Simon Says Stamp wants to see ‘Girly’ or Mother’s Day cards, so I decided to pull out some very old photocopies and make this card:

The blouses are an interesting story. My mum is a big fan of the local antiques auction, and one night she bought a painting. I can’t even remember what the painting was of, but when we turned it over, there were all these pictures, obviously cut out of catalogues, stuck to the back! I peeled them off, with the idea of making something out of them. Then I thought that I could sell them to scrapbookers! This was about 6 years ago, so well before I got in to card making. I copied them all on to regular paper, with idea of selling the copies. I sold some of the originals on eBay, and never got around to doing anything with these, except lug them around for years.

So, because of that, I used Copic markers to colour on regular printer paper. They bled a bit more than cardstock does, and there was lots of ink on the paper underneath, but they turned out ok I think.

The lace is a lovely wide vintage one from my stash – I recently reorganized all my craft stuff, I didn’t even know I had it!

I can’t wait to copy some of these images on to cardstock, and try colouring them again. I’ve got full dresses, more blouses, people, girls, dolls…. lots!