"Sticky Notes" have so many uses!

Good Afternoon one and all. 

What a cold frosty morning I woke up to this morning!

I have to say that the frost, although cold, is really beautiful. 

The spiders webs look as if they have icing sugar sprinkled on them, and when I ventured outside to top up the bird food, my feet crunched their way across the white & frosty blades of grass.

I think the rest of the day will be in my craft room looking out of my window to see if the sun can sneak through for a while.

Taking of crafts, here is a little project I made just before Christmas but been unable to share it with you until now.

Sticky Note Holders with Matching Pens

Here is a way to use those little calendars you may have purchased and were not sure what to do with them all!

As you can see from the photo there are so many ways you can decorate these sticky notes. I chose to make a holder for them with a high back panel so that a pen could be attached so that you would have everything to hand, by your home phone or at work etc.

The pen for each of these notepads has been decorated with the same paper as on the holder.

I keep one in my craft room and use the sticky notes for :-

*Masking when I am stamping 

*Punching out shapes, say if I want to create a background such as a sunset or clouds in the sky.

*Use the sticky edge for holding your thinlits dies in place

*Use one to Flag a project /photo you have seen in your craft magazines, books

There are so many uses for these sticky notes in your craft space, let alone using them in your everyday life............................

You can make a bunch of these for very little cost and they make wonderful little presents or even send them as greetings cards with a little extra.

I have made so many of these to give away to both male and female friends and each time I have received really positive feedback.

Here are a couple of different, smaller designs I made using Stamps and Embossing powders to make the embellishments.

                                           

               

Hope you have enjoyed reading this post and give this idea a go for yourself.

Below are a few more photo's of the Note holders with pens. Don't forget you can decorate these in so many different ways. 

Raid your old jewellery, dig out some of those forgotten embellishments.

Have fun and Happy Crafting xx

                                

                                    

                           

                                    

Feeling Happy! CRAFT GIVEAWAY****NOW ENDED**** WINNER CONTACTED AND REPLIED!

Pulling the Winners name out of the Hat (Well Bowl)! Lol

Well done Michelle

Hi Sue, just wanted to say a massive thank you for 

the package of lovely goodies that arrived today. I'm

 so thrilled to have won your giveaway, and

 absolutely delighted with all the gorgeous items

you sent. I'm going to have so much fun. 

Love the card too, very apt sentiment x x

Happy Monday to you all.

Yahoo, 

Over the weekend I reached 100 craft videos! (I only realized this morning)! I have enjoyed 

making and sharing them with you all and I have lots of new ideas for craft tutorial videos

 so please keep checking back.

(Shh........The next one in line is a tutorial on the interactive cards I have been showing you. Not sure when, 

but really soon)!

So, a BIG Thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my  YouTube Chanel and left their 

lovely comments or thumbs up. 

I will also be doing another GIVEAWAY when I get to 1000 subscribers!(Hopefully soon)!

Now onto the fun bit
. 
In celebration of this i'm GIVING AWAY some Crafty Goodness from a

few of my favourite craft companies. 

To be in with a chance of getting your hands on this giveaway please leave me a comment

   here or my Facebook page, or indeed on my YouTube channel.

This Giveaway will close on Friday 15th January @ 21:00


Check out this video to see more of whats on offer

Good Luck xx

Latest Card Swap Challenge Cards I sent out and received

Hello Everyone,

Well what a morning we have had so far, pretty miserable with grey skies and rain. So I thought I would pop on here to share a couple of cards I have made and received recently.

                          

The above card was one I received from Sue for the swap titled 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas'

A stunning card with so many techniques used. The parcels inside are so cute!

This card was the one I sent out for the challenge. Lots of die cuts and of course IndigoBlu Mega Flakes and stamps.

The next challenge was 'New year Greetings'. I sent out two swaps for that challenge and received two back. 

The first card I received was from Liz and it was a Swing Card. I haven't made one of these

in a long time so to receive such a lovely card from Liz has made me what to make one again.

                            

The above card was from a New Member of the group and this was her 1st time swapping. Its a gorgeous card Lisa and I love the shaker element to it. 

The silver balloon also moves around the bottom half of the card.

The two cards I sent out were very similar to each other and you can find out more about them in my latest video

 

Thank you for the great cards ladies, I really love getting Happy Mail xx

Also just to let you know I will be adding a few more crafting goodies to my shop, 

Stamp sets, Embellishments and Dies, so keep checking that out. 

Maybe you can grab yourself a bargain or two. P&P included in the price for UK post addresses. Here is the link  or click onto My Shop at the top of the blog page.

New Years Greetings Cards

Hi there, well the weather here in the UK seems to be getting colder. We have had rain on and off for such a long time now and where I live there is a lot of flooding. Luckily our house is above the flood plain but at the end of the orchard you can see the flood water which has come into the fields.

I'm cosy in my craft room and and have been making a few things with those little calendar's you can buy. I know I should have done something before now but.................................

So here is one of the ideas. Check out my blog tomorrow for the other.

The first idea is to make New Year Cards. Yes, again a little late but I made these two for my partners in the card swap challenge group I run on Facebook which I sent out earlier this week.

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This part of the card spins around the silver circle.
I also marked the date's of the group members birthdays on the calendar with little butterflies.

The inside of the card had a slider element with a New Years greeting on it. A gentle pull will reveal the message.

         

Did you pick up on the London eye and fireworks?

For both the cards I used Stampin up Inks and my Ink Duster (brushes) to colour the card using a pinks and purples. (That was part of the Challenge. Pink, Purple & Silver).

The images of the Fireworks and Month names came from a SU set called Perpetual Birthday Calendar, (I have a set for sale in my shop if you are interested Click on this link) and the London eye came from a set I purchased a while ago called Feeling Sentimental.
Of course I had to get in some Mega Flakes by IndigoBlu so I used them around the front edges of the card and inside on the 'Pull Out Tag'.

                                  

The 2nd card was slightly different as I made a pocket and cut out six different length pieces of card for the calendar months to go onto. (One month per side )!

All the little calendars come out of the pocket. Just turn the card over for the next month. Can be used to highlight special occasions such as birthdays etc. Extra room to write little notes on each side of the calendar.

            

 

                           

Hope these cards have given you some ideas and you have a go at making one yourself.

Happy Crafting, Sue xx