The pinkie...

I am always thrilled when I have a completely free weekend - no need to go to work for extra assignments (without extra pay, mind you) and not a lot of housework to deal with.
First thing I do on such weekends is oversleep :D and the second one is make a card or two.

** Speaking of making cards, here are two questions I have for you, if you'd care to answer:
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- How much time does it take for you to craft a card?
[A "medium" one, or whatever YOU call it --> neither the simplest nor the most complicated, just a card with, let's say, some paper/cardstock layering, a few embelishments, a bit of stamping]
- Do you always have the card planned in your mind or it 'creates' itself, so to speak, while you're working on it?
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I think it takes me a very long time to do a card from start to finish and always think I'm doing something wrong and most probably everybody else is doing it in half of the time I need, or less.

In my defense ;) I will confess to having a very small area I can use for crafting and not having very many crafting tools that might make cutting and gluing easier. I cut everything with a scissor or crafting knife, measuring card and paper with a ruler and using my cutting mat as a guide. I use regular double sided tape, on a roll, and I don't know how but it seems to take me "ages" to apply it on every bit of paper I need.

My crafting *strip* :) is in front of my computer, on the table I keep my keyboard and mouse on. And to have most of my supplies at hand I keep boxes and boxes perched on a narrow shelf on my right.
Here's an old photo of my computer corner. I wasn't crafting at that time (spring-summer last year) so everything could be kept tidy.
I wouldn't DARE to show you how that space looks today but I just wanted you to see how big my table is. And on the right, where the CDs/DVDs used to be now there are all those boxes I told you about, crammed one on top of the other. And there is much more stuff on the table too.

I am sure many of you don't have special crafting rooms, but maybe you have a bigger table and more storing place near where you craft. I'd love to hear a few words about your crafting space if you're willing to share it :)

Now let's get to the main subject of this post - my PINKIE.
Here it is...
I made it today, trying out more of my new TAC stamps. It took me a bit more than 2 hours to finish it [yes, it's a shame, I know it :)] and it isn't what I had in mind when I started it.

While I was taking out the supplies I needed, to have them all handy, different ideas started to haunt me and the original design I thought about has nothing in common with the outcome, except maybe for the pink base card and the twig stamp I wanted to use.

The twigs are heat embossed - stamped in pink ink and embossed with holographic powder. My scanner doesn't show it, maybe I should start using a camera for getting my cards into the computer.

So this is where my above questions came from :)

Thanks for looking and reading!
May you all have a fabulous weekend.