Time of Sorrow

WHEW !!
Very Hot !!
A real scorcher here in Adelaide today .

So a good time to be in my craft room with the fan on .

Welcome to my room , thank you for sharing some time with me . Hope that

you enjoy your visit .

Seem to have needed a few Sympathy cards as of late and my stash rather depleted  .

Here I have used a digi image from Just inklined.  " Hand Tied Lilys "

http://www.justinklined.com/index.php?route=common/home

Card and paper from my stash and image coloured with copics .Diecut frame from Spellbinders .

May find a challenge or two and enter this and if I do ..I'll be back!
http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2012/11/ttcrd-challenge-46-november-27.html  [anything goes]
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/ch-89-anything-goes.html

                                              Quote for today .

                                            I can trust my friends
                                           These people force me to examine myself,
                                             encourage me to grow.
                                                                  Cher

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne

Dr. Digi's House

Hi there . Welcome to my room and thanks for calling in .
Well,  here we are on the down hill run to Christmas .

NOPE , DON'T WANT TO THINK OF THAT JUST YET !!

Am more excited about it being the start of another Make it Monday linky Party .. # 117
Even if  you didn't enter and just browsed the entries , you could not help but be inspired last week  . The talent out there is simply amazing .

My DT card ..

 

I added some crystal effects on his glasses , not that it shows in photo ..

Card base  is from Kraft Kits . Paper strip from SU.

Fabulous image,BBQ Bill,    from  our sponsor for this week , coloured with copics .

The lightning bolt  and the sentiment is from Die-namics and stamp sets , MFS.

 

Our sponsor.. 

http://www.doctor-digi.com/

 

 

Dr.Digi's House of Stamps is a brand new digital stamping site featuring an amazing range of digis with a difference for the crafter with a sense of humor. Our artist and founder cut his teeth in the craft world at the  company "Just Inklined", where his unique digis made a huge impression. We're hoping to continue to entertain and  amuse, while fulfilling all your craft needs with our new products and regular freebies.

 

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps is giving away the lovely prize of 2 single digis of winner's choice!

 

Remember, to be in the running to win the prize from our sponsor this week just leave a comment for another entry. Be sure to mention you saw them on Make It Monday. The more entries you comment on the more chances you have of winning!

Congratulations to last weeks winners .

I think that the DT have produced  amazing projects showcasing images by our sponsor  and you would not be dissappointed if you went over to their blogs , to see their creations and also to see their POTW too .

 

Cheryl's card caught my attention last week .

Fun , bright and colourful . 

 

 

 

Now I know that there is no stamping but the card design,  the  beautiful papers and fabulous chip board pieces combined to give this card the wow factor this time .

 

 

http://shestamps.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/fun-times.html 

 

Hope that you will share your papercraft project , old or new this week . Looking  forward to seeing  what it will be .

 

 

Quote for today ..

 

 

 

 

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne

 

 

 

 

 

 

good company , good time .

Hi there , welcome to my room . Thank you so much for sharing some time with me .

No card tonight . Although I have made cards and kits for Tuesday girls , I'll post them Tuesday night , I think .

Wow , I had a wonderful afternoon  today  . 
Kay , one longstanding  SU buddy   and her friend , Judith , organised an afternoon for crafties like myself at our local library. The room was a great venue , bright and cheery and tea/ coffee facilities too .

 

I did a lot of diecutting on my Big Shot , while others made cards or addressed their Christmas card envelopes , ready to post .

I loved the fact that the library is only a 5 minute walk from home .

 

Hope that your weekend was as good as mine .

 

   Quote for today

 

 

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

A new park member

 

Hi there , welcome to my room .
Very hot here in Adelaide today . But weather be hot or cold our dogs need a run so Doug and I went to the nearest park .Luckily I had the new camera , which Doug had bought for me recently .
Managed to capture a new addition to our park . Don't you just love digital cameras ? I took 20 shots then came home and fiddled with Windows to find best shot . Lots of shadows and shooting into sun but with a little ..no lots actually , editing , this is the best I have to share. I could get to like photography !

Back to cards to share . This image is so well used that there is no ID left on block . coloured with various SU markers with aqua pen . Feather from stash .
                    
                                                      Quote today ..

Thinking along the lines of ..although I am sitting in my room appearing like I am doing nothing , I am really searching my memory bank for a particular card design .....

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

70th Birthday cards

Hello hello hello , nice to see you .
Welcome to my room .  Thank you for popping in .
Hope that your week is going well .
I have been playing with my card making program on my computer .Gosh this is fun , but boy it can run away with time and ink .
I had to create some cards for a 70th birthday.
Plain I think but reasonably happy with mixing and matching computer generated images , papers and sentiments .
I printed out papers added an image and sentiment , then layered onto various card and onto card base .

 

 

 

 

These little cards took me all afternoon and I really  enjoyed the crafting .
I hope you enjoy the viewing .

                                           A quote for the day ..

 

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

                                                     

Play Time with Meljen designs

Hi there .
Welcome to my room,  where I hope that you enjoy your browsing.

Was it a working weekend for you ? Or did you have a relaxing couple of days?

Doug and I did some  shopping  in our local supermarket and I think from now on until after Christmas I might do the grocery shopping alone .BOY oh BOY !! Was it busy !
Would not be so bad , me thinks , if the managers left the isles clear . Trying to negotiate a wheelchair around stock and shoppers trolleys along with customers who will insist on stopping to chat with their trolleys together , blocking ends of isles is not easy . Nor is it easy remaining polite asking to be excused , "so we can pass"after 5 or 6 times .

Oops , sorry , just a little gripe .

A more pleasant task is writing my post for the new Make it Monday Linky Party.

And of course sharing my card

Card base is Pumpkin Pie , SU. Paper from my stash . The fabulous image is  A Boy and his Wagon .

 

Thank you to our sponsor for allowing the DT some images to play with .

 

Meljen Designs Digital Stamps 

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins.

 

 She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family.

 

 Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, a Guest

 

Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog, and freebies and promos now and then

 

on our facebookFAN PAGE! 

 

  Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at our store HERE to 

 

browse through all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's rubber stamps at

 

her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too! 

 

Meljen Designs Digital Stamps are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4 single digis!

 

 

Congratulations to those winners from last weeks amazing entries.

 

 

Remember, to be in the running to win the prize from our sponsor this week just leave a

 

 comment for another entry. Be sure to mention you saw them on Make It Monday. The

 

more entries you comment on the more chances you have of winning!

 

Sure hope that you visit the DT and take a gander at which image they showcased and which

 

 entry they chose as their POTW.

 

Of course now that you are here,  I will share my POTW too.

 

http://desiref.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/think-big.html

 

 

Hi there .beautiful card design ..love the country scene and those fab flowers along with the sponging on the sentiment tag . thanks for sharing on Make it Monday

 

 

 

Beautiful card design ..love the country scene and those fab flowers along with the sponging

 

 on the sentiment tag .

 

A quote for today

 

 

 

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

 

 

Wood grain and Vine

Hello , thank you for calling in . Welcome to my room where I hope that you like what you see .

Just another quick post to show a card I made to share at a workshop . I generally have 3 cards and kits to make and take for my friends on Tuesday morning but this week my mojo left me for the last set . So as I usually do, when this happens , I began to browse through my favourite magazine for inspiration .

And so I must acknowledge that I was inspired and motivated by a card by Carolyn Bennie, SA, shown in Readers gallery , Australian Cardmaking Stamping & PaperCraft.

Can't show you of course as I dont have permission from either parties .

But if Carolyn sees this and oks I'd love to share her card here

 

 

 

 

 

Chocolate Chip card base, Whisper White layer . Wood Grain image from KaiserCraft

stamped twice on light  tan cardstock. Inks were Creamy Caramel and Soft Suede.

The vine from KaiserCraft, inked in Garden Green . The Bird Collage from Hero Arts, inked with  basic Grey..The large silver brad is from SU

                                                                         inside

Here I stamped image in two colours again overlapping each stamping, on Very Vanilla card. .I used a torn rectangle of paper as a mask and stamped over it to give the sentiment /greeting blank place.
For a slapped up card and a little different from Carolyn's card , I really liked the end result .

Hope that you are enjoying the week and managing to get some crafting  in .
Would like to enter this card in a challenge or two
 
http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com.au/ [ make your own background ] ends Nov 16th

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.ca/2012/11/challenge-45-anything-goes.html [anything goes]
                                                                                                                     ends in 9 days
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com.au/ [ a flower somewhere] there is a flower in the collage and on the brad ..

                                                           A quote to ponder..

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

Pocket full of flowers

 

 

Hi .

Welcome to my room , thanks for popping in .

If you saw yesterday's post you would have seen this image on another card .

I really enjoyed colouring it and once more as a DT member for Make it Monday , I thank Bugaboo for the image  Flower Pocket 1

 

http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

 

 

 

This another more feminine application for this pretty image

 

 

 

 

 

Hope that you enjoyed your browsing through my post and will check out yesterdays card as well

 

Quote for today

 

                                          Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

Bugaboo! It's Monday.

Hi there .  Welcome to my room . Hope that you enjoy your visit and know that I appreciate you calling in . Thanks to my new follower , Yvonne, for joining my blog.

 This week has just simply wizzed by . On my to do list, next,  is to address Christmas card envelopes . Now that's scary as I just know that I have not done the usual  numbers  to date .

Right now though , I am more excited about the new Make it Monday Linky Party  that starts today .

                                                                # 115

Bugaboo stamps is  our sponsor this week

http://www.bugaboostamps.com

 

And the DT ladies were given some amazing images to play with so we thank Jodie for that .

 

Here is my card .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did a little tweaking  and photo looks a bit eerie .

 

 

Here I have used the image ,   Flower Pocket 1 . Loved  printing this one onto  kraft card and

 

colouring with copics .

 

 

 

 

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a

 

challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of

 

papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago.

 

Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still

 

growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the

 

other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to

 

create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies

 

every week!

 

 If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps

 

atTotally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges

 

at Catch the Bug.

 

Bugaboo Stamps are offering a very generous prize of winner's choice of 7

 

single digis!

 

 

Remember, to be in the running to win the prize from our sponsor this week just leave a

 

comment for another entry. Be sure to mention you saw them on Make It Monday. The more

 

 entries you comment on the more chances you have of winning!

 

Try and visit the DT blogs and check out their inspirational showcasing of other fabulous fun

 

images . And,  just in case you are a newbie here , the DT also chooses a favourite entry, from

 

 last week,  to  share on their blog too.

 

Congratulations to those winners from last week and good luck to the new entries this week .

 

Thanks  for  all the wonderful entries .

 

My pick of the week .

 

http://creamcityangels.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/lmm-thanksgiving-together.html

 

Debra shared with us this amazing card.

 

 

 

 

Absolutely loved this !

Wow that background is awesome .Love the image and your colouring . Thanks for sharing on Make it Monday , Debra.

Quote of the day

 

 

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

 

 

 

Non Christmas colours

Hi there , great to see you .
Hope that you and yours are well .
Beautiful weather so out and about this morning and so  a big rest and granddad nap this afternoon

As you can see ..

And thats when I made this ..

Card base is Naturals Ivory, SU and the rest,  scraps from my desk . The front image and sentiment from SU  but the inside sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp .

so that was my day ..LOVED IT . Have a fabulous Sunday every one


                                      No Quote today too late for me to look .

Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

Make it Monday with the good Dr. Digis

Hi there , great to see you .
Welcome to my room . Hope that you and yours are safe and well .
Hello to new followers,  I will visit you as soon as I can if you have left a link .

Another wonderful collection of entries last week for our Make it Monday Linky Party.
Thank you to all who helped make a great challenge another  fantastic challenge .
My DT card for this week

I had so, so much fun playing with this image , Dish Cloth Dave  and I thank our sponsor for this week . The sentiment I created on my PC.
                                             and the inside..

I took a bit of licence with this sentiment from ,"Clearly Sentimental about Audrey Hepburn "from MFT.and added "birth" but I could have written it a bit bigger . all coloured with copics .
 The rest of the DT have also outdone themselves with some more exciting  images from



Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Dr.Digi's House of Stamps is a brand new digital stamping site featuring an amazing range of digis with a difference for the crafter with a sense of humor. Our artist and founder cut his teeth in the craft world at the  company "Just Inklined", where his unique digis made a huge impression. We're hoping to continue to entertain and amuse, while fulfilling all your craft needs with our new products and regular freebies. 

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps  is giving away the lovely prize of 2 single digis of winner's choice! 

Remember, to be in the running to win the prize from our sponsor this week just leave a comment for another entry. Be sure to mention you saw them on Make It Monday. The more entries you comment on the more chances you have of winning!
I wonder if you were chosen as a favourite entry by one of our DT ladies?  Have you checked their blogs yet ?

Well,  seeing as how you have come to visit me , I had better tell you who it is that I have chosen from last week  ..

# 18 , Liz
http://craftylizscreations.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/join-in-celebrations.html

So glad you are my number on Make it Monday .Totally cool card .Amazing ,  masculine in every detail . LOVE IT MUCHLY .
Thanks for sharing on Make it Monday .



You must visit Liz at her blog and see the rest of this amazing creation . When  you see this card open you will be in awe.
Congrats to winners and picks of the week too.
Ready , set, GO!! Make it Monday Linky Party # 114 is now open .
Am looking forward to seeing your creation here sometime this week .

                                                          Quote of the day .
                                         

                                               
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.



 

Using stash

Another post for the week ..going well !!
Hi there,  welcome to my room .  Gosh I am glad to see you . Hope that you let me know that you have been so I can repay the visit . I do appreciate the comments thank you .
Went for our usual coffee and scones this morning . Fran and Sandy called into cafe to share some time with us . I think they like the scones too .
Sandy had her grandchildren with her and they were perfect little angels as they always are .
Well Doug and I went to see some of Doug's friends after Fran and Sandy left , then we did some grocery shopping . Was too busy in shops for us [ Doug in his motorised wheel chair has trouble negotiating around shoppers who stand chatting  in isles with trollys together]

As it was a beautiful sunny afternoon we took  the dogs to the park . Twiggy and Jacki are veteran gopher riders now .
There was just enough time to make a card before starting dinner

Now this looks like paper strip is crooked but believe me it is just the angle of photo as I do measure everything . I am still using up scraps of paper from my stash.  These papers are from a
12x12  pad  I've had forever. Might have to start throwing out some smaller pieces !!
                                                                     and inside

Here I added a layer of card same as  card base , Very Vanilla.

I cut out one of the stripes from the paper and adhered it to layer .

 

                         A simple CAS card , not too much in it , but enough to satisfy my need for instant    
                                      craft gratification .

Now for my quote for tonight ..

Better be off now and check out the Make it Monday entries and leave some blog love there-in .

       Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.