Exciting News...

Mark this weekend on your calender!

This is going to be so much fun...

We are having an Easter Blog Hop Weekend at the Pink Elephant!!

There will games, prizes, tutorials, mini challenges and of course...blog hopping FUN!!!

So, mark your calendars and prepare to spend a full weekend with Ella and the design team!

We hope to see you there!!!

Pink Elephant Day...

I love Mondays especially when the sun is shining like today and maybe Spring is not really that far away, but one of my favourite things about Mondays is that it's time for a new challenge at the Pink Elephant.

This week sees our very first 'RECIPE' challenge where we give you ingredients to use on your card from our very own Ella's kitchen.

This week the ingredients are ...

Diecuts and Ribbon

As you can see on my card I've used square die cut charms and ribbon threaded and tied through the button embellishment. I've also used ribbon to embellish the stamped sentiment on the front of my card.

The stamped flower and small flower pots are from a set of 12 really cute stamps by Personal Impressions called Hearts and Flowers.

This is the inside of my card showing the decorated panel and the panel to write a message to the recipient.

The front of my card is cut short to reaveal the decorated panel.

The square die cut charms are from a set of 4 called charms by Cuttlebug.

I stamped the images on to white and then coloured them using Derwent Inktense watercolour crayons.

On the front of the card I have used a wonderful sentiment from a Hero Arts stamp, matted this on to silver and then embellished with white organza ribbon.

All the papers used are by Making Memories and the border was created using the Martha Stewart Lace Doily punch.

I do hope you will have chance to join in our challenge at the Pink Elephant this week. It's sponsored by yours truly and I will be sending my Ribbon Holder (from last week's tutorial) and an organza bag full of organza ribbons to the winner.

Awesome storage...

For ages I have been wanting to buy some magnetic sheets to store my nestabilities on, but they are quite expensive and something else always seemed to tempt me more (usually rubber stamps).

Then I found an amazing bargain at our local Klick photo shop. Magnetic photo frames that had not proved very popular and had been reduced from £1.49 to 17p.


AWESOME!!!

At first I was going to stick them on card and use them as they were, but then I saw someone saying on one of the forums I visit that she had cut A4 magnetic sheets and popped them into CD cases.

A brilliant idea that led to me cutting my frames into stripes and sticking them to the inside of a CD case. It also meant that I could use the word 'awesome' on the front of the case.

Even better is the fact that because I used a double CD case the matching sets can be stored in the same container.

No more counting the dies to make sure they are all stored safely - it's so easy to see that they are all there.

This is the back view of the case.

One frame is enough to do the two sides and leave some scraps that could be made into fridge magnets.

If you like the idea I do hope you can find a Klick photo shop that has some of the frames left.