My TicTacToe Challenge Card

Good Morning Ladies,

I hope that you all had a lovely weekend, the weather was a little chaotic here, really gusting high winds, we had a few big trees that had fallen over in the wind, then on our way home from Stevenage on Sunday we had some real 'Torrential' down pours, the water laying on the roads as we got closer to home was unbelievable, the water that gathers at the side of the roads had joined in the middle making it feel like you were driving through lakes, then as we got back into the village we had an incredible thunder storm, the weird thing is when we left the house at about 7.45am it was a glorious sunny day and it stayed that way until we went into the Stamperama venue. So we had all weathers in one day,

We loved the Stamperama Show, there were a good few Companies that were new to us, so it was lovely to see new Stamps and dies being demonstrators, I think that we all enjoyed it, Pat, Karen and Maria all took part in some 'Make & takes', I am hoping that they will share the photos of them so that you can see how fantastic they were.

It was a smaller show, it was very busy at the start, that may be because there is no Ally Pally in September, so people are shopping in August instead.  

As usual though by the time we had finished our lunch and had a good old catch up with each other and some lovely ladies that were sitting on our table. (this is the best part of the day for me), a lot of people had left the venue and it was a lot easier to get around and actually see in the stalls.

I think that we were all flagging by the end of the afternoon, we did have lovely time though, thanks Karen for recommending it to us xxx

I made today's card last thursday, it's Pauls Birthday card, I was thinking that if fitted with having your birthday on holiday, the beach looks very relaxing, which is something that we are both looking forward to.

The stamps for this card were Magazine Freebies, (Card Making and Papercraft I think), I stamped the simple beach scene stamp onto some watercolour card and then I used Distress inks (not oxides) to watercolur the beach scene, I used the heat gun to dry off the watercolouring. I matted each panel onto blue card and then took my 6 x 6 card blank and scored the front of it half and folded it back,

I then added my panels.  The finishing touch was the anchor charm, which I fixed to the card with twine that I had attached to the card through eyelets (stuck down on the back).

I hope you like my card, the Categories I used are :  Water Theme/Masculine/Simple Stamping.

I will let you know if Paul approves!

I hope you all have a lovely day,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra 

xxxxxx