paper + card = birthday card with a bonus

 Hello again,

This was a quickie card I made for my aunty Betty.

I hand drew (very casually) the card with tiny nibbed pens.

Then made two slits for the emboidered book mark.

 I pushed the ends through so the felt embellishment was in the middle.

 Here's a close up of the embroidery (I made a few earlier and stashed 'em).

She loved it (as well as the macaroons that I sent which were made by a proper baker!) and that's what matters ain't it?!
Tinkety Tonk

paper + card = congratulations card

My colleagues are all desperate to leave our place of work 

(a secondary school on the Isle of Wight, if everyone is interested).

I've handed my notice in sans new job but a colleague has secured another job -woo hoo!

We share a love of musical theatre and we've both played Reno Sweeny in Anything Goes (about 10 years ago and really badly in my case) and I wanted to show her how pleased  was for her.

She has only every taught at our current school and I want her to experience the nice side of teaching somewhere else, obviously.

I conceived the design from a sweetest occasion post that I found and I put my own spin on it.

 I used a phrase from a song in Anything Goes 

I started with some white pen as above then went over it in felt tipped pen.

I'm not sure which I prefer.

Plain white:

 or with a retro colour style:

What do you think, eh?

Tinkety Tonk