Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

It was so nice not having Paul's alarm go off at 5.30am this morning!  Although Milo has gotten used to Paul getting up at that time si it wasn't long before he was prancing about on the bed for attention!  He does settle down after a while at least!  He has soon returned to his old habit of coming onto our bed about 20 minutes after we go ti bed, he lays himself right up against Paul, stretches from Paul's chest almost to his knee, this means that Paul has to shuffle over to my side of the bed, ordinarily I wouldn't have a problem with that but Wednesday and Thursday night were so warm it was uncomfortable!   Ironically on Sunday and Monday night I needed a hot water  bottle as I couldn't get warm.  😩  

Now we went 3 weeks without a Magazine review, then like buses 3 come along at once!!!  

Creative Stamping Magazine 

Issues 113

Some lovely and very usable Christmas stamps in this month's issue.  The magazine features some great techniques too. 

Some lovely catds that vanessa had designed using the free stamps to create some brilliant backgrounds.

These cards have been created using the free stamps with extra detail being added using gold thread to stitch around the stamps, it looks so effective.

Now I really want to have a play with some of these ideas, Nicky uses Embossing Pens, (Versamark pen)  Embossing pad refills, dauber sponges etc to apply the ink, you then add your Embossing Powders and heat set.  The first card has clear embossing ink painted onto three of the flowers , add to Kitsch Flamingo Glaze and heat set,  the butterfly has clear embossing powder heat set and other layers added for extra shine.  Lots of great ideas to get more out of our embossing powders. 

This little feature shows 3 different ways of using just one of the free stamps.  A very different, the cards are lovely too. 

Grab your Flower stamps,  look at these lovely cards, they have shaped floral flaps on the front, you can use almost any kind of flower stamp to create these lovely cards. 

This feature shows some great ideas for using the stamps to create gift wrapping. 

Finally these cards are all designed in the Nordic or "Scandinavian' style, I love them! 

This photo shows the reality  of photographing  the magazine while being constantly pestered by a 'Needy Milo', I couldn't resist adding this cute photo. 😍 

These are the cards I have made using these free stamps in this issue.  

All in all I think this magazine is good value for money the free stamps are really useful.  

I know I should maybe have 'let it go' by now but Sheena Douglass is everywhere at the moment! She has featured in every magazine recently, promoting her latest release.  Have craft TV and Craftstash forgotten what she did ?!  Using people's personal photographs to create stamps etc.  They could be the most amazing designs but its the principle!! How do we know that the new images are genuinely her hand drawings?!   I would love to know your thought and opinions too!  

Rant over, Soapbox back in cupboard under stairs incase anyone else needs to use it.

I hope that you all have a fantastic weekend, 

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra

xxxxxx