Watercolour Thrinchie (2)

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies, 

We had a girls day yesterday,  Soph was having a 'painting day' (she is painting a second art piece for the wildlife park) so she was painting,  Lucy was making a Credit card wallet out if faux leather on her Cricut and I sat down to create a card that was quite a throwback for me, me desk and my while craft area looked like a bomb had gone off, I changed the colour and lay out about three times, so that was three lots of embellishments, ribbon, lace etc,  lord knows how many die cuts 🤣😅,  the girls were like "what on earth are you doing", I eventually made my mind up and thoroughly enjoyed sitting and creating with all the pretty things I haven't used in years. 

Today I am sharing the second of the watercolour Thrinchies that I made on Monday,  I used exactly the same technique as yesterday's watercolour Thrinchie.  This one I just stamped half of the flower and then stamped the plant name and the hares on top.   These were definitely a fun pair of Thrinchies to create. 

I hope that you all have a great Wednesday,

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra xxx 

Watercolour Thrinchie

 

Good morning Ladies,

I can't believe I'm saying this but 'Welcome April' !!

It means that Becca's Wedding is only 4 months away!!  That's absolutely mental, it feels like we have literally only just stopped saying that the wedding is 'next year' !!   We are off to a great start though,  it was lovely yesterday,  lets hope it lasts, our seeds are all germinating, it's getting very exciting, soon be time for planting out. 

Today I am sharing a Thrinchie that I made yesterday, well this is one of two! 

I followed a Tracey Evans tutorial, I started by stamping the flower all over the card, using a mask, then adding white embossing to create an Emboss Resist,   now came the new bit....

I used a fine tipped bottle to add drops of water in the embossed flower petals,  the embossing holds the water within, 

Next I loaded my paintbrush with watercolour ink (from my koi palette) after the brush is loaded simply tap the brush into the water droplets,  you can addca few different shades,  the method lets  the water do the blending

You can gradually build up the colour and try and leave to dry, I popped mine on the Aga top and it dried quite quickly, you can see some of the different shades i the other parts of the flower.

After it was completely dry I went between the a lilac colour paint.  After it was all done and dry I wiped over all of the embossed detail with a damp cotton bud, revealing all of the white detail,  then next I started on the sentiment stamping and cutting down, then I stamped and fussy cut the Hare and adhered those and finished with some splatters, then mounted onto a black base.

It is a fun way to watercolour, I hope you get to try it.

Have a lovely day my lovelies,

Sandra xxx

My Mother's Day card from Lucy

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies,  

I hope that you all had a lovely weekend, especially yesterday, the weather was very kind to us,  we didn't do anything super exciting,  sadly my lot were all working, apart from Becca who is skiing in Italy, the girls had a super busy day at the Wildlife park,  they almost broke their record high for sales, with the sell out day and the extra hour of work the girls were exhausted when they got in.  Paul and I popped to the garden centre for an hour or so and then had afternoon tea in the beautiful warm sunshine on the decking.  

Today I am sharing my amazing Mother's day card from Lucy,  she used her Cricut to create the whole card, even the sentiment!!  I love how the sentiment is cut out with that neat border all around it, the other thing that blew my mind was the Bee's antennae,  they are so intricate and perfectly cut, the design of the card is perfect and all of the elements are cut and placed perfectly,  I feel so proud that my girl is enjoying paper crafting just like her Mum, although her first cards are 1000 times better than mine were 🤣😂 

I hope that you all enjoy this last day of March,

Love & hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx 

Let's look at this weeks makes..

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that all of you amazing Mum's have a wonderful day being spoiled by your family, I think of you all as Mum's and couldn't think of anyone better, you are always there to listen to my worries, offer advice when I need it and you all inspire me more than you know.  I feel blessed having you incredible ladies in my life ❤️ 

Have you all remembered to put your clocks forward?? I think most of ours update themselves, except the cooker and boiler control. 

Karen

Karen's Description:

A card for the challenge 

 The EF was a bargain bucket buy from Ally Pally and I chose lilac because it matches the little cardigan I have made The purple isn’t quite as deep for the paper piecing It’s described as Wisteria!

Love the colour, that little footprint embossing folder is so cute too.  These dies never go out of style do they. 

Thank you for sharing your card with us XXX 

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Here is my card for this week.

An old embossing folder from couture creations.

Stamp from Tim Holtz, Paris garden ?( not sure of the name)

Coloured with oxide inks, and going over with distress pencils.

Also used the pencils for the flowers.

