Saturday 11 May 2019

Mixed Up Saturday & Mag Review


XXHappy Birthday Michele XX


Good Morning Ladies,

Please join me in wishing our lovely friend Michele a Very Happy Birthday, I hope you have an amazing day my lovely xxxx

Welcome to another Mixed Up Saturday, we have a few very different crafts today starting with Danielle's Pizza box, made with those gorgeous Pinks & Peaches Decorative paper from Crafters Companion, although it is no longer available. 
Danielle was kind enough to write a quick Tutorial for this box so I have included it below....


 Danielle

FREE tutorial for my cute pizza box.
Card base - 5.1/5" x 11"
Score on the short side at 1", 4.1/5"
Score on the long side at 1" , 4.1/5", 9", 10"
Any questions just ask.
Hope to see you have a go 😁
Photos in the comments.


This is how the box should look once you have cut it out




Glue the Lid together first



Glue the last flap and fold in for a reinforced base.


The finished box, ready to decorate!

Thank you so much for allowing me to share your little Tutorial Danielle, I am definitely going to make one of these boxes, following your simple instructions. XXX


Karen



Karen has finished another two of her Kerry Lord Animals, Karen that book was worth every penny as you have made some incredible creatures from it.  
Meet Bradlee the Squirrel and Sophie the Flamingo,  look at that Squirrels tail it so cute and I love how his belly is a little podgy at the bottom.  
Then look at Sophie's knees, and Beak, both so realistic looking.  
Karen I honestly think that you could be selling these, they would fly out as soon as you made them, you have a real eye for getting their expressions spot on.
Thank you so much for sharing them with us xxx

Michele Mag Review


Hi Ladies,
No regular magazines to review this week, so here's a ''One Off Special''
I was tempted by this Craftwork Cards 'Papercraft Collection' Boxed magazine which has some lovely gifts with it.


Here's just some of the ideas that you could try


These are just a few of the beautiful papers that are excellent quality.


These are the Stamps, Dies and Stencil that you get with the magazine.

There’s lots more inspiration inside the magazine but I don’t think you’d struggle as there’s lots of options including Off the Page projects plus cards for men!

Happy Crafting 
Michele 

Thanks Michele, another fab review, i waa surprised at the amount of good quality products you get jn these boxed magazines.   This you you have picked looks fantastic. XXX


 Janet


Janet has made a beautiful Upcycles Cabinet for her sewing bits and pieces, I will add Janet's description below...

"The small display cabinet was a Christmas Gift filled with small jars of Jam.
I decided to upstyle it and have used the theme 'Sewing and Flowers'. The paper backing for the  shelves are from the La Blanche Decoupage set I used on one of my Challenge Cards this week. The contents are all objects I have collected at some time or another. The outside is decorated with paper flowers; the metal dress was a table name tag (I have just taken the spiked bottom off it) and decorated it with a string of pearls and flowers. The Flower Pot is  resin flat backed and again decorated with paper flowers."

Such a lovely project Janet, I absolutely love that little cabinet you have upcycled and it's a really useful project too.  Did you leave it in Marigny? 
Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us xxx

I love it when we get to see so many different crafts on show, it's really inspiring to see what you all create other than cards.   You are all so incredibly talented in so many different ways.  Please keep sharing all of your crafty makes my lovelies. 

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend, we had a good start yesterday, the Sun shone all day, it was a little chilly but lovely and sunny and the lambs were outside for the whole day, they are awkward animals though, we have purposely not mown the lawn because sheep love to eat grass, oh no not our lambs, the have eaten my lily plants, the golden rod plants will not need trimming down this year, they love lavender, rosemary and chives, they haven't tried mint yet though, maybe its too strong. Yesterday they were stretching up to eat the Hazelnut tree leaves, while standing in ankle deep Grass. 
Matt has the rest of the Mum's and babies at the barn down the road on the farm, a lady decided to go into the field that they were in as a shortcut to her horse, she must have knocked the electric fence and it switched off, so when Matt went to feed them later on they were all out, they had taken themselves into a neighbouring farmers field and were busy eating his crop, you can just imagine the phone call!  Paul ended up being a sheep wrangler for an hour or so, they did eventually cooperate and were safely back behind the fence!  Oh for a quiet life!!!

