Cards and Congratulations!

From the studio and onto the blog. Hurray! Look, I finally figured out how to make this leap! And, I want to personally thank you so much, Ellen, for being the photographer. As you can see the pictures we have here are from our March workshop. I am so excited, now, they are on the blog site. I mean this has taken me weeks to figure this step out.
In a way, its a real congratulations to our Card Makin' Cuties         (http://www.cardmakincuties.blogspot.com) and to finally see our work published. As I said, Ellen (one of our cuties) took these shots. These are  just a few of the cards we made at our March session for OWH (www.operationwritehome.org).
Our cards are generally very simple designs because we are so new to this craft. We are still learning how to use many of the materials and tools for this art form. Yet, we fell in love with making cards. As you see from the photos, this is where we begin in our studio with our group hand making each card for our troops through OWH.
The saying I'm thinking of is: "the journey begins one step at a time." In our first group session, we had all our cards made and they were ready to mail out the next day. That morning I went to the studio to get the cards... and I don't know what happened. Maybe it was the moisture in the building, the change of temperature, the glue we had used... or all of the above. The printed paper had pulled away from the card stock and was all curled up.
I sat down and almost cried. What happened to our lovely cards? Only a few remained stuck. I got on my computer thinking surely there was an answer out there. I typed in "glue problem" as a cry for help. We solved the problem at the "card hospital"  by one of our fellow card makers and Operation Write Home.
Who knew glue can get old... or for that matter, that glues have different purposes.
I always thought of glue as glue!  NO!
I watched a tutorial about glues and their purposes. I guess you could say the whole world is not all stuck on one brand as a commercial would indicate.  You may prefer one brand over another but the key to the tutorial is use the brand of glue that works well for the job you are doing.
By agreeing on one brand of glue at our next session, you can see the results in our pictures (shown above). What was that again?..."the journey begins by taking one step at a time." And so it does! We know we are just simple card makers. Just as we know we are new to this whole art form. We hope to keep going forward just as many of you have done.  So let's continue to enjoy the journey we've begun.
Proudly displaying our progress one card at a time!! Gloria J.