Did you know.....

Chickens can travel up to 15KM per hour!

(Now we know why KFC is fast food)

Aussie Facts

Here's 2 Facts for you - a male kangaroo is called a Boomer and a female kangaroo is called a Flyer

I'm glad I wasn't *around* then.....

The first vacuum was so large it was brought to a house by horses!!!!

Trivia and Baby Cards

Did you know.... Strawberries are the only fruit whos seeds grown on the outside.

I had a very nice chat yesterday with a lady who contacted me via an ad I have running on Gumtree. To cut a long story short, she contacted me to say that she makes *baby baskets* from donated goods/items to give to mum's in hospital who've recently given birth. She wondered if I would be interested in donating some of my cards to put in her baskets and in return she'd place my business card inside - a little *free advertising*.

She rang me up and we had a nice chat about my cards, how I got started etc and how she got into volunteering these gift baskets. So, I will be mailing a few cards to her, and hopefully I may end up with some extra orders from it later! If anyone else is in a *situation* like this and I can help out with some cards in exchange for a little *free advertsing* I am happy to go ahead.

Looks like I'll be making some baby cards this week!

~~D~~ xxx

Cards, Cards and more cards

So excited! My *creative juices* so to speak have been working overtime, and I had another brilliant craft weekend. After selling so many cards on OZTION recently, well, I just *had* to replenish my stocks - hee3.


This group I used all pre-printed card that my mother-in-law gave me :-) I co-ordinated with some papers and embellishments and came up with these. The Winnie The Pooh, Tinkerbell and Butterfly are *blank* cards for any ocassion. Then there is a well Done, Special Day and Hello Card. I really love how the Tinkerbell Card came out (hope buyers will too) lol



This selection features - Birthday, Wedding, Love, and Thank You. I love layering crads as you can see and tried to work through some themes like the lilac and white Thank You card and the greens in the birthday card. I used my Xyron sticker maker for the wedding card, and overall was very pleased with the results



And the last of that run of cards - my 6 *blank* cards - with no wording inside or out so great for any ocassion, and, even great as a note card! The pink card at the back features a sticker of Hannah Montana, and the one at the front is a boys birthday card - featuring Spiderman. I recently purchased stickers and am having fun incorporating them into my range, enlarging the variety for kids/teens cards.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my work, and don't forget to check out my website

www.freewebs.com/minniesmessages

If you are looking to buy. I also have listings on Gumtree and Oztion and new cards are always being added

Have a great day

~D~ xxx

Did you know.....

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that changes sea water to fresh water.

Your Trivia

**The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old**

Did you know.....

The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain the most amount of sweat glands in the body

Trivia and more cards

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise


Well, I have had a few more good card making days, made some more *blank* cards seeing they sold so well last time - I love the Tinkerbell one I did! As always there are some that seemed *so good* in my mind, but didn't transfer to card, but, I know that where I might see something that I'm not happy with, someone else might LOVE! I got some Hannah Montana stickers as well, so can add *her* to my range, even made a boys SPIDERMAN card :-)

I haven't had a chance to load the cards to www.freewebs.com/minniesmessages yet - or even get photos, but I will be sure to add some pics to my blog. I feel a card making afternoon coming on, so will wait to get some more done first.

Yah! To Mark Webber - 2nd in the Turkish Grand Prix - way to go Mark!!!

Oh, if you are looking to buy a bulk lot of cards from me, I have a set of 30 up for sale on E-bay at the moment, the auction finishes on JUNE 15TH so you'll need to be quick - look for Rowly2000

Cheers

~~Diane~~ :-)

Monkey trivia

Male Monkey's go bald in the same way men do.

Craft/Card Weekend

I had an amazing card making weekend! Made about 20 cards over the 2 days and was so pleased with what I accomplished :-) I had so much fun making new designs, and, as promised I made some Sympathy Cards to add to the range.



I tried to keep them elegant, in view of the ocassion, but tried to make them bright and cheerful as well, trying colours like baby blue and pink.

I also made just some random cards for various ocassions - Love, Birthday, Miss You, Thank You etc.

The red card pictured has already been sold!!! I used a stamp pad to ink around the green, red, purple and silver cards, just something different to try and to give a different look/effect.

And finally - also as promised I made some *blank* card, nothing inside and nothing on the outside to signify they are for anything in particular.



I really loved how the 2 in the front turned out - the brown/orange one and the one with the dragonfly. I am very happy to say all 7 of these cards sold, so it looks like next card making weekend, will be spent adding some more *blank* cards back to the range.

Love
~~Diane~~ :-)