Mixed Up Saturday featuring Michele's Magazine Review

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

What are you all up to this weekend, I imagine that half the population of the UK are putting up their Christmas Decorations but we are nowhere near ready to do that, as I said previously, I would get sick if the clutter before the big day!  Our village are making a 'thing' of outside decorations this year, following on from the success of the Scarecrow Trail, a few houses have already started.  Do any of you decorate outside??

Karen

Karen has added another species to her growing Cute Crocheted Critter collection, this time it's the cutest Jellyfish I have ever seen, she has been crocheted in Aldi chunky yarn so she is a little bigger.  Karen you just have a way of making boring creatures look cute and desirable!                                      Thank you so much for allowing me to share them XXX

Michele

Our Michele is a Winner, she made some amazing cards with the magazine freebie, she made a stamp using funky foam and the free die. 

These are some of the cards that she made with the free die, after sending them in to the magazine she heard that she was being featured as 'Happy Mail' and won a £50 Craftstash Voucher too, which is amazing prize, I can't wait to see what you spend it on. XXX

Michele's Magazine Review

Hi Ladies, 

Diecutting Essentials issue 72 comes with a lovely free gift this month. A multipurpose sets of dies.

Here’s some ideas of what’s inside the magazine.

First of three features using the free gift-showing kits if different style cards.

Second article-new year & special occasions coveted here.

Party invitations & table decorations in this article.

I sent the editor a letter and when I opened the magazine I saw that I’d been chosen as the Star letter! They’re going to print another letter of mine next month.

Floating diecut frames explained in this article-don’t they look amazing?

Create Bokeh backgrounds using your circle dies.

More detailed explanation here.

I’m sure pretty cards like these could be created using what we already have in our stash.

How to create your own masks & stencils using diecut shapes.

Just using basic shaped dies  (or punches) you can create some lovely cards.

More ideas.

Telescopic apertures-I just love the look this technique creates.  You could use just about any set of dies to create this look.

More ideas.

That’s it for this week so
Happy Crafting

Love Michele

Thanks so much Michele,  another fantastic Magazine Review,  those telescopic apertures look great, great feature for using left over papers too. I really appreciate you taking time to write these features for us each week, the magazine companies should have you on commission!  XXX

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I hope that you all have a lovely weekend my lovelies,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                                                                                                          xxxxxx