The Works – Very Simple Birthday Card

This very simple, layered card measures 5ins x 5ins and uses a pre-scored card blank from, I think, The Works, some time ago.

Now, I don’t buy paper pads very often, as I don’t make an awful lot of cards these days, however when I saw the designs in this 12ins x 12ins “Lovely Flowers” pad from The Works for just £4, I just had to have it.

The pad consists of 24 sheets with 2 x 24 designs, double-sided printed in 250gsm.

All the designs are just too delicious for words.

I used my favourite pattern to cover the whole front of the card blank.

Then I took an ancient Craftworks, gold foiled birthday sentiment and layered in several times on scraps of gold mirror card and some more of the print.

In the top right hand and bottom left hand corners I put a metal, filigree corner, which was originally silver, but to match the card, I quickly sprayed them gold. 

Very simple I know, however, it still has to be said that my mojo really has  upped and gone. 

To blog or not to blog, that is the question …….with no mojo whatsoever I’ve been seriously thinking that after 13 years and just over 3,000 posts, I’ve done my bit, I ought to just simply take the pressure off myself, worrying about when the scheduled posts run out and simply call it quit ….. but I don’t think I am quite ready yet. After all these years of blogging, considered a bit old fashioned now, with so many crafters moving into vlogging, it’s a hard habit/compulsion to break and I know my old enthusiasm will return when I start to seriously think about Halloween and Christmas later on in the year ………… so for now I am going to continue with the once a week post, but if I miss the odd week, like a couple of weeks ago) please bear with me.