First Try

A zoomed version so not to give away who the card is for.

I needed to make this card asap as it was a commissioned card that I had been asked for ages ago but because the deadline was quite a way ahead I had put it off. Now I know it is best just to get the cards made straight away as I was worried that I may have to back out of this one if my arm wasn't up to scratch. Am very pleased with the card but it did take at least twice as long as normal to do. I now also know why its good to have cards in stock as I will only be making cards when I feel up to it for the next couple of weeks. I am going to try and get in the craft room when I can though as I don't want to get behind on my challenge. At the start of the year I decided to set myself a challenge to try and make sure that I spend quality time in the craft room. As well as life getting in the way of crafting I noticed that sometimes I would go in my room and rearrange, organise and tidy up and that no actual card making or scrapbooking was getting done. I also wanted a way to divide my time as I enjoy cardmaking and scrapbooking equally but it's not practical to be doing both at the same time due to space constrains. I prefer to get the cards I needs made and out of the way and then say have 3 weeks concentrating on scrapbooking and then go back to making cards. I decided that I would challenge myself to make a card a day, meaning 366 cards this year. Now I knew that I wouldn't be able to find the time to make a card every single day because I work full time and also I didn't want it to become a chore. Instead it is that by New Years Eve I will have made that many within the year. It worked really well at the start of the year. I was finding time and often would use most of one of the weekend days and make an odd card some nights of the week depending on what my day had been like. I was about 10 ahead but will need to review this now as not been at it for 3 or 4 weeks. Don't want to fall behind and make it less enjoyable 'catching up'. While I'm off work I will do some crafting - hopefully both cards and scrapbooking as well as reading up on blogs, websites and magazines for new ideas and techniques.