Mixed Up Saturday

Good Saturday Morning Ladies, 

Janet I have everything crossed that you have a straightforward journey, I hope you don't have to endure the chaos that the first weekend of the school holidays bought to dover last year, pack plenty of food & drinks just in case, last year people were waiting for 12+ hours, all down to poor preparation of course!  

Packing & tip run here today, we are popping over to Becca's new house later on as they have been moving in over tbe passed few days,  we are having lunch out and then she is coming to see our new house.  

What do you all have planned?  

Now I know you are probably all sick of me showing my flowers to you but I thought that the 'Zinnias' would be great inspiration for colouring flowers, they look almost 'distressed' to me, in that the colours aren't beautifully symmetrical or equally spread.  Also colour combinations, I would never have mixed purple with orange as I didn't think if the colours worked, but as you can see above those colours absolutely do work together!  So we can all learn from nature.                                  The roses I just wanted to share as they are a cutting from a rose my Dad planted for my mum many years ago. 😍

Now lets look at this month's Diecutting Essentials Magazine....

Diecutting Essentials Magazine 

Issue 105

This months issue is very sea themed, the free die is great with the lighthouse and waves breaking all around it.  The little stamp set is bonus too.

Nicky has made some lovely summery cards with the magazine freebies,  it's nice to have lots of inspiration from different creators, they all have different styles as you will see through the magazine. 

I love using vellum on cards and this feature shares different ideas and ways of incorporating vellum into die cut cards.  I love that last card where they have stamped the frame onto vellum giving a tunnel card look.

I love the look of these cards, the feature is all about using your flower dies to created clean & simple cards.  I absolutely love the colours that have been used, lots of cool, calm blues 😍

Sandra has used the free gifts with to make some home decor projects and a lovely scrapbook layout.

Now, I have everything ready to try this technique,  its called 'Distress texture technique' 

You basically cover your card with Lost Shadow ink,  then run through embossing folder and blend 2 different colours over the embossing.  I really like the effect. 

These catds are so bright and cheerful you can't help but smile.  I love the reds and yellows with the blue.  

And finally we have 'Faux Laser Cutting ', so you can use up all of your intricate die cuts to fill a frame and give the look of a fancy panel die.  Perfect to use over some of your stash of backgrounds.

So all in all some fun techniques in this issue and the free gifts are good too. 

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I hope that you all have a lovely weekend 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                    xxxxxx