Another Christmas card from the Gina K kit

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

After having great weather on Sunday things took a bit of a turn,  well a lot of a turn, We woke yesterday to absolute torrential rain which didn't ease until lunchtime so we had a lazy morning,  then went to look in the local shopping centre,  then went back to the Eden Project for the Christmas light show,  wow,  wow, wow it was spectacular,  totally worth going back for,  they had a choir singing in the food court too which added to the Christmas spirit.  Weather permitting we will pop to Carlyon Bay in the morning before driving home. 

Today's card is the last one I made from the tree stamps in the Gina K kit,  I stamped the coloured part of the tree in Old Olive and Cherry cobbler ink and then added the 'branches & stem' stamp over the coloured background and gold embossed it.  I die cut the three trees and arranged them onto a white background that I had embossed, to finish I stamped and gold embossed the sentiment and die cut it and positioned it under the trees.

I like the clean and simple look of this card. 

I hope that you all have a good day

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

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Simple Kraft Christmas card

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

Welcome to the start of a new week, is it really Christmas next week????

We are having a lovely weekend away,  the Tropical/Rainforest Biome was fascinating, the highlight of yesterday was meeting Lilian & Roger, it was just like meeting a very dear friend,  the time we were there just flew by.  I am already looking forward to the next time x

Today's card I made following a Tracey Evans tutorial on YouTube.  I stamped the poinsettia onto kraft card and embossed it, then added postage stamp stencil and added a light blend of white pigment ink then traced around the stencil with white pen. I used Prismacolor pencils to colour the poinsettia.  I added some splatters,  stamped the sentiment and added the bird. 

We are off to walk along beach today ( weather permitting) and then we go to see Christmas lights at Eden. 

I hope you have a great start to your week,

Love and hugs, 

Sandra xxx

A look back at our makes this week..

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,  

As I am writing today's post we are on our way to Cornwall after spending the afternoon and having dinner with Paul's Mum, brother and Niece,  it was lovely spending quality time with them, Alice is a couple of years younger than the girls and she is such a lovely young lady,  really chatty too,  we went to a pub in the Harbour to eat,  food was deliscious, I wasn't brave enough to have the 'mystery catch of the day' fish as I'm not keen on flat fish,  I'm glad I didn't as it was Megrim Sole, although Mum in law and Alice said it was lovely.   Paul had Hunters Chicken, Darren had fish & chips and I had steak & ale pie, Mash and veg.  We took Mum in law home, said our goodbyes and set off for the 70 mile journey to St Austell.   

Now I'm sure it's not just me but the night before we go away I cannot sleep, I have a million things going through my mind,  things to pack, things to do before we leave, instructions for the girls etc,   as a result I have been yawning like crazy for the last hour, I am going to struggle to stay awake, so if the blog ends abruptly you know I feel asleep 😴 🤣

Karen 

Karen's Description:

3 tags for the challenge

Just playing Will probably keep them in my little snippets album

Tag - Christmas - Stencil

Three amazing mixed media tags,  using the Stencil Paste Karen made back on 9th September,  it's still aa good as the day she made it, no mould, no discolouration or odour!   It looks a lovely crisp white finish 

Thank so much Karen for coming up with something different, maybe we need that recipe posting again!  XXX 

  

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Hi, here is my card for this week’s challenge, a very old embossing folder and some die cuts from an old set from the works. Sorry it’s a simple card, but I have had backache for the last few days. 

Please don't apologise,  simple is often the most beautiful design!  Your card is lovely,  the combination of that deep, crisp embossing and those lovely snowflakes that fit together like they were designed to be together!  

Thank you so much my lovely, I hope your back is a little easier today XXX

PS... See you later 😘 

Sonia

Sonia's Description:

Card 1: 

Christmas/snowflake/stencil. 

I used the Sweet Poppy snowflake stencil with Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass oxides. The snowflake in the middle is from Pink Fresh Studios (I think) and added a gem to the centre. Sentiment from Taylored Expressions.

Card 2: 

Snowflake/trees/Christmas.

I embossed the Spellbinders snowflake background. I die cut a circle and then die cut it with Chloe’s Creative Cards stars die, and added a frame, and matted on a Kraft circle. I die cut the house from Mama Elephant and the tree from The Stamp Market and added a couple of snowflakes. Haven’t decided on a sentiment yet.

Oh Sonia,  thank you so much for two absolutely stunning Christmas cards,   the stencilled snowflake is so pretty the colour combination just works!  The die cut stencil is the perfect finishing touch, it looks like its made to fit. 

Your second Christmas card is a real 'Sonia ' card with the touches of Kraft card, its beautiful.  

 Thank you so very much for supporting the challenge XXX 

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I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,  

My love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx 

Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,  

We are off to Brixham today to visit Paul's Mum and then we will leave from there to go down to St Austell,  we will stay for 3 nights so that we have plenty of time to look around the Eden Project,  they have a Christmas Lights feature in the evening,  which we hope to do on Monday,  after speaking to the Eden centre direct,  they advise that Monday will be much quieter.  Of course the weather doesn’t look the best, thankfully there is plenty to do inside.  The good thing about your ticket is that it lasts a year, so we can come and see the different plants in Spring and summer too.   The most special part of the weekend is getting to meet Lilian, I am so  excited 😊.

Karen

Karen's Description: 

I know this card doesn’t fit in with the current challenge but I was pleased how it turned out I was inspired by a card on Pinterest

Took quite a bit of engineering- measuring etc All mats and symbols etc cut on ScanNCut 

Her surprise party on Sunday is casino themed

Karen it might have taken a lot of work but my goodness it was worth it, what an incredible card!  

Its perfect for a Casino themed party  obviously something that she has a keen interest in,  she will absolutely love it.  

Karen also included the card that inspired her.   It would make a great man card too.  

Are  you going to the party Karen?? 

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing card my lovely XXX 

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday  

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

Sizzix Wreath stencil card

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,  

Busy day here today,  I think I have most of the Christmas cards I need, I just need to sit and get them ready to post.   Then I have to pack for our long weekend away,  we are going to visit Paul's Mum on Saturday and then we'll continue the journey down to Cornwall to visit the Eden Project and see our Lilian,  I am more excited about that more than the Eden centre.  

We have waited to make the final decision wether to go based on my Blood results etc,  the urine wasn't a 'certain ' clear, it keeps showing some Staph' cells,  but no blood which is unusual for me,  the blood showed that my liver was Ok too,  which was a sigh of relief.  The nurse said... 'because my liver is ok she has put a short course of Nitrofurantoin into the pharmacy for me to take away',  I'm hoping she is just being cautious and isn't expecting it to flare up !! 

I finally got around to using my Sizzix Wreath Stencil after so much inspiration from our Karen.    I decided to use it on Kraft card for a different look,  I used Distress inks Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness,  Gathered Twigs & Festive Berries,  I used the Festive Berries to colour the edges of a piece of card to create a mat, I stamped one of my Gina K sentiments and die cut it and popped it in the centre of the wreath.  A few red sparkles  finished the festive look.  

I hope that you all have a great Friday, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx

 

Good Thursday Morning Ladies,  

My goodness the floods were quite bad around here,  after two days of persistent rain for the best part of two days. Lucy had to drive through a lot of standing water on the way to GP surgery, trouble is you can't see the pot holes under the water!  

I went and had my blood tests yesterday,   I took a sample to be checked too,  the nurse checked it and said it looked all clear apart from a tiny trace of blood.   The blood tests are for a whole host of different things,  mainly my liver and inflammatory markers, the nurse said I should have some results back today.  I asked about flu-jab but she said that they had run out and were waiting for more stock.  I explained that we were going away this weekend so would rather wait until after the weekend in case it makes me feel rough.  

Today's card is another Gina K 'Christmas in July  collection' card.

The Mistletoe branch is a 4 part stencil,  I used Pear Pizazz,  Old Olive inks for the Greens and Cherry Cobbler with a touch of Aged Mahogany for shade. 

I die cut the branch,  added it to a 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 inch card base matted with cherry cobbler, I embossed the front panel for interest and some lovely texture.  I finished the card with a sentiment from the same stamp set. 

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love and hugs,  

Sandra xxx 

Gina K Christmas Kit Card

 Good Wednesday Morning Ladies, 

I think we have had more than our share of rain this past few days,  it didn't stop yesterday,  the wind was howling all night, so the rain was lashing at the window, it was so loud, poor Milo struggled to settle down too which makes for a fun night. 

I have Blood Test today, to check that my liver is ok after taking Nitrofurantoin, fingers crossed it is but I am a little concerned that I can feel something pushing up against the bottom of my rib cage on the right side. We'll find out in a few days hopefully. 

Today's card is the first card I made using the Gina K 'Christmas in July' kit I got at a bargain price on FB Destash group.  

I have to say that I am so impressed with the quality of every element in this kit, the stamps are great, the dies too.  The stencils are an amazing quality material, really sturdy not thin and flimsy.

I started by cutting 3 frames from 300gsm card, they measured 4×6 inch, the aperture was about an inch smaller.  I adhered these three frames together, then cut another piece of 6×4 inch card and covered it with gold splatters that  I created by using a little pea sized amount of Stamperia Gold paint with a little water added to loosen it so it would splatter evenly.  I set this to dry and moved onto created those String Lights. 

I stamped the wire part in Green ink and then stamped again with Versamark and added clear embossing powder and heat set,  this gave the wire a shine that made it look more realistic, to colour the light bulbs you have a stencil, its super easy to line up, I used Festive Berries,  Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron & Salty Ocean Distress ink to colour the bulbs.  After the bulbs were dry I die cut them, again the die lined up easily.  

I stamped the sentiment in Festive Berries and stamped again using Versamark and heat embossed, I have added a close up so you can see the shine. 

I created a top folding 5 × 7 inch card base, then adhered the stacked frame onto the gold splattered background then onto a gold mirror card mat and then the card base. I then added the string lights, I added glue to the pieces that sit in the frame and foam pads behind the bulbs that are inside the frame.  I also added foam pads behind the sentiment and added to the centre of the card. 

I hope that you all have a drier day,  

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx