Moneysaving New Year Tip

I've thought of a little tip for saving us a few pennies (and time!) in the New Year, and with VAT going up in the UK today, we could do with it!

I've simply used the crafts I made this time last year and changed them to this year.

For example, this was a 'Memories of 2010' jar that I made. It was used to put in little slips of paper with memories of days in the year that we wanted to remember - usually good memories! :-)

Here it is with 2010:

Simple bit of correction pen on the '0':

..and rewrite with a '1':

Job done! Saving both time and money. :-)  Now we can create some new happy memories!

Another one:

This 'Important Dates' Calendar

Just take off the old and stick on the new year's calendar.

If you like the calendar craft you have done, and/or spent a lot of time on making it, (maybe you have received one as a gift?) think about how you could make it last longer than just the one year!

I would like to add this tip into the Top Tip Tuesday challenge.

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

qwiksave

First Challenge Card

I've never got round to doing any blog challenges in the whole year (well just over 9 months) that I have been doing this blog so today I thought I'd have a go at  my very first one, the Creative Inspirations blog challenge.  There's a first time for everything!

The theme is a 'Get Well Soon' Card so here's mine:

Appropriate for the weather we've been getting lately!

Close ups:

I've used Promarkers and glossy accents on the girl and I hand drew the raindrops and frame.

I made an interesting background using Johnson's 'Klear' floor polish. In February I did a snow scrapbooking page (see here), using the same technique and loved the effect. 

To do this today I brushed over some silver card with the Klear polish:

and then painted over it with pearlescent acrylic paint:

More 'Klear' was added on top and then I scraped a pattern in it with a comb:

Which makes a lovely irridescent texture:

I know its not as sophisticated as a lot of the cards I see in Blogland, but I do like to make cards that are flat so they don't incur extra postal charges. 

I wish to enter this card into this challenge, CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS (Challenge 44)

Thanks for looking and for any comments, they are always appreciated,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave