Well, here goes.....

I've been using a computer and the internet for years, but it's only now that I've decided to take on a blog, so bear with me, if my blog looks a bit dull and really newbie.....that I am. :-)

As soooo many others doing blogs these days, well at least the blogs that I come across, my blog will be about my hobby, which the past year has been making cards. I do have other hobbies like penpalling, but it is definitely the cardmaking that is most time consuming, but I don't mind at all, as I find it sooo relaxing and stress relieving to create and make my cards. I think that it's a big reason for me keeping sane from the stressful job as a teacher, which in Denmark is extraordinary stressful these days, because our profession has gone from being respected to being badmouthed, belittled and hung out to dry by politicians from our Educational Minister over local politicians to some professors and the media, which again has resulted in a now normal tendency among ordinary people to think that they know everything about being a teacher, because they have been a pupil and everything the media and politicians must be true!!

Anyway, enough about my work - this is going to be a blog about my cardmaking, and at this time I am, like so many others, in the midst of making Christmas cards. I'm a member of a few groups on Facebook, I've joined Scrapsisters.dk and I use Pinterest, so I get a loooot of inspiration and ideas, which I try to put into good use in my own cards.

Since I started out last December, originally because I wanted to take up my husband on his annoyment of me buying so many cardmaking magazines, when we were in England last year, my desk has been piled up month by month with new items for cardmaking. :-)

Last year I made 47 home Christmas cards with only a paper cutter, a knife, ordinary glue, old ink pads and ordinary pens, different stamps and accessories acquired through the different magazines I bought and cute digital stamps I had printed out from the cds I had become from two magazines.

This year I bought a Big Shot in June, so now I could also use some of the dies I had gotten through some the previously mentioned magazines, and of course I have bought more since. I have a score board, which was oblivious from my vocabulary last year, I have a new paper cutter with score effect too from Fiskars and coming this December I've promised myself a paper cutter from Crafter's Companion on which I can also round corners. 

Such a different world, and yet I'm still just a novice compared to some of the inspirational women I just met at the recent Scrap-a-mania event, an event I didn't know existed last year. Now I have all these different events I want to go to, and at the same time I'm hoping to get a group of other creative women living near me together to meet up every now and then, or at least once or twice a month. :-)

This is two cards I've made this year with inspiration from Pinterest

In September my husband, Michael and I celebrated our 25th Anniversary and of course the invitations and thank you cards were homemade. My teenage daughter, who is 13, has come to enjoy cardmaking too this year, and she stood for the invitations, made them herself and sent them out herself. The thank you cards I did, and this is how my thank you card looked

Recently my daughter and I went to the Scrap-a-mania event and coming home from visiting - next time I'll be joining all the inspirational women who were scrapping and cardmaking there - we rearranged all our different accessories, put all our things together, so instead of borrowing from each other, we are now together about our hobby. She's even stated that when I'm attending Scrap-a-mania next time, she wants to come along. Quite looking forward to it - love the fact that we share a hobby, and she's coming along with her cards quite beautifully, don't you think? :-)

It's such a beautiful card, very simple and elegant.