What have you been making this week?

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you are all enjoying your weekend,  some of the photos I've seen shows the weather hasn't been great at home, but I hope it's being kind to you x

Boy did we have storms through Friday night into Saturday Morning,  I was sat watching them at 3am, quite spectacular,  we have had storms every one of the 26 + years we have been coming here, its part and parcel of being so close to the Pyrenees.   We did manage the morning on the beach, the girls made the most of the huge waves that the storm had left us with.  We then had a long lazy lunch followed by a family swim in the pool and a few hours laying in the sun.  We then got ready to go out for Pizza.   Because this area is mostly tourist dwellings,  there are no hotels thankfully,  we have very few British people in Pals,  mostly Dutch & German, then as the season winds down and I'm guessing the prices really drop a lot of Spanish families arrive.  We have a German chap that keeps stopping to practise his English,  the first night he was just telling jokes, which wasn't so bad, but as nights have gone on he's gotten on to politics, I totally avoid answering but Paul was ok with it, he wanted to know if we were happy since Brexit happened,  we both said not really we voted to remain, a lot of people that voted to leave were deceived into thinking everything would be better.  We kind of cut the conversation off there, people's political views are individual and not everyone wants to discuss them in my opinion.  We are the only British family here, he clearly doesn't want to practice his French, Dutch or Spanish!!

Your cards

Karen's Description:  

I am loving playing with the Sizzix stencils It’s making me use my Distress Oxides 

Fossilised Amber

Carved Pumpkin

Abandoned Coral

Tumbled Glass I used stencil directly onto a DL card blank Big mistake - wasn’t going to use the background So ended up trimming whole card down

The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions

I find it really hard to stamp red rubber stamps straight🤨 So I trimmed the card at top and side to create a quirky shaped card Difficult to tell in photo

I love this card Karen, you & Maria have me 'needing' one of those Stencils, I just need to choose one that doesn't need a special tool to fix it to. 

I love your choice of colours,  I think tumbled glass is one of my favourites, the colours certainly make the flowers look 3D.  I think stamping sentiment directly onto a finished card is always tricky,  I won't attempt it without my stamping tool, I use scrap card or post it notes to test for straightness first, it can take a few attempts! 🤣

Thank you so much for sharing your cards, I have saved the others for in the week XXX

Maria

Maria has been making Christmas cards, I absolutely adore this one, maybe its the colour 💚,  I am so pleased that the 'Gnome/Gonk' trend hasn't gone out of fashion, they are cute,  plus I think loads of people bought gnome themed stamps and dies last couple of years, so good to see its style ok to use them, some themes dissappear so fast. 

Thank you so much for sharing your cards with us, I will use them in the week XXX 

Lillian's Description:

Here is my art journal page for this week.

Lavinia stencils and stamps

Coloured with water colour pencils.

I love your Journal page Lilian,  it really makes me want to get mine out and get messy.  Your combination of stamps and stencils is perfect, I love the blubells,  perfectly coloured 😍

Thank you so much for continuing to support our Sunday blog post XXX

I hope that you all have an enjoyable Sunday,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx