Mixed Up Saturday featuring Michele's Magazine Review

Good Morning Ladies,

We have had a lovely couple of days here, glorious sunshine and calm seas, I was so excited to make it down to the beach and see it as calm as a mill pond, needless to say we were straight it, with only a slight hesitation and some heavy breathing as my body acclimatised to the temperature of the Mediterranean sea, within minutes I was floating around and it felt amazing. I think that we were on the beach at about 9.20am and didn't leave until after 6pm.  We spent a couple of hours lounging by the pool and then made our way back for supper.  I am a little sore today though as we were out in the sea for so long my back got a little burnt! Its my own fault though as I just didn't want to get out.

Now I didn't have any Mixed Crafts as such to share with you today, so I decided to share some old ones that are still as current today, they haven't dated at all.

First up (above) are Karen's  Decorated Chocolate Bar Wrappers, don't they look amazing, it's great to see a Birthday and Christmas version too. I love the one with that Spellbinders Vase and flowers on, I have that die and totally forget to use it.!

I can up load the tutorial that Karen did for this if any of you want to see it again.

Thanks Karen for some great Gift Wrapping Inspiration XXX

Next up we have Lilian's first ever try go at Quilting, not that you would ever think that this was her first attempt.

I love both your Quilted Cushions and those amazing Nautical Cushions and Door stop.  Have you done anymore quilting since you did these Lilian?  I always imagined that Quilting would be addictive once you got started.

Thanks for sharing your incredible talent with us Lilian XXX

Michele's Magazine Review

Hi Ladies,

Papercraft Inspirations has a lovely Kinetic Card kit free this month.

Here’s some ideas from inside the magazine.

This picture shows what you can make using your free gift.

This article show you his to make a different style card, they’d make quite a special card.

This article explains how to create a masked background plus combining it with silhouette stamps. Some very impressive designs.


That’s all for now,
Happy Crafting.

Michele

Thanks so much Michele, this magazine has some great articles, not to mention that fantastic free gift, I think that they are great for just trying out something new, without having to invest a lot of money only to find it's not for you. There are also plenty of inspiration cards to get you going.
Those blackboard easel cards look like a great technique to try to, especially for cards for men.
Finally that last feature on using Masked off backgrounds  with your silhouette style stamps is fantastic,  it gives some new ideas to add a twist to an already fantastic technique. 

Thanks again my lovely,  I really appreciate  you taking time to inspire us XXX



Cheryl found some amazing Bargains last week to add some useful storage space to her craft room.

The Spice Rack holds sixteen bottles, Cheryl found this in a Charity shop, what a great find, so useful to have all of your embellishments in one place

Cheryl managed to get herself one of the gorgeous Duck Egg Blue storage trollies that are still half price in Hobbycraft, at £25 they are a great Bargain, here you can see a photo before and after Cheryl got organised, using those fab storage pockets for dies etc. Cheryl go those from Home Bargains.

Thank you so much Ladies for sharing your crafts and to Michele for the Review.

Have a lovely weekend,

Love and hugs

Sandra

xxxxxx