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New Year 2019

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Hi Craft addicts! Well I hope you all had a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! I decided not to do my usual 365 day challenge this year but needed to have something to work on - so have various ideas - one of which is taking part in the 64 million artist challenge which you can find on Twitter, Facebook etc... Some of them are really good (I am doing this with my daughter and so far have written a couple of stories (very short and silly) but it is great fun to do it with her as we can compare notes etc.... So there is a challenge a day - some to be honest are a bit vague but others are indeed worth doing - for instance today's option is to upcycle/recycle something (I am still trying to work out what to do for this one) and I am looking forward to seeing what comes in the next weeks. I have also decided that I have so much crafty stash that I must try and used some of them up before I disappear under them! So again, I am planning to perhaps use a particula...

Celebrate! Paper clip people on C6 Adorable Scorable card - Day 189 of my 365 day challenge

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Celebrate! Paper clip people on C6 Adorable Scorable card -  Day 189 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! I had some paperclips left over and thought they would make some interesting "people" so I used them to make this card... How I made this card:- I have had these paper clips for ages and have never used them for their right purpose and suddenly thought they would make some interesting people (I know my mind can work in strange ways). Anyway, I took 5 of them (if I had used a bigger card, I would have tried to use 7 so they could be a rainbow (especially as it was Pride over the weekend). I cut a panel of white stamping card (135x75mm) and stuck the clips in a row on it using Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue. I then added the "head", arms and legs to them using a black alcohol marker - I tried to make them look as if they were holding hands. I then added some very thin ultra strong red liner tape to the top and bottom of the panel and then placed...