A new set of Thrinchies (Part 1)

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you all manage to stay warm on what is forecast to be a very chilly day! 

My creativity took a big hit after the mammoth task of those invitations,  so I sat at my desk for a good hour or two yesterday morning, trying to summon sum enthusiasm to create,  the first thing I did was to get rid of every trace of wedding invitations!  So after a bit of googling I decided to get my Tracey Evans stamps out, both new and from the Aall&Create days. 

Now I had to get creative with the stamps I used as I don't have all of Tracey's new stamp line, I delved back into my Aall&Create stamps and found alternatives to those I didn't have.  They are in sets of two style wise,  I loved the colours of these ones so that was my starting point. 

I masked off a circle on my 3 x 3 card and took Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade,  Candied Apple and Seedless Preserve Distress Oxide inks and blended them into my circle,  I then took a selection of stamps and created the little scene.  I took a little sponge ink applicator and blotted an area around birds head, just using water, I added a few drops of water and blotted that away and finished with some white splats.  

I will share part 2 tomorrow!  

I hope that you all have a good Friday,

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra xxx 

Sonia's beautiful Birthday card

 

Good Thursday Morning Ladies,  

Fingers and toes crossed that by the time you are reading this those flipping wedding invitations will be done and sent off to Becca,  I will be glad to see the back of them, I spent most of yesterday deckle edging and inking, dipping in gold embossing powder and heat setting each of the 'finer details ' sheets to go into the pockets inside the invitations,  I sat, excited to be finishing them, all I had to do was pop said sheets in pockets and adhere main invitation piece to the wallet/envelope,  only to discover that when the information sheets were designed they were a centimetre or so wider than I had planned for, so none fitted in the pockets,  so I had to rejig them, re cut them, re emboss and heat set them,  I admit I had a litlle bit of a mini breakdown at that point, it was an easy mistake,  I should have double checked before i started,  I ended up working on them until after 9pm !  

I am so grateful that Sonia sent me this gorgeous card to share today, as you can imagine there was no way I was getting any crafting done yesterday!  In fact at one point I said I was giving up crafting altogether!  I don't think i actually could give it up, I was just having a moment!  

Sonia used some of her new Temu bits to create this card, including the stencil for the background,  it's simply stunning,  those two tiny flowers are the perfect finishing touch, I really love that sentiment too, it's that delicate that even cutting in black doesn't take over the card,  it works perfectly. 

Thank you so much Sonia ❤️ 

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love and hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx 

Soph's Birthday Card

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,  

The girls have asked me to thank you all for your lovely birthday messages yesterday,  they had a lovely day thank you 😊 

Today I am sharing the card I made for Soph, thankfully she really liked it !  I did originally have it set out with a plain background but it just didn't look right, so I ran it through a wavy embossing folder and I think it added just enough detail without being too much.  

We had a lovely day celebrating their birthday,  I was exhausted by the time I got into bed !  

Karen, I have always wanted to try Canoli's maybe you could pick one up next time we have a meet up (i will give you the money).  My all time favourite is a Viennese Finger, the proper ones that literally melt in your mouth, they are so hard to find though, the little garden centre we go to has them, so I pick some up whenever we go.  I think they must be very high in calories though, I'm too scared to look, if you can't see them, they don't count right??? 😉 🤣😂

I hope that you all have a lovely day, 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx 

Happy Birthday Lucy & Sophie

 

Good Tuesday morning Ladies,  

We have an exciting day today as we are celebrating Lucy & Sophie's 25th Birthday,  how on earth can be 25, quarter of a century!!  I still remember having them like it was yesterday!   Being in the delivery suite and all the midwives being fixated on the tv that had been bought in specially as there was a Eastenders special discovering 'Who shot Phil Mitchell' I think we must have watched it back then as I remember being intrigued 🤣😂,  the girls didn't actually make an appearance until 5.20am on Friday 4th Feb,  Soph followed an hour & 20 minutes later !!  Our lives have never been the same since,  they fill our lives with joy and laughter,  (well most if the time 🙄🤣)!!  We have a busy day, starting with the girls and I going out for Birthday brunch,  then back home to wait for Paul to get home before opening their presents,  then we are out for dinner in the evening!  Well you are only 25 once, not that I can remember 😉 

Today I am sharing the card I made for Lucy, I used some really colourful patterned paper, added a mat that I had die cut lots of '25's out of, I adhered that over the patterned paper, for the focal point I layered 3 lots of '25' die cuts and stacked them for dimension to add the centre of the circular focal point, I stamped 'Happy' & Birthday'  above and below the '25' and added a few butterflies for fun. 

I will share Soph's card tomorrow. 

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love & hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx 

Good Monday Morning Ladies

 

GooMonday Morning Ladies, 

We are starting February with some very chilly weather, luckily we were blessed with sunshine fir our trip out today, the girls had the weekend off and wanted to spend the day at Costco & Ikea,  lord only knows why Costco!!! Lucy's needed some bits and Soph did too, Lucy had bought something that is meant for storing carrier bags , she is turning it into vinyl storage.  Sophie bought some storage bits and so I am looking forward to seeing her organising her room. 

