A Golden Harmony Journal page

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies, 

All change today, it's usually the day that Lucy and I go out, she has swapped her day off to help someone out, which has a positive side in that Soph & Lucy both have the day off tomorrow so they have planned a lunch date for the three of us.

Lucy and I had a baking afternoon yesterday,  we made 'School Cake' (an iced vanilla sponge tray bake) and Jam slice, which is basically like shortbread with a layer if jam in the centre, it literally melts in your mouth,   you can make it with mincemeat too, which will be nice at for Christmas. 

I didn't have long to make something for today, so I followed a Vicky P tutorial and created this journal page. 

It uses Categories:

Die cut - Stencil- Ink Colouring 

I hope that you all have a lovely Wednesday,

Love & hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

Autumn leaves

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

A miserable day weather wise yesterday,  it wasn't much better inside either, it took me until almost 11am to physically get downstairs,  my 'good' hip and knee are so incredibly painful right now, I think I may have to ask for a referral as it's just getting worse, I'm just worried as I depend on my left leg to compensate for my right leg, without it I'd be permanently in a wheelchair.  

On a brighter note, I did get to do some crafting,  which is always a good distraction from pain!  I spent the afternoon with Paul too, which always makes me happy. 

I bought these Leaf Fragment Tim Holtz dies a little while ago,  I have seen some lovely projects using them. 

I coloured the leaves with a combination of Barn Door, Rustic Wilderness & Spiced Marmalade distress ink, smooshed onto my craft sheet then spritzed with water,  I tapped watercolour card into the inkyness, then dried between layers, I did 3 different pieces of watercolour card so that I had a choice of coloured paper to use to die cut my leaves.  

I embossed a piece of mixed media card with a leaf folder, then added it to a card base with a mat of green card.  I arranged the leaves to the right hand side of the card, then finished with a simple sentiment. 

I hope that you all have a good day  

Love and hugs, 

Sandra xxx

Thrinchie 55

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

Welcome to the start of a new week,  the weather is forecast to be fair this week,  which is a bonus, although it was lovely in the garden yesterday,  when the sun shone it was really warm, but as soon as the sun went downI was cold, it was the closest we have come to lightning the log burner,   we haven't gone as far putting the heating on.  

I tried to do a couple of little garden jobs yesterday but it wasn't going to go well after yesterday's effort,  I used secateurs to trim back lavender, I only managed 2 bushes and had to give up and have paul help me get back on the house,  I have learnt that if you can't breathe easily and talk its time to stop and sit down!   

After giving up in the garden I sat at my desk and created Thrinchie 55.  

Quite a simple Thrinchie,  I stamped the part circle stamp in Portabello Versafine Clair,  Tracey suggested distressing the ink with kitchen roll so that it wasn't  perfectly inked, I used a different floral to stamp over the top of the circle, I coloured the flowers with my pencils, I stamped the mushrooms in Sand Dune ink so that I could colour over them,  I added the Crow and sentiments in Black ink, shading and splatters finish the piece. 

I hope that you have a great Monday 

Love & hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx 

Our TicTacToe projects

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

We had a very busy day in the garden yesterday,  Paul emptied the baskets by front door and refreshed the soil and planted my Trailing Pansies, I will photograph them when the have settled in, the always look sad when they are newly planted,  we tidied the other beds at the front and then I wanted to go and check my sweet potatoes, well I guess we have to have some failures,  the ones we dug up are more like Sweet Potato fingers! 😔🤣,  I think it was due to two things, there were two tomato plants that self seeded in the same pot and they got really big,  they may have starved the sweet potatoes of nutrients and maybe water with us having such a hot summer.  We will learn and try again next year,  the Girls bought Paul an irrigation system for his birthday so that might help.  We harvested the last of the beans and almost two pounds of Yellow cherry tomatoes, I don't know what to do with them though, I usually make tomato sauce for pasta etc for the freezer and tomato soup but because they are Yellow I don't think they will look appetising,  I could mix in red peppers or something to give the red colour maybe.  They are a total bonus as they had just grown from seeds from tomatoes that we composted.   By about 4pm I literally couldn't put one foot in front of the other without extreme pain so I called it a day, I guess tomorrow will be fun ! 🙄 on the bright side I could sit at my craft desk and play. 😁

Let's have a look at what you have made this week:

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Hi, here is my page for this week,

 Tic tac toe categories:

Journal page, ephemera & Colouring 

The paper & die cuts & Ephemera are Stamperia Silent sea collection. 

Lilian what an incredible nautical themed page, I love that lighthouse,  it looks like its stood the test of time,   everything works so well together with those shells being a perfect embellishment.  That drywall lining tape makes great fishing net!! 

Thank you so much for creating this lovely journal page for our Challenge. XXX

Karen

Karen's Description:

Here’s a couple of bits for the challenge My versions of Thrinchie 17 & 18

Autumn/inks/journal page

And a birthday card for my (male) cousin

Leaves (on the background paper)/autumn colours/sparkle & shine - gold card and splatters

I love your Thrinchies Karen,  the autumnal colours work so well, is this the one where you use the lid of Distress ink pad to create the coloured square?  Your version works so well, especially that stamp at the bottom (that looks like  protractor) 🤣

The background to your cousins card is amazing,  with the script, text and the leaves,  your colour combination is genius that blue really lifts it.   The splatters just work for everthing, perfect finishing touch! 

I really appreciate you creating for this challenge my lovely,  you have had a busy week.  Thank you so much XXX 

Sonia

Sonia's Description:

Here’s my card

Christmas/Die cuts/Sparkle

I stamped the Magnolia Stamps ‘Snowflake Circle’ in Lost Shadow distress oxide ink. The ‘Snow Crystal Flowers’ from John Next Door were cut in vellum and silver card. The Stampin Up sentiment inked in Lost Shadow. I added Honey Bee Stamps ‘Aurora Borealis’ gems to the flowers and snowflake circle.

Oh Sonia your Christmas card is Clean & Simple perfection!! I love that snowflake circle stamp, the SU sentiment fits perfectly in size & sentiment!  But oh those Snow Crystal flowers are the star of the show, layering silver over the vellum was a touch of genius, those little gems are the perfect finishing touch! 

Thank you so much my lovely for creating a card for the challenge XXX

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I just want to remind you all how incredibly grateful I am that you make time to create something for these challenges every week Ladies❣️ 🥰

I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday, 

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you are all relaxed and ready for a lovely weekend,   I am relieved it's here, I've had a real nightmare with sleep this past couple of weeks,  partly due to my bladder issues but mostly I think it's just an inability to relax and switch off.  My joint aches have seemed a lot worse too,  I did have a bit of an 'epiphany' moment on Thursday and realised that I had run out of my Magnesium supplements about 3 weeks ago and I kept forgetting to re-order them.  

I take these ones as they are a combination of the 3 different types of magnesium (Glycinate, Malate & Citrate).  

I think we don't realise that these things are working until we stop taking them,  I am hoping that now I have restocked it won't be long before I feel the benefits.   There is no other reason that my joints would be more painful so I am hoping that this the answer.  I am only sharing this in hope that maybe one if you might be helped.  Do sone research the reviews are really positive. 

We drive past these views everytime we go shopping and just take them for granted, today though I just wanted to capture a photo that is 'Autumn ' in a picture to me! 😍🥰 (they may be a bit blurry as the speed limit on this road is 50 mph, I just took the photo as we were whizzing by! 

Lucy and I were in Witney last week, they had a 'pink festival ' on that was raising money and awareness of Breast Cancer,  every shop had a pink window display,  they had a parade too!  This awesome knitted post box topper caught my eye, what a work of art,  we were limited to the angle we could photograph it from as there were people sat in front of it having lunch 🤣.  

There was so much detail, from beautiful flowers to boobs of all shapes,  sizes and colours!!   What an amazing thing to do for a community! 

Finally today I am sharing a couple of photos if last nights sunset,  it had so many colours that don't come across in photographs,  there were purples, pinks to orange and red, so beautiful!  

Oh I almost forgot that I wanted to let you know that 'That's Crafty'  have a really good sale on at the moment,  there are some absolute bargain stamps

These stamp sets, which are perfect for background stamping, were reduced to between £2 - £2 40,  I added a pencil to the first one for scale.  I have used them already on my journal pages , they are StudioLight.  

They have lots of other stamps, ink pads, Stamperia papers,  vellum, stencils etc.  Lots of different Texture paste mediums too.  If you like a bargain or need anything I have mentioned it's worth a look.  

I was sad to see that Country View Crafts are closing down too, they will be missed, they seemed to always have what you were looking for,  hopefully they might reopen once they get moved and settled. 

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday,  

Love & Hugs all round, 

Sandra xxx

6 x 6 Pumpkin Journal page

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

I know it's another Pumpkin journal page,  but I was excited to do this one, it was one of the first Vicky Papaicannou pages that I saw.  I really enjoyed creating it,  

It started off with cutting up some patterned rice paper and arranging it so that it overlapped, giving lots if different depths of colour, I used rice paper glue like 'Slap it on' to adhere the rice paper, giving a good coat over the top too to seal it in. 

After this I added some stamping and then gave a coat of white paint using 'dry brushing' to give a light coat here and there.  Now I didn't have any Copper texture paste, although I had translucent paste and some copper pigment powder (that I bought off of Craft Tv over 10 years ago,  proof that the saying "if you hold on to it long enough you will need it'' 

I used a stencil and added little areas of embossing randomly over the background.  I then set it to dry and picked out the die cuts I was going to use.           I arranged them onto the journal page and adhered the die cuts with the same glue,  I used my pencils to add some colour to the pumpkin and the leaves.  I picked out some sentiments and added them and finished with some white and gold splatters.

A close up showing all of the different elements, I wasn't sure about the dry brushing but it adds some great texture. 

I hope that you all have a great Friday, 

Love and hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx 

A new TicTacToe Challenge piece

 Good Thursday Morning Ladies, 

Yesterday I spent most of the day at my desk creating another pumpkin journal page, (i'm sorry but I just enjoy creating them) 🤣,  It felt great digging out pigment powders that I have had a good 8 years plus,  in fact the company I got them from doesn't exist anymore! (Craft Box),  I neeeded copper texture paste, which I don't have, then remembered that I had the pigment powder, so made my own!  I am also using Tim Holtz bits and pieces that I have hoarded for years!! 

I stopped before I had finished though as we were taking Lucy to Castle Eaton Garage to collect her car,  as we were only a couple miles from Swindon we decided to make it a 'Date Night' so we went for something to eat and then went to the Cinema,  we watched The Roses with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman ( She is so funny),  luckily it was an early showing as I was exhausted, I am used to coming out of the cinema at 11 30pm, so 9 10pm felt like a treat.  

I made today's Journal page last week, it works for the TicTacToe, using Categories:

Stencil/ Die cut/ Journal page 

I used a piece of patterned rice paper for the background, I used white texture paste through a stencil then added the film strip which is Stamperia die, which I cut in Black and the leaves were die cut from patterned paper and splattered with vintage photo (re inker)

I added the die cut flowers and birds, added the leaves,  used Tim Holtz Chat Stickers for sentiment and finished with splatters and some dots of gold paint. 

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love & hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx