Birthday Card

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Catherine, reporting in: This has been a very mixed week. For instance, on Wednesday I took some great photos of some of the uni students playing very competitive Quidditch. Pretty cool. And then ten minutes ago, when I took my camera out of my bag, I realised that the screen had cracked. And the memory card was complaining about corruption. So, up and down and all around, and it’s 10:30 and the three-year-old is still awake despite him going to bed at 8. The housemates have the flu, so I’ve been doing extra housework and cooking lots of soup, and I have also been run off my feet at work. Just mixed.

So it was with great pleasure that I sat down tonight to assemble the birthday card that I’ve been thinking about all week. I’ve been trying to find a way to do more papercraft while on public transport (on those days when I’m not working on the trains), and while I don’t always have enough elbow room to break out the scissors and glue, one can do a lot of thinking and planning, so it’s good for assembling small kits such as those for cards.

Please excuse the poor lighting not showing up the gold card, as I said, I was startled to find that my camera is a little bit broken. This is loosely based on the card Ruth made me for my own birthday, which was much more stylish. The card is made up of scraps, with the cardstock leftover from my first stamp camp, the paper embellishments from the old “easy scrapbooking” page-a-day calendar I picked up on the cheap, and the ribbon and washi tape from Heidi’s collections.

I’m still compiling my crafting on the bus kit, the only permanent items so far are my snail and scissors. I think a lot will depend on whether I decide to stick with small items like cards, wherein I’ll take enough with me to actually make a card, or if I’ll just bring a folder of papers to match into kits to use at home. But what’s important here is that I’m loving the idea of doing all the plotting and planning in advance so that I can simply assemble things in the only half hour I might have free all week.