Stampin Up Fun

Two of the young ladies that attended my Stampin' Up event.

Stampin' Fun

Today I had another Stampin' Up Event and once again it was loads of fun.  I took a couple of great pictures with my tablet, but can't figure out how to get them unto my blog, so until I can figure it out this picture will have to do.

New Year

With the New Year I decided to get a few new things in my Etsy shop. I like to try new things and I am always apprehension about spending a lot of time and energy making numerous things then not having them sell. With an Etsy shop comes advice, usually from people that don't sell or buy from Etsy. A lot of people have told me I should sell my cards, well if you do a search for cards in Etsy you will come up with over 750,000 items and I'm just not interested in joining that competitive market.  However, I have also gotten some great suggestions from customers, like snow flakes (my best seller) so now I am trying a couple more things that customers have suggested.  One is snowmen.

You can find more here.
I also sell sheep scissor fobs and brooches. Well one of my customers had inquired if the fob had a pocket to hold the scissors, it didn't but I thought hmmm, I bet it could so ....

A sheep scissors holder/fob was born.

Purple makes me happy

I love purple so I decided to make some purple cards.

I did some experimenting with the triple stamp method.  The verdict is still out on this one.  I'm not sure I like the split Happy Birthday among other things about it but it went out to my sister who won't judge me.  Actually she does judge me but I don't care.

I made a couple more and decided I don't care for the red, so I am sticking with purple.
Then I went a different direction.

I really like this one a lot.  I didn't put a sentiment on it as it would be great for a guy birthday card, get well, thinking of you or sympathy.

Merry Christmas

Every year for Christmas we hang stockings at our business for our employees, most of which are teenagers so I try to fill them with some fun things.  This year I made some cute little snowman kisses.

 

Nothing says you are special like something handmade. They were so much fun to make.