Fact For The Day

Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward!

What is *Google*

Google is a number - 1 followed by 100 zeros!!!!

Did you know....

A cucumber is 96% water

Fact for the day

On average, a movie makes about 5 times more from it's video sales than ticket takings

Trivia for the day

The term COP came from England. It is short for Constable On Patrol :-)

Trivia

The cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11 is $6,400.

Family Cards

I have really only been showing the cards I make for sale, so now I'd like to share some cards I have made for *myself* to use, those I give to family and friends.

Here is one I made for my Uncle Ray




This one I made for my friend *Dot's* Birthday, I used a shape cutter to cut out the letters and used the same paper for the background, I hope she doesn't think the *dotty* paper was a *dig* at her name - LOL - I didn't even THINK about that till the card was made!!!!




This next card is for my (step) Mother-in-law's birthday. I used the front off another card, layered that and added some rubbin's. I like to save cards now for pretty pictures and items I can *recycle*




For our brother-in-law


And lastly, I heard from a dear friend about the passing of her Grandmother, so wanted to send a simple, but elegant Sympathy Card (I will make some to add to my range) as much as we *hate* having to buy/make these types of cards, they are, sadly, a *fact of life*




I hope you've enjoyed seeing some more of my designs, all feedback is greatfully appreciated.

Welcome

Welcome to my new readers :-) I hope you will enjoy keeping up with my blog. I am Diane and I got into card making about 2 years ago. My Mother In law kept insisting I give it a go, and one day I thought I would. I just put it down to too many other interests, no time, no *talent* lol, but I bought a pack of blank cards and some stickers and I was HOOKED!

I hate to think of the money I have spent, but it is a passion now and there is nothing more fun and relaxing then sitting down with blank cards, papers, and embellishments and seeing what I can create. I love to try new techniques and, as I was making MORE cards than I could ever need, I decided to try selling cards.... *Minnie's Messages* was *born*. I named my card designs that in honour of my little Chihuahua *Minnie* I had lost 2 months earlier.

I love adding new paper, embellishment, stickers etc to my *stash* and have an embossing kit and Xyron machine amongst new storage items etc etc, it just keeps growing!

I do hope you'll continue to drop by, all the cards currently for sale can be viewed at www.freewebs.com/minniesmessages and at just $2.50 I have tried to keep them affordable!

xx

Get Well Soon

I was so pleased with this card! using a layered look, but with a touch of *Asian* influence, it came together as nice, but unusual/different way to say *Get Well*

Mixed Cards

I love how this one turned out!


As I mentioned in a previous post I recently got some new stickers - including Kung Fu Panda, so here is a card using those stickers!





And One using a Highschool Musical sticker (I know my niece will love that one!)

Thank You card!

I love this card! I think it turned out so well, using layers and gold, that matched in so well with the brown, it's just a very simple, yet elegant card

Baby cards

I have been having a go with some different styles and recently made 2 Baby Cards I am really quite pleased with, both have a 3D look and are colour themed - blue or pink - I was so pleased with how these ones turned out!

To *purchase* any of my cards - please drop by www.freewebs.com/minniesmessages

Theme Birthday Cards

I was so pleased to recently find some WWE and Highschool Musical stickers I could incorporate into my cards, here are two.

A blue boys card featuring the WWE/Wrestling and a girls card faturing Highschool Musical - I used the *distressed paper* look along with some gold glitter and happy Birthday Sticker to finish the girls card

More Birthday Cards

I was really pleased how this square card finished, with a wooden and metal embellishments and layers of yellow theme paper, it seems the perfect design for a pre-teen. Inside I placed a Happy Birthday Sticker to finish it off :-)

Birthday Cards

Here are some recent additions to my *catalogue* :-)

Metallic cream card, embossed, with matching ribbon and birthday sentiment (also embossed) on the front


Cream card with a green theme - 2 small wooden pegs hold the birthday message - *On Your Birthday Wishing You Life's Best*. Card has been left blank inside for your own message

Busy!

Hello again, it has been a while and I do appologise for that!!!! I have been hard at work creating new designs, recently adding embossing to my cards, for a wonderful effect. I have been fortunate enough to recieve 3 custom card orders this week, and, it's great to see things finally starting to take shape :-). It's been hard trying to get people to give me a go, and was excited to recently send out a sample envelope of cards for a potential buyer - fingers crossed. I will be updating a bunch of new cards to the site - www.freewebs.com/minniesmessages sometime this week



Here's a recent new addition!

Don't forget to sign up while you're there, would love to have you as a member xx