Metallic Merryment!!

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend, the weather was better here yesterday thankfully, having said that we didn't venture outside at all, it made a nice change to just relax at home together, the day absolutely flew by though.

I did laugh yesterday when Janet announced the Sunday roast, as we were having exactly the same, I will tell you one Frustration though...I can never make a pudding that ALL of my family will eat, anything that contains Jam, Lucy won't touch, anything that has actual cooked fruit like homemade crumbles pies etc Sophie won't eat.  I do like a really deep crumble on my apples and I add oats to mine too, so Sophie will have just the crumble with custard.  Matt and Paul will eat just about anything.  I made an Old fashioned Cornflake tart last week, pastry bottom, (baked blind) when cooled add a layer of Jam then your cornflakes that are mixed with Golden Syrup, Butter and Sugar, you then bake it, it was heavenly.
Do you all prefer Custard or Ice cream with your Crumble???

Today's card was a bit of a nightmare to photograph without glare but I think you can see the idea.
I couldn't resist the new HoneyDoo Christmas Tree that was on Hochanda a week or so ago, I think I like it so much because I am rather partial to a flourish!
I used some of the gorgeous Red Velvet Card that Anne sent me from A Crafty Place, I think we all love this card, I thought it would stamp the tree and sentiment in Copper Embossing Powder as the pink tones would work well with the red card.
I wiped over the red velvet card with an anti-static bag and then stamped the tree in Versamark ink,
I added the Copper embossing Powder and heat set, I did the same with the 'Merry Christmas' sentiment.
I layered my embossed tree onto copper metallic card and then onto another piece of red velvet card, which I had used to totally cover my card base.
I used my Stampin'Up! Punch to cut the sentiment and it's copper mat too.
Before I assembled my card I wound some Rose Gold metallic thread around the bottom of my topper so that your eye would be drawn in to the sentiment. I decided to go for a tiny sentiment as I wanted the gorgeous tree to be the main focus of my card.
I hope you like it.
This is my second Challenge card so far.  I do have an amazing tree die to play with, it's so unusual, I love it!!

Link:  A Crafty Place

I hope that you all have a good week, it's going to be a battle to keep the dog and cats calm this week as the fireworks have already started, I do wish they only had them on November 5th. Although I have to say that hear in 'Sleepy Hollow' our neighbours are past the point of getting excited about letting off fireworks! 🎆🎇

Have a lovely day my lovelies,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
xxxxxx