Up Saturday/Magazine Review

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

How are we all today, what are you all up to?  We are dog sitting Harley so no plans really, hopefully the weather is fine so we can go on plenty of walks to wear him out, other than that I will be in my craft room preparing cards for blog posts next week as Paul and I are going to London for our Anniversary celebration. 

We had a very excited Sophie calling us on our way home on Tuesday,  she had finished her latest University project which was to create a Poster to advertise the Theatre Group's next production 'Secret in the wings', I believe its based on 3 dark, lesser known fairytales that a mixed together, one being about a Nursemaid that grew tired of the three princesses she looked after so instructed the Huntsman to take them into the woods and kill them, the princesses gouge out their eyes for the Huntsman to take back as proof he had killed them so  he would spare their lives.  

Anyway Sophie entered her poster along with the rest of her course and hers got chosen overwhelmingly by all the judges, so the poster will be printed and used to advertise the play  to say she was excited was an understatement, I have shared the poster for you to see, you may recognise the 'princess in the poster as Lucy was her "muse'  she had her dressing up in their old Prom dresses to represent the princesses.  As always we are immensely proud of her achievements.

I received my Creative Stamping Magazine yesterday so I thought I would share it with you....

Creative Stamping Magazine Review 

This months Issue came with some lovely flower/foliage stamps with a bonus set of sentiment stamps by Lou Collins, they are in a lovely font too.

This feature shows how to create statement cards that focus on the lovely Sentiment stamps that come with the magazine.  I will be having a go at some of these cards 

Hunkydory stamps are the main focus of the page, their Design Team have played with their 'Fun Pun' stamps to create some very alternative,  fun Christmas cards.

Crafty Individuals stamp designer Dena Rangeley has designed some 'Myths & Legends' themed stamps, these cards showcase them perfectly. 

This feature teaches you all you need to know to achieve perfect results when stamping onto Acetate.

These cards are lovely the photos don't do they acetate justice though.  

Some lovely cards designed by Lou Collins who is the the face of TEXT{ures}.  Both cards are really pretty,  I love the Patchwork panel in the background of the first card. 

Spotlight Stamping is technique highlighted in this feature,  these cards are really pretty, I like how some cards have more than one spotlight too.

Mel Jess shows us how to take watercolouring even further, using watercolour pens to add colour to shaving foam (by squeezing drops of ink out). She uses the card from the Shaving Foam technique to create the flowers on the first card.  The second uses pigment powders to create a background on watercolour paper, you then take the neat pigment powder and add a tiny drop of water to paint in the flowers that been stamped and embossed in gold . It actually looks really effective but the sentiment doesn't stand out at all.  Some interesting ideas though.

I swear that every magazine I buy has a feature by this lady using Chloe’s  stamps and dies, the cards are fabulous though and very sparkly!! 

This feature us all about using your free gift stamps to create Wreaths, I have zoomed in on the technique showing you how to create a wreath in your Stamping platform.   These cards are all stunning,  I love the green one (no surprise there)

I am definitely going to follow this feature,  some great tips for colouring with Zig Clean Colour Markers.  I thought I would practice on the new Aall & Create Stamp I bought (see below)! 

My Shopping 

 

This paper pad was featured in the last magazine I reviewed,  I couldn't resist it, it was only £4.99

This stamp was featured in an Aall &Create happy hour the other day, I couldn't resist this one, luckily it works perfectly as sometimes to practise my colouring on!! 

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend, 

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxx