tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344716909872919102024-03-13T02:40:58.388+00:00Louise D'OxeyWalking the thin line between a healthy interest and obsession with all things papercrafty and inky Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-19985321973696699272014-09-25T10:58:00.000+01:002014-09-25T19:20:40.998+01:00Happy Potter!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you have a Harry Potter fan living with you?! I do! Today's card is a DT card made using Lawn Fawn Critters in the Arctic and Gnome Sweet Gnome for my post over at Make the Day Special</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lightning bolts are from Lil' Inkers Cut it Out Cloud dies and the castle is a CC Design die</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to reverse stamp 'Hedwig' onto 'Dumbledore',or he would have had an owl butt in his face ;-),coloured them both with Copics and fussy cut them out. I think the little gnome works pretty well as a wizard,no?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I flecked the card with Frantage and highlighted the sides of the castle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I know Boo will love it-she adores anything Harry Potter related!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-73293372226452522672014-08-21T10:40:00.001+01:002014-08-21T10:55:22.720+01:00Happy little birdie<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy nearly weekend :-D Today is my DT day over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store-Throwback Thursday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know some of my posts can dubiously be called 'Throwback',but todays post is TRULY a throwback. I used the gloriously vintage Paper Smooches <a href="http://www.makethedayspecial.co.uk/shop.php#!/~/product/category=2717737&id=11948000">Chubby Chum Pals</a> and the not so quite as vintage <a href="http://www.makethedayspecial.co.uk/shop.php#!/~/product/category=2717737&id=24933828">Think Fast</a> to create a card one of my favourite quotes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know,I know-its a chicken,but it <i>could</i> be a seagull. If you half squint. And look from a distance ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He and the fries are water coloured and the packet is paper pieced and the sentiment typed with my trusty vintage typewriter. Then a little stitching around the edge in 'fry' colour to finish it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right,thats all from me-Im off to fulfill this cards demand ;-)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-16315627865234556672014-08-09T08:00:00.000+01:002014-08-09T08:00:01.314+01:00Papel Picado<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is another catch up post from a DT post over on Make The Day Special Stamp Store (really must learn to sync these posts :-/ )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this is from the gorgeous Avery Elle called Papel Picado. I was so so excited about this one when I saw its release <3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to get the whole fluttering through the street thing down,so background stamped a few flags in a neutral tone,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then made the foreground ones bright bright bright!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love stitching on card (now my machine has started behaving ;-))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cant WAIT to use this set again (and again and again)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like it!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-79346918272160379722014-08-08T08:00:00.000+01:002014-08-08T08:00:01.124+01:00Late Spring!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Playing catch up from my tardy blogging and found this card I made unsurprisingly waaaaay back in Spring ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the then new release from Clearly Besotted Pretty Petals Plus and 'Love' die. I wanted to get a ton of texture in the flowers and decided the best way to do that would be to pop some of them out on pop dots (where would we be without pop dots?!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a closer peep at those layered flowers...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very fresh card! Hope you like it :-)</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-70158588183419800552014-08-07T09:30:00.000+01:002014-08-07T09:30:00.052+01:00In the stars<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">August is a veeeery busy Birthday month for me,so todays card is inevitably a Birthday one ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used all Mama Elephant products- <a href="http://www.makethedayspecial.co.uk/shop.php#!/~/product/category=6534689&id=27649092">Cosmic Stars</a> and Starry Nights,(which is currently out of stock) and the scrummy not so throwback<a href="http://www.makethedayspecial.co.uk/shop.php#!/~/product/category=8719335&id=37982387"> Starburst Cover Plate</a> to create this,plus a smattering of Frantage for some extra stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you like it! And Mum,I hope you arent looking at this just yet! :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok,so remember a while ago I said I had been working on some Magnolia Tilda cards? Well this is the one I made for Boo's fourth birthday. This post is pic heavy! You have been warned ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a huge,and I mean HUGE Little Mermaid fan,there really was only one choice of card to make her hehehe,and I had just the right stamp...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The thing I love most about this card is it was all just plain white. Every. Single. Piece. Just white. Add a little Distress Inks here and there,a little Perfect Pearls,a little Crackle Glaze and Frantage and voila! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yup,Autumn thoughts already-My most favourite season <3 I usually start thinking Autumn thoughts after December,to be honest and filling my Pinterest boards with rich reds,golds and all things Fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So todays card is made using the ever fabulous Paper Smooches. Pretty much just all dies lol! I used Pocket,Thanks and Leaves 1 for this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut the leaves from vellum then stained them with alcohol inks. The swirls are stamped from the Flap Happy set and the stitching along the pocket is from Needle Little Love (LOVE that set) All are available from <a href="http://www.makethedayspecial.co.uk/">Make The Day Special Stamp Store</a>. I got my inspiration for this card from the MtDS current challenge <a href="http://makethedayspecialcards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/august-challenge-week-1.html">here</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yup,think I've managed to get every single one of those colours in there! </span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xa1nrBBzoC8/U8eR42m0sOI/AAAAAAAABBo/CmYAlZ6N8Ak/s1600/2014_+7_17_10_+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xa1nrBBzoC8/U8eR42m0sOI/AAAAAAAABBo/CmYAlZ6N8Ak/s1600/2014_+7_17_10_+5.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-72955701255149011132014-07-17T10:56:00.002+01:002014-07-17T10:56:22.794+01:00A Good Apple<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where have I been? Well,things have been busy and emotional with Boo. She has been very ill and we have been trying to find a balance of chemo that works for her,so although I have been making minimal bits I just haven't had the energy to blog them all. So,lets play catch up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok,today is my day over at Make The Day Special and as it is close to end of school,I am busy as a bee making teacher thank you cards :-/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A while back I made a card for my DT post for Make The Day Special Stamp Store,I wanted to try and make a card version of Big Mouth Billy Bass,that singing wiggling fish on a plaque,remember him? Sure you do! So I reached for my</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> WPlus9 Fish More set teamed with Lawn Fawn's Fanciful Frames to recreate a papery version of that iconic singing fish ;-) here he is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its still cold and wet here in Cambridgeshire,but that will not stop me dreaming about Summer! No way ,so I dug out one of my first ever Lawn Fawn sets Here's The Scoop,MFT Peekaboo Trio and faced my nemesis,my sewing machine. (Brief back story: my sewing machine and I were besties once. We did everything together,cards,tags,bunting-there wasn't a job we couldn't do together. Until I gave it a card to sew that I had spent literally FOREVER on. Completely oblivious of its evil intentions,I fed my precious hard work under its foot and.... SQUARL-NASH!!! (That was the actual sound it made) it ate my card in one go :-O (That was my actual face I made) Since prying out my tattered card from under its destructive foot,we haven't spoken. I even put its dust cover on it (Kind of like a naughty chair for sewing machines) UNTIL TODAY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I looked at the naughty machine in its dust cover and wondered if it had learnt its lesson.... I got it set up,and put some nice sunny aqua thread on its spool...I cautiously made up my card and introduced it to the machine. The machine looked shifty. I gave the machine a warning in my best stern voice. I put my card along with its heap of glitter (in hindsight,maybe best to be a bit more sparing with the sparkles)under its nonchalant foot,shut my eyes and pushed the foot peddle...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know about your neck of the woods,but we have officially LOST the sun! Ah well,makes for a perfect crafting day when the sun is not out to tempt me into some gardening ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very quick post today sharing a birthday card I made for my gorgeous little cousin. I used the butterfly from Unity's set called Life Becoming. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok,so I stamped the butterfly onto heavy watercolour card,spritzed with various Distress Inks and sprayed that with water and heat set. Then I stamped the image again onto vellum and fussy cut it out. I coloured the underside of the butterfly with alcohol inks and brushed gold dust over the wings. I put some Frantage on the outer part of the card,heat set and glued the body of the vellum butterfly to the body of the other butterfly. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-86532599609967072352014-04-05T15:26:00.001+01:002014-04-05T15:37:23.320+01:00A nearly naked Tilda!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Todays card is the Mothers Day card I made my wonderful elephant loving Mama. (I couldnt blog it BEFORE she got it now,could I? ;-) ) So here it is. Very CAS for me,( her previous ones have been pretty shabby chic and grungey) but it covers everything I wanted to say to her :-)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-19805846425893879152014-03-20T11:38:00.000+00:002014-03-20T12:27:01.353+00:00Hang in there<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway,I have been holding onto this piece of floppy clear plastic forever,waiting for its true purpose to be realised ;-) </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Static does a lot of the work for you holding things in place,so there is no need for any adhesive in this type of card. All the sea folk are stamped and painted onto watercolour card,using the colour palette. I stamped,coloured and cut everything I thought I would use and arranged it. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then carefully sandwiched it together and machine sewed loose rings around the outside in a sand coloured thread. The jellyfish and seahorse needed a little extra anchoring,so I ran a few stitches through them,voila! Can be hung anywhere to catch the light :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But before that,I'm putting it in the Paper Smooches Sparks 'Anything Goes' challenge over <a href="http://papersmoochessparks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/march-16-22-anything-goes-wk3-challenge.html">here</a></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-21363626567929515222014-03-06T07:30:00.000+00:002014-03-06T07:30:00.066+00:00A little rainbow magic...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My littlest one is about to turn 4,and being the most girly girl ever,her invites (under strict instruction from her) have just been made. I was given my brief-glitter,a unicorn,glitter,something magicy,glitter,oooh a wand!,glitter,RAINBOWS! and er,....glitter. So,with this in mind I reached for my newest Paper Smooches set,<a href="http://www.makethedayspecial.co.uk/shop.php#!/~/product/category=2717738&id=33403799"> Spectrum</a>. Those of you with little princesses must have heard of the ultimate in My Little Pony colour-Rainbow Dash? Well,Spectrum can offer a very close second...Ladies and gentlemen,I give to you (drum roll) Lovely Unicorn Rainbow Hair! (As named by its tiny 3 year old architect)</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-21234064187921042182014-03-04T19:23:00.001+00:002014-03-04T19:23:20.302+00:00A bag of thanks<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a quick share of a thank you card I made for my lovely Godparents. They are very chic and not at all shabby,so had to curb my natural style for this! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The stamps are Clearly Besotted and the little paper bag is the endlessly cute Memory Box die I used for the Halloween candy bags on the postcard swap a while back.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-24177252122580134602014-03-03T16:43:00.000+00:002014-03-03T17:23:12.042+00:00Sunny flowers<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well,the little sun we had today has well and truly G.O.N.E! Ah well,while it was around I made my stepfathers Birthday card using one of my favourite Flourishes sets,the gorgeous Sunflowers. Now,being a man of few words and very much un-frilly,this card had to be as clear and straight forward as he is. This is what I came up with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stamped the image onto a piece of vintage linen and frayed the edges. Then I stacked that onto a piece of golden yellow cotton,which was then stacked onto a piece of florists voile (I had to stop myself after that-or I would just keep on stacking! ;-) ) I machine sewed around the boarder and mounted it all onto a piece of nice masculine bark print paper. I used colours to imply the hues of a sunflower whist keeping the image colour free. I think he will like it. He is an avid gardener and horticulturist,so I think this will score me some Brownie points ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As this has no colour I'm entering it into the <a href="http://flourishes.org/category/challenges/timeless-tuesday/">Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge</a> Less = More! :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swooping in for an insanely speedy post (we are currently having fun with chicken pox... :-/ ) so last minute posting of a tag I finished a while ago. Actually there are two tags. Yup. I loved doing this so much I did it twice ;-)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-43179469071130750382014-02-22T17:41:00.000+00:002014-02-22T18:02:53.722+00:00What a little star!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to welcome it back,I have made a card. Not just any card,but a card for the inevitable flurry of small people's Birthdays that come with the Spring and Summer (always good to make a few of these for stand-by) So the first is dusting off my old trusty favorite Birthday set (although not technically an old set,it's one that hasn't seen the light of day for a loooong time),Lawn Fawn's Critters at the Dog Park. I was hunting through all my stamps for a potential ballet star,and when I saw the sausage dog,with her ickle toes all pointy,well,she just needed a teeny tutu and voila! (P.S.-making tiny dog tutu's on a Saturday morning while the children kept 'helping'-not easy!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wow,we are being blown into March this month! So without further ado, this is what I have been up to today. Its a tag inspired by our recent weather and the lush Waltzingmouse Fanatics colour challenge over <a href="http://waltzingmousefanaticschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a>. I luuurve these shades,so rummaged through my inks only to find I ONLY HAVE 3 PURPLES!!! Shock horror! That needs to be rectified with a shopping trip I think :-)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-61169337011029071252014-02-08T12:47:00.000+00:002014-02-08T13:06:21.032+00:00Frankly my dear....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow,we are having early April weather over here in sunny/showery Cambridgeshire! Here's hoping for some rainbows...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I LOVE LOVE LOVED making this-I cant wait for February's tag to be revealed!!! And the rest of the year!! Thank you Tim,you genius you ;-)</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-29179769191343668302014-01-25T15:01:00.003+00:002014-01-25T15:01:41.203+00:00I love you more than coupons!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't coupon as much here in England as you guys State side do,but we do love a good bargain ;-) and I love watching Extreme Couponing on TLC-the organization in some of those garages is astounding!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway,so I fell in love with the Paper Smooches Market Fresh,but it sadly hasn't seen any ink action...until now! I was struck by the idea that the Hot Spots large base could be a page of newspaper with a coupon already cut out. Sure enough,as always with Paper Smooches,the funny sentiment fit just perfectly in the cut out piece. Then I had the idea to use the chevrons on the other die in the pack as writing squiggles (like you used to do as a child,or was that just me?!) and voila,Hot Spots makes an awesome newspaper!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308342043532919344noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1134471690987291910.post-46633088365257295492014-01-19T13:29:00.000+00:002014-01-19T13:29:15.150+00:00A slightly different Christmas card<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I totally forgot to share a teeny alternative Christmas card I made for a friend who studies Ancient Rome. She has never been one for lavish cards (or Christmas cards in general),so I thought I would make her something a little more personal,a little more 'her'. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(In a nutshell,Saturnalia is the Ancient Roman festival celebrating the rebirth of the Sun) Anyway,here it is,short sweet and to the point :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope your New Year is starting well,only 339 days until Christmas! ;-)</span><br />
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