My First Challenge Card

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

As I am writing this post I haven't had an update on my Mum, she went down to theatre at around 1/2pm, they said that it can take several hours so, I guess it's just a waiting gain, this is where I find it so frustrating being so far away.  My Brother and sisters have been good at keeping me up to date though. All being well I think we will go over on Friday to visit.

I hope that you all had a good weekend, we spent it mostly in the garden, Paul was weeding, I was mostly pegging out washing and pottering about, we did take a couple of hours to sit and read though, I think that we can get carried away with doing chores and all the little jobs that you are too busy to do in the week, forgetting that the weekends are for relaxing too, so I made a point of taking Paul's book outside and a cold drink and he sat and relaxed for a couple of hours.

Today's card is one that I made before we went on holiday, I used the Creative Expressions Sunflower Edger Die, this time I actually die cut it in silver mirror card, I then changed the colour by adding Alcohol Inks, I had great fun playing with the colours, I used Butterscotch, Bronze, and an Orange one the name of which I can't remember! I just used a blending tool and some Blending solution and played, I kept the centres of the sunflowers darker with the bronze colours and used the lighter colours everywhere else, I was quite pleased with the results, it looks mostly gold with flecks of other colours through it.
The background I made using a daisy mask, I placed it over some watercolour paper that I had spritzed lightly with water and then I  sprinkled Pixie Powders over the mask, spritzed again with water and then lifted the mask, It's hard to pick out in the background but it worked quite well, I chose to use it with this card because of the bright sunny colours.
I made a frame with white card and used a piece of the leftover background to stamp my sentiment on, backing it with a piece of the same mirror card that I used to die cut the sunflowers from.
This card looks so much better in your hand as you can see the sparkle from the mica and the shine from the mirror card.
Categories used for this card Gold/Die cut/Heat Embossing

I had a message from Val yesterday, letting me know that she was safe as she is on slightly higher ground, which was such a relief. x

I hope that you all have a lovely day Ladies,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
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