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When I saw this Memory Box die, I really liked it but wasn't sure what occasions it could be used for. However I think that for either the birth or the birthday of a little chap it would be quite suitable. So here it is as a birth congratulations card.

The embossing is from a Creative Expressions Heart Lattice folder.The sentiment is a very old one bought second hand on ebay many moons ago, but I love it.

I used the sketch from Retro Sketches.

I'm just off to the shops... for a little retail therapy!

A little bird told me...

I shall have to work in silence soon... no I'm not in detention, but the piano tuner will be arriving... in fact I just heard the doorbell as I typed, he doesn't like any noise to distract him, I even had to put some WD40 on my husband's office chair as the squeaking put him off his work... and my husband does fidget!

Here is a little card for CAS-ual Friday's challenge this week which is to incorporate an arrow.

The sentiment was computer generated and the little bird (from Paper Smooches) was coloured with Copics.

The arrow was a tiny die-cut from my Cuttlebug Typewriter alphabet set of dies.

Speaking of dies, I got the bargain of the century at the Portsmouth craft show on Sunday.

I spotted this pack of dies.. two sets of alphabet dies... (the boxes are huge but the dies take very little space). The Merry set has both upper and lower case letters plus an ampersand, exclamation and question marks and a set of numbers. The Bright set is a mixture of trendy upper and lower case letters plus an ampersand, exclamation and question marks, inverted commas and a set of numbers.

It also has three triangles and three squares graduated in size to make different sized Christmas trees among other things.

The whole lot cost £15.

I looked the set up online when I got home to discover that originally it had retailed for $170.

These are cookie cutter dies, which means that they can be used to leave a letter shaped gap on a card and so are really versatile.

What luck!

I'm not fat!

This card is very much in the vein of the one I posted yesterday, however when I saw Dawn French's post on Facebook with this sentiment I just had to make another card to use it.

This time I just embossed the centre section of the card, by replacing one of my Cuttlebug B plates for a couple of strips of thick cardboard under the band I wanted to emboss. I edged this with a couple of hand scored lines.

The image is unmistakeably Penny Black called 'Quack?', which I coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

I added the sentiment directly to the cardstock using Dina's Handwriting font.

I used this sketch from CAS(e) this Sketch.

My version is certainly VERY CAS!

At Dynamic Duos the colours this week are Basic Grey plus a colour of our choice.

Here I have used So Saffron, with images and sentiment  from Clearly Besotted. Once more the embossing is from Cuttlebug's Chicken Wire EF.

In fact either card could be submitted for either challenge!

Totally excited!

On Sunday I went to the Sincerely Yours Craft Show in Portsmouth. It wasn't as large as lots I've attended but my bloggy friend Anne and I had a great time. She was a little more circumspect with her purchases than I was, but we both decided to buy this embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I knew that my Penny Black Chicken stamps would come into play with it and this is sooner rather than later!

The stamp is called Totally Excited which I thought perfect for the sentiment for this card.

I have decided to submit it to the Addicted to CAS challenge this week which is entitled Take Flight!

Actually Anne brought me some delicious eggs from her chickens which I sampled for breakfast this morning! Just the right sort of friend to have!

Thanks Anne!

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