A throwback New Technique

Good Morning My Lovelies, 

I hope that you are all having a good day, I hope that those of you feeling unwell will have a better day today. 

Janet I hope the washing machine arrived and was installed ok,  I always find that and social gathering no matter how big or small is totally exhausting after you have been house bound through illness, it's like your brain loses the ability to function with more than one person, you probably get anxious about going out too which is equally exhausting,  it will get easier my lovely xxx

Karen how did your appointment with Dr 'Drip' go yesterday,  I hope he wasn't as useless in person and that you got some answers, sending hugs xxx

Sonia, I hope that you manage to get through the day without another headache today, you should maybe make a GP appointment if the carry on xxx 

Sue, I'm sorry that you are still feeling poorly, hopefully today you will start feeling better, hugs on the way xxx

We tried a new Salmon recipe last night, I saw it on Instagram,  it was a Lidl Ramadan recipe, you baked salmon covered with a few knobs of butter, a whole chopped red onion, paprika, garlic granules, 6 cloves garlic chopped,  chili flakes, soy sauce, honey and sliced lemon, bake for 15 minutes, as soon as Salmon was cooked, take it out of  baking dish and stir in cooked and cooled basmati rice, making sure you pick up every bit of the cooking juices and spices, pop the salmon back on top and cook for 5 minutes more, I then squeezed all the juice out of the baked lemon slices ( not in recipe) but my goodness it gave freshness to that sweet spiced rice.  Needless to say that despite there only being 3 of us, there wasn't a grain of rice left, it was a definite hit. So nice to try something new. 

Now I ended getting lost in the retiring products list in the SU catalogue yesterday afternoon,  then had a look through the brand new one, before I realised it was almost 6pm and then our Internet dropped out, we kept waiting and rechecking, as we thought it was a village connection issue, at 10pm Soph said that she would climb under my craft desk and reset our box, thankfully it worked!  So today's Blog is a throwback card, it was a New Technique back then and I had forgotten about it so I'm glad I looked back and found it !! 

All you need is an embossing folder and some Brusho or pigment powders!!

Here's how it's made .......

I took an embossing folder and added some Pixie Powders to the raised up side of the embossing folder, I used a paint brush to distribute the powders a little more evenly,  I then spritzed it with water and added a piece of watercolour card that I had cut to size, I ran this sandwich through the die cutting machine a few times and then left it on the Aga to dry.  Once it was dry I used a dark teal colour ink pad and the back of a piece of Cut & Dry foam and lighly run the ink over the raised areas of the embossing, this made a huge difference to the look of the piece, up until this point I was about to bin it, the dark ink just adds another dimension that brings the whole piece together.  I layered the piece onto a piece of card similar colour to the ink I used and then I matted onto  6x6 base card.  I stamped the sentiment in matching ink and matted on to same card, then raised it on foam pads and added to the card.  

It was hard to capture the irredescence of the pixie powders, trust me it looked amazing in the sunshine.

Have a lovely Thursday Ladies, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra                                                                     xxxxxx