Cute little Faux watercolour notelet

Good Morning Ladies, 

How are you all today,  weren't we lucky with another day of sun, it was warm too.  

Janet I do hope you made it to K & N, just getting out of the house can lift your mood.  XXX 

Lilian I hope that your new antibiotics have started working and that you are feeling brighter xxx

Brenda, are you home yet?  I do hope so, there is nothing like your own bed, as well as the quiet, hospitals are noisy places, I've been on wards with some quite colourful characters!  One lady had learning disabilities,  she would call nurses constantly,  at night she'd wander around,  I woke up on a few occasions with her stood over me as I was asleep, I about had a heart attack from the shock!  Then you'd hear all other ladies shouting in shock to find her virtually in bed with you, it started affecting everyones sleep so much they moved her to a side room,  you could still hear her shouting for Nurses,  if it went more than 15 minutes, she'd throw whatever was on her bedside table out into the hallway, plastic cups, the clipboard with her notes, her slippers and shoes, it was frustrating at night but so sad to think how confused her mind must have been. The main issue was she'd had hip replacement and wasn't supposed to walk unaided!!  Poor sweet lady.  

Today's card is a little notelet, I intend to make a set of 4.  This one started by doing 'Faux watercolouring'  I inked my stamp with Pumpkin Pie & Mossy Meadow ink, placed watercolour card in the stamp platform , then spritzed the inked stamp with water, I stamped it then spritzed again and re stamped to get the colours moving a little bit. To make it more interesting I added some tiny splats of Pumpkin pie and crumb cake ink around the flowers.  

I matted and layered the card base, starting with  crumb cake base card, then mats of Early Espresso and a coordinating patterned paper.   I quite like how this one turned out.  I will share the others as I make them. 

I hope that you all have a great Tuesday, 

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra xxx

A pretty scene card

 

Goid Monday Morning Ladies

Here we are at the start of a new week, its going to be a busy one for us with the wedding this Friday and Saturday!  I still have no shoes! We went suit/shirt and tie shopping yesterday, what a palava, were in Next over an hour and half,  if the jacket and waistcoat were perfect they didn't have the trousers, then we found a pairif trousers a d a waistcoat that looked amazing but no jacket in stock. I have ordered one of the ones we liked and it 'should ' be here by Wednesday!!

Today's card is a quick one I put together when we got back from shopping.  I was inspired by a couple of Pinterest cards.

I used my Meandering Meadows papers,  I layered it with some matching card (Mossy Meadow) which I embossed, I added a small strip of brown card with some twine wrapped around for some interest.  The papers are so pretty they deserve to be the main feature.  

Brenda I hope that you are home and that your procedure has you feeling better xxx

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

Love & hugs to you All,

Sandra xxx

Look what we have all been making...

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,

I know I didn't set another challenge this week, I was afraid that you had all gotten tired of them.  I just like to keep you ladies motivated to get in that Craft room and use all of the wonderful products that you have been excitedly collecting over the past few years, its so easy to keep putting off going in and just having a play with your craft stash.  That's all it can take to reignite your craft passion,  we all get busy with the boring and mundane things in life,  sometimes its stress or trauma or illness that can cause us to close the door on the craft room and find something else to occupy our minds.  Your mobile phone is often the biggest stealer of time ( I know mine is).  I now try to put it away for a couple of hours a day to make myself go and do something creative. 

When we do finish a project and love how it turned out the feeling is amazing,  especially of its a card or gift for a loved one or friend that you know they love.  Sometimes its lovely just to pop a 'RAK' (random act of kindness ) card in the post, let me tell you that the joy of opening a surprise card and reading that someone is thinking about you and knowing that they have sat and made a card for you is INCREDIBLE and makes such a difference to someone's day.  So your 1/2 hour creative session in your craft room can be beneficial to you and the recipient of your creation!  

Now lets see what you have all been making....

Sonia 

Sonia's Description:

I sat and put some cards together this morning. They were all stamped, and inked ready to go with my newest stamps from DarkRoom Door and Penny Black. I’ve used my Lavinia Magical Mica Sprays to add colour. The sentiments are stamped directly to the cards and are from My Favourite Things 😊

Oh its lovely to see you crafting again my lovely! 

Your cards are beautiful,  I really do love that DarkRoom Door daisy stamp. 

That Penny Black simple drawn flower is gorgeous too.  Lovely clean and simple designs. 

Thank you so much for sharing them my lovely XXX 

Lilian

Lilian's Description:

Hi, hope you are having a good Saturday.

As you can see I bought Kay’s box kit, so although I’m still not better, have made one of the basic cards from the kit.

I didn’t have the correct colour peach to hand and wasn’t able to pull out all my card.

Patterned paper is from the magazine, plain colours are mine.

Oh Lilian,  I kind of knew you would have this magazine,  it really is a good one isn't it?!

I absolutely love your card, its one of the ones that I had earmarked to create, its so much easier having most of what you need in the kit.  Your paper choices from your stash work perfectly with the papers in the kit, you would never know they weren't part of the actual 

Sue 

Sue's Description:

All new dies that I bought after seeing a lovely card which I can’t find now! I tried to remember it as best I can but it’s not quite right. It’s the first time I have sat at my desk and crafted for so long and my mojo has definitely come back 👏🏻🥰

Lovely to see you are feeling up to crafting again, love the card and love those butterflies.   Thank you for sharing your card XXX 

Maria

Maria has made 2 beautiful versions of the fun fold card I shared with you last Saturday.  I absolutely love both versions, the sideways one is a genius idea, I love how that looks, your colouring on that topper is amazing by the way.                                        The second card with Hunkydory topper is so lovely  that Criss-Cross background looks great behind the topper.

Thank you so much for having a go at the fold and for sharing your cards XXX

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I hope that you all have a good day, better than mine anyway,  I am in absolute agony with the worst UTI I have had in a while.  😔 Luckily I have antibiotics on hand fingers crossed 🤞 they are the right ones 

My love and hugs to all of you 

Sandra xxxxxx

Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

I hope that today finds you as well as can be, gentle hugs to those of you that are feeling under the weather xxx

Today I thought I'd share the latest IndigoBlu magazine with you all....

IndigoBlu Mixed-Media Special

Issue 8 

It's a lovely issue with some nice free gifts,  a lovely set of stamps with some matching dies and 2 nice stencils. 

The first feature shares some lovely projects that spotlight or highlight a specific area.  I like the clean and simple look.

Sarah Phelan has given some lovely inspiration for the free dies on this page 

I have made a masterboard before and really enjoyed it, so I will be definitely having a go at this  

A Masterclass on Mixed Media by Kay herself,  some of these projects are gorgeous,  I would love to sit and make one, be good to use up all the lace and bits that I have.  

Janet I can imagine you enjoying doing these as well.

These are all quick to make cards made using some of the gorgeous free papers that  come with the magazine 😍 

Some journal pages and scrapbook layouts in this feature.

We can't leave those pesky men folk out can we?!,  Katie has some fun Man cards.

How gorgeous are those papers!!! The quality is amazing too, there are 2 of each pattern so plenty to play with.

These lovely cards all feature the stencils, something we all have but often forget to use.  I love these cards. 

Just one of the stamps in the free set is the main focus of these cards, it just shows the versatility of the set.

Now I have ink sprays but just never remember to use them partly because of the mess, the thing is that I love the effect when I do use them.  

Teabag folding, paper weaving,  paper rolling, some origami flowers and a shirt fold I remember from way back when I first started crafting it was the go to for a man card  !!

If you like Kays style of crafting you'll love these projects that she has shared how to create, a little more time consuming but well worth the effort.

Finally these lovely clean and simple designs look great fun to make, great for any occasion too.

Now this magazine was £14.99 and in my opinion worth the money, the free gifts are really usable and there is so much inspiration inside the magazine.

What do you think?

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday, 

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxxx