A fun 3D Card

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,

What a long week that was !! Paul was working away at the office 4 days this week,  which really makes the days drag!   Anyway its the weekend,  so only half day today and then we have the whole week together. 

We will be spending this weekend making sure we have everything ready for the wedding next week.  I have a few suits arriving today for Paul, as his suit was a little snug over his derriere! 🤣😂

Today's card is a variation of an Easel card, it was inspired by Addinktive Designs.  I used the Delightful Daisy stamp set and matching punches to create the flowers on this card. I love how the card turned out.  

I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Sandra xxx 

Delightful Dahlias

 

🎈🎉Happy Birthday Sonia🎉🎈

 Good Morning Ladies,

Firstly today please join me in wishing our Sonia a Very Happy Birthday,  I hope you have an amazing day and lovely meal out this evening 😘 

We had a lovely time at the hairdressers,  Shane was lovely and couldn't do enough for us,  Lucy's hair was so beautiful I had tears in my eyes,  I loved what he did with mine too.  We were there for almost 4 hours!  The time flew by, we were people watching,  the hairdressers is in Stow On The Wold, which is another very touristy Cotswold town,  this week they have Stow Fair,  when Gypsy's,  Travellers etc descend on the little market town, there were children racing in horse drawn buggies up and down the main street,  all the pubs and restaurants had shut up shop for the weekend,  so they don't get any trouble.  There were certainly some sights to behold.!! 🤣

Today's card is made using a stamp I forgot I had, Its called Delightful Dahlias,  its such  a lovely detailed stamp, I have no idea why I put it away without using it! 

Its a 2 part stamp, I stamped the colour first in Polished Pink and then the detailed stamp that I stamped in black, I cut to masks and added them using the leaf stamp and Pear Pizazz to finish.

I matted onto a black strip and then mounted onto a white card base.  A simple sentiment that I punched and added a black mat to.

I hope that you all have a lovely day, 

Love and hugs

Sandra xxx

Another Distress ink/Oxide card

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies, 

An exciting/ nervous day today, Lucy and I are off to try a new Hairdresser for colour & cut  ✂️.  We are both really nervous as its someone completely new, although it has great reviews and it was recommended to us too, so please everyone keep your fingers & toes crossed for us, otherwise I will be panic buying a hat !!  (Or a wig) ! 

We had a bit of a game of spot the pharmacy yesterday,  Soph had notification from her gp app to say her prescription was ready at pharmacy,  luckily our pharmacy is only about 3 miles away,  however when we got there it turns out her Pill isn't available!  The lovely chap checked for alternatives that she could have instead but the two original brand names are discontinued!  We checked a few other pharmacys but they had nothing,  so I called the surgery and Explained situation to the pharmacist and she got the nurse to prescribe her something different, which she did within the hour, so off we went again !!  I will say that our GP have this brilliant feature,  its called 'The Pod'  I went in with Soph on Friday,  they have a Blood Pressure machine that you put your arm in and it automatically does your Blood pressure and pulse, its linked straight to the computer,  then you weigh yourself,  which is also linked to the computer,  you then fill in some lifestyle questions and that's it,  the info goes through to nurse and she prescribes your medication!  It took about 8 minutes and no appointment necessary! 

For today's card I used another one of my Distress Oxide and Distress ink smooshed backgrounds. I decided to use my Bold Sayings stamps, I kind of want all that background detail to be the star of the show.  I stamped the sentiment in Black ink and added clear embossing powder to make that sentiment stand out a bit more.  I sometimes find stamping on Oxide causes the black ink to go dull a bit, adding the clear embossing prevents that. 

A closer look at that lovely smooshed background, those darker dots are the Distrss ink on top of the dried Oxide.  (Both Picked Raspberry) 

I hope that you all have a good day,

Lilian I hope the new antibiotics have started to work and that you are starting to feel better xxx

Janet I hope that you are feeling better too xxx

Loven& hugs to all,

Sandra xxx

Another Oldie

 

Good Morning Ladies,

Just a quickie today,  yesterday turned out to be 'One of those days', It started off bad as I was totally on my own,  which you all know I hate.  It means a super early start to the day so that Paul knows I am safely downstairs before he leaves for work at 6.30am !  With my poor sleep pattern that hour isn't for getting up!  I try to relax in my recliner but its not that comfy.  I managed to kill a couple of hours though.

I had to call sky because we haven't had tv since Thursday evening,  Paul has tried every method of rebooting,  restarting etc over the past few days and the box will not receive signal.  I was on the phone to Sky for over 2 1/2 hours, she had me doing exactly what Paul had done with no success!  I pressed buttons i didn't no existed, she had me up and down like a sweeps brush.!! But after 2 and a half hours of pushing,  twisting and tweaking we were no further forward,  my heart was racing so hard I couldn't get my breath!  She ended up saying 'We will have to get an engineer out to you"  I said I told you thats what we needed hours ago!  The best bit is the earliest the Engineer can come is.....4th June !!!  Paul was not a happy bunny!!  That man likes his 10 o'clock news!!   He has ordered a normal cable that connecta to the original aerial,  so we can atleast get 4 channels, I hope there is a decent aerial up there !! 

My craft room looks like a tornado has been through it as I had to dismantle my desk for access to the router box and Sky Q box.  Paul had to take it apart a bit, so consequently no card was made.

This card is from 13th May 2018 I believe, its quite sweet, I used an embossing folder for the background.

I hope that today will be an improvement on yesterday! 

Love & Hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx

An Oldie to start the week

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

Back to normal grey skies today,  but that sunshine was lovely while it lasted.

We are all systems go with wedding planning, Becca's Boss has said they would Love Becca & Adam to have their wedding at the home in Burford, its a beautiful House & Gardens with its own chapel for the ceremony.  Lucy is in charge of the 'Pinterest board', I am waiting for the ideas, colours etc for the 'Save the Dates', the Wedding will be September 2025, so not too far off really when it comes to organising everything! 

My craft room is in turmoil as Paul had to get behind my desk to get to the Gigaclear router and the Sky box, we have had no tv since Thursday evening, not that we missed much, anyway I have to call them this morning to see if we can get someone out to sort it out, so I'll have to work round the upheaval!  So I have shared a card from May 2018.

 I stamped the main image twice and embossed it, i then coloured the leaves with Old Olive ink and a blender pen. The flowers i stamped and did cut and coloured with Rich Razzleberry Stampin Blends, i placed them onto the image with dimensional adhesive pads, i stamped, fie cut and placed the larger flower and butterfly, added some sparkles for the butterfly trail and added the sentiment from 'Share what you love' stamp set.

I hope you like my card.

I only used this stamp set once I think  I forgot how lovely it is! 

I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Love to all,

Sandra

xxxxxx

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you are all having an enjoyable weekend.  As you can probably guess we were in garden most of the day, Lynn next door gave me a list of all of the roses that are in our garden,  she said that she wasn't sure what ones were left as the previous people and the ones before them didn't bother with the garden at all,  Paul and I spent most of yesterday morning cutting out the dead and dying parts of the roses and untangling the mass of bind weed that was choking a few of them,  hopefully with some 'tlc' we can bring them back to their former beauty. 

Karen's New Challenge projects

Karen's Description:  

I found this Christine Emberson kit I bought So decided to make it There was a piece of patterned card missing and so I had to cobble the front - hence the ribbon I am awaiting a delivery of 4x4 card blanks to decorate a few and put inside.

I bought this one too !  How scary is it that it was 9 years ago!  

I love the front, Christine really loved those tiny flowers, they were almost like her signature!  You would never know that there was anything missing, so great cobblingb!!! 🤣

Karen's Description:

Following on from your rainbow type card this morning I have tried Tracy Evans Snippet 71 and 72 Entirely different stamps The background has been made with some Artistro paint pens that I had not used yet I have some cheap acrylic paints (for the grandkids) and created a colour but it needed more white and blue mixed in.

Such a fun technique, your lined background is very neat. That negative stamp technique is so clever, just shading around the edge seems to really make the detail pop! 

Karen thank you so much for taking part in this weeks challenge XXX 

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I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,  

Love & hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxx

Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

Let's all keep our fingers crossed that the lovely Sunny weather sees us through the weekend.  It looks like it drops a good 10 degrees from Monday and the rain returns, so another couple of days would be lovely.

Paul is making great progress with the raised beds, we were at the stage of putting netting over yesterday afternoon,  so I got two beds of cabbages, one lot of savoy cabbage, one lot of red cabbage, and some spring greens.  I also planted some Broccoli.  I have Tenderstem Broccoli,  cauliflowers and red sprouts and normal green sprouts waiting to go in, oh and some Kale. Fingers crossed we get something to eat out of it. 

I thought I'd do a quick Step by Step guide as its a Saturday.

Step by Step Guide for a 

Criss-Cross Front Card

I will start by saying you can make these cards any size you like, I chose to do a C6 card (4 1/4  X 5 1/2 inch) 

Start by getting together a Card base your chosen size,  I chose to attach my strips to a panel and then attach that to the card so that all the glued bits are neatly hidden behind the panel. 

So you have your card base, 

A Panel the same size as your card base

6 strips of card  1/2 inch wide  

Take three of your strips and place them onto the panel,  you must make sure that the strip on the side nearest the corner of the card has its edge perfectly aligned with the corner, both top and bottom. 

*Tip:  I found it easier to use low tack tape to keep them in place while I lined up the other side.

You do exactly the same with the strips on the right hand side, making sure that the strips are lined up to those corners 

Tape in place 

It makes it easier to handle if you trim the strips down a bit,  make sure you leave a good inch or so 

You need to score the strips along the fold ofvthe card, so that they neatly fold over the back of the card

Fold the strips over

Then apply adhesive of your choice to the strips. 

You will need to trim any bits of the strip where you have adhered at the corner edges,  (as you fold the strip down over card a little protrudes over the edge)

Now we need to glue the strips together to form a lattice.

Add glue to the areas where the strips cross

The lattice should be one piece now, next trim a the strips so that they line up with the bottom of the card.

Now we stick out lattice panel to our card base 

Apply your adhesive all over the back of your lattice panel and line up with your card base and press down firmly.

There you go, now you get to decorate your card.

I went for a simple design on this first one, partly because I was eager to get out in the sunshine. 

I hope that you enjoy having a go, I can't wait to see your version x

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I hope that you all enjoy your weekend, 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx