Quite a mix

Hello you all . Welcome to my room .

I suppose you all thought that I had given up creating,  but not so ! Just been time poor .
I still have my wonderful friends Sandy , Fran and Jane call in weekly to see me and craft with me .
Constructing kits for them and caring for my Hubby leaves me with limited computer time though .

Here I am now to share a few cards That I have made .Thank you for calling in and I hope that you like  that which  you find here today .

                                               A Christmas card from SU  Kraft card stock along with Real Red. I used SU circle punches for the sentiment tag . The image  is from SU  set,  Christmas in the Making . The sentiment is from  SU set , Feeling of Christmas . My friends and I could not agree on whether this delightful lady was wearing a dress and pinny / apron or just a dress .I think she has on a crisp , pretty white apron . And using foam dots to adhere her to the  card seemed the way to go .

A child's Birthday card is next with fun  images and a super sentiment from a freebie on a magazine ...what a find !!Green card base and white layer from my SU stash

Some child  will love this hopefully ..

Loved the paper combination of dots and gingham for this one on a white card base .
The party girl is from SU set , In this Together .  Sorry , I have forgotten where the " it's a party' and the streamers came from . Punched out some tiny flowers with a retired SU punch .

 

Summer seems to be giving us ,  here in Adelaide , a preview of what is to come , pushing Spring to one side . We have a week or so of very hot weather on the way so I may have a little free time in my  room  while hubby rests under a fan .

This is so me!!

 

Hope that you have enjoyed your visit as much as I have blogging .

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

Two cards in free time

Hi there , precious friends , thank you for calling in .

Well a sunny day and although not all that warm,  still a pleasant day .

Went out early on gophers for coffee and snack before moving onto Linear Park trail to enjoy the ambiance . We were lucky enough to spot a koala and baby .
Not a great photo but koala mums often seek height and  thick foliage when with baby .

Might see them better if you click on photo .

Had some spare time the other day and needed some quick cards and kits for craft morning with friends .Today I would like to share them .

Top card has SU  thick Whisper White card base 

Gingham layer is from Kraftyhands Signature  Brights Colour Collection

Journal cards from Project Life [ Life Time memories] 

I used Word Window Punch and added words from a Stampendous stamp set .

inside sentiment , SU punched and stamp set , Tag Talk.

Party hat from pack of 4 from a cheap shop .

Bling from Kraftyhands 

This one used SU card base .
 Gingham layer from Kraftyhands  Signature  Brights Colour Collection
 Also used Project life Journal cards as  interesting layers . 
The little clock image is from Stamp-It .
Bling from Kraftyhands .



There you go , my first non DT blog post for a while .
Hope you enjoyed the visit .

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

Something I prepared earlier ..

Hello  blog pals . Welcome to my room .Hope that you and yours  are all well and happy .
Thank you for calling in . Thank you too as I welcome new followers to my blog . Please may I have permission to view your blogs as well .
It is so cold here in Adelaide and that plays havoc with old bones . Doug is not travelling so well today so lots of TLC for him and not much else  happening ..

All created with SU products .

So while he is dozing I thought that  I would share a couple of cards  which I made a few days ago .

                                                                Again SU products .
There were going to be three but for the life of me I could not get a good photo of the acetate Christmas card I made . Never mind perhaps another time . HA !! tried once more ..

                                                     Created with Kaszazz products Well there you are . Hope you like them . Now I am needed elsewhere for a while but I will be back to check out The Candy Bar  which is within a  wonderful group of crafters.If you join the group there are numerous craft challenges , swaps, ,  ATCs cards, scrap pages ,. and so much more .
Thank you too for all those wonderful bloggers who leave me lots of blog love in comments .
catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne .

Brayering and embossing folder

Hi again . This is my 2nd posting for today . Please scroll down to first posting , after this,  and see what I have to brag about!

Tonight after making one of the kits for next Sunday's workshop , I recalled  some one asked me about brayering and the embossing folders .
This is the card  I am talking about . I like to reinforce a technique

  shown at a workshop in another small way in another card  at the next workshop  so that I can be sure that everyone is confident with it . thus I have used 2 step stampin again . But for the background layer I have used the brayer.

I used a Provocraft embossing folder , woodgrain in appearance , the Big Shot,  Chocolate Chip ink , the brayer and some Creamy Caramel cardstock.

Ink the brayer   and roll over top part of folder till all covered . Then I placed cardstock in position and rolled through Big Shot in the usual way .

    Recipe.. 

Cardstock, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Creamy Caramel. 

Sets, Life Definitions, Botanical Blooms.

Ink, Rose Red , Chocolate  Chip                                             Rhinestone brads ,  Stampin' Dimensials all  above SU                                                                                                            

Thank you for browsing here tonight and catch you again soon .

Cheers Shirley-Anne  

                                                                                                          

Still on flowers

Hello , hope that your day has been all good . And before I forget ! To all who celebrate the 4th of July , may it be a joyous occasion for you.

I spent some time, today, trying my hand at creating some flowers . I used dsp scraps , scallop circle punches,  1 3/4" and 1 3/8",  circle punch , all SU . I even embossed some before layering . And here's the result.

This last image is of one I tried making out of tissue, actually a serviette.  It  turned out very delicate and pretty . I tore a rough circle from several pieces of tissue , adhered them together . I punched a small circle from green scrap and cut short strips all around it then adhered that to flower centre and added a brad. Then I added a few drops of glitter on petals .

I found some beautiful paper from Graphic 45 and used it with SU stamp Share a Cup.

I began this card with Sage Shadow
and made it a top fold card.
Layering the patterned paper onto some SU dsp
leaving a small border, I adhered to left side of card front . Using Rose Red SU I stamped image onto scrap Sage Shadow .
Then using SU scallop circle punch and a smaller version punched over image ,  I layered the two and placed onto right side .

The last card  to share today is from Taken With Teal , SU and is also a top fold card. This card will demomstrate two step stampin' technique.

Now I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig but I still got the greeting off line , sorry about that .

I layered strips of Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue to the left. Using Purely Pomegranate ink and Gable Green  marker , I coloured the  solid image from set Heartfelt Thanks . Before stamping onto Whisper White card I placed a piece of scrap just over flower part to take off some of the colour. The stamp-a-ma-jig was used to stamp the outline in same ink but Old Olive marker.

See how the outline is now darker over flower  because I took some of the colour off  first.

The greeting used is  from A little Birthday Cheer inked  with Taken With Teal.

Well , I hope you enjoyed these as I love sharing  and now look forward to seeing you  again soon .

Cheers Shirley-Anne

Workshop projects

The first card here on left is showing old favourite set of mine , Cheers to you.
This set is another that I have not seen used a lot.

Here I have used stamp sets, A Wish For Peace and A Happy Heart.

Next Tuesday I'd like to give the girls some different folds .

This card has a gate fold .

Front view here and inside .

Another set using SU double sided paper. I used the Summer mini stamp set
Happy Moments

In another card I used stamp set Pocket Silhouettes.

One of the joys of using SU products is that cardstock and D/S papers coordinate so well .

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