Quilling for two ... two years on!!

Here's an interesting statistic: out of every 10,000 human births, only 150 will be twins - so it's not altogether surprising that's it's taken me two and a half years to sell the 'Twin Girls' card that I've been taking every week to our village market.

But it did finally get sold last week, so today I settled down to make a replacement - pictured here.

Back in early 2008, I made three sets of 'twins' cards: twin girls, twin boys and 'one of each'. Looking back at them now, it's interesting to see how much my quilled card designs have (hopefully!!) improved over the years.

In those early days, I was struggling with hand-lettering, stencil cut-outs and quilling which was basic to say the very least!

Since then, I've discovered the magic of creating printed card backgrounds for my quilling using my Apple iMac computer - a technique which has led me on to producing photographic designs and so much more ... and I've never really looked back, until now.

Still, here's the original cut-out card that I've just sold (see below), and although I feel very critical of it today, the lady who bought it was full of admiration - so there you go!!

I wonder how many more months/years it will be before the boy twins come along?