Yeah The Pink Elephant Day...

This week at The Pink Elephant our Spotlight Company is The Cutting Cafe and the design team were really lucky to be given some super cute images by the owner Regina Easter.  If you haven't spotted The Cutting Cafe before do pop over and take a look.  The whole site is full of inspiration and some amazing designs.

Due to a really long and difficult shift at work and being ill myself I haven't had time to do an all dancing and singing creation.  However, I think this is where digi images and printables really come into their own as you can play for ages and do a fantastically artistic creation or some thing quick and easy as I have done today.

I got the idea for my paper clip bookmarks from Vicki at Blue Jelly Too.  She sent me some wonderful blog candy and two fabulous handmade book marks, which were the initial inspiration for my versions.  I used one of the rabbit images from The Cutting Cafe Easter Set and printed a sheet of the bunnies in many different pastel shades.

Then using the smallest of the Nellie Snellen circle dies and using masking tape to ensure the image was central I cut the circular flowers.  Matching circles were cut and the paperclip was then sandwiched between the two flowers with Pinflair glue. 

So quick and super easy to make and yet great fund raisers - I hope!  My daughter has already put in an order for some for the Nursing Home she works at and I'm going to make some to sell in aid of Mencap.

I have a feeling the rest of The Pink Elephant team will have done some really amazing stuff so do take a look at their creations and watch out for something really exciting happening at TPE on April 1st!!!
FAO  Carole...
I placed the Nellie Snellen die over the image so that the rabbit and sentiment were central.  As the sentiment is quite close to the actual cut edge I used masking tape (the sort that Barbara Gray recommends as that does not tear the paper on removal) to hold the die securely.  I do find that sometimes dies slip in my Wizard.  Not sure whether this applies to other machines or not.