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Recently I sent out some little kits to customers and friends. I used the puzzle pieces dies to cut up some Designer Series paper into a little puzzle and then put in instructions on how to turn the made up puzzle picture into a card by backing onto cardstock and then onto a card base. I had two designs the first was using some black and white paper that was free with Sale-a-bration last year and had the extra bonus of being able to be coloured in if you wanted to.  The second design was using the Mosaic Mood speciality designer series paper - this has a shiny coating on one side of the paper making it look like little mosaic tiles. I used the puzzle piece from the puzzle pieces dies to make the greeting. Both fairly simple designs once you have assembled the puzzle - which may have been tricky as there is no picture guide to go by!! If you received one of these I hope you enjoy making the puzzle, making the card and sending it to someone. It is so nice to get happy post and I...

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 desi...

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 flower...