Crafty card maker infuses art with humour

What happens at the salon, stays at the salon ... We’re still hot, only now it comes in flashes ... Dance like no one’s watching (who can have you committed) ... Still grinning from year to year - happy anniversary ... Let’s curl up together ... Wanna play a round?

These are just a few of the clever quips gracing the fronts of happy little cards created by Lyn Sturgeon.

Sturgeon has been making cards for the last four years and now makes about 30 cards a day to keep up with demand.

It all started with 20 years of scrapbooking. That’s when Sturgeon started making cards for family and friends on special occasions, mostly birthdays. As she grew more confident she would create cards for other occasions like the birth of a new baby in the family, anniversaries and the like.

“We moved back to Prince George about four years ago from Trail,” Sturgeon said. “I had back surgery and it left me looking for something I could do that wasn’t too strenuous and that’s when I took up card making. People had always asked to buy my cards and this gave me some incentive to take my mind off the pain and focus on something else.”

Her most popular line is what Sturgeon has called her Sassy Lady cards.

“Those are for the ladies between 40 and 70 years old and they’re really sassy,” Sturgeon said. “They really seemed to catch on and people really liked them.”

Other cards that seem to leap off the racks are the fishing cards and golfing cards, she added.

“It keeps me busy, for sure,” Sturgeon said.

Tools of the trade include a Cricut, a personal electronic cutting machine.

“And I think the one I use the most is a die-cutting machine,” Sturgeon said.

She owns the Hobbycraft machine that cuts out all kinds of shapes.

“You can cut intricate flowers, really beautiful lettering - all sorts of things,” Sturgeon said.

She also has a Brother ScaNCut machine where the image is scanned into the machine, which then cuts it out.

“So that saves a lot of time,” Sturgeon said. “And that saves me from cutting out each image by hand – fussy cutting, it’s called.”

Her cards are available all over town including The Jerky Factory in the Hart, Forever Florists, Northern Lights Estate Winery, Sisters Rock’n Gems downtown, Tourism PG, Art Knapp Plantland in College Heights, and even some stores in Vanderhoof.