In amongst it was a card that I had obviously made for my parents. Inside it says Happy Easter love Jennifer! From the other pieces I am guessing it was made when I was about 8 or 9! Don't ask me if I drew it, have no idea and no recollection of doing it, but obviously I was making cards somewhere, be it school or Brownies ( were you a Brownie?) . It is painted and quite carefully too, so I am quite proud of it, and if anyone asks me when I started crafting I can now say quite a long time ago!
Do you have your first card and how old is it?
Keep creating and making Art...
19 comments:
Aw how sweet, I know my mum has a couple of cards that i made from when i was about 4 or 5 so i too started young, and yes i was a brownie, although i don't think i made it to the girl guides! Probably discovered boys by then lol
Beautiful card, great talent at that age. Not got any of my cards from when I was young got rid of them all. Really regret doing it now. Thanks for sharing. Anesha
Very pretty, and very good for an 8 or 9 year old. Can't remember what my very first card was like, but my first stamped one, (or at least a copy of it), is (if the link works!) here.
What a lovely card Jennie!! (And yes, I was a Brownie too...LOL)
Nicely done! And what a wowser that your dear Mum has kept it all these years. Can vividly remember my first stamps, but no clue as to first card or its whereabouts!!
I used to make Easter cards when I was a teenager, but don't have any of them - I know one had Alleluia painted in lilac on lilac card and then stippled lilac in two bands round the edge - a very simple card.
In the second year of secondary school I remember making a paper template of a butterfly and stencilling outside the edges so I got a sillhouette. The paint came out slightly powdery and the pastel colours looked very pretty.
PS That's a fine snowdrop for an eight year old - the talent was there early on!
I just love this as Galanthus (you're impressed now are'nt you?) are one of my 2 favourite flowers. As for my first card, well that went in the bin !!!!! xx
How pretty and what a great momento. I remember a handmade card my sis made for me when she was about 7 or 8, handsewn and everything, one comment she came up with I remember to this day, "live and learn but don't get a burn". lol Hilarious. What great memories a handmade card can bring!!
What a lovely card, you had your talent at a very early age, that's easy to see!!
I think I was a late starter making cards, I can't remember my first one. I did cross stitch from an early age and only became a paper crafter fairly recently.
Lisax
That is lovely ... I was a Brownie ... in fact I can even remember being a sixer of the Kelpies ...
My first card ... no idea ... I bet my Mum has it somewhere though!
Hello Jenny,
this is a real treasure !
I don't remember when I made cards, but I do have a lot of my own drawings since I was a kid of 2,5...So, creating started early.
I got a awesome package of you today !!!!
I had nothing of all the stuff that you sended to me, so I reacted as a kid :) My daughter and husband looked weird at me...
I'm going to try the memorycapsules soon and make myself a nice hanger !
The silver dabber is also new for me : I'm going to try the transfers Claudine Hellmut makes with these !
The alcohol ink fillable pen is also something I'm going to try out : some people on ATT gave some great ideas.
thanks, thanks a lot for all this stuff and it will be used !
greetings from Belgium
Inge
That's so pretty. I lost my Mum last year and found a box of everything my sister and I had ever made her from when we were small tucked away in the back of her wardrobe. Such treasures.
Lesley x
Oh how lovely that she kept it all these years Jennie and what a good little artist you were then. yes I was a brownie too - I think my first cards were embroidered
xx Hilda
Awwww - that was a lovely card (I haven't a clue what my first card was) x
I don't have the very first card I ever made, but it would be one of the first 3...I gave it to my dad for father's day and when he passed away, I found it in an envelope with the other cards I had given him over the years with a little note that said 'thanks Julie, love you dad'
I do have my very first rubber stamp that got me into stamping back in 1994.
Your first piece of art is fabulous. Way to go.
Debby
How wonderful to find a piece of Art when you first started, I bet it holds really special meaning to your mum.I guess it was in the cards taht would end up doing it for a living! My mom has a couple from me at about the same age. Thanks for sharing!
Very 'Arty' indeed !
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