**Challenge ~ Recycle!**

Hope you are all enjoying a lovely Easter break!  Hope you are having lots of chocolate and relaxing time, and maybe time to craft?  If so, then why not give this week’s challenge a go….

This weeks challenge is simply ‘RECYCLE’….This could mean anything you like, from just using old scraps or maybe something that isn’t usually used for crafts.

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Jayne: I have used Easter egg packaging for my L/O and made a nest and eggs.  I also used one of the embellishments I had made last week.  There are a couple of flower buttons too that I had snipped off Keiras T-shirt a while back. The button & scroll stamps are Fiskars and from this set  HERE and the patterned paper is quite new (my own stash).

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Caroline: I’ve made a birthday card for my friend whose birthday is tomorrow (still thinking of a present but with the watering can on the front of the card I think something for the garden would be good!) – the recycled part is the kraft cardstock where I have used rub-ons for the ‘Happy Birthday’.  This was part of some packaging for some stickers!

I used the Scalloped Lace Border Punch for the scalloped effect below the lace, and I used the Circle Hand Punch to create the holes for the string to poke through, just under the rose.  I think this may well be one of my fave little tools at the moment.  You can get them in three circle sizes and they can be handy for threading ribbon through or used decoratively to create holes on your project.  Great fun!

Hope you will take part in this weeks challenge – we always like to see what you’ve made, so please give it a go!  Have a great Bank Holiday Monday….x

Caroline and Jayne x x