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This little bookmark was made using the mosaic papers and the beads shown in close up below. They are rolled pieces of the designer series papers and the dots are also punched from the paper with 3/4 inch and 1/2 inch circle punches - which are very useful and unfortunately retiring on 2nd June - the good news is they are currently available at a discount on my online shop! yea - see yesterdays post for a link to retirement list OR just type in the order codes or circle punch in the shop search! I have made kits and they are going out in the post today to some of my friends and customers. This paper lends itself to rolling beads I have decorated the envelopes using the stamp set and sat in the garden to stamp these as the craft room is north facing and cold and outside is sunny - so no competition. I will be doing the same today as it is sunny in Devon today as soon as I have been to the post office!! Tomorrow some more projects that are not cards with this mosaic paper and beads - so ...

It struck me that the little label dies in the Bonanza Die set would make really nice tags for balloons at a children's party. If the balloons are helium you could also weight them. I have used some fake balloons in this photograph because I don't actually have a party lined up at the moment with balloons - but I actually like the look of them on my craft room wall so they are staying there as wall art for the time being!!  I cut the Tag shaped die from the set and decorated each with a strip of designer series paper along the bottom (just use up your scraps) Then I punched some 3/4 inch diameter circles using the circle punch and wrote with a sharpie pen each letter of the persons name. Then I decorated the rest of the tag with the stamped and die cut images from the Bonanza Buddies suite. Dont forget the mini pompoms on the top of their party hats!  Is there anything else I can do with this set? Well ..... yes of course - after the party the photos will need...

This little recipe card I first made for one of the lads at Lifeboat as he is great at the BBQ when ever the boats are a bit late coming back and we think that the crew will be hungry out comes the BBQ and I run home and made some BBQ sauce. So I made a little apron similar to this one with my recipe in and gifted it to him at the end of the summer. I thought it would be sweet to make another one for my cranberry loaf recipe for another friend. So here it is! The materials for this little project are available when you buy the Apron of love bundle from me. JoP x

Remember this tag? Here is the original front   And the back.......... I kept the original tag on show around the border. Remove the piece of cord first. The Kraft card look goes really well with reds and green so I selected some of my Stampin' Up stash of new christmas paper called Santa's Workshop and cut a rectangle out to cover the back glued on with PVA glue. If you flip the tag over you can see where the hole is for the cord and can line up a hole punch and re punch the hole. Then work on what will be the front of the tag. I cut another rectangle for the front and repeated punching the hole again and then threaded back the cord. I utilised another piece of the Santas workshop paper to create the border piece at the bottom of the tag and cut out one of the flocked images of an elf and sign post on another of the papers and glued these to the front - I popped the elf up on a sticky foam pad.  Then I found a little baby pom pom in my craf...

 The circle tab punch produces just the right little hanger for a piece of cord to attach to a tag. You can use one of the many cute images in this stamp set to create a background on a piece of rectangle white card. I used a piece of scrap card to mask off a diagonal line to serve as a guide while stamping the birthday cake image along in a pink row followed by green, then grey then yellow. The Happy and Birthday sentiments are in different fonts in the set and allow you to mix and match to make a little banner greeting on the tag which can be raised up with some foam pads. The materials to make this tag, the card and notebook and pen and another bonus card project are FREE when you purchase the Stamp set and the circle tab punch from me. Check on my shop to order the stamp and punch and the rest will follow in separate packaging. I hope you are having a lovely weekend. JoP