Hello purple Stampin' Up rabbit!

If you've been reading my blog lately, you'll know that the children and I have been watching films from before the '60s. One of our favourites was Harvey, a gentle comedy starring the wonderful James Stewart as Elwood P Dowd whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-three-and-a-half-inch rabbit... Well, what's good enough for Jimmy Stewart is certainly good enough for me - although my pal today has gone the other way and is just under 2cm tall! I'm making no sense at all am I? Well come and have a look at my rabbit:

Isn't he adorable? He is another image from the brilliant Perfect Postage stamp set from the new mini catalogue. The set contains four fabulous images and it's easy to make postage stamps from them with one click of the coordinating punch. I've not chosen to do that today...

... although I did use the punch to make this fancy edged windmill! The designer paper is from the Regals Patterns assortment and that gorgeous brad is a designer printed brad in Wisteria Wonder. I must confess to not thinking much of these when I first saw them in the catalogue, but they are gorgeous in real life and I have all sorts of plans for them now! Let's zoom in on my little rabbit:

He's standing in grass borrowed from the Easter Blossoms set - another set from the new mini catalogue. I'm really pleased with the way you can see the grass through the sentiment, which I stamped with my Just Perfect alphabet in scrumptious Concord Crush. I've become rather attached to the colour purple this week thanks to this week's Less is More challenge, so I thought I'd pop another entry in; and of course the starting point for this card was the rabbit, so that fits in rather nicely with the challenge at Make My Monday which is asking for cards with an animal theme this week. This is also a pretty clean and simple card which is exactly what Young Crafters Unite have asked for!

Supplies needed for this card:

Stamps: Perfect Postage, Easter Blossoms, Just Perfect alphabet

Ink: Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade

Card stock: Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Very Vanilla

Other: Markers, Regals Patterns designer paper, Postage Stamp punch, designer printed brad in Wisteria Wonder, stamp-a-majig

I'd be delighted to order any of these supplies for you and can have them delivered to your address in the UK. I am committed to providing excellent customer service and am always happy to help and advise. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593. 

Stamping the rabbit today reminded me of a book I used to read to my boys when they were tiny - 'I love you Blue Kangaroo' by Emma Chichester clark. It's a sweet and beautifully illustrated story about a soft toy who is its owner's favourite toy until a series of new toys come along. My oldest son always used to imagine being the Yellow Cotton Rabbit and so, for quite a long time, I would tuck him into bed, give him a big hug and say: "Goodnight Yellow Cotton Rabbit!" He was always very pleased by this. My daughter was fond of the Babar stories when she was tiny and once disconcerted me by wishing me "Goodnight Queen Celeste!" I mean really - an elephant!

Thank you for joining me today and for leaving me your comments and suggestions. I hope you have a lovely weekend and I shall see you very soon.

Hugs,