SECOND PAGE!!!

My first time ever reaching a second page of listings on Etsy...seems like a Thing to be caps-locking about! YAY!!

I did threaten...

...that I'd get a little more colourful! Inspired by Google, which looks a little like 'Gaeilge' (= Irish for the Irish Language...but you knew that!) :P

This is my first attempt at a pack of cards, I think I just went with it with these cards because they suit being in a little series so well - I may offer them individually as well.

Actually I really like these pics, they came out well considering I only had a few minutes to do them and was certain I'd have to come back later and have a do-over! Maybe I underestimated the advantages of bright colours, they do half the work for you :)

I figured I'd go for a different background, and make a little distinction between the more fun cards and the more Earnest ones! And to make sure to keep the pics and the cards looking as bright as possible I just used sheets of white card as the background, and then to help the cards stand out and pick out a bit of the colourfulness of the lot I spread a whole load of my magpie's collection of biros, pens and pencils underneath!

Hm, as I say, pretty pleased considering!

First Irish Sale :D !

Yip, all that green energy paid off after all - a green customer, of the éireannach variety, my first! And she bought green too - all of the Patrick's Day cards except the snake. Poor snake! Anyway, voila the package...

Final St. Patrick's Day Card: promise!

This, like the Tricolour card (completely unloved and unhearted on Etsy btw! Boo!), has been kicking around in my head for a while, mostly because I do like drawing snakes; but, of course St. Patrick afficianado's out there will know, snakes are also relevant to the great man himself, seeing as it is popularly believed that he single-handedly drove all serpents from Ireland (and kept them out by growing fields of shamrocks - news to me ;p !)

So here's the before and after - dammit all but again I'm disappointed that I couldn't get all the details of the drawing to show through in the embossing, but CLOSE! Actually the detail - showing the under-and-overs of the celtic knotwork - can't be seen in the above pic, the final one is in Paint and I couldn't find it to upload. Silly!

Anyway, I'm retiring my Green goggles now - my Etsy page looks mouldy at the top, thank goodness for the featured spots to showcase a little colour!

St. Pat's day cards #3!

I know, once I was booted onto the St. Patrick's Day bandwagon I went wild for it! Here's a third option, that I did up on a whim seeing as I have had that knot drawn up and scanned for ages now...

St. Patrick's Day Card #2

This one took a little more 'thinking', and drawing up the knotwork was a bit difficult. I thought I HAD it but the embossing does muddy up some of the finer details (fun game, see if you can spot where...!) (Please don't!) I'll see if I can give it a bit of a touch up.

Also, curses, this paper I'm using has a smooth and a rough side...and I never know which I prefer for images and embossing...In these cards the textured side of the white card shows as the second panel of the flag, which works well as it leaves the writing side inside smooth. My mistake was in having the green smooth side out - what possessed me? I'll definitely try changing it next time.

But I do like this idea, of the tricolor...Yep, I think I probably definitely do.