That'll teach me!

I hate to embarrass folk by sending them cards year after year when perhaps they don't really want to keep up the tradition. So, after a couple of years without and if it seems they don't want to send cards back, I remove them from our list - not out of malice in any way, I just don't like folk to feel awkward. So, what happens - yup, they pop back up again and send cards after all!! It's happened in the last couple of days and both senders know I make cards - one elderly and very distant relative umpteen times removed went so far as to mention the hand made one I sent last year. Eeek, some quick footwork needed and I came up with these:

This is the first time I'd inked this stamp up and I love, love, love it for quick and easy cards - I'd fallen in love with it on the super-talented Jules blog a while back. She has an amazing talent for finding wonderful stamps - err, or is it that I always love what everyone else has?! :)

I used:

- white linen A6 card stock

- Penny Black 'Adornment' stamp - stamped using Brilliance Pearlescent inks

- Nitwits Heavenly Collection papers which came free with Simply Cards and Papercrafts - the papers had matching plain papers too which was a great help

- sentiments from Craftwork Cards

- Josy Rose nail heads - yet again, I'm so in love with these right now :)

That's it, and a couple of spares in hand just in case. Isn't it funny though, often the ones that come together very quickly are the ones voted a 'hit' by my in-house critic. Or, is it because in between times I can be seen running round the walls in a flat panic over Christmas and he daren't say otherwise :))

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