Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,  

I hope that you are all organised so that you can relax and have a lovely weekend. 

We did a small shop to tide us over until Monday or Tuesday when we'll finish the Christmas food shop.  We were going to get some bits yesterday but everything had short dates,  for example Paul likes a good Pork Pie,  the only ones we saw yesterday had expiry date of 26th December,   you want it to last a few days past Christmas day.  Fingers crossed we are more successful after weekend.     Are you all done?  I know our Sonia has got a Grocery Delivery slot booked,  Lilian does that too,   I am a bit picky to have someone pick my meat and fruit,  we have done in past and got some really bizarre substitution items. 

Are you hosting or going to family for Christmas? 

They have changed the big post box topper for Christmas, the building behind used to be the post office,  sadly it closed and is now inside WH Smith, it doesn't say on it who makes it, which is a shame.  Its an absolute work of art, even the tree tinsel is knitted. I love seeing them,  something really cheerful in Witney. 

Karen

Karen found some 'spare/unused' Guinness beer mats while she was out last weekend,  what a brilliant idea to turn them into gift tags.  

Karen's Description:

Out dancing last night and they had some Guinness beer mats and a “couple” fell into my bag So I have made a couple of gift tags for the men in our family and I will make a couple of Christmas cards too

I just backed them with white card and used (for the first time) a die that came with my machine.

They are brilliant,  thank you so much for sharing them with us my lovely XXX 

Lilian's Shopping 

Lilian has treated herself to the new Stamperia Collection 'Herbarium Silvae',  she had it ready to show me last weekend and all it took was one flick through to get me hooked,  the papers are stunning with lots of greens.  The stamps are beautiful too and so detailed.  

Thank you for sharing the latest Collection with us my lovely,   mine is on its way!  😉😍

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend, 

Love & hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx 

Festive Friday from Gina

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,  

Well what a wash out yesterday was, I have honestly never seen as much standing water on the roads,  it was flooded across both sides of the road in many places,  driving through those huge floods terrifies me,  that fear of losing control if your car aquaplanes.   I felt totally safe with Soph but that amount of rain and standing water would put any driver on alert.  The wipers were going full speed and were barely keeping up.  Bladder clinic went fine,  Suzanne the lovely nurse that gets it done first time with no pain is retiring and yesterday was her last day.   I am not going to think about who will take over until the New Year 😬

The chimney sweep came,  lovely chap,  sadly couldn't sweep the chimney though,  the pipe that connects the log burner to the flue has somehow become dislodged,  which is probably why it hasn't been working for us the last few times, the last time we did put it on it filled the lounge with smoke,  I thought it was Paul's bad fire management,   turns out it was out of his control.  Bill is coming to look at it today to see if it can be fixed.  

I am sharing a lovely card that Gina made for our Festive Friday treat. 

Gina's Description:

The stamped image is a Habico stamp on polymer, the original was on rubber, which I also have.  The letters are by sizzix.

How gorgeous is that Santa Claus image??!!  A proper vintage looking image.   I love how you have pared the vintage image with Modern looking letters for your HOHOHO   

An amazing Christmas card, thank you so much for sharing my lovely XXX 

I hope that you all have a lovely Friday, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

A beautiful Christmas card by Sonia

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

We had a long day yesterday,  the girls and I went out for brunch and then did a few bits of shopping,  it was so cold and raining which made it feel even colder.  It was dark when we got home too, which makes it feel like you have been out even longer.   We soon got warmed up when we got home. 

Today is a busy one I have bladder clinic, then a bit of shopping with Soph,  then we have Chimney sweep coming in the afternoon.  

I haven't had time to sit atbmy desk let alone make anything for the blog, so I was so grateful that Sonia sent me a photo of this stunning card to share today.

Sonia's Description:

I die cut the Chloe’s Creative Cards star background using the scalloped frame, I then die cut a circle and put it back through with the star background too. I matted some pink card behind it. I die cut Tim Holtz poinsettia and holly leaves. The star trail is part of a longer die from Memory Box. I added the sentiment from Taylored Expressions and some sparkle gems from Honey Bee Stamps. 

I made this for Mark’s mum and also made a similar one for my mum and dad 😊

Thank you so much my lovely XXX 

i hope that you all have a good day, 

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

My lovely Christmas card from Lilian

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,  

I hope that you are all having a good week, hugs ready for any of you that need one. 

We finished our little break yesterday by driving to the local Harbour,  called Charlestown Harbour,  the harbour itself is under construction but we got to take in the lovely views and Paul found a little walkway that cut out most of the steps down to the beach,  so I was able to sit down on the beach and listen to the healing sound of the sea.   

Then we set off for home, the journey felt s lot longer than the journey there.  

Today I am sharing the lovely card that Lilian gave me on Sunday,  Lilian I love these papers that you have used 😍,  such a lovely scene!   The other question I have is... where are you still finding 'peel off' sentiments??  I love the delicate one you have used. 

Thank you so much for the lovely card 😘 xx

I hope that you all have a good Day, 

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

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