Mixed up Saturday

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Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that today finds you as well as can be, have you got anything fun planned for the weekend??

We are picking the girls up from Girona Airport today, now the fun will begin 🤣😂, goodbye peace and tranquility!!  Paul will be getting dragged out on the paddle board and allsorts. 

We were up and on the beach early yesterday morning as the wind had died down,  we were in the sea by 10.30am, had a lovely hour floating about,  frustratingly a wave caught the back of me as I was getting me out,  luckily Paul had hold of me but it didn't stop me stumbling forward falling full force onto my knee,the pain was immense,  I thought for a minute that I had dislocated either my knee of my hip!! Paul helped me up and luckily we were close by our towels,  we decided to go to the pool and relax on the loungers for the rest of the day, which is where I am writing this post. 

Creative Stamping Issue 149 review

I spotted this issue of Creative Stamping just before we left for Spain so I photographed it to share with you, its the first one I've seen in a while that I've liked the free stamps on and the projects featured.  The stamps are designed by Chloe's Creative cards.

This first feature shares some super sparkly, Very 'Chloe' glittered cards.  Pretty floral cards. 

These cards have all been created using the free downloadable papers that are also free, they are lovely pastel shades that you can stamp and ink onto.

I know that some of you have Gelli plates now,  so you might find this feature interesting.  You can use many different things on your Gel plate but for these cards she used dye based inks.   Blending colours with a brayer , then pressing a stamp onto the smooth blended background,  be careful not to move the stamp.  Now add a piece of white card, pressing evenly all over the background and then gently lift the card and look at your background, it's very addictive!  

This feature uses the sentiment stamps to create lovely backgrounds for your cards   

These lovely silhouette cards have all been created using the little silhouette stamps in the free collection.   I made one of these a week or so ago. The stamps are actually decent quality and stamp crisp silhouette images. 

Mirror stamping is a great technique to master, it enables you to get so much more from your stamps,  I used my Gelli plate to create my mirror stamped image, you can even buy small round and square gel plates for mirror Stamping.   There is a step by step tutorial above to help you to get the perfect image.  

There are plenty more features in the magazine,  I want to leave some surprises in case you want to buy it 😀 

I think its good value, the free stamps are great additions to your stash. 

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I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra  xxx