Another Freebie Challenge card & Welcome Baby Sienna

 Welcome Baby Sienna Rene

Good Morning Ladies,

Please join me in Congratulating our lovely Cheryl on the birth of her newest Great Granddaughter-Sienna Rene. She was born last Thursday.
Cheryl she is so beautiful, I love the expression on her face in that second photo, it looks as though she knows so much already.  Have you been for cuddles yet?  I bet you couldn't wait, it barely seems a year since Milly May was that small.  Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful photos with us xxxxx

I hope that we are all well, we had a lovely sunny day yesterday, it was really chilly, but nice to see the sunshine, oh what I would give to have the washing back out on the line drying rather than on the airer in front the Aga!

Well what a mess we (lucy and I) were greeted with yesterday early morning, she had asked me if I wanted a cup of tea as she was getting herself a coffee, I'm not one to turn down a brew, so off she went, the kitchen door closed and the next thing I heard was 'OH NO, MUUUM'!! So I make my way as fast as my body will allow and see that the Pantry door is open and Harley is in the midst of a pile of destroyed packaging, having a picnic breakfast, he had eaten a whole large Bakewell Tart, a whole box of Luxury Brandy rich mince pies, a pack of Ryvita Fruit Crunch, a whole pack of sweet sugar waffles, there were a couple of packets of dry Mexican Taco seasoning too!  I went to evict him from the pantry but he was having none of it, his head was down and he was growling at me, I had to get the broom to shoo him out and I shut him outside while we cleared up the carnage. I told Matt (as Harley is his dog, well on paper he is), his first reaction was 'oh I hope the almonds in the bakewell tart don't upset him', my reply wasn't very polite, never mind the nuts, he'd eaten his way through a good £10 worth of food, I was so looking forward to that Bakewell Tart too!  Matt hadn't closed the pantry door properly when he put his cereal box away, Harley is an eager opportunist and leaned against the door and Bingo it paid off!!  We have tried all sorts of things to try and resolve the issue, the most frustrating part is Matt's response, it's always our fault, never Harley in the wrong, we can't have any food in the kitchen below 5ft as he will just devour it, our Gemma would never touch food unless she was given it, even if the children had food on the floor while they were playing, so it's not something we are used to.  I think we need a Dog Whisperer!!!

So lets go from Chaos to calm with this Blue Christmas Card that I made with the same stamp set that I used on yesterdays card. This time I just took the leaf sprig and randomly stamp it all over the background, I think you always get a better effect if you make your base card piece slightly bigger than you actually need, once you have finished your stamping and embossing you trim down your piece and it just looks neater (to me anyway).
I love the Navy card with the Silver Embossing so I didn't want to do much more to the card, so I took a piece of Vellum that was about a good Inch smaller than my base card and dusted it with an anti static bag and stamped the sentiment which was from one of my Stampin'Up! stamp sets from a couple of years ago, I like it because it's quite bold and stood out well on the vellum, anything smaller or finer wouldn't have stood out enough against the background.
I attached the Vellum to the background with some silver brads, then added a silver mat and finally popped the whole thing onto a Navy card base.

I hope you like this card, it would be any easy one to replicate with any foliage die.

I had lovely afternoon with Pat yesterday, after lunch and yummy cakes (thanks Pat) we got straight on with some crafting, Pat designed a lovely Groovi card that I can't wait to see finished, I was making a Christmas card with one of my DT dies, I quite liked how it turned out, I will share it with you in a few days.  Thanks Pat for a lovely afternoon xxx

Sadly Sue is still poorly with the same bug she had last week, so no visit today😢,  I am sending gentle hugs your way, I hope that you and Chris start to feel better soon xxxx

Gentle hugs winging their way to any of you that are under the weather xxx

Love and hugs to all of you, have a lovely day,

Sandra
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