World Card Making Day
06 Oct 2009
Saturday was World Card Making Day and what a good day I had.
In the morning I went to see a friend's daughter getting married and I have to say that she was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen, and boy did she enjoy her wedding.
And then I spent the whole afternoon and evening making cards- what bliss!
I've just started my push on making Christmas Cards -I'm part of a small card making team at Longton Community Church and each year we make about 500 Christmas cards which we sell to raise funds for a Children's Home in Uganda. For every card we sell we support one child for one day. So Saturday got my efforts off to a great start.
Because of the volume of cards we have to make we start off making the ones which are the easiest - so most of the ones I made on Saturday were made using background papers, glitter and card toppers. In my card making sessions I tend to concentrate on one type of card making, so Saturday was my day for quick cards. Another day I will move on to rubber stamping, another embossing etc.
Here's one of the first cards I made - I've used a pretty background paper which wraps round the card. Then after matt and layering the card toppers onto mirror card I used 2cm double sided foam pads to fix them to the card. For a finishing touch I added glitter to the stars on the toppper and to the snowflakes on the background paper.
The funny thing is that once I'm in a Christmas card making mood I find it difficult to switch to another type of card
making - does this mean I am addicted to glitter and sparkle?
Do you find it easy to switch from type of card to another, or do you tend to concentrate on batches of Christmas Cards, batches of birthday cards etc?
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