Paper roses

Today I am not so much crafting as house tidying ready for long awaited guests staying at the weekend, focusing my mind on the 30 day countdown starting tomorrow and playing with paper while the kiddies are asleep.

Yesterday, I delivered my card box to the post office, first time my cards have ever been in a shop. It was really lovely to see the box on the counter, I felt such a sense of achievement.

This morning, I decided I spend an absolute fortune on embellishments for my papercrafts and need to come up with ways of cutting my costs a bit. I'd also like to be able to make and sell my own embellishments. So I sat down with some paper and glue this morning. After watching numerous flower videos on youtube, I came up with my own way of doing them.

What do you think?

I've had some much positive feedback on these on facebook and many people have asked me to a tutorial on how I made them, so I guess I'll be getting on with that later :-)

That's all for now folks.

My Cards in a Shop!?! Yes Please :-)

Evening All,

So after struggling with Pollen for most of the week, I finally managed to get myself together and organised for my meeting today with my lovely shop manager lady who took an interest in my cards....and she said YES.

I took a pack of samples for her to show her Area Manager, some text about me and my crafting and a suggested pricing structure.  She was so impressed she said yes there and then. It included this morning's make, an Easel Card with one of my recent purchases Santoro's Gorjuss stamp (I love this girl) ...

The shop assistant who was there today loved them too and ordered one for her friends Birthday next week.

So, from next month, there will be a box of mixed cards of mine in our local post office, to be topped up weekly or as required. Furthermore, there are two other post offices who I have been given the details of to approach to do the same thing, but I'm going to see how this one goes for the first month.

All I can say is I'm very happy :-)