Clean & Simple Old / New card

Good Monday Morning Ladies 

Ooh yesterday was a busy one, I felt like I was on the go all day!

You know when you get the urge to clean something and next thing you know you have rearranged half kitchen or craft room,  well that was my day.  I went to iron something,  remembered that iron needed descaling, so waited for Paul to carry it to sink,  took the descaling parts out and thought 'ooh that needs to sit in citric acid,  so boiled kettle, saw that needed doing then the water filter, etc I never got around to ironing anything!  Then I made omelettes for lunch (we are trying to eat healthy on run up to my surgery) I bought an 'Omelette Maker'  oh my its brilliant and makes a lovely thick Omelette,  much more appetising than I made in Frying pan!  

By this time it was after 3pm and I needed to make cards for Blog and I for girls friend to give his girlfriend.  I made today's card relatively quickly,  the inky piece I had in my stash, so die cut the leaves out of that with my 'Old ' Tim Holtz leaf die,  I then used 2 'new' items:  the stictched square die and the leaf embossing folder.  The sentiment is an old Tim holtz stamp,  which I embossed in gold and added some gold gems to finish. 

The other card I made in ChatGPT while also helping Paul make Roast Beef dinner, Lucy decided it needed a box, by this point it was 8.30pm, could I get my brain into 'box making' mode 😌, no, I had convinced myself I needed A3 card,  of course I didn't,  thankfully ChatGPT came to rescue, made the box, then it needed a pretty label or something so got that designed and finished and by then it was 10 45pm!  I had to face the devastation in my craft room this morning 😲!  I was too tired to do it last night !!  I think I had every square and rectangle die out that I own. 

I had a thought this morning....maybe ChatGPT can help me learn to use my Scan&Cut ! It's worth an ask. 

I hope you all have a great start to your week, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

A look back at our makes

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,  

Firstly please join me in wishing our lovely Lilian a very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 

I hope that you have a lovely day celebrating with your family my lovely 😘

We had a busy day yesterday,  food shopping and shopping for a new Tv, my goodness the technology has changed an awful lot since we last bought a tv,  it must have been atleast ten years ago!  Most of the jargon sounds like nonsense,  luckily Paul had done is research.  

So today will be a quiet one, I have a card to make for a friend of the girls to give his girlfriend, I may have a play with some other bits too.  

Lets look back at what we made this week....

Karen

Karen's Description:  

I have had a go at crafting but swapping to and from glasses was a real pain I wanted to paper piece the leaves but proved too much I wish I’d placed the Kraft card leaf closer to the gold mirri and with hindsight left off the Nuvo gold glitter drops 🤷‍♀️

So old is the Gummipian leaf die cut in Kraft, gold mirri and brown card Never used it before - thanks for the prompt on today’s blog

Old - Nuvo drops I stopped using them because I always messed up 

New is my latest Happy Birthday die from Memory Box

Karen I love your clean and simple design,  I really like those Gummiapan stylised leaf/tree die cuts.  Your placement is perfect,  the Nuvo dots are a lovely finishing touch.  That sentiment die is amazing,  I love the delicate font, it looks almost handwritten.  

Thank you so much my lovely,  it warms my heart to see you crafting again, you are over the half way point of your recovery,  I can understand how frustrating it must be for you XXX

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Hi, here is my challenge page for this week

I used an old Sue Wilson set of dies and the daisy papers.

The stencil is one I have used many times.

What a beautiful combination Lilian,   I love that stencil too, I can see why its a favourite.  The Sue Wilson die works so well with both the background and those Daisy Art pieces. 

Thank you so much, I do appreciate you pushing yourself to create something for todays challenge my lovely XXX 

Maria

Maria's Description: 

This is a card for my Mum using  a die bought from Temu. It's not a two - partner which would have been better but I can always use the fallout pieces for something else later.

I took out bits that my mum likes like dogs and cats, flowers and she used to knit and crochet a lot when she could still see.

Maria your card for your Mum is perfect, I know she will love it, especially as you have included some of her favourite things.  Thank you so much for sharing your lovely card my lovely XXX 

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I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,  

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

It's Saturday!!

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,  

Our first October weekend, it's crazy to think that we turn clocks back in a couple of weeks !! 😳 

What have you all got planned this weekend??  Other than our Lilian,  I'm sure she will be partying with family 🥳🤣

Sonia I am so pleased you had such lovely weather for your week away,  I know what you mean about holidays flying by,  it's crazy,  I hope that you have had the best time,  you have visited some beautiful places. xxx

Maria I hope that you arrived safely and are having as good a time as possible.  I bet your mum was over the moon to see you my lovely xxx

Gina

Gina got an absolute bargain haul from charity shops.  

Gina's Description:

Before I went away I visited charity shops, I spent £10 in One and £8 in the other. This is what I got, now I just have to find somewhere to put it all.

You got some great bits, I'm sure you will put them to good use xxx

This hasn't photographed well,  but I love the sentiment and the cute birds 🥰

I am going to be boring and show you this weeks Dahlias

Oh and these roses haven't stopped flowering all summer ...

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday 

Love & hugs to all  

Sandra xxx 

Another 'very ' old paper, new die card

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you have all had a good week,  my thoughts are with our lovely Maria today,  I hooe that you arrived in Sweden safely my lovely,   your Mum is going to be so surprised to see you my lovely,  its such a lovely thing to do.   I hope it ends up being easier than you were worried about.  I am always at the end of the phone if you need a chat, I have to say that you are far braver than I am, flying all that way on your own 😘

I like this reminder and the artwork 😊 

Onto today's card,  now...I had a proper rummage about in my boxes of paper for today's card,  do you remember back in the day when we all liked the 'Ann Marie Designs' Dotty card, it had matching stripe and floral too I believe,   it used to work really well with Sue Wilson dies,  I must be going back ten years here,  I had it at bungalow for sure. 

I picked out this pale grey one for this card,  now....I have a confession the topper is actually back to front 🤣😂, the large flower was meant to be pointing to the left originally but because the 'linen' embossing folder which is also quite old has a really good emboss and deboss I clearly couldn't tell the difference and stuck the foam pads on the wrong side!!!  I was going to start again but I was done by this point, so I adhered it the wrong way around and added the yellow dots as a contrast to the grey.  I die cut the 'smile' 3 times and stacked it for bigger impact and added it above the small flower.  

Quite clean & simple I think 🤔 

I hope that you all have a lovely Friday,  

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx

Very Old papers New die card

Good Morning Ladies,  

Welcome October,  a month I love,  the colours,  looking at the changing trees, warm cosy evenings, it's like a big cosy hug. 🍂

(I asked ChatGPT to help me design the Welcome October sign above 😊) 

I think this is an odd 'reminder'  because I'm not sure who would feel the need to 'apologise for being who they are' unless it's means when someone feels they need to apologise for being an untidy crafter etc 😉🤣

Today's card features a VERY OLD set of 'Mixed Media Papers' from Bee Crafty, I have had them atleast 10 years,  they were a bit of an 'oops' purchase,  I bought them and just couldn't think of anything to do with them.

Until yesterday,  I took a piece of one of the sheets 

and used it to create a mat on my cream card base, I used the same cream linen card and cut a slatted circle using my NEW Craftaddiction Dies                     I then fussy cut a butterfly that perfectly matches the background I used for the mat.  I placed a foam pad behind the butterfly and placed on to the circle.  Then I used my NEW Gummiapan 'Happy Birthday die to finish the card. 

I hope the cards I have made this week have showed how easy this challenge can be.  

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love & hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx

A Quick card for today..

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,

Just a quick one today,  I had a good day yesterday,  Lucy and I popped out for a few bits to make some different soups,  I saw the Ninja soup maker on offer a week or so ago and so i ordered one,  we have wanted one for a couple of years but talked ourselves out of getting one.  

I also asked ChatGPT to help me devise a healthier eating plan for Oxtober so that I can go into this surgery as healthy as possible,   he asked me some background information, I explained that GP had suggested a 800 calorie diet,  which it thought was ridiculous.  It said I need to concentrate on having good protein intake as its essential for building muscle etc,   so it is devising a healthy eating plan as we speak.  

Another very true reminder, although they can easily get overlooked.  😘

Today's card is another using that same lovely paper collection 'Beautiful Gallery' that I used for yesterdays card,  this time I paired with 'Mossy Meadow' a lovely dark green that I used for Becca's wedding invitations. The card is 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 inch I cut a panel of card 1/4 inch smaller and covered it with a piece of the paper and a piece of embossed Mossy Meadow card as a contrast,  I covered the join with a lovely linen ribbon. 

Now,  I wasn't sure where to put the sentiment so I showed both options , I think I prefer the first option!  

I hope that you all have a lovely Wednesday,  

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

My first "Old /New" Challenge card

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

Well I did finally get around to making a card,  it took me most of the day as I was busy on the phone on and off for an hour or so, trying to find the right department at the right hospital 🙄,  that's the problem with being referred out of your area.  I think they originally referred me to Warwick/Stratford & Coventry because I had been to the surgery in February or March after having that Endoscopy,  the GP I saw confirmed that I had a Hernia but wasn't sure which type.  I left the surgery waiting for a referral and around 8 months later while on a phone consultation with GP about bladder issues I said how disappointed I was that I had heard nothing more about Hernia and told her that the GP I saw actually wrote on my notes that he would update me in 3 weeks.   

She could clearly see that nothing was done so I think she referred me to the hospital with the shortest wait list.   It is totally out of our NHS (Gloucestershire).  Which is ok apart from the fact that they have no access to any of your medical records.   The surgeon I saw was so lovely though, so fingers crossed all will be well,  Surgery is booked for late October. 

This is such an important reminder, if you don't take care of your mental health it will eventually affect your physical health.  It is very hard to manage though.  😘

I finally managed to sit and create something yesterday,  for our new Challenge I picked the papers I got on Friday from Stampin Up and for the old I used Arch dies that I bought in a Spellbinders sale a few years ago and I'm not sure I have ever used them either 🙄,  the Embossing folder is old too, as is that narrow crocheted lace.  

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra xxx