Flip Flop Card

Good Morning Ladies,

Well it's the last day of the lovely long weekend, we arrived home yesterday afternoon to the most enthusiastic welcoming party ever, four very bouncy lambs and a very excited dog and two cats, all trying to get first fuss!  We fed the lambs to calm them down but they are now feeding from a special bucket and we are trying to wean them onto more grass so feeding time wasn't as frantic as it usually is, they had been shut in all day though as everyone was out at work etc, so they were excited to be free.

We had a lovely weekend away, Danielle made us feel very much at home, we were both just looking forward to crafting together which we did until almost 11.45pm on Friday night and 7.30p, on Saturday, we also got a bit of craft shopping time in too. 

Danielle's girls are just so well behaved, they are all off doing their own thing, Layla has taken a real shine to Paul and loved having his attention most of time, apart from that Paul and Simon were watching football and chatting.  Paul also took us Craft shopping on the Saturday, dropping us off at a retail park next to Meadowhall that had a Hobbycraft and Range, so we were good for a few hours, Paul went looking for a new Laptop for himself. There was a lovely Big Ikea there and I really wanted to go in there too but that would have meant no crafting time so we didn't.

If any of you are interested in one of those Raskog style Ikea trolleys, Hobbycraft have them at £25 at the moment and they are great quality,

Today's card is one that Danielle and I made on Saturday afternoon using a Tonic 'Flip-Flop' die, for this particular card you:

 cut your card to 21cm X 21cm 

Make a Pencil mark at 10cm in from the left hand side

Lay your die (cutting side down ) onto the card and place the edge at the 10cm line,

Tape in place and then die cut,

You can then add as many decorative layers as you like over the heart, I used the decorative inserts that came with the die set.

I used a SU Lace Edger die and some Petal Pink card to add some detail to the top and bottom of my card. 

I had two bare sides then and was insure that to use to fill the space, so I rummaged through my stamps and found the Honey Doo 'Budding Flourishes' stamp that I bought at Ally Pally and stamped it in Tattered Rose Distress Oxide ink, which happened to match perfectly to the Petal Pink card that I had taken to Danielle's.  I think it added the perfect finishing touch to the card.

I finished the card by adding some pearls to the lace edge pieces and a few pearl hearts in the heart.

I hope you like my card.

Lynda thank you so much, you sent me this die quite a while ago and this is the first time that I have used it. XXX

Brenda I do hope that John is feeling better today, I have suffered with s similar problem over the years and there is nothing more miserable, you feel like the whole world is spinning and there is nothing you can do, it makes you feel sick and unable to move, give john a huge but gentle hug Brenda,  by the way no thanks necessary, I absolutely love my blog and will be forever grateful for the wonderful extended family it has given me, I feel that I am blessed with a whole group of Mum's that I can turn to, you are all very dear friends and I love seeing and sharing what you all make. XXX

Margaret thanks for running the café while we were away, I am so grateful my lovely, it smelt so welcoming yesterday with the smell of Roast dinner and cake baking wafting around, it made a welcome change to the smell of those lambs after they had been shut in all day!!  XXX

Enjoy your day my lovelies,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx