Leapday and Birthday wishes .....

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.... It's Leapday today - if you're one of those born on 29th February, I'd like to wish you a Happy Birthday!!  I think it must be quite strange being born on 29th February and only having a "proper" birthday once every four years!!  Famous people born on 29th Feb include:

• Jimmy Dorsey (band leader) b: 1904, d: 1957
• Rossini (composer) b: 1792, d: 1868
• Pope Paul III b: 1468, d: 1549

Things are moving on here. Yesterday, I had the oven professionally cleaned - looks wonderful now!  But I mustn't use it - so I'm going to be cooking on the hob and mircowave for the next couple of weeks!!  Today has been really good - I planned some "me" time and arranged for my hairdresser, Debbie, to come round colour, cut and blow dry my hair.  She's a fabulous hairdresser and I'm absolutely delighted with the cut and colour - it's going to have to keep me going until I can find a new hairdresser in Northville!

I managed to get into my craft room this evening and did some initial tidying - I'm going to be giving away quite a lot of the "scrap" piles.  It felt good clearing it all out this evening.  After that I decided to make a few cards.   You'll get to see the rest later this week.

My cousin, Neil, has his birthday on Friday and I suddenly realised that while I've made lots of cards for my Aunt, I didn't have one ready for me to send to Neil.  So I used the colours from this week's Colour Q - cQc126 challenge and the layout from Clean & Simple Stamping - FTL179 to come up with Neil's card.

I've used some of my lovely new stash from Stampin' Up! to make Neil's card.  I treated myself to a set of SU marker pens; it made colouring the sentiment so easy!  This card was so quick to make and I'm really pleased with it.  And it's one of the most clean and simple designs.

Stamps:  Stampin' Up! - Happiest Birthday Wishes (hostess set), Sprinkled Expressions
Inks:  SU - Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories:  Stamp-a-ma-jig to position stamps and card from stash

I also want to share with you a lovely notebook that Vicky sent me last week (along with my SU goodies - my last Stampers 6 parcel).  She made it specially for our move to America - it's fabulous and is the perfect place to record our adventures.

Don't you just love the sweet little plane?  I think the journal title is absolutely brilliant!  Vicky really is very creative!  Thanks so much for the lovely gift, and for all my super goodies as part of the Stampers 6 Club.  I'll be back in about 3 years!

Before I finish, I'd just like to welcome my newest follower - Susan - really pleased you've joined me!  Do join me tomorrow with the new challenge over at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge.  Bye for now!