Daisy art journal page

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,  

Another lovely sunny day for us yesterday, it does make such a difference to the day.  

I felt a bit weary yesterday,   my BP was quite high first thing,  which worried me as I was on my own for a few hours.   I had my GP appointment,  he has added another tablet as he wasn't happy with my BP or my resting heart rate.  He has made me an appointment with him for another check up but made me promise to call if the new medication doesn't bring it down further or if I feel in any way worse.  

My urology consultant appointment was over in minutes, literally,   I was brutally honest about how I felt and how badly the uti were affecting my life in all aspects,   he took to calling me 'love' and agreed that its time to get the Uromune started ASAP!  Which is a step in the right direction.  I have to wait for them to agree the prescription,   he explained that they are very 'precious' about who they give their medication too!  (As its a trial I guess)! So I will get a message when its ready and we have to go to Gloucester hospital to collect it.  

Now onto today's Journal page....

I started by adding light pink and yellow paint to my journal page using a baby (water) wipe,  

After letting it dry I added some background stamping.  I then added some glitter embossing powder through a stencil and heat set. Then I added some circles with texture paste.

Now onto the fun bit, picking out what you are going to use to build your scene. I started by cutting up some background paper and distressing the edges and adding to the page. 

I then fussy cut the daisies from a A4 background sheet and arranged them over the coloured pieces.  I drew in the stems with a Clean Colour marker and added details with a fine liner.  

I added some splatters and some white details on flowers. 

I really enjoyed making this one 😄

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

Dog Lovers Journal page today

Good Morning Ladies,  

Lucy and I had a lovely trip out yesterday,  we ended the trip with lunch by the river in Bourton in the sunshine.  

Reminder,  you don't need reminding of this one, you all know how much you matter to your loved ones and to me of course 😘🥰😍

Busy day today,  I do find all of these appointments exhausting,   I have my list of questions ready, (Great Idea Sue).  Frustratingly my fast heart rate is making so hard to relax enough to sleep. 

Brenda it was so lovely to read your positive update yesterday,   take it steady my lovely,  I'm sure you loved your little walk around the garden 😘

Dog Lovers is the Caregory for todays Journal page,  I used my Stamperia Pets collection.

The backgrounds always start out messy but you slowly build up using Rice paper, then white paint over joins of paper, then stamping,  next comes stencilling and lastly the die cuts etc, finishing with splatters of course! 

I hope that you all have a great day, 

Love and hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx

Cat lovers Tag

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,  

I hope that today finds you all as well as can be, gentle hugs to those of you that need one. 🤗 

Today's reminder is an important one,  it can be a hard one to follow at times, I expect that you are having use every ounce of your patience right now 😘

Today I am sharing a tag that I made on Monday using my Stamperia Pets collection,   I was creating this for the 'Cat Lovers' category of the Aall & Create Challenge.  

It was really fun to make,  I loved every minute,  I wanted to add detail to the ribbon, so I added some stamping.....

Just look at the expression on the cats face,  how can you not smile 😄 

I hope that you all have a good day,  Lucy and I are off to town for a few bits,   tomorrow I have two appointments,   one is a follow up with GP, the other is a phone Consult with my Urology Consultant.  I am finding all of these appointments a little overwhelming if I'm honest. 

Sending my love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

A clean & simple card

 

Good Morning Ladies,

What an absolutely beautiful Spring like day we had yesterday,   I had door open for cats all day without feeling too cold.  

Great reminder today,  sometimes we take so much pleasure in pleasing our loved ones that we don't prioritise ourselves 🥰

I made this card yesterday after seeing some lovely cards on Inkylicious page,  its very simple,  I used Bristol smooth card,  added some Blue Memento inks, Summer Sky, Teal Zeal and a bit of Paris Dusk,  I then blended them with a wet paintbrush,  I added a little bit of a glitter pen on the water to give a shimmer.  I added some squiggly lines to give the water effect.  Stamped the boat,  added the sentiment and layered onto grey card because I stamped the boat and sentiment in grey. 

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

The complete pair of Ticketed Snippets

 

Good Monday Morning, 

Here we are on the first Monday of March,  yesterday was lovely,  I even managed a walk in the garden yesterday,  which was lovely,  seeing all of rhe daffodils fills my heart with joy.  

Today's reminder goes out to you all,  every one of you are Very Much Loved 😘

Today I am sharing the partner to Friday's Ticketed Snippet, on this one I used the stencil to add the word 'Snowdrops' to this Snippet,  I did the same background stamping as I did with the other one, I stamped the bird at the bottom,  and stamped 'Snowdrop' onto the journal page with the stamped Snowdrop.  A finished with some splatters but that aren't really showing. 

I hope that you all have a great start to the week and the new month .

My love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

A look back at our crafts this week

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,  

Welcome March,  a lovely month with lighter evenings and lots of colour appearing in the garden xx

I can reassure you all that I won't be straying far from my bed or the sofa today,   I had a lovely day yesterday but my goodness was my head was pounding by the time we got home, it was a lovely day but I must get my BP sorted first.   

