As many of you know I have been a part of Bizzy Bec's Design Team for a long time, sadly I decided to resign from the team as I felt I was not contributing enough and there just seem to be something going on in my life all the time, I sometimes feel like I have no mojo lol. Also I have become really interested in Mixed Media, after I did a class with the very talented Donna Downey, when she did a class at my LSS, Made with Memories, so my card making has been less. I will of course continue to visit Bec and the team.
Well, it's a lovely sunny day here in WA, we are having sunny days but cold nights. I have been ill for just over a week, started with a dreadful sore throat, then went onto become a head cold then the flu, still feeling rough, yesterday was better then today, I seem to take 2 steps forward and 1 step back. But I shouldn't complain there are a lot of people that are going through worse then me!
I also had a friend lose her husband to cancer, he was only 40yrs old, they were childhood sweethearts with 2 children, I can't put in words how sad I'am for them all.
On a happy note I have a dear friend who is 10 wks pregnant with twins, unfortunately there was triplets but one didn't make it. Melanie an Daniel are the lovliest couple and they lost thier first daughter 18 years ago when she was born 19 weeks prematurely, so we are all hoping and praying for a safe pregnancy and birth.
We have also had Ricks parents who live in Geraldton, come down for a few days as my father-in-law has put together a Cat run for Marley and Bronson, unfortunatly my mother-in-law stayed with her daughter as she did not want to catch my bugs (don't blame her lol), and my Father-in-law just came during the day to get the cat run up with Rick's help, he kept a wide berth from me too lol. So Marley and Bronson had their first taste of the outdoors, they were very inquisitive for awhile and then cried to come back in lol. It's not finished yet as we want to pave over the dirt, and put some ledges an toys and an waterproof area, but at least they can get out for some fresh air, and I can chuck them out when they decide to chase each other an I end up with hair all over the house hehehe.
Ok chatted enough, hope you are all well.
hugs
Sue
And if you read all of that THANK YOU lol xo
Today I have made a couple of cards using Florishes Stamps, the first one is using the Poppies, I stamped on to X-Press It Blending card, and coloured with my Copic's
Poppy R21,R24,R27,R29
Leaves G43,YG67
Background B00
I used the Cut feature on my Silhouette Cameo to cut some extra Poppies and Leaves, some I used to mask and stampt extra Poppies and Leaves and some I coloured and attached with dimensional adhesive, you can't really see in the pictures but it is actually 3D. I inked the edge with Tim Holtz Stormy Sky and and matted it using white and black bazzil, the DP is from my stash and I distressed the edges and inked them then I stamped that with a 'Happy Birthday' stamp, I have not used any other embellishments as thought the Poppies were enough.
The other card is an experiment lol, I used the Image from Flourishes -Bloomin Aussie Florals and instead of using Ink I used White embossing Powder on X-Press It Blending card, then colored with my Copic's and then I used my Copic Blending Pen O, to gently blend every thing and it take the colour off of the embossing, found this a very relaxing and easy technique and love the water colour effect, going to try this again for sure :) Keeping it simple I just matted it on to Kraft cardstock.
Cheers
Sue
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