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Welcome to Sandra's Blog my escape is card making l took it up in 2007 after l retired from the Civil Service l am recently Widowed have 3 children all grown up and flown the nest Five grand children Tayla, Nathan, Poppy, Mila & Rio they keep me on my toes l adore then but it's always nice when they go home....lol l like making my own cards and enjoy the challenges it provides Sandra H xxx

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Oooh l do love my sleigh!

Hello everone and welcome to my post today
Hope all is well and sending lots of love to those who need it
Here is a card l made last year it's one of many that l had to make in a rush
And the beauty of using the image is that it's pre-coloured and comes from
Lotv packs which they don't do now 
 Recipe
White Scalloped card, Snippet of cards, Snippet of Ribbon
3D Pads, Gems, Holy, Rudolph and Lotv image
Woodware corner punch
Challenges l'd like to enter into
I cannot believe how this year is going so fast
At the end of the month the hour goes back
Making the day's shorter and the nights darker
And then it's Christmas .....What a thought!!
I made a start on my Christmas shopping yesterday
How about yourselves?
Thank you for your time
Hope you have a lovely day
Sandra H xx

Tuesday 18 October 2016

l'm a nice boy at heart!!

Good Evening 
Well what a day it's been 
The weather has been awful!
Not fit to go out so l didn't
l trawled through my unblogged cards
And found this one which will be suitable for
Di's Snippets
 here 
Craftysentiments Anything-goes
here
l made this card for a friend who is a butcher
The image suited him down to a tee!
The designer papers are snippets 
Sentiment came from a box that l have 
Just waiting to be used
l'd like to enter into
Tomorrow is supposed to be a better day
They say there's a high coming in 
Which means we could be in for some dry
And warm weather which beats the rain
Take care whatever your plans
And thank you for your visit
Sandra H xx

Friday 14 October 2016

Ooh l do like a good cake! ...Any for that matter!!

Hello hope your day is going well so far and that you have great plans for the weekend
l don't have any motivation at the moment and l really need to shape up l have lots of 
Christmas cards and Birthday cards to be getting on with 
But l did manage to put this little beauty together 
Mostly because l didn't have to colour the image
It's one from Lotv pads
Now not sure if your aware but it's Di's Snippets has it's 
250Th Challenge
So why not nip over and enter
Here is where you will find all the detail
And here is my card

Items used
White Scalloped card stock
Snippets of Purple, Pink and patterned card
Snippet of Ribbon, gems, flower and Sentiment
Challenges....Pixies.Snippets  
alphabetchallenge ...Q for Quick and simply...q-for-quick-and-simple.html
On a sad note
This is Fluffi 
RIP
She was a stray l tried every avenue to find her owner
To no avail they didn't come forward
Fluffi was very hungry and ferrel l already had and stil have 2 other cats
Needless to say they didn't appreciate another mouth to feed
But eventually they did get on 
Fluffi was about 14yrs old l had her for about 10 yrs
Sadly Fluffi fell asleep Saturday after learning she had Liver Cancer
6 weeks ago 
RIP 
Sandra H
xx

Saturday 1 October 2016

Show me a Snowman

Hello Bloggers and welcome to another challenge 
Today sees the start of our new challenge over at 
Sparkles Christmas Buddies 
This challenge was choosen by Caz
Show Me A Snowman 
Here is my card
This months sponsors are
Our leam leader
Caz
And here is this amazing Set from Crafters Companion
 
And you could be the winner
As we all know you have to take part so why not join the challenge
Here 
There will be lots of inspiration for you to take from
The Dt's amazing creations
Looking forward to seeing them
Challenges l'd like to enter into
Snippets...pixies-snippets-playground-week-249.html
Use a little or a lot of orange...christmascardsallyearround.october-challenge.html
Spots or/and Stripes...promarkerchallenge.spots-andor-stripes.html 
 Enjoy your day
Sandra H xx