Mixed Up Saturday featuring Michele's Magazine Review

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

I hope that this lovely sunshine lasts the whole weekend although I am really restricted to what I can do as I have really hurt my knee, I think its purely from being on it too much while we have been moving things round in the house and doing garden jobs too, so it's going to be a frustrating weekend of just watching the garden jobs being done by Paul. .  I hope that you are all able to enjoy being outside. 

The first 3 pictures today are of one part of one of Sophie's University Modules.  For this one they were given a 'brief' like you would from a 'Client', I have included the 'Brief' below. It involves a prop, which in this case is a boat.  I believe that it is making graphics for a computer game.  Either way her artwork is outstanding and I was excited to share with it with you. 

Michele's Magazine Review 

Hi Ladies 

Papercraft Essentials has a lovely Cardmaking kit free this month-fairies.

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

Lots of inspiration using the free gift.

Great article on Stamping & stencilling.

Aren’t these Digi images so cute??

Lovely cards using Lavinia stamps, I’m sure we’ve all got something similar.

More ideas.

Here’s a new way to look at your dies-hybrid diecutting.

What lovely, pretty cards in this feature.

More ideas, easily recreated using your own stash.

What a fantastic ribbon storage project.

Brilliant article on Bold Backgrounds.

Mixed media birthday card.

Lovely cards featuring Chloe’s new embossing folders,

Great ideas using flora papers, you could easily substitute what you have in your stash.

That’s all for this week so
Happy Crafting.

Love Michele

Sonia's Shopping 

Sonia has shared her latest Craft Shopping with us, Sonia I absolutely love those gorgeous 'Stampers Anonymous' stamps, but lets face it anything that Tim Holtz designs is a hit.  Your background die is great too, it looks quite small though, mine are mostly A5 size. Yours is a lovely design though. 

Sonia's Description:

Thought I’d share my latest crafty buys which I ordered from Buddly Crafts. Inspired by some mixed media projects on Pinterest, I couldn’t resist the Tim Holtz Fragments stamps - maybe I’ll use them in next weeks challenge. The Penny Black Geometric Circle background die is much smaller than I thought it would be, but I love the design, so will make it work 😊

Thank you so much for sharing your shopping with us my lovely XXX 

Michele's Shopping 

Michele has been waiting for these last few dies from Ebay to arrive, I have to say that they were worth the wait Michele,  I love them all, the crosses are so pretty and so handy to have in your stash, that leaf die is fantastic,  is it a slimline die with 4 separate leaves or is it a slimline background?  The last die looks like it will give you a lovely diagonal dotty background,  I look forward to seeing how much texture it gives .  Thank you so much for sharing your shopping with us.  Thank you also for the fantastic Magazine Review,  now I'm not big into Fairies, (or angels), I'm not sure why, don't gey me wrong I love Lavinia stamps style, they create the most incredible artwork but I just have no idea who I would make a fairy card for.  So i wouldn't have gone to purposely but this magazine but as always you share the amazing projects and features from inside the mag. The hybrid die cutting and bold backgrounds both really appeal to me.  Thank you once again I really do appreciate you contributing to my blog my lovely XXX 

That's all for today Ladies, I hope you all have an enjoyable day, I am so looking forward to seeing your Sue Wilson cards tomorrow. 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxxx