Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

We returned to calm breeze and sunshine yesterday, thank goodness, apart from a light rain shower in the morning,  such a relief to not have those strong winds battering everything in the garden, we have quite a few flood warnings in place around us though. Sonia said that the sun was out in Great Yarmouth too, which was good to hear, there is nothing worse than being away and the weather is too miserable to venture out for a walk around.  

What have you lovely ladies got planned for the weekend?  Nothing exciting going on here, apart from having a new dishwasher delivered tomorrow, having to wash up for the past three weeks or so has made me really appreciate having a dishwasher!  This one has a time delay too so it will be joining the washing machine and tumble dryer on the 'Night Shift'  although the dryer gets put on when Paul gets up at 5.30am as we don't trust it being on while we are in bed, ours was one of those recalled to have a repair because the lint from the drying was getting sucked through to the element at the back and it was burning!  So it only goes on when it can be supervised. 

Phoebe's Candle

Sue kindly shared this incredible drawing of a candle drawn by her Granddaughter Phoebe,  Sue explained that Phoebe couldn't sleep so got up and drew this candle instead !!  It so absolutely amazing, I love the shading and all of the detail in the wax dripping down, I hope you keep your drawing up as you have an incredible talent Phoebe. XXX

Sue thank you so much for sharing this amazing drawing with us XXX

Simply Cards & Papercraft

Issue 250

This month we have a Lisa Horton free gift of Under the mistletoe slimline embossing folder and 4 dies. A sprig of mistletoe, berries a bow and a Christmas sentiment. There are also free matching digital papers and toppers.

Here we have some cards designed by Katie Skelton using the freebies. There are clean and simple ones and also more traditional styles. I do like the Merry Christmas one that has a red and white striped background. Katie shows how you can get different looks with just a change of colours. 

Nicky Gilburt shows us a selective heat embossing technique to make the card. Using embossing or sticky ink on a card using a stencil which is then run through your die cutting machine. Then add various lines of glitter and heat. The left over embossing powders is spread into a rough shape and sandwiched between grease proof paper. Using your heat tool pounce it quickly on and off of the greaseproof paper until the powder is thoroughly melted. Pull the greaseproof paper off then you can use the matching melted powder pieces on your card along with the background. I will try this technique and I also want to try to die-cut and use embossing folders with it. 

Lisa Horton shows use 2 cards made using her freebies. I love the clean and simple top card, a good one for batch making. The bottom card has been embossed then  an ink pad has been blended gently over it. I will be making the top card. 

The masterclass shows us Tim Holtz Distress watercolour pencils. There are 36 pencils in total sold in packs of 12. The pencils are wood free with solid pigment and a paper cover. This allows you to use the shavings or sharpening to make backgrounds or or a watercolour palette. The pencils have similar water-reactive properties to the other Distress items. They can be used in many ways including as a normal water-colour pencil, as a dry colour or by wetting the nib and as a colour with stamps. There are lots of other uses

I hope you have found this review helpful 

Love Sue xx 

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Thank you so much Sue for another great review,  I really like the free gifts for this magazine and I will look for it when we go shopping this weekend, you can't beat those little foliage dies and in my experience Lisa Horton's embossing folders etc are great quality.  I also have the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and I love using them to colour with, it's great having another medium in Distress colours too.  They watercolour really nicely and are really richly pigmented.  I also tried the pouncing with embossing powders technique, I saw Marion Emberson do it on YouTube, (she is an absolute hoot to watch).  The little pieces you get after pouncing with your heat tool are just fun little bits perfect for a background or an embellishment. 

You won't get that effect any other way! 🤣😂

Thanks again Sue, I'm off to get ready to go shopping! 

Have a lovely Saturday ladies,

Love and HUGE hugs all round, 

Sandra 

xxxxxx