お友達お２人がカード作りに来られました。お友達と言ってもごく最近お知り合いになったお２人で、カード作りも今回が３度目？でしょうか。ここしばらくカード作りに来るお友達がとても減っていましたが、最近ご縁があって何人かお知り合いが増えて嬉しい限り。今日いらしたお１人は特にはまってしまわれて、度々カードの材料屋さんに行かれているそうです。まだあまり購入はされていませんが、ダイカットマシンを買われるのも時間の問題かも（笑）。一緒に楽しんでくださるお友達が増えるのはとても嬉しです。
2 friends came to make cards. I say friends but I met them only a few times so far and they both started making cards only a couple of weeks ago. I think this is their 3rd time to make them but they seem to love making cards. One of them have been visiting Scrapbooking shop often, I wonder if she’ll buy a die cut machine soon… Recently not many of my friends were coming to make cards but in the last one month I’ve made a few new friends who want to make cards. It’s actually lovely for me to seem them having so much fun and also good to get more motivated myself. Even though I cannot make cards often when I’m with friends, their enthusiasm helps me to get more enthusiastic when I’m alone.
すっかりはまってしまられた方は、先日来られたときに途中まで作られていたカードを１枚仕上げられました。多分先日はバースデーカードだったと思うのですが、バレンタインカードになりました。ベースは小さな水玉をドライエンボスした紙に大きな水玉をドライエンボスした紙を重ねられて、とっても素敵。
One of them completed just 1 card today. She started making the cake motif last time when she was here and finished the rest today. I think the combination of the small polka dots and large polka dots look great. She started making it as a birthday card but today it ended up being a Valentine’s Card.
他にたくさんエンボス加工したものを作って持って帰られましたが、そのうち２枚はこんなカードになるようです。こちらも、とても素敵。真似しちゃおう、と思っています。
She loves dry embossed paper so she embossed lots of pieces of paper today and took them home. Theses are 2 of many that she is planning to make using the paper. I love the simple design.
もうお１人もやはりエンボス加工がお気に入りで、エンボスした紙で２枚カードを作られました。こちらも素敵に仕上がりました。
The other friend made 2 lovely cards, too. Again she loves embossed paper so she also used embossed paper.
こちらは使ったスタンプの溝が浅すぎてうまくヒートエンボスが出来なかったりいくつか安芸市デントがありましたので、スムーズに行っていればもう１枚くらい仕上がったと思うのですが、２枚素敵に仕上がってよかったです。
The stamp she tried to use for heat embossing were not very suitable for that, the stamps of the set were very shallowly etched and the design didn’t come very clear. There were a few more little accidents so it took her a while to finish the 2nd card. If these accidents didn’t happen she probably could have made a couple of more cards. Still, I’m glad she was able to complete 2 lovely cards.
最近始められた何人かの方達がすぐまたいらっしゃりたいようなのですが、残念ながらわたしは日曜日の夜中から日本にしばらく帰るので、次回来ていただけるのは３月中旬になります。乗っているときはわたしも頭の中をカードのことがぐるぐる回っているくらいカードのデザインをあれこれ考えていたので、もどかしいお気持ちがわかりだけに申し訳ない限りですが、またご一緒できるのを楽しみにしています。
Those who just started making cards are so enthusiastic that they want to come back soon again but unfortunately I’m leaving for Japan on Sunday night for a few weeks, so I cannot invite them until middle of March. I remember how there was a time when I kept thinking of designs in my head all the time and wanted to make cards all the time. I’ll be looking forward to being able to invite them again when I get back from Japan.