A Thrinchie to start the week!

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

As I am writing this we about 40 minutes from our hotel in folkestone,  we are trying a new hotel tonight,  as the last two years at the Premiere Inn have been a complete waste of money as the rooms are so hot, the heat wafts in your face as you open the room door,  both last year and the year before people were sleeping on picnic benches in the onsite pubs garden!! It's over £100 a night too, fingers crossed this one will be different.  

Today I  am sharing a Thrinchie I made last week, now I had to improvise as I didn’t have the mask for the wider tree, so I stamped the tree stamp onto masking paper and used a knife to cut the tree out, leaving the square around it to mask off the rest of the thrinchie.  Ooh but first I stamped the bubble stencil onto the thrinchie,  added white embossing powder and heat set.  Then I put the tree stencils over the area and pounced 3 colours of Dina Wakely paints through the mask, keeping the paint light so it doesn't leak under edge of mask. I had the skinny tree stencil/mask so I positioned so it looked like the skinny tree was behind the bigger one.  Once paint was almost dry I went over the embossed areas with damp kitchen paper to remove paint from the embossed areas.  I stamped some tree twigs at the top of the card and stamped the cat.  I grounded the cat with shading and added some white splatters.

I will update you as our journey continues,   the cooler weather was very welcome yesterday!

I hope you all have a great start to the week, 

Love & hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

Our Crafts this week

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

I will be glad to get on the road, i keep thinking of things that i think we'll need.  We take are own plates and cutlery, as the ones there never look clean enough.  We have melamine plates that look like china.  It makes it easier when we leave too as we don't need to clean all of their stuff.  Ooh we take our own frying pan too!  

Anyway lets look at your TicTacToe cards this week...

Karen

Karen's Description:

Card:  Here’s a challenge card

Stencil Flowers Color Cube

Number 220

Used Spun Sugar DO for the Light Pink

Worn Lipstick DO for Salmon Pink

Victorian Velvet DI for Burgandy

Loved how the colour turned when I heat embossed the sentiment So I tried layering the stencils again - big mistake The powder glossed in places but went dimply in others

Card 2:  

Did a blue/purple one as I enjoyed doing the pink version

So Tumbled Glass Shaded Lilac and Villainous Potion DO I matted it on a piece of card inked with Villainous Potion and sentiment inked in Villainous Potion

Stencil-Flowers-CAS this time 🤣

I really love this stencil Karen, it doesn't seem to matter what colour way you use, it just works, Its definitely on my wishlist! 

Thank you so much for taking part in this challenge XXX 

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Hi, here is my card for this week, late again I’m afraid.

Paper from the indigo blue magazine, 

Flower dies from Stamperia 

Embossing folder from Amazon not sure of the name.

I used flowers/clean and simple/ card.

Beautiful card Lilian it looks clean and fresh , love the flowers too!  The colours are lovely.  

As always thank you so much for supporting the challenge XXX 

Maria

Maria's Description:

 I started the card by cutting out the flower from Altenew and coloured it in with TH oxide inks. The frame in green and the sentence is from Temu. Stamping/ Flower/ CAS . 

Such a pretty card Maria, the flower & leaves are beautiful 😍.  I really love that lacy frame die you have used, it reminds of the original Sue Wilson dies.  

Thank you so much for taking part ans supporting the challenge XXX 

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I hope that you all have a cooler and more bearable day,

Love and hugs to all of you  

Sandra xxx 

Sophie's Fathers Day Card

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

Well its go go go in our house today,  although if it's the same heat as yesterday it will be go go slow!! I had to shower twice yesterday as I felt gross,  I think its partly menopause I think because even my arms were sweating, so gross!!   Paul will get the car mostly packed today, so we don't have as much to do tomorrow. 

Today I as sharing the card that Sophie created for Paul for Father's Day, I absolutely love this one,  mind you that smile will always melt my heart ❤️  Dad absolutely loved his card Soph, you are amazingly talented XXX

I hope that you all manage to stay cool today, 

Love and hugs,

Sandra xxx 

Another Emboss Resist card

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,  

This week has absolutely flown by, I feel like I have achieved nothing.  It's just been too hot to rush around.  

Paul has been working all hours to get caught up before we go away but other people's hold ups mean that he has to take a laptop with him(with special security clearance), he will have to do about 2 maybe 3 days work while we are away,  what frustrates me is that he hasn't had one day off since Christmas!!  He is doing the work of atleast 2 people!  

Today's card is a DL size card with three emboss resist panels.  I used stamps from a magazine that I will share with you tomorrow.   The colours used are Uncharted Mariner,  Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry & Spiced Marmalade oxides. 

I hope you all manage a good night sleep in this hear, 

Love & Hugs

Sandra xxx

My first card from IndigoBlu magazine

 

Good Morning ladies,

Did you all enjoy the sunshine yesterday,  I didn't venture outside until watering the plants in the evening,  It was just too hot to be outside, thank goodness for fans.

Today's card is the first card that I have made from the IndigoBlu magazine that I shared with you last Saturday.  This card was classed as a Masculine card, 

So categories:  stamping/flowers/Masculine card

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra xxx

Clean & Simple leaves

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,

Welcome to Blog Post 4,001, can you believe we are at over 4 000 blog posts!!!! Thank you ladies so much xxx

I hope that you managed to enjoy the sun yesterday,  Lucy and I did some last minute shopping and the heat was ridiculous!  We were glad to get home and cool off  

Today's card I made using an old piece of background that I made using Spray Mica stain, so it has a lovely gold shimmer.  

Trying to capture shimmer is a task in itself!! 

I used Tim Holtz Artsy Leaves dies, to cut the background and then matt gold for the stems/stalks and sentiment. 

I embossed the background to give a linen like texture to add some interest.  Then mounted onto a cream card base. 

Clean & Simple / Masculine/ Card

I hope that you all have a lovely,  sunny day, 

Love & hugs,

Sandra xxx 

Clean & Simple card

 

Good Morning ladies,

It was a beautiful day here yesterday,  in fact I needed the fan on me all day to stay comfortable.  I was intent on making as many cards as possible, so that I have enough to cover while we are away.       We didn't get back until after 1am Sunday night/Monday Morning,  we had to drop the car off to be serviced on the way home, the girls were there to bring us home.  So we are all feeling a bit tired today.   It was worth it though,  spending quality time with Matt & Alex, the show was amazing too, apart from his hilarious songs Tim Minchin is an incredible pianist. 

Today's card is my latest TicTacToe card, I used categories:  Stamping/ Stencil/ Clean & Simple

I started by using a stencil and Bermuda Bay ink, I blended into the centre with Misty Moonlight ink.  Then I stamped the main image using Night Of Navy ink.  I set that to dry and stamped the sentiment onto the same card as the background, I die cut it and added foam tape and added to the card,  I used three gems to finish the card. 

I hope that you all have a good,

Sandra xxx