January Publication, My first!

Hello!  Happy Thursday!  I love Thursdays as it's a nice relaxing day at home.  No kids activities and no reason for me to leave the home!  I love catching up on house stuff, crafting and today I am focusing on my assignment.  Unless inspiration strikes!

I am beyond excited to share with you my FIRST ever published card!  It is in the January issue of CARDS magazine.  Back in August when I received my first email of having a card picked up I was beyond happy!  It really is a dream come true.  I know my crafty friends get it but I was surprised by how happy friends and family were too!  Running into people I got a lot of congratulations and questions about it!  Neat, huh?  

It was fantastic that this card was picked up because I love it:

I was very thankful for Vanessa emailing me a scanned photo of my card in the magazine as I had yet to see it.  Here is how it looks in the magazine:

I love how they took a photo of it!  So pretty!  I love what is in the background!  :>  So when the issue arrived here in Canada I had to check it out in print so I went to my LSS and they shared in my joy!  :>  Here you can see how happy I am:

I am a happy girl.  Who would have thought 5 years ago when I was a young mom to a sweet baby girl and thought I needed a hobby just for me and decided on cardmaking that one day one of my cards would be in a magazine never mind CARDS!  I've realized lately that I am the happiest that I've been since I've rediscovered my creativity.  It started 5 years go with card making.  I was creative as a child but with the demands of school and university I lost it.  So happy I've found it again.

Wishing you a fantastic day!