut!

So that's what I did, the sundae is made in 2 layers. The blue background is done with my cuttlebug embossing folder. I am in love with these, they add the most fantastic texture to your cards.

My brain has melted!

This is the card I made for the Way to Use it challenge on Splitcoaststampers. The challenge was to use a website for inspiration!

Well Cindy Haffner, one of my favorite stampers in the world, used the site I was going to use and I didn't really want to do a technique.

So what did I decide? Yep, teabag folding. I absolutely love teabag folding, it satisfies the maths geek in me! I had a complete blast doing it!

Colors are a bit out there for me, but I had to use the colors from the paper, Cool Caribbean, Pretty In Pink, Chocolate Chip and Regal Rose. I also had some cool American Crafts ribbon to match. I think it turned out to be really cute!

Today's challenge

This is what I did for the challenge today on Splitcoast, it was to make 4 cards using 1 stamp set, 1 background, 1 sentiment set and the same colors in each. I am so happy with how these cards turned out.

It took me the best part of half a day to do but thank you for the challenge Beth, it was so much fun.

I have been meaning to do the rock and roll technique with Roses in Winter for ages and I just never got around to it, so this was the perfect challenge to do this.




I used Cranberry Crisp, True Thyme and Blush Blossom, I always think of CC and TT as Christmas colors but not anymore, I think they work really well with Roses in Winter!

























































Sorry about the big gap in the photos, I don't know how to fix it!

Outside my comfort zone

I made this card yesterday for the Ways to Use It challenge on Splitcoast for this week. The challenge was to use Glorious Green and I have discovered that boy this is an ugly color! I hadn't even registered it on my radar before this as Bold Brights is my least liked color group anyway. I would quite happily live without at least half the colors in that group.

Anyway, back to the card! I used Making Memories Boho Chic papers and they are way bolder than the colors I usually use. I am a crafter who likes clean and simple and so this card was a real stretch for me. I also distressed the edges which I find really challenging, all I needed to do was tear and this card would have had everything on it that I struggle with.

I am not 100% happy with this card, the green on the front panel has softened too much by watercoloring and it needs something to pull it all together I think, but I will pull it apart and try something else.

My mojo is obviously still hungover because it is driving all over the road at the moment. I need to just get back to my style, I think, and concentrate on actually making more stuff.

Luke is on half-term this week, so I usually find it easier to create as I get more sleep than usual! So I'm off to do the Monday challenge on Splitcoast.

Before I do, I just want to say thank you to Lisa, her blog is on the right, for my birthday present, I will photograph it for you and load it onto my blog this week. She made me a friendship book in the most beautiful purse/handbag. Lisa, thank you, your talent takes my breath away!

Fun card

Here's a fun card I made for a friend. I used DCWV black and white paper for their clothes and surprise, surprise I used my embossing folders for the backgrounds.

The "friends" sentiment is made using my Cricut. I think this turned out to be a really quick, cute, fun card. I hope she likes it!

It's my birthday today!

Well, it's my birthday today, I'm 40 yikes! But that's ok because I still feel 14 in my head, lol! I have had a lovely day, my husband ordered a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me, that's the first time in 20 years together he did that. He buys me flowers all the time, but he brings them home.

My 7 year old is completely overexcited. He loves birthdays and insists on blowing out the candles on YOUR cake at least 5 times!

I thought I would share another card I did for VSN over the weekend, this poor card has been cuttlebugged to within an inch of its life and the cupcake was cut out using my Cricut. I have to say I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Now I'm off out to dinner with my family! Hugs to everyone who reads my little rambles!

The thing I love about VSN

Do you know what it is that I absolutely love about VSN? It is to try a new technique that you have been meaning to try, but then you never get around to it. Well, this card is one of those occasions. I have been meaning to try the Magic Snowflake technique for ages, but just never got around to it. Well I got the chance to try it today and I am so happy with how this turned out. You can find the technique here

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/magicsnowflake.php and if you are British rubbing alcohol is surgical spirits which you can buy at Boots, but you have to ask for it.

I am really happy with how this turned out and I can't wait to try it again!

It's VSN night again

It's VSN at Splitcoaststampers, my favorite time and I am feeling really ill. How typical is that, I have managed to do one challenge which was to make a card for Old Broads Day!

It's quite hard to read, but the sentiments says "I'm not young.....I just have a great plastic surgeon!"

I am just completely in love with these Bellas from www.stampingbella.com, they really appeal to me because they are modern, fresh and funky!They are also so reasonable priced it seems rude not to, lol!

Now I'm going back to my sick bed for a while to get some rest so that I can maybe get some of the rest of VSN done!

Much happier

Here is my card re-jigged from yesterday and I am much happier with it. Island Blossoms is the set I go to if I have made a hash of a card. I love this set and I am so sad it never made the catalog because it was a hostess set.

All I did was rip the yucky bits off, I kept the Cuttlebug templated background (how cool is that) and just changed the brad and the color of the striped card. I then mounted the flowers that I had cut out on dimensionals (foam pads) and voila, one much happier crafter!

I'm a little off at the moment!

This card was for today's card sketch challenge on splitcoaststampers, but I am really not happy with it, the balance of it is off. The baby heads are too big and the tag doesn't look straight in the gap, even though it is, so back to the drawing board for me!

I like the background so I'm going to try to save that and do something different with the diagonal stripe!

Cuttlebug

The ladies at the craft club I run think I'm mad and they might be right! lol! But I am terrible for having to have the latest craft toy. So what did I do when I was fed upover the weekend, I ordered a Cuttlebug. For those of you that have been under a rock, or live in the UK, it amounts to the same thing, a Cuttlebug is a die-cutting machine.
But more excitingly, it dry embosses too! I had 2 embossing folders arrive yesterday, Birthday and Congratulations. Excitingly, they work in a Sizzix until my Cuttlebug arrives. Unfortunately, I can't show the results of my playing because I made some samples for the design team I work for at www.ribbonmad.co.uk.
But I promise to come up with something soon and I'll post it I promise!

Cricut

This is a card I made to submit for a design team job. I have decided not to submit it because it is too simple. I made it using my Cricut die cutter and some primas that Lisa sent me. Thanks honey!

It is very simple but easy to do. Now back to the drawing board! :)

I am also determined to get published this year, so I am going to make some cards over the next week to send to magazines, I can but try you never know.

Other bit of news, Stampin Up is coming to the UK, I am so happy about it! I just so want to be a demo for them. They have such great products at really reasonable prices and nearly every card I make is made with their stuff, so I am really happy to not have to buy them off ebay!

I found out today why my photos have been so terrible, my 7 year old has been sticking his manky fingers all over the lens of the camera! Took me ages to clean it! But at least my photos won't look like I have been taken them in the fog now!

Yucky! Yucky! Yucky

What drugs was I taking over the weekend? This card is hideous! I am teaching a dry embossing class next week and this is one of the cards I made for that class, although I don't think it will be leaving the house!

I like the ribbon and the Basic Grey paper, but it doesn't go with the pink card and the lilac piece looks vile, ah well maybe I can save the paisley peice with the ribbon on and just change the rest. Back to the drawing board for me, I think!

Why can't I take a decent photo?

Why, oh why, oh why can't I take a decent photo? My camera just doesn't like taking photos, sigh! So it's my camera's faulty, not mine!

Anyway, this is the card I made for this week's technique lover's challenge on Splitcoaststampers. We had a choice today as it is TLC100! I chose color blocking! It is hard to see but all of the pieces except the friend piece has backgrounds stamped on it. The friend piece is a shaker, I am pleased with how this turned out! But I did cheat I have a piecing template which makes color blocking so much easier.

I'm also getting much better at using stuff, lol, there are 6, count them, 6 brads on this card! Now I just need to start using my 12 x 12 paper!

I've Been Tagged

A - Available or Taken: Taken
B - Best Friend: Fiona
C -Cake or Pie: cake
D - Drink of Choice: Diet Pepsi
E - Essential item you use everyday: My PC
F - Favorite Color: Purple, to wear black
G - Gummy Bears or Worms: bears
H - Hometown: Port Talbot, South Wales, UK
Indulgence: ebay craft items
J - January or February: February . . . my birthday is in February
K - Kids & Names: 1 Luke
L - Life is incomplete without?: Television, music, friends
M - Marriage Date: October 31st 1992
N - Number of Siblings: 1
O - Oranges or Apples: I don't like either
P - Phobias or Fears: large crowds, parties
Q - Fave Quote: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination - Oscar Wilde
R - Reason to Smile: I have my family, my health and many many wonderful friends
S - Season: Autumn
T - Tag 3 or 4 People: Fiona, Kristin, Lisa
Unknown fact about me: I am really, really shy and hate social situations
V - Vegetable you don't like: brussel sprouts
W - Worst Habit: biting my nails
X-rays: teeth
Y - Your Fave Food: chocolate, spaghetti, butter and parmesan - my comfort food
Z - Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Thanks Dorinda! It wasn't too bad, lol!

Color Challenge

My new stamps arrived this week and so I just had to use my Bella to make a card for this week's color challenge.

The stamp is cakeabella from www.stampingbella.com go and check out the fantastic images and even better the shipping is only $4 to the UK.

The colors for this challenge were Sage Shadow, Close to Cocoa and Pale Plum. They worked so well with this image I think.

I can safely say you will definitely be seeing more of these stamps on my pages, I am in love! lol!

Dry Embossing

I am teaching this at a craft club in a few weeks and so I have had to do some samples. I must admit that dry embossing is something that I never do, I just can't be bothered to get my light box out. But surprisingly, once I started making some samples, I really enjoyed doing it!

The other problem I find is that you just can't take a decent photo of dry embossing, I think you just need to see it in real life.

I do love the elegance of this craft though. It is a way to make a simple but elegant card of the type I struggle to make. Anyway, this is one card I made to demo. I dry embossed, then turned the template over and sponged through the template with lavender brilliance ink, it is so sparkly in real life.

I'm also getting much better at using my embellishments up, so I used 3, yes 3, brads on this card, lol!

Another one!

Here's another one that I did for the class. I think I should have done it in a different color from pink, because now I can't give it to DH because it is pink and I can't give a pink card to DH, however secure he is with his own masculinity! lol!







The only trouble with this card is that when you open the card, the hearts lay sideways which looks a bit funny, but never mind, I still like it!

Craft Club

Last week I taught a class at a craft club I run with my best friend Fi. This is what we taught them!

I first saw a card done like this by Cambria on Splitcoaststampers and I immediately fell in love.

It is a 3 1/2 by 3 1/2 trifold card, where the triangle pieces meet up to close the card.

The next photo probably makes the fold more obvious. The ladies at my craft club made some beautiful cards and I am very proud of them!

Here is the card when it is open, cute huh!

I finally found a way to use the giant circle punch, it goes so well with polka dot posies set.

Don't you just love good customer service?

Here in the UK, we are used to customer service being appalling, unlike in the US, where it is really impressive.
But I received wonderful customer service today. I ordered a scalloped circle punch from an ebay seller and I received a wine bottle, lol! Anyway, I informed the lady of the mistake yesterday afternoon quite late. This morning, I received the right punch and a message saying keep the old one! Wow!
I know this is wnat you would expect in the US, but it very rarely happens over here, so thank you maggiep1949 (her ebay id) for the wonderful customer service.
At the moment, I am working on some dry embossed cards, as that is what I am teaching at a craft club next month, so I'll upload some examples tomorrow!

Overkill

My really good friend, Jen, set me a challenge to case one of her cards whilst my mojo had gone out drinking and partying and I finally although it looks nothing like Jen's original card, lol which is

here

She insisted it be in black and white, so it is definitely black and white, lol. It is also a card I did for this week's technique challenge on Splitcoaststampers which was to use a set you had never used before. Well, I have had this set for months and just couldn't think of anything to do with it, everything I thought of had already been done! sigh!

It was also to use embellishments that you rarely use, I rarely use the gingham ribbon or the eyelets, I use brads and grosgrain.

I have also find it really hard to use my scallop and word window punches. I had to have them and now rarely use them. The scallop punch especially is not as versatile as I thought it would be, but now I will use it more as I now have my Cricut which can cut smaller or larger circles for more depth.

The sentiment at the bottom is actually mounted on the back of the card and hole is cut out of the front.

I really like how this card turned out, so thanks Jen, you're one in a million (that's what the sentiment says) I love ya sweetie!

My mojo

I was starting to get worried, my mojo went out partying with Gamblemom's (Karen) and I didn't think it was ever going to come home, it was obviously having lots of fun and wasn't having to work. Well, it's home now, bleary-eyed, smelling terrible and with a terrible headache!

I'm glad to see it though, even if it is refusing to do much work! These are the cards I made over the weekend!

The frog card I made by just deciding to go in my stamp room and do some coloring with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Once I finished coloring it and it had dried, I noticed it went with some scraps of paper I had left from a card I did last week, so I used the scraps.

The row of frogs at the bottom of the card are embossed in white embossing powder, so they are all raised and shiny and finally there was a big gap at the top, so I used three brads.

I had some really nice ribbon that I could have used on this card, but it was competing with the paper, so I left the ribbon off!

I promise after this card, I am going to step away from these colors, lol! I just love these colors. I have had this card in my head for a few days and I am really pleased with how it turned out!

The flower is cut from acetate with my Cricut and the "hi" is my A Muse small polka dot alpahabet, one of the most versatile sets that I own.

Again, I used a brad, these little wonders are so useful and I find myself reaching for brads constantly. I really need to find a cheap supplier of brads.

This was a card that I cased from a card that I saw on www.cricut.com by a really talented artist called Regina Easter. I really wanted to attempt it and I am so happy with how it turned out. Wow, this post is just like buses, you don't get anything for ages and then three cards come along at once, lol!

I'm so retro baby!

Sorry about the poor quality of this photo, but I can never take a decent photo once it's dark and I don't have the patience to wait until tomorrow, lol.

This card is for the sketch challenge on Splitcoast. I used DCWV retro papers along with Island Blossoms set, I still love this set even though it's been discontinued.

The spotty paper is actually cut in a circle but it is hidden by the flowers. I used my new toy, my Cricut, to cut the circle.

Maybe this card will inspire me to make more, I have been really struggling with making cards since Christmas, I just can't get inspired!

I got a cricut

Just before Christmas I got a Cricut, it is supposed to be for my 40th birthday in February, but it is cruel and unusual torture to make someone wait for 2 months to use a new gadget, so thanks Mum for letting me have it now. Here is a card I made using my Cricut, I am starting simple and working my way up, lol!

Happy New Year everyone!

From tomorrow, I am going to get back into the swing of cardmaking as I need to make some thank you cards and my New Year's resolutions, to get published, not to put so much pressure on myself, to actually enjoy the process of making cards rather than constantly leaving it to the last minute to make everything.

Finally, I am so happy, my husband has turned our smallest bedroom into my stamping room and it looks so amazing, he is such a wonderful man! Well, for the moment he is. I'll post some photos soon!

Sorry

For the few of you that read my blog, I am so sorry I haven't updated for a while! Busy life, illness, the stress, sorry joy, of Christmas. I have done so much stuff, but haven't photographed any of it because it was all done just as I needed to give it, but I promise to be a more faithful blogger!