I made this card on Friday,  as it was in a Stencil set that I had yet  to use.  I thought it would make a great 6 x 6 card, I used the colours that came in the Crafters Companion stencil & stamp collection that (I got as a bargain on a Facebook selling site) The colours weren't very wet, so I'm not sure weather to use them again.  I like the stencils but some of them have very intricate middle bits that refuse to lay done when inking which was so frustrating!  I think if i used my temporary adhesive it would leave marks on the previous layers of inking, it's a bit annoying at the least, I have another 2 sets of this same collection,  fingers crossed the inks are ok in them.

I don't think this one turned out well, the inking doesn't look as detailed and sharp as the perfect picture on the packaging 🤔  however I like the colour combination. 

I'm sorry if none of this makes any sense, after a busy day out, I kept nodding off to sleep between paragraphs 🤣😂

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

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx 

A look back at our crafting this week

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you are all having a good weekend,  we had a pretty standard Saturday,  which is basically a leisurely Brunch and food shopping,  which apart from the journey and the company,  is not my favourite,  I used to enjoy food shopping but now I find it tedious and bloody expensive!! 

Today we have more of a fun day out with the girls, they want to go to Ikea, which is never a bad thing, we may pop to Costco (also girls choice) too. 

What are you all up to today?? 

Let's see what you have been making! 

Karen 

Karen's Description:

Snippet (1):  I made this Snippet yesterday and turned it into a card Don’t know number of Snippet coz I found it after doing a search on FB

Categories: Flower-Stamping- Snippet (or embossing powder)

Card (2):  Here’s a challenge card 

Categories:  Patterned paper- bold sentiment- butterfly

Karen you have hit the ground running in your craft room since you returned from your cruise, you have made some amazing things. 

Your Snippet is stunning, I love the colours and that background is amazing.

Bella's Birthday card is gorgeous, I love the colours, you can't beat dotty card for cuteness!  I really like the die cut circle revealing the dotty card and the Age.  I might do something like that for one of the girls birthday cards.  

Thank you for the inspiration my lovely XXX

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:  

Hi, this is a little Fridge magnet that I made

I used ultra thick embossing powder, heated it then put in the freezer to cackle. Sorry doesn’t show in the photo.

Categories:  Flower/ Stamping/ Embossing 

Oh Lilian, what a brilliant idea, I'd never thing of turning little stamped pieces into Fridge magnets, what a lovely gift to send somebody,  you may have made it a while ago but it hasn't dated at all.  Now I found a load of Extra thick embossing powder when we moved so I may have a go at a fridge magnet!! 

Thank you so much for inspiring me and sharing your work. XXX

Sonia 

Sonia's Description:

The Happy and Birthday dies are both from Temu, but different sets. Flowers Spellbinders. And the background is a Tim Hiltz stencil very faint in Spun Sugar xx

Categories:  Bold Sentiments/ Flowers/ stencil

Absolutely gorgeous card Sonia, those Bold sentiment flowers in soft pastel colours work so perfectly on that Bold sentiment.  

Thank you so much for sharing your card with us XXX 

Gina

Gina's Description:

 Hi sandra, i made a card last week i think for a friend for her daughter. The happy birthdsy die is su wilson from years ago, the wax seal is from amazon two years ago and i am sure you recognise the die from spellbinders which the seal is on, the numbers and word letters i purchased from selling groups. Can in go in the sunday roundup.

Gina your card is so lovely, I love how you used the wax seal, the wrap twine part definitely looks better on the square card.  The Bee on the seal is lovely too.  I bet your friend loved it, her daughter will too. 

Thank you so much for sharing your card with us, I love being able to share your work XXX

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Thank you all so much for supporting the challenge my lovely friends ❤️ 

I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,

Love & hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx 

Happy Saturday Ladies

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

Can you believe we are welcoming February already?  It feels like Christmas was a couple of weeks ago,  January usually feels like such a long month but not this year, maybe it's because I've had hospital procedures mixed with being busy with the wedding invitations and wedding planning!  I hope that doesn't mean the whole year will fly by.  I love February as we start to see all of the Spring flowers pushing through, we already have some lovely clumps of Snowdrops around the village, the daffs are pushing their way through too.                     We have an exciting week ahead, the girls are off this weekend,  then the girls birthday on Tuesday,  how can they be 25?!   Then Wednesday all of Becca's Bridesmaids are trying on their dresses together, so we have a lovely evening at Bull Hotel planned for that.  The wedding invitations are just about finished so they will be going out midweek too.  So February is getting off to a flying start i  our house.  

Yesterday I restarted my 'Snippet' journey,  I was inspired to restart by our Karen,  they really are a great way to get you into trying different craft techniques. 

This is Snippet number 57, designed by Tracy Evans of course. 

I took a piece of 4 × 6 inch card, I used large post it's to mask off a section of the card, I took my brayer and loaded it with Salvaged Patina Oxide ink, then I added a layer of Cracked Pistachio and.a final light touch of Salty Ocean.  I flicked some water on and blotted it off to add some more texture to the background.  Next came the stamping, which started with the Fern stamps, and the Bird that has the ferns as part of the design, to add some extra detail I stamped the " Each Day is a Treasure " sentiment all over the background in grey (so that it stays in the background,  then I stamped the same sentiment in Black onto white card so that it stands out.  I added shading around the sentiment too. 

These are just bits of art to get you crafting, you can add to them to make into a card or a journal page.  

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend,  

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx