What a shock to
realise this is my first, 1st, FIRST post this year!!! How did that
happen? Only excuse I can really give is
that I’d to spend from Dec last year through to March clearing out my
overstuffed office/craft room. 10 years
of buying stock & not being judicious in clearing out unused items had left
the room so full, it was actually causing structural issues with my
house!! I live in a 3-storey one with
the craft room in a top front bedroom.
So it’s a big room and bedrooms aren’t meant to hold much other than a few
bits of furniture & some clothes.
But I’m a paper addict so I bought and printed lots and LOTS of paper
and card – so much weight as you can imagine and all sitting at the front under
the window. Bit of a shock 2 yrs past
when I was told the pillar between the windows in my bedroom wall (room below)
was in danger of falling onto the street below.
And while the primary culprit was a rotten beam the other secondary
factor was most likely the weight from the room above!!
SO the job finally
had to be done and as I’m disabled I had to do it one tiny bit at a time. But I got there in the end and am now in
crafting nirvana or whatever’s it’s called.
A nice new worktop, new floor, all redecorated and a cleared room later –
it’s now a joy to come into. The
downside is still having 2/3 of my previous stock in boxes and nowhere to bring
them out to. But that’s a small point. I’d really only started getting some cards made
when it was time to do my half-yearly switch to Christmas cards & am very
slowly starting to pick up pace.
So as always I chose
a WordArt Wed challenge to get things moving.
This is a birthday card for my prayer partner and longtime friend who’s
been going through some tough times of late so as she loves my cards I put a
bit of extra time & effort in to make it special.
It’s on a Kraft card
base with 3 panels of rose design paper cut to fit. A different panel of 2 different papers intersects
the middle as a bit of contrast. Flowers
as always are from Wild Orchid Crafts.
Die cut flourish from my stash.
Finished off with a little name tag and some gold pearls. A special card for a special lady :)
Entered into the
WordArt Wednesday Challenge 238-39