Starting up again

I know, it's been ages since I posted....having lost my Mum and with loads of stressful stuff going on for weeks, I lost my cardmaking mojo.  I'd made so many cards for Mum to give her a lift when she was unwell, I just didn't feel like making any more cards when she died on Christmas Eve.  I did make a couple when birthdays were due, but forgot to take any photos.  

Things have settled down a bit now, so spent a bit of time in my craft room this morning and made 2 birthday cards, not for anyone in particular, just to add to my card stock:-

It's a bit of a cheat really, I can't take any credit for these.  They were both from card kits that I bought for pennies in a sale a while ago, it was really just an assembly job.  I did add bows and sequins though from my stash.

My desk has got a bit messy (I zoomed in to take the photo so the mess can't be seen!), I really need to get in there and sort it all out.  I've acquired a few shoe boxes (just went into a couple of shoe shops and asked if they had any spare boxes, they were happy to give me a few), they'll be useful for organising my supplies.  I'll do that this week.  I might even do some decoupage and cover the boxes, card making does produce lots of small odd shaped scraps of paper and card which I'm loath to just throw away, so they can be made use of.