Yummylicious!

Where I live, although in the 4th largest city in the UK, our little part of it is more like a village, we have our own street of shops which includes the post office a couple of banks, hair salons - we seem to have quite a few of those for some reason, 4 on the same stretch of 100 yds.  We have a lovely flower shop where you need a mortgage to buy the flowers - I just look longingly in the window. We have a fantastic sandwich shop which is full and queuing from 11 am onwards, their jacket potatoes are awesome!  We have a chemist/pharmacy and a Dr's office.
 We now have a new shop called Yummylicious .  If you click on the link you will see the wonderful cupckaes they make, and oh boy are they amazing!
 
My mum and I went there the first day they opened, mum had a vanilla 99 - like an ice cream with a  flake stuck in it - and I had a Snickers Delight, basically a chocolate cup cake with a center of peanut butter and chocolate frosting coated with nuts. Certainly didn't do my blood sugar much good, but what the heck, sometimes you just have to.


So I had a bit of a thought, they do sell cards there, but from what I saw of them they were just mediocre printed mass produced jobs.
The thing is I am not very good at selling my own stuff, I know people like what I do and have had some fabulous comments from quillers who are definitely in the Premiership League of quillers, but going into a shop and asking if they would like to look at my stuff with a prospect of selling to them makes me cringe and curl up into a shivering wreck!


So what you see above is the card I made this morning, I had the idea that I would send it to them as a congratulation card on opening the new shop kind of thing.  It does have my name and phone number on the back, so if they do like it they can contact me.



Now, when I see handmade cards, I hate the fact that 9 times out of 10 they do not have a page inside where you can write. I think it looks shoddy and half finished when all you have to write on, is the inside back page of the card.  It's not difficult to fold a piece of paper and stick it with double sided tape to the inside of the card. It's really not difficult to stick a nice little peeloff on this.  I dusted mine with pearlescent chalk.





I made the envelope - it was only small - out of card and  decorated it with a balloon again dusted in chalk.

Now when I went to the shop, there was no one standing behind the counter so I dropped the card on it and ran!  God I am such a wuss!  Hope you like it!