Happy St Patrick's Day (tomorrow)

My son is currently living in Chicago and sent me this photo last weekend.

The Chicagoans make a big thing of St Patrick's Day. They start their celebrations early (the Saturday before) by colouring the Chicago River green (as can be seen from the photo above) using vegetable dye, followed by various large parades around the city. Michael tends to forget that he has an Irish heritage - his paternal grandparents are Irish having moved from Dun Laoghaire to Nottingham back in the early 1960's.

The photo prompted me to make these cards yesterday. One is being sent to my mother-in-law along with a copy of Michael's photo.

Coming soon - Part 1

Just stopping by really quickly to share a couple of projects I've made using one of the new Sale-A-Bration (SAB) stamp sets that will be available from Tuesday, 21 February.

Both of these cards feature the Make a Medallion stamp set. This photopolymer set has 8 stamps which can be stamped in the same colour or different ones.

I've used Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo and Pool Party inks on both cards along with the Lovely Lace embossing folder. The bottom card also features some of the new Glimmer Paper that comes as a pack of 6"x6" sheets (4 each of Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Sweet Sugarplum).

I've designed a third card but I'm saving that as the Make n Take for team training which is next Friday.

I think that this new stamp set could quickly take over as the most wanted SAB item. At the moment the most popular item is the Hey Chick stamp set. Then again, I suspect that the glimmer paper will be really popular too.

You can get a hold of these new items from Tuesday, and you can choose one item per £45 spent (excluding P&P).

Fiona xx

PS On Monday, I'll have another couple of projects to share made using the other new SAB stamp set.