Phew just made it in time even though Poundland let me down this morning by not opening till after I started work and closing before I finished. Sheesh did they not realise how important it was that I got my mitts on a PINK sticky note pad to replace the yellow? Ah well yellow will have to do as I want to give this to my daughter tomorrow as a little Valentine gift plus this is the last day for the
House Mouse and Friends Challenge of Hearts and I don't want to miss entering that! It's one of my favourite challenges.
A little while ago I saw these great sticky note sets at Poundland or one of the many other similar shops. I just knew they would be great to play around with and make that little bit more special. I know you could do the same thing (with a lot of measuring and a ton of patience) with card, but these sets are a really nice finish and being plain black mock leather they are easy to transform.
To create the top I used one of the new House Mouse stamp sets from Joanna Sheen coloured it with Promarkers and then mat and layered it on to black card. I decided to attach a layer of acetate over the top using brads. I thought that as it would be in use all the time it would protect the image from getting dirty.
On the inside I used the calender that was already in the pack but cut it down and matted it on to pink card and after colouring and cutting out the little meece with the paperclip I tucked in behind the calender a little. I also added some glittery black peel off numbers for the year.
As I said at the beginning of the post I would have loved to have been able to add pink sticky notes rather than the yellow. Laura is a pink fanatic. They will have to do for now though and in case you're wondering yes I am daft enough to try to stamp the pointing Maxwell on every sheet. I lost the will to live about half way down the stack!
After a massive search I found some paper clips that I knew I'd saved for scrapbooking somewhere and couldn't believe my luck that some of them were not only pink, but heart shaped too. Don't you just love it when things go right for once.
My sticky note holder gift was also made with the following challenges in mind...
Thank you for looking everyone and for the wonderfully kind comments. I love reading them. It really makes my day.
Love and hugs
Ann xxx
