Adorable Hedgehogs

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

Well all I can sat is....phew, what a scorcher!!  It was so warm yesterday, our car gave the outside temperature of 30 degrees which is crazy hot, we drove Matt down to Bristol to collect his new Truck and our old lady's Air Conditioning has stopped working so we were melting, it only took us about an hour to get there so not too bad, he wanted us to wait though, after an hour and twenty minutes we went to find him to say we were going to drive back as we were just hanging around in that searing heat, he was almost finished with his paperwork so he was happy for us to go.  We got back home, Paul set our chairs out under the shade and a bowl of cool water for my feet, we got some cool drinks and I chopped up some watermelon and we sat and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon, which is all that we can do in this heat.     I left if until early evening to go into my craft room to create a card for today but even with both windows open and a fan on (which is ideal in a messy craft room) but totally essential, it was just too hot, every time I picked a piece of card up my sweaty fingers left a mark, so I have left my idea ready to start today and had to turn to my 'archives' to find a card that featured an animal. once I saw these adorable hedgehogs 🦔 I Just couldn't resist.  So I will add the details below.

I just couldn't resist using these adorable Hedgehogs for my challenge card this week.

I stamped them in 'Soft Suede' ink (SU) and added a little 'Early Espresso' with an water brush to their tummy.  I coloured the flower with my Blender Pen and a little 'Real Red' ink.  I then took a piece of 'Crumb Cake' card and stamped the flower from the 'Hedgehugs'  stamp set, randomly over the bottom section using Soft Suede ink.

I took the Ticket Tear Border Punch' and cut to border strips, I added one to the top and one to the bottom of my Whisper White card, I then coloured some narrow white twine with Crumb Cake ink (by touching ink pad on glass mat, adding a few squirts of water and then squishing twine into ink, I dabbed excess onto kitchen towel and the dried with my heat tool) and wound this around the bottom of my white card.

I added foam tape to the back of this section and stuck the crumb cake card onto a card blank made from Soft Suede card. 

I stamped my sentiment onto Whisper White card and added the flower which I coloured direct onto stamp with Blender Pen using Old Olive and Real Red ink. I then matted this onto a scalloped circle of Soft Suede card. 

I hope that you all manage to find some shade and stay cool as temperatures are going to be high again today my lovelies,

Love and 'cool' hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxx