Card I made for Special Birthday

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies,  

Super quick blog post today,  I hope that you all had a good weekend and that you are ready for the new week ahead. 

Karen I so hope that you are feeling a bit better my lovely XXX 

Brenda I hope you got to spend your Birthday surrounded by your lovely family XXX

Maria I hope you have recovered from your NEC trip.  I can't wait to see your shopping XXX

Today I am sharing a card I made last week for a lovely friend. 

I used 49&Market Faded Memory Lane.  

I hope that you all have a great week ahead, 

Love & hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

Our Usual Sunday review of our crafting

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,  

I want to start by wishing our Lovely Brenda a Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 😘

I hope that you are home and enjoying a wonderful day surrounded by your lovely family ❤️ 

Lets see what Lilian & Sonia made this week....

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Here is my challenge piece for this week.

It’s another from the AAll&create list, it’s called cocktails.

Used Ai for the glasses, and a stencil for the background.

Lilian that is so amazing,  don't you love how you can create what could easily be 'Stamperia ' papers, I honestly thought that was a background paper. 

It works perfectly for the Aall&Create challenge too.   

Thank you so much for creating this lovely page for today's blog post.   I really appreciate you. 

I hope that your arm is not as painful today my lovely XXX 

Sonia

Sonia's Description:

All made using one of my ChatGPT Christmas sets

Inked all edges with Walnut Stain distress ink.

Added fine glitter to give a little bit of sparkle 🙂

Oh Sonia how absolutely adorable, your ChatGPT papers are so beautiful, those lovely hats and scarfs make you just want to hug them.  Such a beautiful designs.  

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful designs with usXXX 

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I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,   

Sonia I hope you have a lovely day out with Ted today xx 

Maria I hope you have a smooth journey to NEC and that you find lots of bargains xx

Karen I hope that you are feeling better today xx

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

Happy Saturday 😘

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

Welcome to the weekend my lovelies,   what are you all up to this weekend?   

Are any of you going to Firework displays,  Karen do your boys like Fireworks?    Sonia do James & Mollie take the children to see fireworks?  

We didn't hear one firework last night. 

They are a huge expense these days,  I remember when I was a child that literally everyone had fireworks in their garden,  my Dad absolutely loved it, he'd be out there in the afternoon setting up things for the Catherine Wheels and buckets of sand for rockets.  The fireworks were all put in a metal biscuit tin from Christmas the previous year. We always had Jacket potatoes & sausages and flapjacks.  Such a lovely memory ♥️

Did you all have traditions like that?

It certainly is, its how we learn after all.  😁

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend,  

My love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

A Wedding Anniversary card

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

Ooh I am so glad its Friday,  I learnt a lesson yesterday,  I mean I had to go out for appointments, but I was excited to go out, get out of the house,  I couldn't have wished for better care from the girls.  I didn't take me long to regret it though.  It didn't help that I'd only had 2 and half hours sleep and was covered in a mystery rash.  Bladder clinic went well,  she was shocked at the severity of my rash but couldn't tell me what it could be.   So next stop was Tesco pharmacy for my flu jab, it was literally 5 minutes from hospital,  so seemed like a good idea at the time.  The pharmacist said he couldn't give me the Flu jab with me having a rash that widespread,  in case it was covid or a flu of some kind.   He also couldn't advise on the rash either, he said that I should make a gp appointment.  🙄 They have no idea though do they? 🤣

I was exhausted and in a lot of pain when I got home,  I think I'll leave it another week before I venture out 🤣

Love this beautiful art work and the sentiment is very true ❤️

Today I am sharing a card that I finished yesterday,  it was requested by a Lady at the girls work,   she wanted some specific things, including lots of bling!! 

So I have added diamantés to every tiny flower on the dress, given the bride a diamond necklace,  then added them around the rest of the card.  Lucy thinks she would want more bling but there is a limit. 😂

I hope that you all have a lovely Friday, 

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

A busy day here today,  I am a little nervous,  all jokes aside. 

It is my first day leaving the house,  which I am both excited and worried about.  Its bladder clinic day and then flu jab !  Not exactly a fun first day out but it's out, with both girls too 🥰

I have certainly had to do a lot more of this than I am comfortable with.  A great reminder and lovely artwork 😊 

After doing some in depth research,  with my hernia surgery being a larger job than first thought, my scar is a good 6 inches across and between where your bra wire sits and my navel, the wound is healing nicely,  its the muscle repair that's causing most discomfort and issues.  I rely very heavily on my abdominal muscles to move about, it turns out (after seeking some medical advice) that I should have seen either a Physiotherapist or Occupational Health to help with learning how to manage after surgery, so that I don't delay the healing.   For example getting up stairs is something I physically can't do without using my abdominal muscles to hitch my right leg up the steps.  I will get there one way or another 🤣

On a brighter note, I was pleased to see that the American 'Mid Terms' had a positive outcome 🟦

Today is another Journal page,   I was working on an Anniversary card for a lady at girls work all afternoon yesterday,  which I can hopefully share on Friday.  

Today's page has a handmade pocket with a tag, this one has a more autumn feel with the pumpkins. I did some background stamping on the tag and the page too to add interest.  

Then I show it in the journal with its facing page.

I hope that you all have a good Thursday,  

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx

Another mini journal page....

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,  

I know you'll all join me in wishing our Brenda a speedy recovery,  I hope that you are home by now my lovely 😘  sending you gentle hugs xxx

Such a lovely reminder,  love the illustration too 😁

Today I am sharing another page of my mini journal,  I made another card yesterday but I won't share that until after 8th November 😉

This was quite a simple page, I used a combination of rub-ons and PET Stickers,  I used some Lindys powders mixed with water to add some splatters and a ticket.  

Simple but effective,  it looks better as part of the journal than it does on its own.  

I hope that you all have a lovely Wednesday,

Love and hugs,

Sandra xxx 

A Arden Amber Ledgers Journal page

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

I am happy to report that usual craft activities have resumed 😁

I had a lovely few hours sat at my desk having a play with some new goodies. 

I can't help but think that some of these reminders are aimed at me 🤣😂  

Being patient is proper testing my patience,  that I can confirm! 

I sat and created a 'messy' background with some Lindys Pigment powders over a piece of card that I had stencilled some 'Micro Glaze' on to.  After stencilling I spritzed with water and then sprinkled the Lindys powders over and gave another little spritz,  I set it to drive on the Aga, which took minutes,  I then used the 'Sticker' book from the Amber Ledgers Collection, I used the film strip, leaves and butterflies. 

I created 2 little tags using paper from the 6x8 inch pad and popped a hole in each and added some twine.  I stuck one tag over the other and added foam pads and placed it on the film strip,  to finish I added the  'Thankful' sentiment and then drew some (questionable) scribbled lines around the outside.  I added a complimentary coloured mat and popped it in my journal.  

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx