Some Cards made with Freebies....

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you all had a lovely weekend. we had a lovely lazy morning yesterday, Paul walked the dog while I made us some brunch, we then chilled out with a coffee and tried to decide what to do for the rest of the day.  It was fairly dry early afternoon so we decided to tackle the big flower bed under our lounge window, it was full of Mint, Sage, Golden Rod and roses and what must be some kind of Wold Antirhinums (Snap Dragons) etc, the mint was a good 2ft high and it was all looking a mess, Paul was going to be tackling it all while I tried sweeping some of leaves that have been gathering around the edges of the drive, our garden is surrounded in very mature trees so there are piles of leaves everywhere, of course they are all wet too which makes them really slippery too.  I ended up drifting over and helping Paul, (ooh I am a demon with a pair of loppers!!).  After about an hour though my flipping heart was racing so out of control I could barely get my breath so I had to abandon Paul and go and lie down, it took a good 2-3 hours for my heart to return to a more manageable rate, so my plans of spending the rest of the afternoon in the Craft Room went out of the window, I did go and sit and start 3 cards, which I will finish off today.

Today's cards have all been made with Magazine Free gifts, all made in the last 6 months, the first card was made with a free stamps set that was on the Creative Stamper Magazine, in fact I was so impressed with the quality of the stamps and the amount of inspiration in the magazine had be keen to subscribe, the free gifts have been consistently good.  This card was made with Distress Oxides and the free stamp set.
The second card was made with free gifts in the Chloe's Creative Crafts Magazine, you get some lovely papers, stamps and embossing folder in the kit.  The background / base layer is made with some of the free papers, the background to the wreath was stamped using elements from the stamp set, I stamped the flowers onto some of the free papers and had to fussy cut them, to create the circular wreath I stamped the sentiment onto a die cut circle and stuck to the centre of my card base then arranged the flowers around the edge of the circle! I finished the card with some faceted gems in the flower centre and some glitter dotted around the card.
The final card is one I had made for Paul, I used the Globe die from a reduced (bargain ) magazine that I picked up in the MoreMags sale.
I has a piece of 'Caught in Crystal' background that I thought looked like a view of earth from space,
I stamped the sentiment onto the die cut piece of Caught in Crystal background, then I added a couple of tiny die cut hearts, and die cut the metal part of the Globe out of Matt Copper Card. The background was a piece of white card that I embossed with the folder that was also free in the magazine.  That was it, Paul was really impressed curious about how I achieved the effect on globe.

Three completely different looks, all from things that were free, I literally can't wait to see what you all come up with.

WATFORD LADIES, can we all agree on a date for our next meet up?  let me know what dates you have free and we'll get something booked.

I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
xxxxxx