Dry Embossed Background Card

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

Goodness me it was cold yesterday,  I don't think I was warm all day,  the sun was shining but the wind kept the temperature down all day.  Hopefully it will be warmer today.

We actually bought an electric blanket in Aldi on Saturday,  its a dual side control one which is perfect as Paul likes to get into a cold bed,  I change bedding on a Sunday anyway so I put it straight on when we got back, then laid on it to see if I could feel it, which I could, only because its a double and our bed is a king, so there is a ridge where if finishes, I am like "the Princess and the Pea" in so far as I can't even bare a wrinkle in my sheet, so I was in a dilemma.  So my solution is...I will put it in the bed when I get out in the morning,  on top of the sheet, I will put it on an hour or so before we go to bed,  then just before we get into bed I will take it out, it worked on Sunday night, infact I said to Paul that it had earned half of its £20 cost on the first night,  it was like a warm hug!!  

Did any of you watch Call the Midwife on Sunday?  Omg it was so sad, I cried like a baby, after that we watched a documentary telling the stories of some of the Survivors of the Holocaust, it doesn't matter how many times you hear their stories it still shocks you to the core that a Human could inflict such evil onto another Human. I feel we owe it to those who want to tell us how they found the strength to survive to listen to their story. I bought a book called "Lily's Promise ", she is the oldest survivor of the Holocaust (I believe) she has written a book about How she survived the Holocaust, I saw an interview with her, she said that she wanted the world to know everything about the Holocaust in the hope that nothing like it ever happened again.  If any of you would like to read it after me,  I will gladly post it to you. xxx

Today's card was inspired buy the latest copy of Die Cutting Essentials magazine.

I dry embossed the background using the leaf dies that were free with the magazine,  

It's hard to show the embossing  but you can see a little of it.  I matted this onto a DL card blank and them started to add the embellishments.  I used one of the Alcohol ink backgrounds that I made with Sue last Thursday,  it was a perfect colour for leaves so I die cut the 'Happy' using a Julie Hickey die, cutting the background of the Happy in white and added foam pads and placed onto the embossed card, I then stamped the 'Birthday Wishes ' which is a Phil Martin stamp, in 'Verdant' Versafine Clair ink and cut it out and adhered it under the 'Happy'. I used the same Alcohol ink piece to die cut a selection of the leaves and atranged them above and below the sentiment. The alcoholic ink piece is actually glossy card so shines when it catches the light. I finished the card with some little glossy stickers.  I think that this would be a great Man Card.

I hope that you all have a lovely day, keep warm and safe my lovely friends.

Love and huge snuggles,

Sandra

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