Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you all have your Cakes & Scones ready for sitting to watch the Coronation, not sure how much we'll get to see as we have Harley to look after and he has to be watched like a hawk, he isn't a dog that will just come into lounge and settle down, he has to be up sniffing round everywhere, like he can't relax bless him. 

It looks like it's going to be a long ceremony, through the different stages of the Coronation, it will be interesting to watch the process.  I do hope that none of these idiot groups manage to cause disruption with their silly demonstrations!   Matt & Alex had booked to go to London before they knew about it being the weekend of the Coronation, they left yesterday afternoon,  they are travelling out to the Paradise Wildlife Park for Alex to feed the Wolves (her favourite animal) then spend a few hours wandering round then they go back into London for the night.  I expect that will have a very long journey back into London with all the people that have gathered to see the Coronation travelling home.

Creative Stamping Magazine

Review 

This months Issue includes some lovely free stamps by Crafty Individuals,  a lovely Giraffe & Zebra in a Zentangle style they are so detailed. The rest of the stamps make up a fun Safari collection. An Emboss folder too.

This first Technique shows a different way to apply your inks and make backgrounds, using ribbon, torn paper etc.

Get your inks out, we are inking up our embossing folders for these cards, we are doing some light sanding too, we have all the techniques happening for these cards! 

These cards are made by making masks of the stamps so that you can build scenes, these cards (according to the description) are 'beautiful cards for Ladies '!! 🤣😂

Male cards this time using bold patterns to create backgrounds,  I love some of these designs, I might do a couple of journal pages or even Thrinchies.

Now this is the Technique I used to make the flower card last week, its really fun, especially peeling the mask back to reveal the full effect. I shared the card i made above. 

Finally we have some lovely Clean & Simple style cards, using masking again to create that lovely Giraffe with a the foliage behind him.  The little cub under the tree is a cute card.

A good issue with some fun techniques this month, I believe there is another magazine with free gifts that also have a Safari theme so you could extend your collection. Its Papercraft Essentials Issue 224.

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I hope that you all have a lovely day watching the Coronation, 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                    xxxxxx