Mixed up Saturday including Michele's Mag Review

Good Morning Ladies,

Ooh thank goodness it's the weekend, I need to catch up on some sleep, on Thursday evening we saw a mouse scuttle across our central hallway, it's quite a large area at the bottom of the stairs that has doors to all of the downstairs rooms, I squealed and shut myself in the kitchen, from where I called Matt, Lucy & Paul to action! Fast forward 3 hours, yes I did say 3 hours and several barricades later, the tiny field mouse had outwitted all 3 of them, to make things worse we have several boxes of holiday stuff sat to one side waiting to be packed into the car.  Apparently it had gone, it was absolutely nowhere to be found, i think I was the only that wasn't convinced!

So we went to bed, I was convinced that I could hear scratching and scuttling but Paul just said not to worry!! 

I spent the rest of the night with my phone in my hand (for torch) and every bit of movement or noise (which happened frequently as the cats were in and out), I was flashing my torch around, squinting to see if i could catch sight of anything, which never happened.  Paul set one of his humane traps in the hallway before he left for work. I got up, exhausted and squinting through the slits that were were once my eyes, I was on high alert, i knew i was safe in my craft room and the lounge as they had been shut off since the first sighting.

Paul came home at lunchtime and we went into the lounge to relax and have lunch, we finished and were getting ready to go out, Paul picked a throw off the sofa to fold and jumped, I about lept off the sofa, he had a look and said "no panic, it was tag on edge of throw "! I asked him to put a trap in the lounge, which he did, when we arrived home, there was indeed a mouse in the trap, enjoying some peanut butter!! 

That tiny mouse had out smarted all of us, I was right about hearing the mouse though, as our headboard is against the lounge wall, exactly where the mouse was hiding!! 

I will be having an early night (Friday)!

Enough of my drama, let's look at what you have been sharing.....

First up today are Janet's Beautiful Gift Bags and Box.

Janet's three absolutely gorgeous Gift Bags, made with La'Blanche Papers, I really love those Vintage style papers, you have placed your folds perfectly Janet to get the very best from those papers.

Janet's gift box is of course made from Tonic Dies, these ones are caĺled "Kaleidoscope Boxes" Janet has bought a new insert Panel for them, it is so pretty Janet, the good thing with Tonic box dies is they keep adding to the collection, which breathes new life into your existing dies.

Thank you so much Janet for sharing your Gift packaging with us XXX 

 Cheryl

Cheryl shared this beautiful Gift Box with me last week, it was made to go with an absolutely stunning Wedding card that worked perfectly for this weeks 'Mixed Media' Challenge, so you will see the card tomorrow, Cheryl wanted to keep the box simple to allow the card to 'WOW' the Bride and Groom.  It might be simple but my goodness it's beautiful, thanks for sharing it with us. XXX 

Michele's Magazine Review 

Hi Ladies,

Simply Cards & Papercraft has a beautiful set of Poppy Stamps & stencils this month (from Altenew). 

Here some ideas from inside the magazine.

This is the first feature using the free gift

More ideas-Mixed media.

Part 2  of the Mixed Media feature.

Great article on getting more from your Dies by making the diecuts into Stamps. 

That’s all for this week.
Happy Crafting 
Michele 

Michele thanks so much for that amazing Magazine Review, I think I will be definitely be getting this magazine as I love  that  Poppy stamp and Stencil, its Altenew too so you know that quality will be good. XXX 

Val

Val has shared her latest bit of craft shopping, you have bought some lovely things Val, I love the Merry Christmas die you have bought, look at all those gorgeous little Deer, so cute! As is that Cat stamp, perfect for any cat lover.

I have an embossing folder very similar to the JW die woodland die, I saw some of the projects that John's DT had made with that die and they were lovely.

Finally that lovely 'Friend ' stamp, who doesn't make cards for friends?! Those cards will fly off the shelves Val !

I hope they help to bring your mojo back my lovely xxx 

Michele 

Michele managed to bag some bargain dies from a lady that was having a bit of a De-clutter on a Facebook Group.  You have some very useful dies there Michele, I look forward to seeing what you make with them XXX

That's all for this week ladies, I hope that you all have a lovely weekend.

I am looking forward to seeing some of you at the Stevenage Stamperama show tomorrow. 

Sending Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx