"May Cards - 1" : brown.  This batch was created using just a few sheets of  papers.  That's fun to do.  How can I make 7 different cards using only 3 pages?   And there you have it.  :)

"May Cards - 2" : hard to believe but I had to create two separate custom "Alyssa" cards for two different Alyssas,  just a couple weeks apart!   ha!  :)   The personalized cards were all custom made with a few specific details about the people they were intended for. 

The "Happy Birthday Mom" card was a special request based on a Mother's Day card I had previously created - using the same design.

These custom cards prove to be both a challenge and really fun to make!  :)

"May Cards - 3" : I didn't have any wedding cards in my inventory, so when the customer requested 5 at one time, I had to dive right in.   There was no direction in styles, only "I'll leave it in your capable hands".  Free rein, who could ask for more?!?  :)  I still have no wedding cards in my inventory!?  ha!

"May Cards - 4" : another custom request - for Pride Day!  Again, the customer provided a few specific details they wanted.   It was fun seeing all that colour in one card!  :)

I definitely require more time to create these custom orders - as I am trying to incorporate things that the customer wants in their cards - but its nice to have that direction as a change of pace; to just designing off the top of my head.  I welcome the challenge!  :)

Missed a couple of Thursdays...oops!  

I've been busy with making cards!  :)  That's how I like it.

Here was a quick batch, trying out the 'cookie cutter' system.  (titled "Mother")

Happy Thursday!  :)

I looooooove the new line of paper Creative Memories came out with.  This week's batch is made up of the Enchanted series.   Its really a step up...and I don't mean to downplay the papers they've had up until now....but they really did come up with something different with this line.

YAY! another batch that has a "SOLD" card prior to posting.   Actually this particular one sold twice...so that deserves a WHOO HOO!  :)  

It was a nice challenge to have to duplicate a card.  Now I know I can.   And would be MORE than happy to do it again and again and again.

It makes me happy to think that these cards are being enjoyed by others.  :)

So we're into April Cards - 2.

Catch you on the flip side....

I was fully expecting Thursday this time 'round, so it came as no surprise!  :)

Had a great week!  I am getting lots of positive feedback and interest in my cards.  It has felt great to have to go through the inventory on line and attach a "SOLD" sign to half a dozen in the last couple days!!

Sure does make me giddy!  :)

Just a few months back, I had no inkling of selling my cards.  I was only making them specifically for family and a few friends for birthdays and holidays.  At the end of December [2011], my sister planted a seed.  She said "I want to do more craft shows this year, and I want to have a space for your cards".  That was it.  Something clicked and I was off like a rocket.  My thoughts were focused on just having an inventory for craft shows through a booth with A Creative Oasis : https://www.facebook.com/ACreativeOasis.  It was great having an excuse to create MORE and stretch my creativity with variety. In my mind, I was only thinking about playing "show and tell".  I was just hoping someone might appreciate the work I had done.  I never considered people would buy any!   ha!  I think because I didn't get bogged down with whether or not people would buy them, I was able to just enjoy making each & every one - so please know they are each created with happy, peaceful, loving hands.  :)

SO now with a little bit of interest, and sales, I feel that people can enjoy giving my cards as much as I enjoy creating them.  YAY!!  :)   There are no expectations that anyone will ever buy another card....and I am good with that because that is not why I create them...but I am more than happy to keep making them, if they do.  :)

Wherever this path leads, I'll happily travel.....cutting & pasting all the while.

Don't forget to check out this week's batch April Cards - 1 (Mother's Day focus)

Happy Thursday y'all.

Hard to think this is the end of March.  

The old adage rings true "time flies when you are having fun".

I cannot express the amount of fun I experience when I sit down to 'work' on my cards.  

As soon as I turn on the lamp, I start to automatically de-stress.  Then, as I sit down at my table, I notice a difference in my breathing....it comes so much easier.  By the time I touch my first tool or piece of paper, I am in a whole other world.  In my paradise.  I am happy, relaxed & enjoy my time in my paradise so much.  I only furrow my brow & mutter a curse word or two when I have to glue really small pieces (ha!). 

March Cards - 5.  This batch is a bit of a mish-mash but soon they will be a bit more uniform - in 'sets' - whether its by theme or paper.  

I am already having a really happy Thursday and I wish the same for you!  :)

See you in April!

Hi.  :)

Its been a quiet card making week but I am looking forward to change that today!  :)

Its going to be hot (tooooooooooo hot for March!!!!) so I will be indoors all day.  And what a better way to spend my time then cutting & pasting?!  :)  

We're on to March Cards - 4.  

I was finding it a little challenging to keep coming up with completely unique ideas from one card to the next so for this batch, I chose a theme.  Everything came together so quickly!!

Whenever I feel like my ideas are drying up, I will pick a theme and just go with it.  :)

Until next time....

Its Friday.   

I was committed to posting on Thursdays, but last week I decided to abandon this page and replace it with a Facebook page because I thought no one even saw this blog.

I shouldn't concern myself with who (if anyone) is stopping by.  That's not why I started this.

I said I would post a new batch of cards every week and I will keep to my word.

I had a great week.  I sold 5 cards!!  YAY!!  :)   

Its not a financial victory so much as now others can enjoy the cards I enjoy creating.

It would be great to see this become a trend?  ha!  :)

Getting myself prepped for the upcoming craft show in April.  I was getting stressed about buying a greeting card spinner (very hard to find in Canada, why???) so I decided to take it down a notch, keep it simple and just got two baskets (one for vertical and one for horizontal cards) for this first show.  I created a sign.  And I just carry on with making more cards.  I should have about 120 for the show.....plenty of variety, I think?!  :)

So I owe two batches of new cards....check out both March Cards - 2 and March Cards - 3.

I will be back next Thursday!

Until then........  :)