Mixed Up Saturday featuring Michele's Magazine Review

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you are all enjoying this lovely long weekend,  although with one day blending into another it doesn't have the same feeling, with the added frustration of being isolated from our families. We just have to make the best of the situation. We should enjoy the lovely weather while it lasts.  

We have some fun things on the Blog today, some great photos and your 'Top 5 Desert Island things' Thank you to all of those that took part.

Karen

Karen received this lovely note through her door with something special attached.....

"We had this delivered today attached to an Easter Egg The young girls next door did one for our part of the road"

How thoughtful of them, you have some amazing neighbor's Karen, thank you so much for sharing xxx

Lilian 

Lilian has shared a photograph of her Herb Garden, I think it looks beautiful,  I really do love to see Wild Borders, they look so natural. 

I will add Lilian's Description below....

"Thought I’d plant a piece of my white periwinkle around the edge of my herb garden, didn’t realise it would take over, love the flowers as they flower from the beginning of the year.  Thought it might bring a smile to you."

Thank you so much for sharing Lilian XXX 

Desert Island Top 5

Brenda:  

"(1) A4 box with my Card-io stamps and small  ink pads

(2) A packet of card
(3) polychromos
(4) colouring book
(5) my mobile - to check where the rest of you are, so that we can meet up and share... well everyone says the world is getting smaller!!!

OR am I allowed to take a shipping container?"

Lilian:

"Fiskars trimmer
Canson Bristol 250gm high white ultra smooth A4 pad
Versa fine black ink
Flower stamps
Kuretake clean real brush water colour set of 60.
Scissors.
Sorry just realised that is 6 they are all must haves.

Karen:

"My five things I’d take are
If I can’t take my little family then
1 photos of them
2 Perfect Layers Rulers (sold by Joanna Sheen I use them on every card I make
3 A craft knife
4 Scissors
5 glue
Hoping there’s a lot of card available!"

Maria:

"the 5 crafting items to take to a desert island I think would be

1) White card, can always be useful for my second one is

2) Colouring pens/pencils, so I can do something fun but 

3) is Stamps for I can't draw a stick man for my life and I can't cut straight so

4) is my big Guillotine  to keep it in line and

5) would be some Ribbons or Pearls so I can decorate a card and send a

message in a bottle and keep in contact with my friends   well that's if

someone found the bottles  "

Sonia:

"My 5 craft things I would take to a desert island would have to be -

My Big Shot
A selection of Anna Marie Designs papers
LOTV set of sentiment stamps
Amazing Paper Grace die set
Tim Holtz butterfly die set
Obviously on top of that I’d need glue, double sided tape, scissors, paper trimmer, black ink pad........😳 Oh, I know we are only allowed 5 things, but that’s not gonna work for me, lol 😬😂😂"

Michele:

"My top 5 items would be...my Diecutting machine, card stock, adhesive, Dies & Embossing Folders. All vague but enough to complete a card! Hah-if only it was that simple." 

Sue:

"I would have to take

1.My pokey tool - by Tonic

2. Propelling Pencil (which has a rubber on the end...does that count as one or two items???) 

3. Metal ruler

4. Scissors - large ones by Tim Holtz/Tonic

5. Glue - Allen’s original Tacky glue 

I keep changing my mind but this is the final one! Xx"

Sandra:

White card

Ink Pads

Stamps

Trimmer

Adhesive

I would also have to take my phone as I couldn't bear to miss a day Blogging!!

Janet I thought I remembered seeing yours but couldn't find it on my emails yesterday. X

Thanks for the Idea Sue, it was a real fun thing to think about. XXX

Michele's Magazine Review 

Hi Ladies,


Diecutting Essentials has a lovely free gift-a set of Memory Box Dies.

Here’s some ideas of what’s inside the magazine.

First feature using the free gift.

More ideas using the free gift.

And a couple more.

Great article of Spinner cards.

Who doesn’t love a bit of sparkle??? These ideas look great.

That’s all for this week
Happy Crafting

Love Michele


Thanks so much Michele,  there are some lovely sample cards featured in this issue and some fantastic techniques featured, the spinner card feature looks really interesting to have a go at. I really
do appreciate you taking time to write these reviews each week xxx






Ladies I hope that you all have an enjoyable weekend, I think that today may be the last day of sunshine,  thank goodness we all have our craft rooms!!

Sending love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra 
xxxxxxx