Well Goodness Gracious Me!

You may recall that sometime before Christmas I went down to the village shop to see if the man who owns it would be willing to sell my cards in there. After that it snowed and snowed and I wasn't able to do anything about it until last Saturday when I finally took a selection down. I have been living in fear and trepidation ever since. He said he'd have a look at them and to come down in the week and we'd have a chat.

By this morning I decided I couldn't stand it any longer and set off in the rain and the fog. When I got there he was hoovering up (as one does) so I asked if I'd come at a bad time. He said it was fine, but walked off to get the bag of cards I'd left him. I thought he was going to hand it to me and say 'thanks but no thanks,' but he got the cards out and laid them on the counter. He said, "Yes I don't see why we can't go for selling these," and proceeded to talk brass tacks about 'sale or return' etc. I was so expecting him to say no, I nearly said, "Pardon? Come again?" but kept smiling and listening and making arrangements. His parting words were, "So if you could make 10-15 Valentine's cards, that would be great." Oh my giddy aunt, as my grandmother would say. I set off, high as a kite, towards home, and rang Mr O on my mobile to tell him the good news. Then I set off, huffing and puffing, all the way back up the hill. The effort was nearly enough to wipe the smile off my face (it was more of a friendly grimace by then) but my spirits were soaring, as you can imagine.

I will be able to use phrases like, 'This one's for the shop.' Think of it - little me.

I have been busy on the aforementioned cards, and have a couple to show you:

I used this stamp on our anniversary card last year and it's so sweet. I gave it a sepia colour tone, which I now know how to do with Promarkers. I've cut out the sentiment and put a floral border on it using my Bigshot. Some sweet little flowers just seemed to finish it off nicely.

I obviously like little bears, don't I? Here's another cute little guy. I am so thrilled to be able to make a card like this as I saw something similar in a magazine last year and have wanted to make it ever since. I hope you can see that I've embossed the pearlised pink card before cutting the centre circle out. I did add a little 'Happy Birthday' sentiment later on. Hope you like it.

So that's my hot news for the day. Rejoice with me, my cup runneth over.