Well, ever so briefly!Exactly one year ago I retired from my work in magazines. I look back fondly on an exciting and creative experience that started with Crafts magazine, sandwiched in a variety of other publications, visited Creating Keepsakes regularly, but really, in the end found my home with Paper Crafts Magazine.
So, why am I showing a copy of Creating Keepsakes? 'Cause I'm in it, of course! Maybe I'm back to my quick visits, or maybe one editorial call just caught my eye and seemed such a perfect fit. Can you say die-cutting? I can! And I do, ALL the time. So when CK was looking for a unique technique to show it off, I volunteered my Negative Silhouette technique. Here's a sweet and simple 'welcome to the neighborhood' card that could also be used a scrapbook page element.
You can read all about it in the May issue of Creating Keepsakes, or you can try to win that issue right now! 
Leave a comment here and tell me if you're a scrapbooker, or not and why?
Let me start the day by introducing the person who started World Card Making Day: Jennafer Martin was the Managing Editor of Paper Crafts Magazine at the time and I don't think even she knew what she had started...here we are 4 years later with hobbyists, magazines, stores and manufacturers all over the world jumping on board to celebrate and promote card making.
Jennafer is now the Editor-in-Chief of Creating Keepsakes, so she isn't too far away in scrapbooking land, which you know is really only a hop, skip and a jump from card making (more on that later).
I have a special place in my heart for Jennafer, as she was really my first mentor in the magazine business. She is incredibly encouraging, supportive, energetic, creative, funny, hard working and a good friend. I know you most likely won't meet her in person, but the next best thing is reading this introduction blog at Creating Keepsakes. It's pretty funny.
You can also read more about World Card Making Day here.
More coming...go through a load of laundry in and come on back!
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