Happy New Year.. and I'm already a month ahead of myself!

Happy New Year to you all, I hope everyone had an enjoyable festive period. Despite urgently needing to do more revision for forthcoming exams I'm taking a wee time out to post on here. Just as I took a wee time out the other afternoon to play with some tea and paper and make some cards.

Etsy had been sending me e-mails about Valentines related things (already?!) so I had a go at making some cards. I've only made three cards to put on Etsy before and non of them have sold. However, after putting two new ones up online last night.. one of them has sold!

Here it is, an 'I Love You Forever' Valentine (or just because) card, made using tea stained paper and some stamps I got given last Christmas. I faffed about with the printer and normal paper to get the 'i' and 'you' printing aligned properly and eventually this was the result! Don't tell the buyer, but under the 'Love' there is also an 'i' and there is a 'you' under the 'Forever'... Don't look at me like that - ok, ok, it was meant to read 'I Love You' but I got the printing wrong so edited it slightly. It was my last card and I didn't want to waste it - these things are expensive you know! In total I received £3.11 (including money towards postage) after all the various fees (PayPal charge currency conversion fees don't you know.. I didn't, boo) and postage and packing costs I'm left with .. wait for it .. 29p. In fact, minus that because that probably doesn't cover the cost of ink, the card, envelope and the cellophane envelope.

Aaaaaannyway. It was fun to make and I liked the finished result. For me it was all about seeing if I could make a card that someone else would want to pay for - and I did! So I'm happy. And I upped my postage prices :]