Mixed Up Saturday featuring Michele's Magazine Review

Good Morning Ladies,

Well, another 7 days have whizzed bye and its the weekend again, YAY!!

Not sure whats planned,  depends on thd weather, Paul has to fix the lawn mower so we can tackle the jungle that was once a lawn, although we are forecast rain and thunderstorms today, we could have done with one last night as it was so humid it was awful.  

We discovered that must have a colony of Bats living in the huge trees on our driveway,  we have been sitting in the lounge in the dark watching them swooping and diving to catch any flying insect, totally fascinating and lets face it we aren't missing much on TV! 

I have been learning Spanish this past three weeks so that is my entertainment in the evening,  Paul wants to learn too but hasn't really started yet! 

Anyway lets see what you have all been up to this past week.......

Karen

Karen has finished this amazing blanket, I reallyove the colours you have used Karen,  they work perfectly together,  that pop of yellow really lifts it.

Karen's Description:

"Finished the blanket It measures approx 68”x 45”

It’s made from 4ply machine knitting yarn I thought I’d have enough red but seemed too narrow (plus I made the strips a bit too long) and found this mustard colour that matches the fleck in the red I’d already done all of the red and so just crocheted the mustard and joined it all together with the black"

You must be thrilled with how it turned out Karen   where are you putting it?

Thank you so much for sharing it with us xxx 

Michele

Michele popped to her local Range store last weekend and bagged these amazing bargains!!

Can you believe that they were £1.99 Each!!!

Michele admitted that she hadn't any projects in mind for them but at that price it would be daft to leave them there!! 

I love the 1st, second third and fourth ones very much, might have a detour when we go shopping on Sunday!

Thanks so much for sharing Michele XXX

My Spinning Backgrounds

I had an afternoon experimenting witb my Sala Spinner, I got mixed results I have to say, I wouldn't try Alcohol Inks, they evaporated even with the blending solution added, the last photo (pink ) was Distress Oxide sprays, the kind of worked but were very muted. 

The best results by far were achieved using Acrylic Paint, the ones I have are PaperArtsy Fresco paint,  they moved of the card well, even better if you added a light spritz of water.  

Tip: I stuck a blob of blue tac on the little raised bit on the bottom of the spinner, when you pop your card in press it into the blu tac slightly. 

I will say that there was quite a lot of paint in the bottom of the spinner, I did tip some onto a piece of card and it left a patterb similar to the shaving foam technique.  

The very last piece on the photo above is of a piece of card I placed between the spinner basket and the outside wall, to catch some of the spray off, it kind of works but was a bit hit and miss,  great if you have some off cuts of card to use up. 

I would definitely say give it a go,  it's great fun! 

Michele's Magazine Review 

Hi Ladies, 

Sentimentally Yours Stamping special magazine being featured today.

Look at what comes with the magazine-stamps,stencil & coordinating Die.

First of many features using the free gift. These are minimalist cards that are flat making them great for posting.

Cards made using a limited colour palette.

Part two.

This feature uses the free papers included in the magazine.

Part two of the nautical cards plus the first of 3 cards made using the boat stamp as the main feature.

Two more cards below using the boat stamp. Terrific techniques is all about Stamping techniques.

More stamped cards.

Great inspiration for male themed cards.

More inspiration.

Special occasion cards showing that this set of stamps & paps are quite versatile.

2 more ideas.

This article uses the stencil to create some cards.

Great article on aperture cards.

Cards with dimension.

More ideas for dimensional cards,

There’s more ideas in the magazine, I just ran out of time to feature them all.

Happy Crafting
Love Michele

Michele thank you so much for a fantastic in Depth review into Phil Martin's Box Kit, I was really keen to get mine, the papers are really lovely quality, thick and would take most techniques too.

There are some great features, I personally didn't find them particularly inspiring but there are lots of freebies to play with including a nice sentiment stamp set. 

I am really grateful to you Michele, as always XXX

That's all for today Ladies, I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Love and huge hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx