Ali's card making blog

I've had a bit of an avalanche of Craftrak cards land through my letter box this week (if you haven't heard of Craftrak, it is a card swapping website, the idea is to see how far your cards travel - see it here ). So here are the cards I've received this week (minus one which I found on the coffee table in the lounge, I'd forgotten to log it and so it's missing from the photos). Yes, they are on my new desk in my new craft corner in the conservatory, hurrah!! It took all of Thursday evening plus this morning to put the craft desk together (bloody flat pack) accompanied by a lot of huffing, puffing, swearing and sweating (bit hot in there this morning!) but at last it is ready :-) I made my first card at my super new desk this afternoon, one for a challenge so I will post that next. I did manage to do some crafting in my new craft space last week before the desk arrived, on a table that is really meant for in the garden! Wasn't much good for stamping on, too ...

I have a confession to make about this week's photos - yes, you might have spotted that the Congratulations on passing your driving test card which is on the table was actually made on Sunday and not on Wednesday! I've been rumbled! I took the photo on Sunday this week knowing that my work desk would actually be completely empty this Wednesday as with one thing and another I haven't had any time to craft this week :-) Having had the opportunity to look (nosey) at all your desks over the last few weeks, I am keen to find somewhere in the house where I can have a permanent crafting area set up so I don't keep having to move everything! We have a four bedroom house and only the two of us, so you wouldn't think this would be too difficult?! Well, we sleep in one room, the other big room is full of clothes so no space in there, the smallest room my hubby uses for his ebay empire (he sells computer games) and this also takes up half of the final room! I also have my PC i...