Gorgeous card Lilian,  love that flower stamp, beautifully coloured too.  Those borders are amazing, they look like printed papers 😍

Thank you so much for a lovely card,  I hope you have a lovely weekend with your daughter XXX

Maria

Maria's Description:

On this card I have used a new embossing folder , looks a bit like cushions. I've used some envelope dies, a small and a bigger one and then put little hearts to fly out and love you 💋💗 😂 

I will have to change it tho......

Maybe it will be an extra card for Rick if I do it the right way up 🤗

Its a cute card, Rick would love it 😍, I have a quilted embossing folder similar to that but always forget to use it, one of mine is an A4 one by Sue Wilson,  funny how we all used to use the big ones but we don't now, our cards are smaller though aren't they, imagine the postage on those big 8 x 8 cards with the ribbon  flowers and hat pins!! 

Thank you my lovely for sharing your lovely card XXX

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I hope that you all have a lovely  Mothers Day, 

Love and huge hugs to all, 

Samdra xxx

Mixed up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning, Ladies,

I thought I would share a few snaps of my afternoon in the garden on Wednesday,  the sun was so warm, Milo and Bella joined Paul and I and loved every minute of the sunshine.  

Todays quote couldn't be more true,  after all its the whole reason we do what we do, apart from the fact that it keeps us sane !! 🤣

Firstly I'd like to share Maria's cutest Crystal art ever ...

Maria's Description:

My little cutie, a polar cub under an aurora borealis sky. 

Oh Maria he is the most adorable crystal art you've done,  having the Aurora Borealis behind him illuminates his fur!  

Thank you so much for sharing him with us XXX 

Here are the photos from our garden,  oooh but first ....

Look at my amazing Sourdough bread, it smells divine, the hardest thing is having to wait for it to cool before you cut it to see if its a 'good crumb' luckily it was perfect! 

Onto the garden...

Our adorable fur babies Milo & Bella 🥰😍

We have a woodland area of the garden, while looking for the wild garlic we planted last year I discovered this patch of violets,  I took a close up of one,  I think they are perfect for inspiration for colouring our stamped flowers. 

Some Daffodils and our first tulip ! 

Our rockery Area was bare last year, we bought a few reduced plants at the garden centre to put in it, most were 50p,  I was so surprised to see them bursting with colour and spreading nicely ! 

Lastly a couple of photos of the baskets at the front of the house springing to life. 

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend and can get out in your garden,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx

Snowdrop Snippet

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

I am truly ready for the weekend, what a long day yesterday was,  we didn't get back from the hospital until 7pm as the journey was very 'rural', I mean we went through some lovely places but my goodness it took forever.  Added to that I had the worst upset tummy, I'm not sure if it was down to anxiety about the appointment or something I had eaten, although I hadn't tried anything new.           The appointment went well, the consultant has referred my to a Bile Duct Specialist in Birmingham as my issue wasn't something that he had seen a lot of and it wasn't his area of expertise.  I have to have another full liver function blood test done, so that he can send the results with the referral.  His main concern was the effects the Bile duct holding fluid instead of being free flowing is having on my liver.  So we wait for that appointment now, I was relieved that ruled out the worst outcome! 

Todays Snippet I actually made last week, I used a circle stencil and masked off the rest of the card, I then blended Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio onto the masked off circle and blended lightly,  I ten spritzed with water to add some more texture, blotted with kitchen roll and then tried, I then stamped the snowdrops over the inked circle and went in and painted the Snowdrops in, in white acrylic paint,  so that they stood out more,  although my camera hasn't picked that up well. 

To finish I stamped the March Hare and added some shading.  Then came the splatters in white paint. Finished with a black mat. 

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra xxx 

Colourful Thrinchie (2)

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

We had a beautiful day of sunshine again yesterday, it was so warm out in that sun,  Paul and I pottered in the garden in t shirts in the late afternoon, admiring the flowers that Spring has treated us to. 

Lucy took Soph to Minor injuries as her foot was still painful and swollen,  she has sprained it, thankfully no broken bones, with that and her cough she is a bit miserable,  Lewis is coming over to spend the day with her to day, so that should cheer her up. 

Today's Thrinchie is the pair I did to one I made last week, its a lovely colourful one using Salty Ocean,  Wilted Violet, Fossilised Amber,  Twisted Citron,  Picked Raspberry & Spiced Marmalade,  I added all of those to a background stamp, spritzed with water and stamped onto thrinchie,  I then used a circle stencil to draw 2 circles in black pen, then add shading.  The main focus of the card is the Crocus that I stamped in Wilted Violet & Twisted Citron,  I added a little more colour with pencils,  then fussy cut and adhered to largest circle, I then stamped the pheasant,  added some white splatters and matted onto black card. 

I have my Upper GI hospital appointment today,  hopefully I will finally get some answers, fingers crossed its nothing too horrendous!! 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx