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Happy Mother's Day
I would just like to wish a very happy mother's day to all the mums out there and hope that like me you'll be doing only what you love doing today. I'm sure you can guess what I'll be doing today.
After I've done a bit! of crafting I'll be looking through the new catalogue and deciding what to spend my mothers day money on. How thoughtful of stamping up to coincide the new catalogue with mothers day. Well have fun what ever you decide to do today, here are the cards I made for my mum this year.
The first card I made was using stamp sets from Stampin Up. the first is called happiness shared and as my mum loves roses this was the ideal stamp image for the main focal point. The Happy Mother's day sentiment is from the the Occasional Greetings which is a very versatile stamp set. It has 12 different sentiment phrases so there is some thing for every occasion. The card I used is Baja Breeze I hope she likes it.
The next card was made using some paper from the designer series paper patterns stack (Subtles) and the easel card base was from Rose Red and the sentiment label from Sahara Sand. All the flowers are hand made by me apart from the small rose buds.

Every year Stampin' Up! gives customers, hostesses, and new demonstrators the opportunity to earn fantastic, limited-edition products you'll enjoy for years to come. This year, you can choose from the following exclusive stamp sets:
You'll receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set when you spend £45 on Stampin' Up! merchandise (product sales before shipping and handling). There's no limit—for every £45 you spend, you can select another FREE Sale-A-Bration reward! The Sale-A-Bration promotion starts on 30 December 2010 and runs through 28 February 2011, so don't miss your chance to earn free products! if you would like anymore information contact me

Today's card was made with one of the other sale- a- bration free stamp sets that you can get from stampin up from now until 28 February. It was made using the set called Bliss.
It's absolutely fabulous for vintage looking cards or can be made to look right up to date by using some of the gorgeous bright colours from the brights collection.

Today I have made this card with the stamp set called sweet summer I just love it, and the best bit is that you can get it for free, and we all like something for nothing. All you have to do is spend
£45 from the stampin up catalogue and you can choose one set from the four free stamp sets what an offer!

For this project, I made a card using the free stamp set Sweet Summer

box for the rose card.

I made two versions of this box to house the card one is with a window sheet in the center section so you can see the card in it's box and the other was made so the card is endclosed
and decorrated on the outside I origanaly made the box with the window in it to hold a shirt card
thinking it looked like a box you sometimes buy with a shirt in it. This is the other version of the box which is made from a sheet of A4 card

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