Good Saturday Morning Ladies,
I hope that you are all relaxed and ready for the weekend, do you have anything nice planned? I don't think the weather is forecast to be as nice as last weekend but we will make the best of whatever we get. There's always plenty to do around here!!
I bought a craft magazine this week as I quite liked the sentiment stamps, so I will share that with you now ..
Simply Cards and Papercraft
Issue 268
A lovely selection of free stamps and the foliage and corner stamps are really pretty.
Mel Jess shows us some lovely projects to make with the free stamps, they are all different styles too! I love the floral card with the centre sentiment but I think my favourite ones are those inky background cards.
Nicky Gilburt has done a 'Tried & Tested' feature on the Sizzix Dimensional Diffuser, they are bits of plastic (same as embossing folders) that work with Embossing folders, you put a diffuser where you want blank space to be for a sentiment of focal point. The ones that Nicky is demonstrating come with embossing folders but you can buy the plain diffusersvin different shapes, I have some but have never used them so I will have a play and see how they work. The cards that Nicky has created are really lovely.
Vicki Derrick makes some fantastic gift wrap ideas with those lovely sentiment stamps, decorated with the pretty florals.
Laura Murcott shares some different ways of foiling without having to have a foiling machine, using double sided adhesive, heat bonding powder, which you add to sticky ink and as you heat it it becomes tacky so you can add gilding flakes and some foils. WOW Fab foil seems to be the one most used on these projects.
Here Laura is using FlitterGlu from IndigoBlu to adhere the Foil.....
It's great to see something that works as I have had many failed attempts using many different methods over the years.
Maggie Fielding takes you through how to make this gorgeous Fun Fold card using things you already have in your stash.
Some beautiful floral cards by Vanessa Hodgson using the free stamps and downloadable papers. I love the pretty spring patterns on the papers and they work perfectly with the stamps as you can see from the cards.
All of these cards are made using white card stock that has been die cut and coloured with inks, pens, watercolour paints or pencils. When you have diecut your flowers and foliage, think about where you want the lightest part of your flowers then work with darker ink on the shaded side blending to the lightest where the light would hit. These cards in this feature have the shade at the bottom working towards the light at the top.
You can zoom in on this little step by step above to give you some great hints and tips
All in all a good issue with some great techniques and some lovely inspiration.
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Maria's Shopping
Maria went to the Nec to the big craft show last weekend and she has kindly shared her shopping with us.
You bought some lovely things Maria, plenty of embossing folders and stencils for this weeks challenge!! 🤣
Lisa Hortons embossing folders are great, you get a really good deep emboss. Oh and those flower dies look great too.
Thank you so much for sharing your shopping with us, I do hope you have recovered from the journey XXX
I hope that you all have a great Saturday,
Love & hugs to all of you,
Sandra xxx
A great saying for today Thank you for the review I haven’t bought a magazine in yonks so I might treat myself to this one
ReplyDeleteThe Take That Experience was great fun It was lovely watching a show with good singers doing songs we all recognised and they encouraged the audience to join in
Nothing planned today I hope to go to Hobbycraft on Tuesday I might not buy anything (ahem!) but it’ll be good to take a look around That’s what I miss about not going to a craft show
Your shopping looks amazing Maria I’m looking to seeing your makes
Take care everyone xx
Hi all, great saying today, suits me usually but just lately nothing seems to get me crafting.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the magazine as Karen I might be tempted to order this one. The giveaways look really worth the money.
Maria lovely lot of goodies to play with.
Have a good weekend, Lilian
Hi Sandra and all looking in. Lovely Thrinchie yesterday. Great saying today. I look forward to seeing the crafting saying each Saturday my lovely.
ReplyDeleteI love the sentiments and those gorgeous floral and corner stamps. I have no ever actually made anything with corner stamps or dies but would love to. Another idea to go on the “things to try” list! Maybe that could be a challenge one day? Or as a how to or something. I’m sure Becca and Adam will have a lovely time, no doubt she will push herself though but hopefully not too hard. It’s good that she has you, Soph and Lucy to help with all things wedding. Hope you have a nice weekend with Paul xx
Maria you have got some lovely things from the show. Enjoy using them xx
Karen glad you had a good time last night xx
Brenda, some of these children’s clubs teachers are much too strict. It’s good to encourage but not to forget they are just children having fun xx
Have a good sleep. Take care. Love Sue xx
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ReplyDeleteHello everyone, great magazine review Sandra. Thank you taking the time to write the review in such detail.
ReplyDeleteDaughter was going today to the house they are buying to do some measuring up and said would we like to go with her to see the house, it was a lovely treat, the view from the rear of the house is beautiful, all of the bedrooms look out to this vista across the downs.
Hope you have all had a good day, enjoy the rest of the weekend. Hugs Brenda xxx
Sounds amazing Brenda xx
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