...ahhh that's better

First - let me say thank you to all the lovely well wishes I received - I'm feeling much better and raring to go - also Lynn - how could you possibly know about Monday? Lol.

Now, since I'm carding again, I realise I'm in trouble!! - I spent a while looking at the January GSS submissions the other day, (all I was fit for was looking!) and I was so impressed by all the lovely bright, springy fresh cards. I realise I'm in trouble because I have spent my whole time gearing up to make Christmas cards, thinking that that was all I was going to be interested in and now I find I'm itching to make spring cards, St Pat's cards, birthday cards, you name it I wanna do it!!

There is a huge hole in my stash! - it's roughly the size of several packs of PTI raspberry fizz/spring rain cardstock and several new stamp sets, not to mention the non existent bright ribbons!! The size of the hole is sadly matched by the hole in my wallet so it may take a while to catch up!! Lol. In the meantime I expect to find that necessity will be the mother of invention and in the grand tradition of sensible households everywhere I will 'make do' with what I have.

I can say all this rather smugly and with no real sense of pain because, Lo and Behold - there's a birthday on the horizon and I have been dropping hints like rain.

Already I have had to make something up - I don't have any St Patricks stamps and I wanted to make this St Pat's type card - so I drew a wee pic of a cottage with a black fineliner and scanned it into the 'puter. I printed it out in several sizes on PTI cream cardstock and I will probably make another few cards with the image. I watercoloured it since there is also a copic marker shape hole in my stash, and then mounted it on PTI Ripe Avocado and a couple of delicious Cosmo Cricket papers sent to me by my pal Beverly of the soon to be Precious scraps store!! can't wait!! I stamped the sentiment Kindred spirits - which is perfectly suitable given who the card is going to - a good friend of mine who lives stateside but has a real affinity for Ireland.

I know all you stamp purists will consider this cheating!! Lol, but what's a girl to do? Be nice to have it made into a wee stamp along with a few other doodles I've done and I'm eyeing up a stamp making kit on ebay, thinkin bout it.

Pssst!! all you stamp company owners, feel free to snap me up now while I'm still real cheap!! Lol.

Hope it tickles.