These are cards for my one regular customer! I explained about her in the early post I did today.

This is a 5 X 7 card.  I made the envelope with double sided scrapbook paper. She wanted an extra special card for her husbands birthday.  They have been married over 60 years!  

Birthday card 

I made these cards for a lady who buys cards from me.  I would like two or three more regular customers to make cards for on a regular basis.  She buys 5-8 cards form me each month for the birthdays she has for the month.  She usually calls me the last week of the month before so I can deliver them in plenty of time so she can mail them.  She lives locally so I just deliver them to her in person.  She is older and likes the company and I like the compliments when she looks at them!

This is an anniversary card for her son and his wife.

 I have taken the time to put nice sayings on the insides but I didn't photo the insides this time.  I am enjoying using the stamps and embossing plates I have been collecting over several years now.  Also I have a lot of paper so I could stay very busy making cards for a very long time.  I hand paint most of the fronts of the cards with water color.  I really love to do water color but using stamps first on water color paper has been a creative venture for me and I feel they turn out a little better than by hand when I am only doing 3 X 4 pieces of water color paper.

New Cards.. so happy to have some time to make new cards!

Custom cards

I make cards!

I custom make envelopes to match cards also

New Cards

The picture on the front of this card is on cold pressed water color paper, stamped with stampin up stamp and hand painted with water color.

Cards

I have been sharing some of the cards I have made on Facebook and decided I should start blogging and posting my cards on my blogs. Above is my latest card thanks to another Stampin' up demonstrator for her inspiration. I signed up to be a stampin up demonstrator last month... Woops! I think that was a mistake. I decided to have a card open house to let people in my area know that I was intending to sell Stampin Up projects. So I invited everyone I had email addresses for who lived in Eugene. No one showed up. I set it up for 12-4 so people that worked could drop by on their lunch hour. It did discourage me but made me think. I intend to make cards, if there are others that want to learn from me I would be happy to teach but it is sort of a let down to plan something work hard and then not even one person comes. I would have been happy if just one person had come. So I am going to continue to make cards and I will start posting them more on my blog and soon I will set up a few in my etsy store. When I get this blog looking decent then maybe I will link it to ETSY and Facebook so maybe someone might be interested in seeing my work. I do love all the stamps I got from Stampin up and will probably get some more but I am not a Sales Person and I know that. I consider my self more of an artist and just want to make and create beautiful things!

I can see that I have a lot to learn about blogging... so how do the card makers that make such great cards find time to make such great blogs also? My question of the day. Comments are welcome.
This is not my card, but is the card I used to inspire me to make the cards I am about to post that I made last night. Thank you all you lovely card-makers out there for your creativity! I love being inspired by others.