je t'aime, blissfulmama

I'm in the January Coloriffic Swap-O-Rama Swap and the theme is black. It was hard for me to envision what I would include in my package at first. Then after a trip to Hobby Lobby, I had a vision...and a ton of really cool black goodies. It turned out to be sort of a vintage/French feeling going on.

You must include at least one handmade item. I randomly was assigned the same partner that I got in December, so I didn't want to send another felt ornie (my current crafting staple). I had bought some nice heavy & textured blank black notecards and envies on sale at Michael's a while back, so I decided I'd do handmade notecards. I was inspired by the beautiful cards Spiced Coffee sent to me in the November Couleurs De Vie swap:


see bottom right corner

So I decided to take some of my flower photos and convert them to black and white. I added some inspiring quote and placed a print order with flickr. My first one. I opted for the mail service rather than picking up the prints in Target, as you can only get matte prints via mail service. I prefer matte prints enough to wait the ridiculously long 7-10 days for standard delivery.