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
xxxxxxx


11 comments:

  1. Morning Ladies

    Danielle-the “Pizza “ Box looks amazing & easy to follow instructions.

    Karen-your Animal Ladies are fantastic although we don’t like grey squirrels here!

    Janet-WOW!!!! Your altered cupboard is absolutely beautiful.

    Well Ladies I’m celebrating my birthday this morning with a friend-she’s coming here for a coffee then I’m off out tonight with hubby for a meal.

    Michele

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    1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELE. Have a wonderful day.xxx

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    2. Margaret Palmer11 May 2019 at 10:48

      Happy Birthday Michele have a lovely day.xx

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    3. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Michele ! Have a wonderful day xx

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  2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELE, Enjoy your special day xxx

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  3. Hello Sandra and ladies,
    Danielle your pizza box is lovely. xx
    Michele lovely magazine review,I have a copy of this and the quality of the paper is really good.
    Janet LOVE the little cabinet. Hope your journey goes well. xx
    Karen your lovely animals are going to be well loved. They are gorgeous xx
    Sandra you are certainly having a year to remember with this years new babies xx
    Enjoy your weekend everyone, love Brenda xxx

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  4. Margaret Palmer11 May 2019 at 11:01

    Hi Sandra & all in café,
    Sandra hope you have a peaceful weekend, good challenge this week.xxx
    Karen your animals are so cute.xxx
    Danni thank you for box tuition it is great.xxx
    Janet you have a lot of talent safe journey home.xxx
    Michele thank you for magazine review.xx
    Café open cream teas later.
    Lilian & Lynda hope your pain not too bad hugs on way to you & anybody else who needs them love Margaret.xxx

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  5. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELE Enjoy your day

    I love the pizza box DANIELLE and thank you for the tutorial

    Wowser JANET Your cabinet is beautiful Safe trip home

    Thank you for the magazine review MICHELE It’s always handy to see especially as my local shops don’t stock craft magazines I always order ones I look The like of

    Thank you for your lovely comments on Bradlee and Sophie I am a little bit obsessed and using Aldi yarn makes them so affordable to make
    Some of you mention about selling them I cannot sell them - Tofts copyrights. BUT I can sell/give them to charity So if any of you are interested message me on FB and I will see what I can do and make a donation to Gary’s Gift of Hope page at British Heart Foundation
    I’ve just finished Meghan the toucan which is a gift to OH on his birthday (16th) as he loves Guinness She might take up residence on the dashboard of his car

    LYNDA and LILIAN I hope you’re feeling better today

    Take care all I’ll see you later for a cream tea xx

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  6. Hi everyone.
    Hope your day is fine and you have some sunshine in between the showers.
    Thank you for the pizza box tutorial Danielle, will give it a try.
    Oh Karen, do love your crocheted animals, so cute.
    Thanks for the mag review Michele.
    Janet, what a lovely little cabinet, very pretty with the flowers on.
    We took my sister back to Luton airport early this morning, bit sad and very tired but also happy that we at last got to meet each other. Yesterday afternoon we got OH to take us over to Matalan, she bought some more clothes home. Needed to get an extra hand luggage Lol
    Take care all and many hugs, Maria xx

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  7. Hello Sandra & ladies
    It's been sunny but chilly it's just coming over carst now.
    Lisa came down & she took us to lunch very nice it was too we went to the weatherspoon in Ramsgate food is lovely there. She has just left as they are going out to friends later.
    MICHELE HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPE YOU'VE HAD A GOOD DAY. 🎂🎁🥂🍾XX
    Thank you for the magazine review Was as good as usual.
    KAREN I LOVE ALL YOUR CROCHET ANIMALS SO SWEET.
    JANET YOUR CABENET IS GORGEOUS LOVE HOW YOU HAVE DECORATED IT. SAFE JOURNEY.
    Love & hugx Lynda xx

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