Mixed Up Saturday

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

We are hoping for a nice relaxed weekend,  we both need some quiet relaxation.  I enjoyed a couple of hours in my craft room yesterday afternoon, which I really enjoyed, so I am hoping to do some more Crafting today. 

I have written a rather lengthy magazine review for you today on the Creative Stamping Magazine,  there are some fantastic features. 

Creative Stamping Magazine Review 

This Month's Issue of Creative Stamping Magazine features a lovely Stamp & Die set designed by John Lockwood as the Free Gift. 

There are some lovely stamps in the collection, there are both Focal point stamps and lots of little stamps that work perfectly for creating backgrounds or you could use them to create wrapping paper.  

As always with this magazine there is lots of inspiration from different designers giving lots of different styles.

This first feature shows you some lovely designs focused around the Die and its matching stamp. Sam Calcott has shared some beautiful Christmas cards.

This feature shows how versatile a 'Bubble Stencil' can be, it looks as though you would get the same results with a circle stencil. It shows some great ideas for those tricky 'Man' cards! 

In this feature Lisa Robson shows you how to use your free stamps to make cards for all occasions,  not just Christmas! I think its great to get more uses out of our craft products. Again there are some really inspirational designs. 

I don't have the new 'Mermaid Markers' by Jane Davenport,  they are Water reactive dye based ink waterbrushes.  The designer has achieved some great effects with them as you can see above.

This is one of the techniques that she used, it looks similar to the Sharpie technique that Karen uses.

John Lockwood gives us a sneak peek of his New 2020 Christmas releases and tells us what he has been up to this year. 

Hunkydory have some cute Christmas Gnome stamps  in their latest Magazine box set, this feature shares some projects made with them.

John Lockwood shares some projects that he has designed with the free stamps mixed with some of his favourite products. 

A few more of John's projects. 

Metallic finishes on cards is something we all do more of at this time of year, this feature shares a different way to achieve a more subtle Metallic finish using Metallic Ink pads.   The brand used on these particular projects is 'Delicata' ink. 

This is a great little technique using those inks.

Who doesn't love a Poinsettia on their Christmas cards, this feature shares cards made with the Poinsettia stamps in the magazine free gift.

Nicky Gilbert shows us how to achieve perfect layered stamping, the stamps used in this feature are Altenew. 

This is a close up of the technique. 

Another technique showing how to layer stamps using masks to create a beautiful wreath. 

Why not use your stamps to create gift wrapping? 

Some great ideas here.

I love Vellum wrapped cards, this feature shows different ways of stamping onto Vellum. 

There is a technique showing how to create a vellum overlay card. I love some of these cards 😍 

I will definitely be making some of these 'Quick and Clean', one layer cards.

The last feature that I am sharing shows how to get more from our stamped images by cutting them up, there are some brilliant ideas. 

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There is so much in this magazine Ladies,  it is worth every penny in my opinion.  There are plenty more features that I haven’t shared. 

I am excited to start making some of the cards featured in this magazine. 

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx