Happy Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,  

We have all the warnings ⚠️ for Thunderstorms and heavy rain today,  which is a shame as both gis are off today too,  which never happens on a weekend!   We have decided to go somewhere nice for lunch,  there is a a local Cider Farm that has about 15 little 'sheds' each one has a different cuisine, a bit like street food trucks, the girls and I went a couple of months ago,  so it will be to share it with Paul.   Other than that we have holiday organising to do, I need Paul to get the clothes box down so I can see if things still fit !! 😓😞

I am going to change the challenge Ladies,  I will share the new challenge on Monday. 

Gina

Gina's Description:

 Sadly these are the cards we never want to make, you have created the most beautiful Sympathy card Gina,  the papers are beautiful and work perfectly with your new arch dies.  The wording is lovely too. 

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely card with us my lovely XXX 

I hope that you all have a great weekend,   Karen I hope your toothache eases, terrible that you have to wait until Wednesday!  Oil of cloves is said to help.   Maria I hope you have a lovely weekend with your visitors,  I hope you aren't too sore after all of the deep cleaning!  

Love and warm hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx 

Another alcohol ink card

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

Thank goodness its Friday, this week has been 'one of those' weeks!   I can't put my finger on what it is, other than being in pain, but that's nothing new.  I have made cards for the challenge but I haven't really 'loved,' any of them, today's included, it's not for lack of effort as the mess I made using the Alcohol inks for these backgrounds was huge!  I seemed to have spread the inks everywhere!   I will definitely be changing the challenge if its only the colours.  

I thought these colours worked well for the Red Admiral butterfly,  so I used my Spellbinders Butterfly dies to cut out the Butterfly in black card, I layered up the die cut with matt gold mirror card and a larger piece of the alcohol ink background onto a 5 x 5 black card base. 

I hope that you all have a great Friday, 

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

Fire inspired card alcohol inks

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

Exciting day here as the lovely nurses at Cirencester hospital rushed my Prescriptions through so that I can start my treatment a week earlier than planned,  so wmI will get three lots in before we go away, I cannot tell you how relieved I am,  fingers crossed the procedure goes smoothly! 🤞

I am taking a Thankyou card,  some chocolates and flowers to the lovely ladies for pulling out all the stops for me, as I really don't think I could have lasted to October!  

Oh my did I make a mess making today's card, I decided to use Alcohol inks for this one, I picked out the colours I had that were close to the colours on our Challenge card 419.  

Rather than be inspired by the colours I was more inspired by the 'Fire'.  I made 3 or 4 backgrounds with these colours,  this one was my favourite of the three, to me it does have a 'fire' or sunset look. I used a Tim Holtz 'Meadow' die to cut the silhouette piece.  I wasn't sure about sentiment,  I may just use it as a journal piece. 

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx 

Colour Cube 206 Silhouette card

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies, 

I felt a little more mobile yesterday,  aside from sciatic nerve pain,  😑, I knew Lucy would want to go out somewhere as her car is at John's getting a service today, so she is joining me i  a crafting day today 😊, she will bring her Cricut down and work on a list of jobs she has for work and the wedding.  I am looking forward to crafting in company. We have quite the list of wedding items to make. 

Today's card is using the same colours as yesterday, I did the same blend too, I marked this one at the bottom while blending, so I used this busier stamp to cover the mark.  I'm not 100% happy with it, I will add it to a journal for inspiration I think.  Milled Lavender,  Seedless Preserves & Blueprint Sketch. 

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love & hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx 

Purple Shades today

 

Good Morning Ladies,

I managed to get sat at my craft desk by about 11am yesterday,  that was after giving the bathroom a clean, which took long than usual with my added stiffness.  It was a very uncomfortable day by I did my best to distract my brain with crafting!  

I chose to start with the card 206 and started by using my Distress Oxide Swatch to pick the colours

I went with Milled Lavender for the 'Light Pink, Seedless Preserves for the 'Orchid '  & Blueprint Sketch for the Royal Blue

I tried a few different ways of blending, starting with the lightest colour in the middle blending out to the darkest, which just didn't work, then I tried blending splodges of colour and spritzing but didn’t like how that looked either.  So I ended up doing a standard 'ombre' style blend. 

After making sure the ink was dry I stamped a floral stamp at the bottom corner, then turned the stamp and added a little more detail in the opposite corner, I then added gold embossing powder and heat set.  I was unsure what to do with the sentiment but decided to go okd school and used oval dies with a scallop mat, then I thought it looked bare on the two unstamped corners so I added a couple of flourishes, die cut in gold mirror card .

I think I liked the outcome 🤔 

I hope that you all have a better day today,  those of you with injuries and pain, sending you gentle hugs, 

Love to all, 

Sandra xxx

Gorgeous Greens

 

Good Monday Morning,  

Welcome to the start of a new week, I hope that you all had a lovely relaxing weekend.   My weekend started off relaxed,   yesterday went a little awry!   Paul asked me to come and show him where I wanted some spreading perennials,  I got my trolley and went out to help,  Paul had everything set up and on hand and we started preparing to plant them,  I wanted to make sure all of the pesky bind weed roots out, which became a bit of an obsession,  2 hours later we had a bucket of bind weed roots, Paul had gone off and done other jobs and left me to it.😂  I was sat on the sleepers while doing it,  (the area is a large rockery filled with large stones kept in by huge sleepers at high thigh height)  I was moving the stones aside and then digging the roots out, we then filled the hole with new compost and popped the new plants in!  Well Ladies when I went to get up go in I couldn't, oh had I overdone it, it took me 20 minutes to get into the house, I needed help getting my leg over the door threshold, what a state I was,  I made it to the sofa and was unable to move a full three hours, after which was shower and bed.  I love my garden time but my body doesn't.  So I feel today maybe a slow one!  We have just about everything planted now thankfully! 

Luckily I found the missing card from Thursday so I have that to show today. 

I picked out card 194 from my Color Cube box,  I picked out Twisted Citron,  Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness distress oxides as they matched the best. 

I embossed a piece of card with my SU fern folder and then randomly smooshed the three inks over the card and spritzed with water, blending the inks together, I set it aside to dry, I did go over a few of the ferns after it had dried to emphasise the detail. 

The layer behind this coloured piece is infact Rustic Wilderness coloured card, although it looks black.  I die cut some ferns from the inked layer and used them for interest behind the sentiment.

I hope that you all have a great start to this first week of June ! 

Love and hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx 

Our makes this week

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

Welcome June, How has virtually half of this year gone by so fast?!  I hope that as the quote says June brings you smiles and happiness 😊 😘

I hope that both Maria and Karen are home, unpacked and relaxed after their break at the seaside x  We are counting down the days to our trip to the seaside this month too. 

Lilian has been playing with her Colour Cube  cards this week....

Lilian's Description:

Here is my tag for the challenge 

I used the same colour card as you (hope that’s ok).

Stamps are from the new indigo blue magazine.

I mixed a lot of colours as I didn’t have pads in the right shades.

Hope you have a good weekend. Hugs.

Lilian I love your tag, there is so much detail,  the butterflies and dragonfly are easy to miss at first glance,  but when you look closer.....

You can spot them easily,   IndigoBlu stamps are incredibly detailed aren't they. 

Thank you so much Lilian, your tag is awesome and I am definitely going to get that new magazine!! XXX

I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,  

Love & hugs,

Sandra xxx