Maudlin on a Monday!

It didn't work! That cancellation request I put in... well Monday has arrived, it's still really chilly. I am avoiding having wet and muddy dogs by driving to a nice grassy field to walk. I know it's not very environmentally friendly, but it's better for the dogs that getting hosed down every day.

Blazey and I will be at Obedience Training later - Did you see the Obedience at Crufts? Yeah? well we aren't anywhere near as good as that! LOL But we have a good try. Blaze is too good for the intermediate class, so we've been bumped to the advanced class. If I'm honest it isn't because we are any good... it's because there were too many dogs and Blaze can hold his own in the higher class... just!

Today's card is entered in the Freshly Made Challenge for this week which is a sketch. The sketch should have been easy for me... until I realised I had made loads of similar cards, and I didn't want to replicate a past creation. So I sat and I thunk... I was stumped... and I stamped! A kiddy card! I will probably give it to my niece for her Birthday... if you click on the sketch it will take you to the challenge page.

The Designer Series Paper background is from the Floral District set, the Elephants are from the Feeling Sentimental Sale-a-bration set punched out with the Decorative Label, the brackets are from the Pretty Petites Sale-a-bration set and punched out with the Petite Curly Label, The little heart is from Love and Laughter.

I will be placing my final order during Sale-a-bration this friday - collections from me will have free P&P. If you want anything after Friday you only have until the 22nd and will need to pay £4.95 P&P.

Hope your week passes quickly! Roll on Friday I say! Don't forget to keep an eye out for some projects this week using blender pens and markers... if you don't have Markers I will be sharing a clever little alternative!

Pxxx

Paper Players Challenge #134

Today I am entering a card in the Paper Players challenge. I loved the sketch as it was so simple and really gives you the opportunity to use your imagination and absolutely leaves it wide open so you can exploit your stash of crafting goodies.

As Sale-a-bration only has 3 weeks left to run I thought I would showcase some items that you can get free with your £45 orders. Remember each order for £45 qualifies for one item from the offer.

This is the sketch and if you click on it, it will take you to the challenge page so you can see all the other entries as well as the design teams' own creations. Speaking of which - I hope you liked the CAS challenge yesterday and will think about entering that one too!

This is my card -

It is a single layer card and the strip down the right hand side is from the Sycamore Street Designer Series Papers FREE during Sale-a-bration, the die cut in Calypso Coral is from the Floral Frames Framelits, embossed with the Northern Flurry embossing folder. I also cut the 'flower' in the middle from the same framelits and it was stamped with an image from the FREE Madison Avenue Stamp Set, inked in Rich Razzleberry. I topped it off with a Vintage Faceted Button, also FREE during Sale-a-bration and tied with some of the Sycamore Street Ribbon - You got it! Also available FREE. Lastly the sentiment is from another... FREE stamp set, Feeling Sentimental.

I was so pleased with the result and I hope it has left you feeling inspired!

Back tomorrow with yet another challenge!

I hope you'll leave me a comment - I honestly do love to hear what you think!

Pxxx

Saleabration Sneak Peek again!

Well folks, we've had a little snow this week and I am hoping we don't get too much more! Though I must admit it has been novel bringing clean dogs home from their walks!

I've been working on a few samples to give you a sneak preview of what sort of freebies you can expect to be able to claim with your orders when Sale-a-bration kicks off next week! If you haven't booked a party, don't despair you can still earn these freebie stamp sets, papers and other accessories with any order of £45.

What is even better is that you can earn unlimited items, so for £90 you get 2 free items, £135 you get 3 and so on!

The first card uses the Feeling Sentimental stamp set, this set includes a versatile sentiment and 3 images.

The second card uses the Patterned Occasions stamp set, each of the images includes a little sentiment but if you don't want to include the text you can either mask it or, like I have here, cut out the images. The little sentiment at the bottom is from Pretty Petites and has been punched out with another Sale-a-bration item, the Petite Curly Label punch.

The next card incorporates THREE Sale-a-bration items. A stamp from the Patterned Occasions set, Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper and the cutest little button from the Sycamore Street ribbon and brad set.

Finally I used the Bloomin Marvelous stamp set to create the really simple card below. As you can see, you don't have to be a creative genius to make some lovely cards with these fantastic freebies! So get working on your wishlist and get in touch to place your orders!

Sneak Peek - Saleabration

Well I know I promised you a sneak peek of some of the SaleABration products so here it is.

This card uses two of the Stamp Sets that will be available during SaleABration, between the 22nd of January and the 22nd of March.

You cannot buy these sets... you can choose one item from the SaleABration selection with every qualifying spend (£45).

This year there is also a punch available during SaleABration... and as a punch 'lover' I just had to choose it!!!

The stamped images on this card come from Feeling Sentimental and Pretty Petites, the punch is the Petite Curly Label.

Remember to qualify for FREE SaleABration items you need to spend £45 minimum but can spend more and qualify for additional unlimited items, one for every £45 you spend!