Thanks for your Help

Hi Bloggers.

Thanks for all your comments yesterday about my workshops and my Amazon Store (and the card of course!). I had to have a giggle when some of you said you were too far away to come to a workshop - I've just looked it up and it's 495 miles from Milton Keynes (where I live) to Aberdeen (where we'll be at the end of next week)! Now that is a long way! I was asked if I would share the workshop card details here on the blog. I don't think it's appropriate to ask people to pay for a workshop and then give full details of how the cards were made here so that won't be happening. Sorry.

I am once again struggling with whether to continue with my Amazon Store or not. When I started on Amazon in 2008, there were only a couple of stores selling craft and they were in the States so postage was high. So, I did pretty well. Now it's much harder as there are lots of sellers with craft on there now. Many undercutting me on products I demo. With the unsold stock I have, it may be costing me more money than it's making for me now. So, I will have to have a good old think over the next few weeks and decide what to do. I will, of course, let you know.

Here's today's card -

For the background, I ran a piece of Milk Card through the Grand Calibur with the Couture Creations Feather Frenzy Embossing Folder. I ran it through a second time to extend the design and inked around the edges with Latte Adirondack Dye Ink.

I inked through the Doodle Squares Mask onto Milk Card using Latte Ink. I cut 4 Couture Creations Square Plaques from it. I cut 4 Spellbinders Marvelous Squares out of Gold Card.

I  stamped the sentiment from the All Occasions Sentiments Stamp Set using Perfect Medium and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Ancient Copper Metallic Embossing Powder. I cut it out using Couture Creations Cameo Die. I cut one of Sue's Decorative Frames Set B from the Californian Collection out of Gold Card.

I tied a bow using Brown/Ivory Striped Grosgrain and added a Gold Satin Ribbon Rose.

I assembled the card as shown adding a Cream 8mm Pearl in each corner and some dots of Cosmic Shimmer Ivory PVA around the edges.

The lovely Phill (with 2 'L's) Martin has shows today on Create & Craft at 11am and 4pm. Some more new Sentimentally Yours stamps on offer.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.