Something Special From Karen

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

Oh what a damp and dreary start to the week, I think a lovely blowy Autumn Day is an absolute pleasure, we have a garden packed with mature trees and the different colours of the leaves are a delight to look at, but after a few days of miserable rain that perfect palette looks so sad and bedraggled, there are muddy puddles where piles of crisp and crunchy leaves had gathered, by far the worst thing though is the wet, muddy cat and dog paw prints, everywhere, I'm not sure if I mentioned the new nigh time access point for the cats, its the window at the back of our front porch, I think I am going to have to create some kind of window sill 'door mat' for them to get the worst of the dirt off of their paws, at one time they wouldn't venture outside if it was raining, but certainly Milo has overcome that fear, how he remains absolutely pure white on his legs is beyond me, mind you he does seem a bit OCD with cleaning himself. I'm not sure if the weather is supposed to get better although I keep seeing headlines that say 'Wettest October ever'!! Oh Dear 😒

Not loving these Antibiotics, why do they have to change things?! I spent the whole of yesterday being frustrated with myself for not being able to achieve anything, the worst side effect (that I don't remember having before) is that my heart was just in a permanent episode of AF, I went for a shower, hoping that I would feel invigorated afterwards, but was so exhausted, I needed to sit down before I could dry my hair, which I ended up leaving to 'air dry' as the hairdryer was just to heavy! I also wanted to change the bed, I have this 'thing' about germs, so wanted clean everything, thank heavens that Paul was here to help me change the bedding, after which I took a nap and decided I was going to sit in my craft room and make a card...…..Nope, I managed the short walk to my craft room, sat in my chair and bawled my eyes out as I was too exhausted to even think about making a card!! I am sure its just tiredness and frustration, I know that some of you know how frustrating living with AF is, I am guessing having your body fight an illness makes it worse!
Luckily I have amazing friends in you lovely ladies, Karen and Michele had both shared cards that they had made over the weekend, so I have something to blog!
I will just have to spend the rest of the day binge watching craft tutorials on YouTube, I like to call in 'Research' so it sounds like I am doing something.
Paul is cooking a roast bless him, I went to help but got 'shoo'd' out of the kitchen, I am so blessed xx

Now Ladies, How amazing is Karen's card???
She has put so much detail in to get the look perfect, from the sky to the drop shadow that makes the railing look like it is 3D, I actually thought that it was a Die cut fence and Karen a had stuck on, but now it is all one layer (apart from the lady).
The lady is stunning, I just love all of the detail from the fancy pattern on her hat to those fabulous shoes, just look at all the tiny dots on her dress, so much lovely detail.
Karen I absolutely love this card and so will Nicki's Mum, I wonder if she will know how much work went in to creating all of that amazing detail?!
Karen's Description:
"I created the background using an old MCS cd and paper pieced the TL die I used a very thin amount of Pinflair glue gel just to raise “her” very slightly Old items used but... This is going to my friend who’s 2 days older than me!"

Thanks so much Karen for allowing me to share your amazing card, I know that the ladies will agree that this is a Gorgeous card XXX

Well Ladies, I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Love and hugs (germ free),

Sandra
xxxxxx