And My Journey Continues...!

I have been making cards for two full years now, and I still feel like I have not found my own personal style.  I think this because I like a lot of styles from whimsical to vintage, but maybe, it is a forever evolving process, and eventually I will find myself sticking to one style only.  I wonder though, as I like variety and doing something different all the time; otherwise, one can tend to become bored.

I still feel very much the novice, especially when I visit other blogs and see what wonderful things others are creating!  This is a very stressful thing, creating a blog to share my work!  I am definitely a little shy about doing that...it's taken me over two years to even contemplate such a thing!  But, as you can see, if I'm going to do, I do it thoroughly...that's for sure my style!

This post brings an end to my blog journey of my cardmaking history 2009 to present, and...I am ALL up to-date!  This journey of making my blog has caused me to revisit my cardmaking memories and realize not only what a fun and interesting a process it has been, but how much I have learned and how much more I have to learn!  It isn't only the cardmaking that's been fun and interesting, but the wonderful people and friends I have met and made along the way.  So many have been willing to take time to share and teach me things I didn't know.  Thank you everyone, and a special thanks to my sister, Heidi (My Lil' Scrap Corner), who will always be my mentor, my sister, and my friend...Love you, Sis!

My Papercrafting Journey Begins!

This is a new adventure...I am trying to start a blog for my papercrafting, particularly cardmaking, but who knows what else I might include in the future!  Several cardmaking friends, including my sister, who has been a crafter for many, many years, a scrapbook store owner, and my cardmaking mentor, kept telling me I should definitely start a cardmaking blog.

When I started making cards almost two years ago now, my sister also told me that I needed to come up with a personal logo to sign the back of my cards so that people would know who made the card.  I pondered this advise for a few days and realized I had already come up with my "crafting" name about two years previous, and here is the story.

I have always been a seamstress all of my life, though I do not sew like I used to, but I became interested in making some crafty sweatshirt jackets with patch pockets in a collage of patterns.  I made several for myself, and then family and friends starting asking if I could make one for them.  Thus, my gifts for everyone near and dear to me became a sweatshirt jacket.  After the first few, I decided I needed to add a label representing myself, the seamstress, and thus was born my lovely black with turquoise embroidered Chatterbox Creations label.  I came up with this idea for my craft name from a nickname that my high school friends gave me one day based on my maiden name, Chatfield.  They thought it fit me to a tee.  I guess, I was (am??) somewhat of a chatterbox when around friends; otherwise, I could and can be pretty shy and quiet.  

I developed a Created by Chatterbox Creations logo for my cards and computerized it to make label stickers to adhere to the back of my cards.  Much to my dismay, about a year ago, I found there was a Chatterbox craft company, as I see papers mentioned every now and then made by Chatterbox, but when I Google it, I can't seem to find a business.  But, I claim longevity on the name for over 50 years!  Well enough of this chatter, I need to get back to business!

So, about starting this blog. . .after trying to get my blog set up, I found I have much to learn about how this blogging process works!!  I'm usually pretty computer savvy, so I had hoped it would go smoothly. . .that it would be user-friendly, quick, and easy.  So far, this seems not to be so!  I find it extremely funny that to build this blog on Blogspot sponsored by Google, I had to do Google searches to find things I didn't understand from their directions, which seemed to be a bit cryptic, to say the least!  But, I SHALL persevere!