Mixed up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I am that you are all well and not too chilly, I believe it is supposed to warm up a little, I have to say we have really noticed the cold this past few weeks, this house really does take some heating, there a large area's like the hallway downstairs a huge area with a big open plan staircase, if never feels warm, I think we may have to block off the chimney when we aren't using it too, as the draft from that is quite chilly. I did notice the first few buds and daffodils poking through the soil so Spring is definitely on its way!!

I have quite a varied array of projects to share with you today, the first thing is the gorgeous card above that I received from Lilian, I just adore those grasses blowing in the breeze, a pretty distress oxide background with a delicate script stamped in tha background, There are butterflies to adorn the frame too, such a pretty card that has pride of place on my desk.  Thank you so much Lilian for sending me this beautoiful card. XXX

Sue's Christmas Card

I didn't get around to sharing Sue's Christmas card with all of you, I just love the clever design, Sue used Acetate as the front panel of her card, on which she has placed two die cut Christmas trees back to back on either side of the Acetate so that it didn't matter which way you looked at the card it was 'finished'. Sue used some glitter card to die cut the 'Merry Christmas and adhered that above the Christmas tree, the inside of the card that was clearly visible from the outside so had to work, was a really lovely patterned paper that looks just like the branches of a Christmas tree, it even has the baubles!  It worked perfectly with the theme of the card.

Thank you so much Sue for a lovely card XXX

Karen

Karen's Desk Calendar

Welcome to Karen's 'Creative Corner.........

First photo from Karen is her 'Crocheted Boobs, now I can hear you all thinking 'why'?!  

Karen was asked by a local 'Health Visitor' Team to create some Crocheted Boobs for them to use to educate new mums on Breastfeeding, such a great idea, Karen has been waiting for the right yarn to arrive to make the 'Boobs'' in a strong durable yarn so that they last through all kinds of squeezing and manipulating'!!!   Another of your great ideas Karen, you really are an inspiration.

Karen shared the photographs of her Desk Calendar that Michele sent out to us all a few weeks back and I kept forgetting to share it on Saturday, so this time a wrote myself a note to remember to include them. 

So here they are, Karen used her Karen Burniston Dies to create the pages for her Calendar, I love the Genius Idea of using photo's of your loved one to highlight when there birthdays are, such a great idea.  I love how those dies give the look of a 'Polaroid' photo, so clever, 

Karen even made a box to keep her calendar in !! Such a great idea.  

I will leave the description to Karen as she is the expert on this one..................

"I’ve finished the calendar! I have used the Karen Burniston Photo Collage and Tonic Date Creator dies I backed each card with a mix of blue papers from The Works - that was such a good buy

I was hoping that I could use as many photos as possible but the space wasn’t big enough So each month has a photo of the family having a birthday that month If I couldn’t get a photo I have used a Serif image Halfway through I remembered I had a Serif Zodiac kit so some images are their star sign

 I will display the calendar tabs as appropriate The tabs have tiny stars covering the appropriate dates which includes friends 

On the back of each month I will write each name of family and friend and their addresses

I can keep the “cards” from year to year and just buy new calendar tabs

Once I’d prepared all of the photos on Serif - that was the longest part It was relatively easy to do 

I thoroughly enjoyed making it

Thank you so much Karen for sharing your amazing calendar and Boobs with us XXX

 

Thats all for today ladies, I how that you all have an enjoyable day and I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx