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🎂🎁🎊🎉 Happy Birthday Sonia  🎉🎊🎁🎂

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

Happy Birthday wishes on their way to our lovely Sonia, I hope you have an amazing Birthday 🎂🥳🎉🎈 XXX 

From a wet Wiltshire!! I hope that you are all well, or as well as can be expected which is probably more accurate for most of us! 

What have you all been up to?? I know that one of us had a lovely messy craft day yesterday and that person is the least likely to do messy craft....Our Lovely Michele made some incredible backgrounds using some Pixie Powders that she bought from a destash page, in fact she loved it so much she went online and bought some more!!  I am so excited to share the amazing cards she made with them for next weeks challenge!!! 

Let's see what new techniques you all had a go at....

Brenda

Brenda's Description:

" I have been playing with my ‘Art Gallery’ stamps and have had great fun, the first card I got the idea on Pinterest.

I Stamped the leaf spray and sentiment then using an embossing folder ran it through my machine. Then I stamped the flower head on a spare piece of card and fussy cut it, adding a few little foam pads on the back I attached it to the card. The colours I have used for the flower are Powder Pink and Flirty Flamingo and Old Olive for the leaf spray.

The second cards are CAS and were pieces I had been experimenting which  colours worked together, I  decided to turn them into notelets, The one on the left I used So Saffron and Crush Curry other I used Sweet Sugarplum and Berry Burst

Brenda I love this stamp set myself so I knew you would live it too!  Your cards are amazing, trying two step stamping can be tricky but you have got it spot on!! I had a good few 'test' pieces! I love all three of your cards, the perfectly matched ink and card is the one the best things about Stampin Up! Thank you so much for taking part XXX 

Sonia 

Sonia's Description:

"A simple technique, but I wanted to ‘stamp’ with my embossing folders. I got mixed results with them but I guess they do make for a different background, and I did use two basic folders with not too much detail. I just added a few embellishments and stamps to make into quick cards.

Oh Sonia your cards are amazing, all completely different all beautiful,  it doesn't matter how simple a technique is the out come is what matters and yours are lovely,  your first card looks like you have spent hours creating a mixed media piece, adding the flowers turns it into a lovely card for a female, leave them off and its perfect man card. I love the subtleness of your second card, it leaves that fantastic sentiment to take centre stage!! Your final card is right up my street! The addition of the lace die cut just lifts it to extra special.   Thank you so much for taking part XXX 

Janet

Janet's Description:

My theme this week for our Challenge is STEAMPUNK.

All products used are Stamperia from their MISS VAGABOND which really make the most of this subject. 

Janet I love steampunk style, I tried it a few years ago but just couldn't get it right, you have got it so right, A lovely style to use and those papers are perfect, I can totally understand why you love them. Your covered book is a great way to use your papers and still get to stroke them too. The embellishments really make the steampunk style work.  Thank you so much for taking part XXX

Michele 

Michele's Description:

"My challenge cards-new to me is a) faux stitching and b) following a YouTube video (Ann Melvin) using scraps.

Two really striking cards Michele,  I love how modern they look, like you said in your description its a great scrap box buster too.  The colours you have used are a fantastic combination too. Your faux stitching gives a softer look to the card, it's such a simple thing to add but makes quite an impact.  Thank you so much for taking part and inspiring me my lovely XXX 

Karen

Karen's Description:

"Here’s a cc using a new technique to me

I’ve had a play with Craft Artist Flower Moulding foam I’ve had it donkeys years I used  a set La Blanche flower dies coloured with DI 

Matted onto a piece of created distressed wood The sentiment is printed It was white I managed to get a smudge on it so added more ink In fact it was too stark in white"

Oh Karen I am in love with this card, I love everything about it, from that amazing Distressed wood background that you have totally mastered! (You have really inspired me to have a go at that technique!!)  To those gorgeous flowers that you have created from scratch! A huge achievement in itself, the smudge on your sentiment piece was a total blessing in disguise, adding the ink to it makes it blend better with the whole card.  This one is up there with the best Karen, thank you so much for taking part XXX 

Lilian 

Lilian has created a beautiful Birthday card, featuring a Kaleidoscope of Butterflies that have been embossed onto the card background,  Lilian has then created a lovely Distress ink blend over the top, you them gently wipe over the embossed Butterflies to bring them back to the lovely white they were originally as the embossing resists the ink. Keeping the sentiment simple and to one side allows us to see the complete, pretty background. Those Butterflies are so detailed too, which I didn't appreciate until I zoomed in!  

Thank you so much for taking part my lovely,  I know how hard it is to push yourself to be creative when you have awful back pain, so I really do appreciate you making this card, sending gentle hugs your way 🤗 XXX 

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Ladies thank you all so very much, there is so much inspiration in this weeks display, quite a few techniques that I'd like to try.  I personally loved trying 5 new techniques this week  i enjoyed them all  XXX

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx