Frustration wasn't the word!! After playing around for a long, long time, I managed to reset everything back to where it was in the first place, and get Google to recognise me, and here I am!
I've got a new card to show you, that I've made for my friend in Holland, ( I've no idea where the last year has gone), I just hope he likes it.
I've used orange as the colour scheme (obviously), and as he's assured me many times that men like flowers too, I hope the subject brings a smile to his face.
I used some heavy 12" x 12" embossed papers from Create & Craft, I've had them for AGES but I couldn't bear to cut into them!! But I've done it now, so hopefully I'll be able to use them a little more often now.
The Rose image has been hand stamped onto card from LOTV. (its amazingly good !!) I then painted the Rose in Twinkling H2O's, (roses in Orange Peel, and leaves in Forest Green). Since the advent of promarkers into my life, I don't watercolour as often as I should. Silly really because I find it easier to shade with paint.
The roses were left to dry throughly, and then I stamped them all over with a versamark pad and clear heat embossed them.........twice. The plain orange card has been stamped with the happy birthday sentiment, and also with a swirl stamp in versamark, then heat embossed in "Glacier White". The lace edges are done with a Martha Stewart Punch.
The insert has been stamped and heat embossed, in orange, using a do-crafts corner stamp.
Finally, I added a small premade bow from the Papermania Capsule collection to the front, and fastened the cross over card, with a clip and brad.
I hope you like it, and after the hubub of Christmas, I'm hoping to get back into the routine of making cards on a regular basis again.
There is an event being held at the local college in March, for International Womens Day. It is the centenary of the event so the theme for this year is "Then & Now".
Blackbutterfly Handcrafted Cards will be there with a table full of cards which will hopefully take someone's fancy!!
This is one of only two times a year when I sell direct to the public, the rest of the time I stick strictly to my website, or occasionally, on E-bay. The costs of buying tables to sell at such events, often outweighs the amount I manage to sell, but this particular event is such fun to attend, I hope anyone local to Southend will try to get there. It's in South East Essex College Atrium, between 11am and 3 pm on 5th March. Come and say "hello" if you see me there!