Today's reminder is a good one,  today my version would be...I could   .......but I won't  ❤️ 

Let's look at what you have made this week..

Karen

Karen's Description:

1 :  My version of the Memorydex Challenge Number 4 Dog Lovers

I found the image of a row of dogs that I had used for a card This time I cut them out with ScanNCut 

The background and lead are from Serif with a bit of stamping and stencilling I bravely opened the black texture paste 🤣

2 :  I have done a variation on my “You don’t look a day Over …”

I have used the other due that was in the set

The sentiment is same size as my other one but to me looks too big and funny enough the die is bigger too Will definitely make sentiment smaller

Oh Karen your Memorydex is amazing,  its hilarious,  I just love all of the expressions on the animals faces.  It all works perfectly together , the papers, the background stamping etc 

I can't wait to see your next one. 

I didn't think you could improve on your original 'Fabulous ' card but I love this one too,  it reminds me of Cruella De Ville !  

Thank you so much for sharing your Challenge ideas with us XXX

Lilian 

Lilian's Description, :

Hi, here is my journal page for this week. 

It’s my version of “childhood “

I pieces from several junk journal, plus some from ciaobella secret garden.

Oh thats ' right up my street ' as my mum would say,  I love it Lilian,  the girl is so pretty too. I'd like to swap places with her right now,  but I'd struggle to read as blood pressure is messing with my eyesight!   I thought i needed a new prescription!

Thank you for an inspirational page my lovely XXX 

Maria

Maria's Description:

My page for Sunday is coming here 

À story in green.

I had the tall buildings in my stash. They were white but made a bobo so had to make one black 🤭. Stickers from Temu.

Oh WOW Maria,  your journal page is AMAZING!!  Everything works so well together, I love all the greenery you have added too.  The background stamping works well, I love the sentiment too.  

I love seeing you all making these beautiful journal pages. 

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely page and for pushing yourself out of your comfort zone XXX 

Sonia 

Sonia's Description:

Dog Lovers challenge. 

A double journal spread using papers, images and verses printed from Pinterest (I’m getting quite addicted 😂) I used my own dies, the ‘Moments’ die is from Temu, and the cut out square thingy (can’t think what it’s called) is from my stash. The little flowers are a punch with gems added in the middle. I created a little pocket to put the verses in 😊

 

Oh Sonia these are amazing journal pages,  they'd work perfectly for my Becca too.  Your layouts are perfect and those papers are amazing,  its even more Fabulous because you haven't bought a book papers,  you've put them together yourself!  I am so happy that you are loving journal making so much.  Thank you for sharing your pages with us XXX 

Sue 

Sue's Description:

Another Christmas card done. The bauble dies were from Temu and the other dies from my stash. I can’t get the sentiment to show up on the photos unfortunately xx

Another amazing Christmas card Sue,  love those little baubles with the little sparkles on,  great way to create the branch to hang them from.

I have enlarged the part with the sentiment on so that everyone can see it.  It works so well, having it  up there means the bottom stays looking clean and simple. 

Thank you so much for sharing another lovely Christmas card XXX

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I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

A Saturday Quickie

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

We are taking today as it comes,  we had plans to go to Costco and maybe Ikea at Reading,   but we are just going to play it 'by ear'.  See how I feel,  the headaches I have been having day in day out made me book an urgent GP appointment late yesterday afternoon,   turns out my sinusitis was mistaken for an dangerously high Blood Pressure 180/80.   Had I not have been holding the back of my head and I mentioned how my tinnitus was much worse than usual and my hearing is terrible,   he had already checked my temp, pulse etc,  but just at last minute decided to check my blood pressure!  

I couldn't be more grateful to our pharmacist,   gp had said he wanted me to start meds straight away,  but due to us being over 45 minutes late for my gp appointment due to an awful accident the chemist were not far from closing,  adding to the frustration the pharmacy in the surgery can't fulfil your prescription even as a one off,  so Gp suggested sending it to Stow pharmacy,  which is just up road from surgery,   paul ran up there but they had run out,  he asked them to send it through to the branch we use regularly so they did,  it was about 5.50pm and they close at 6pm,  so I rang them and explained that stow was sending script through, she said yes we just received it,  I explained that my BP was high and I needed them asap, at first she said 'we close at 6pm"  I said we are about 10 mins away and will do our best to get to them on time,  she then said 'don't panic I'll wait for you"  how lovely was that?  We got to them at 6:02pm so thankfully they didn't have to wait too long.  I will be taking them a thank you card next week. 

Lucy received a 'Flego' or Temu Dobby for Christmas and she finished him this week,  every brick is a single and you build it up as a hollow 'tube' like structure.  He's brilliant and quite sturdy.  The girls have had a few of these and they are a much cheaper alternative. 

Gina 

Gina made a last minute order from Craft Addiction as her plane was taking off last weekend and these lovely stamps were waiting for her when she got home.  

These will definitely chase away your post holiday blues Gina,  such lovely stamps,  so many stamps in each collection too including those lovely borders and background stamps.  

I cant wait to see what you made with them XXX

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday,  

Love and hugs to all,  

Sandra xxx