Silent Night Snowflake

Good Morning Ladies,

How are we all today?  Our house seems to be full of sneezes and sniffles, poor Soph came in from work last night looking really poorly, nose as red as Rudolph, shivering and fever too, Paul is still getting over the cold that he got when we returned from Holiday, it looks like Lucy may have the start of what Sophie has today.  Soph was too poorly to drive to Uni this morning, luckily she only had one lecture today, she emailed the lecturer and asked him to sent her anything she had missed out on. It makes me laugh when they are poorly as they almost return to being babies, wanting to cuddle on Sofa etc, I feel like I need a mask, to stay germ free!

Well after I had written the blog last night things got really exciting in our house!!  Did I tell you about my sleepless night waiting for the mouse to enter the trap, well it never happened, we searched Saturday and Sunday but no mouse in the house, I just couldn't settle as I knew it was in here somewhere.  We had tea last night and then the girls went into the kitchen to get some apple crumble, as Lucy walked back through the hall she squealed ''there's a mouse halfway up the stairs'', Bella was two steps above it with her tail swishing like crazy.
Action Stations at 'Manor Lodge', "someone grab the dog", "someone get the cats'', "Someone get me a box"!!
I just sat quietly in the lounge with Harley, listening to the commotion, after about an hour I looked out because I thought that they should have caught it by now, but NO! just like the last time the mouse had managed to outwit them, it was now hiding under the wine rack, Paul had placed my puzzle board against one side, the mouse trap and box at the front and a piece of card board at the other side (the wall at the back), Paul has the patience of a saint, an hour or so later he was still sat waiting for the mouse to run into the trap, lured by a big blob of Peanut Butter, it never happened!
I went for a shower and needed Paul's help, I could see his reluctance to leave his post!  By the time we had bothered showered Paul was expecting the mouse to have given in, we entered the hallway and say Bella's bottom sticking out from under the wine rack, Paul thought the worst, thinking the mouse had been caught, but there was no sign, Paul slowly deconstructed his barricade surprised that there was no mouse, he moved the puzzle board last, the mouse was clinging to it about half way up!
Paul quickly grabbed the box just as the mouse fell, it landed straight in the box, Paul let out a huge ''YES'', after being 'at large' for 3 days, he was finally released, let me tell you, it didn't take me as long to get to sleep last night!

Today's card uses up one of the Pixie Powder backgrounds that I was playing with when I was making Karen's Birthday card, I used a couple of different blues, sprinkled on top watercolour card that I had spritzed with water, watching the Powders move out like fireworks is amazing.  I allowed it to dry and then I added versamark and clear embossing powder over the whole piece and then I heat set. this gave a really shiny blue background, I love all the texture of the Watercolour card and the shine enhances the paint perfectly.
I decided that I would use a FREE Chloe die that came with a magazine, it is like a Snowflake frame, a great free die!  I added foam pads to the back of the frame to give some dimension.  I then die cut the sentiment and added that an at angle in the centre of the frame. I then mounted the top layer onto to some mats and layers and added some gems.
I quite like how it turned out!

I hope you all have a lovely dat,

Love and  hugs,

Sandra
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