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 

A new Ticketed Snippet

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,

This week I can say I am truly thankful its Friday,  I think I mentioned yesterday about the mental stress of hospital appointments,  which I think is a combination of hope (for diagnosis and plan for resolving your problem) and stress and anxiety about what diagnosis could be etc.  Consequently yesterday I felt totally flat, exhausted emotionally too. 

We had a busy too,  we needed to get Lucy's tyre's sorted, after hours of phone calls we got Halfords to come out,  two tyres and £250 later she has a safe car,  although the lovely man that fitted the tyres said that that amount of wear in 8 weeks indicated something was very wrong with steering etc,  so we set out to get an appointment to get tracking done,   this was what Lucy and I spent 2 days doing last week,  but every garage was booked up,  no doubt to the disgraceful state of the roads around us.  Paul ended up driving down to the garage in Bourton on Water and said he'd just sit and wait to be fitted in,  luckily it didn't take long, they said the tracking was way out, probably due to hitting a pot hole.  Anyway she now has a safe car which is a huge relief,   as Paul said she uses it everyday so it needs to be safe.  He has shown them both how to properly check their tyres  and encouraged them to do it every or every other day,  they all stop at the top of the drive to open the gate and again to close it, he said that's when he checks ours, it takes seconds so they should make it habit.  

How perfect is today's Reminder (for me) today,  I am at that point of wanting to just pull the covers over my head and stay in bed !!! 

However today I am Soph's companion,  we are off shopping for red shrimp for her Aquarium that we bought her for Christmas,  she has had the tank set up for about a month,  the plants she has in are all growing nicely,   she is quite excited,  so no matter how I feel I will be beside her today.   😄

(Finally ) on to today's  'Ticketed Snippet',  I got my little Pink Pig Journal out to start putting my Thrinchies in and the one I picked up had Ticketed Snippets in,  so I immediately thought 'I need to make some more of those,   Tracy Evans released dies to go with her Ticket Stencil so creating the decorated Tickets will be even easier,  I suggested to Tracy that it would be lovely to see some more of the decorated tickets,  they would probably increase the sales of the die too,  that's if it isn't only me that struggles fussy cutting those ticket corners!  

I created some backgrounds for another project using Distress Oxides on my 3 x 5 inch Gelli plate,  they didn't turn out perfectly so I put them on my bit box pile,   so I grabbed one of those today and die cut 2 tickets.  So I had the background already made,  I added some stamping to the background using Salty Ocean ink (which was used in background).  I added some text and some small Snowdrops,  I then stamped and white embossed the larger Snowdrop from TE054 'One of a kind,  the Snowdrops on the Album page are from TE031 'Nature's Beauty'

I added the little birds on top of the Snowdrop on this Ticket,  I also stamped the bird onto the page of album to, so that the birds tail lined up.  I did add some white splatters but they don't really show up.  I added the word Spring to the journal page too and the other little Snowdrop.  

This is totally my own design,   its by no means perfect but I really enjoyed creating it.  

I hope that you all have a good end to your week  

Love and hugs,  

Sandra xxx 

The 2nd Thrinchie

Good Morning Ladies,  

It will be a quiet day for me today,  I felt so exhausted by the time we got home yesterday,   it was after 6pm,  I was awake half the night before stressing about the appointment.   It felt a little frustrating as I felt once again it seems like they only want to treat the symptoms rather than investigating the cause,   he did say that I should try the medication he has prescribed for 5 months and then he will see me again,  maybe my reaction to the medication will help them diagnose the issue!  I had to go and get blood taken,  now I have gotten much better at dealing with them, the nurses ar our practice are really good at taking blood,  the nurse who took my blood was very jolly,  but her technique was very painful, it hurt up to my shoulder!  Its left a lovely bruise too.  

Today's reminder:   You ALL matter, very much!!! 

I am sharing the second Thrinchie,  the pair to yesterday's Thrinchie,   it was created in exactly the same way.  I am temped to doing a full card version!  

I hope that you all have a great day, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

Snippet 69 my version

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies,  

We have a long day ahead today,  we are travelling to Edgbaston, Birmingham for my long awaited Gastroenterology Appointment,  it's been about 2 years of repeated questionnaires asking if I still wanted/needed the appointment.  Fingers crossed we get some answers,   I've had a problem with this Bile duct for around 8 years.  I've had it scanned, re scanned,  CT scanned, MRI scanned and an Endoscopy,   so I am hoping I don't have to have any more diagnostics today.  

I started today's Thrinchie on Monday,   I die cut some little tags and adhered them to a Thrinchie,  for colour I used my Gansai Tambi Watercolours,  I used three different greens,  after spritzing the thrinchie with water (and the paint pans)  I started adding the colours to,  blending them together.  I then set them to dry.  

Yesterday I adding some more detail,  I used a Tim Holtz Watercolour pencil to the areas where the tags met,  then onto some stamping,  I added a couple of bits of die cut tags with stamping on, I used Tracey Evans stamp set TE45.   

The finishing touch is the pretty die cut Snowdrop, oh and some splatters of course 🤣😂

I hope that you all have a good day,  

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx