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Please do follow my shop link and follow the Hop to the Shop button - once on my shop you will see that under the left hand menu saying sale-a-bration that when you click on £45 spend or £90 spend there is a whole host of extra freebies from the main catalogue that have been added - I have bagged some dinosaur papers - as pictured today above, while stocking up on some stamp sets, some double sided tape and some yellow card (yellow was very popular this month with me!). Now is a great time to get some basics and then bag a freebie.

I am so happy to soon be a Grandma !! For my daughter to record her pregnancy I decorated a little pretty notebook and added some pockets and extra bit to some of the pages. Then I made a little folder to gift it to her and used the same designer series paper to make a matching coaster so when she is journalling she can have her drink nearby.  The pages of this little notebook from Stampin' Up already have some lines, sayings and images printed onto the pages but some of the sayings were a bit repetitive so I covered them in the co-ordinating designer series paper. I also added some extra pull out pages with the DSP for her to add photographs or more journalling and a list of ideas of what to journal.  I used some of the pages to add extra decoration and pockets. The notebook is quite small it measures 10.8cm x 14cm. There are 24 pages. You may have missed it in the catalogue - it is on page 73 and again on page 170. It co-ordinates with the pressed petals designer

I hope this little card brings a smile to your face! I have just made 75 to post around the neighbourhood with my telephone number. However most people around here are pretty used to being fairly isolated and shop in bulk as the local small shop is 6 miles away, and bigger stores further still. In any case its lovely to see the occasional dog walker when I am out with Wallace and nature has brought us some fabulous sunshine - I do hope you get the opportunity to sit out somewhere. My much larger garden is producing all kinds of plants that I don't know what they are and I am enjoying seeing them coming up and identifying them. We started out with swathes of snowdrops under the weeping willow, then early daffodils and crocus. Now there are primroses mostly yellow along the hedgerows but every colour you can think of in the garden. I also have a flowering Camelia - I am writing it all down in my notebook so I can remember and don't accidentally pull anything up. There are a

 I love love a challenge and this card I used a sketch by Freshly Made Sketches HERE and Colour Challenge by Inspire Create, Stamp - here  Their colours were Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Your own Choice - for which I chose Flirty Flamingo - Navy does look fabulous with a shade of pink!

 I'm a denim girl - love denim but especially combined with embroidery and my lovely jeans ripped! They are already ripped at the knees but they ripped at the waist and a bit extra at the knees and I have not completely worn them out yet - so I did a little repair! Some patches of similar coloured fabrics and threads just running stitch horizontally and vertically in not very straight lines and they are now extremely strong. This is a japanese technique derived from workers fixing their working clothes - and it definitely works for the ultimate in workwear - jeans! JoPx

 Lots of projects using this fab die set that is now available on the co-ordinating products with Sale-a-bration - see my previous post for details. Once again using the colour challenge of black, lovely lipstick and old olive in different coloured card stocks and just one greeting outside and one inside the card.  The card has a circle aperture cut slightly smaller than the outside of the die cut. The die cut itself has been cut around and the little half circle scored around the edge and all poked outwards with the pokey tool. The centres of the flowers have been used as confetti on the inside of the card - use a very fine nozzle on your glue so not to get in a sticky mess!! Iused the stampin up Fine tip Glue pen.  Ensure your greeting inside the card cannot be seen through the aperture on the outside - I have placed mine near the bottom of the card - and likewise will write my personal message to the recipient here too!  I used some of the spare flowers to decorate an en

 I sometimes need a bit of a challenge and recently visited some challenge blogs - these are great when you have a bit of a creative block because they limit your options and stimulate your inventiveness. This card I am using two different challenges - I am playing along with Addicted to Stamps with their Clean and Simple card CAS  and with TGIF for their colour challenge this week which is : Lovely lipstick, black and old olive. #TGIF254 I used two circle dies to cut a simple wreath in white card and I used the Stampin' Up co-ordinating dies called 'Sending Flowers Dies' that co-ordinate with the Sale-a-bration freebie stamp set called Sending You Thoughts. I love the dies and the greetings in the stamp set and I have already used them on my blog on the 2nd and 3rd February and the great news is I have had so many ideas for these products that I am going to be using them for the next few blog posts as well sometimes in surprising ways. Sign up for email up

I used the Welcome Easter Stamp set and mini curvy keepsakes box die to make theses little treat boxes. The background stamps in the set are my very favourite part of the set. The little bee, flower and leaf images have been stamped onto the box before assembling in black memento ink. The sentiments also stamped onto white card and cut into thin strips and attaching with white bakers twine tied in a box. The boxes would look lovely with just the labels - but you can also add the images from the set, coloured with watercolour pencils and cut with scissors. I just attached them with some glue to the handles of the box. The bunny looks as if he is leapfrogging over the box! See yesterdays and 23 feb blog for other ideas using this stamp set. JoPx 

These cute kilner type of jars I picked up from Wilko at £1 each and filled with some mini eggs and micro eggs - even smaller than mini eggs from Sainsburys.  I used the Welcome Easter stamp set from Stampin' Up.   I started out matching some colour cardstock to the colours of the chocolate eggs so everything works together. I stamped the animal images onto white card using black memento ink and then coloured in using water colour pencils and blending these with the blending pens.  The rabbit - I just added some pink and cut around the outside using small scissors, I used the sentiments from the stamp set. I used the Stitched Shapes Framelit Dies for the background circle and adhered to the lid with some snail - or you could used double sided tape. The bunny image was put up onto foam pads to make it pop up a bit.  The picture above shows the other images as well as the other sentiments available in the stamp set. The jars could be gifted to a person who just need