Happy Easter

Dear all,

I wish you all the best for this Easter. Please ask the chocolate bunny to bring lots of love and less sadness in this world.

No religion, no point of views entitle people to kill. I hope that this post will bring some kindness at least for few minutes. We are all brothers, sisters and parents. Let's think that the person we are fighting is one of them and life is too precious to decide.
I usually don't post about this topic but I had enough of the violence around the world. We can do better than this. The real sadness is when you or a person you know are fighting against cancer where there is nothing you can do. This violence can be stopped so let's not waste our time on this and let's enjoy the precious moments we have with the loved ones.
Take all good care and wish you great holidays!

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An after Valentine celebration - free printable love cards

Hello everybody,
after I had my computer down finally Santa brought me a new one and I'm back on blogging... even if I'm struggling with time.
Organizing a new life... with 2 children was not easy but I'm so much happier. What I was following was the right way with the wrong person and the hardest was to accept this mistake.
2015 taught me that Love can make you blind and follow something that was wrong for you. Well, it took me many years but finally I discovered the real meaning, in all its forms.
Love for your children, for your man and for all your friends... I discovered how nice it is to be loved and to work together for something you believe in.
So I decided to celebrate Love with a card that could express my feeling where love is so different but so similar everywhere.
So why not to do it just after Valentine's Day? I decided to post this later as love should be celebrated all the time and not only the 14th Feb.

I made different versions to suit all of you... I hope... Just click on the right tab and save the image and print it in the format you prefer.

Which one do you prefer? I turned them into postcards and I think they look so cute. You can easily do it for free from a lot of applications or with Word.
I hope you liked them.
Ciao,
Jess
p.s. feel free to use and share them but please always refer to my website. I didn't add any logo on them for you to use as you wish but I spent time on working on them so please consider this before posting them as your own.
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Turn a magazine into a Christmas paper tree -my Tutorial

Hello dear readers,

I'm still alive... very busy but I can never forget to update my blog when I can because I will never stop creating and inspiring myself and most of all sharing it with people that appreciate it.

With this cold weather and with all the travelling, I ended up with a pile of magazines so this is what I did, not to waste them after a good reading. 

It's so fun and easy to make trees out of them. I hope my tutorial will inspire you to make better ones. Mine was done in less than an hour with just things I could find at home. 

A paint finish, glitters and nicer ribbons could turn then into real beauties that could be given as presents or sold at local markets...so no more talking and let's start:

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Halloween candy bags - make your own

A bit late, but I wanted to show you how we made our candy bags this year.
We are having so many kids over that we decide to prepare bags to avoid candy fighting.

First thing, we decorated the entrance door... it can't be permanent as we share that part of it with neighbours ...so I decided to ask the kids to created their own scary sign on a blackboard and add extra easy decorations...

To do so, I used great liquid chalk markers from Chalkola.com
The colours are so vibrant and the kids basically spent half an hours trying them and drawing before the final design.. even my little 3yrs old. The photo is very dark but it was done at night. I hope you can see my little artists drawings.
After, we sat at the table and started our scary bags:

and these are our (almost) scary bags:

With only few materials, the effect was fantastic.

Bags can be found here: Paper bags

stickers can be found here: Emoticon stickers

Chalk Markers can be found here: Chalkola

Lollies of your choice... and creative mindset

I hope you like them!

***HAPPY UPDATE***

Chalkola is offering to all Mad About Pink readers a 20% off on their first purchase.

Use this code: CHALK20A at the checkout...of course you can try all the other colors available. 

To use there go here:

Amazon USA link - http://www.amazon.com/Chalk-Markers-Chalkboard-Window-Whiteboards/dp/B00PM473TK

Amazon UK Link - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chalk-Pens-markers-Chalkboard-Whiteboard/dp/B00VVOWCSC

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