Coffee Break

Another year is drawing to a close . Are you happy that this year is almost over ? Has 2019 been a good year for you? Well ,we do have a couple of weeks to ponder .

 Welcome to my room and thanks for popping in . I have another simple card to share today and I hope you like it .
One of my New Year resolutions is to use up my retired stash of DSP and with this card I have used Coffee Break DSP . Both sides of same sheet too. I even fussy cut some of the images from the scraps
Just a normal size card  C6 .Card base of Soft Suede with a matte of Crumb Cake card . Both sides of the DSP is used for the front
The birthday sentiment is from a free set that came with a magazine and I have added some bling .

 

 

This will be for my husband for his birthday a couple of days before Christmas . Because he never sees my blog posts it will be safe to share .

We love our morning coffee .

More of the scrap of DSP strip for the bottom of the insert with some fussy cut images from same . 

I will probably hand write something soppy inside depending on how I feel on the day LOL 

  

I had a perfectly lovely afternoon , crafting , with Jane and Sandy today .We all did our own thing 

as I had not made any kits for this week so there was a lot of chatter , a few laughs and cup of tea with bickies . Thanks to those fabulous friends for their company . Time well  spent with my friends will be on the list of things that I am most grateful for .

Once again thanks for calling in and do let me know you have been as I would love to return the visit .

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

 

A card within a card

Hello there. Long time since I have blogged and have I  missed sharing my cards and visiting blogs  to see what you have been up to .

  So here we are ..welcome to my room and thank you for calling in .

  My caring role has been taking up a bit more of my time lately and I notice that I have been rushing through my card making when ever I had a few moments spare . I am sure that many of you would know how  mistakes are made when you rush through the steps of card making .and stamping .

 Tonight I will share how I saved a card .

 I began with Basic Black card stock base, 14cm square  . I die cut a circle apeture in the front of card . I then used Whiper White card stock for a Square 13.5cm card which I adhered to the inside  back of black card with its side fold to the outside edge . Using the same sized circle die I cut a circle from Bird Ballard DSP and adhered it to the closed white card . The way I did this so that the image was in the right position is as follows I closed  the black card , placed the die cut paper, bird image up, inside the apeture and glued  the DSP  down .

I then cut a 13.5cm square of the striped  DSP  for the front of black card . I used the next sized  

die to cut a slightly larger circle then adhered it to card front . To ensure that the circles cut were aligned as required I temporally added the DSP to front of card , opened the card and using a pencil

drew a line around the apeture onto the back of the DSP  , then taking the DSP off the black card front I die cut the larger circle 

using the circle I had drawn as a guide  . Thus I had a small border of black card around the birds .

After opening the white card as shown ,  and closing black card , I stamped a sentiment through the apeture , Happy Birthday . 

Now here is where I began rushing to complete card and I dropped the inked  stamp. As you can see in picture below it landed ink down and left a blemish .

There is a craft saying ...There are no mistakes in card making   only opportunities for embellishing 

In this instance I fussy cut a single bird from the DSP and placed it over the offending smudge .

And so my card is complete . It is an unusual fold

I have left the front bare till later .


                          It is a long post and I am out of practice with tutorials so if you have made it to the end , I do hope that you like the card .

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

A Fabulous Birthday

Good evening , good afternoon or good morning . Welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .  As I type up my post and share my today's make , it is almost time for bed here .

This is the time I am usually messaging " sleep well" to my friends and family and letting the dog outside while I tidy up ready to retire to my pillow before my nose hits the keyboard .

But,  I will finish this first .I saw this card layout on pinterest earlier today and rummaged around to find my own paper ,card as well as sentiment to make my own version .
I chose the paper first , well,  it was always going to be a white card base .

The paper was a part of a  12x12 sheet from my stash .

The back strip is SU Gorgeous Grape  card stock .

I layered the paper onto SU Basic Grey card and adhered to card front with foam dots .

I punched a 2'' circle with SU punch  and stamped sentiment in SU Rich Razzleberry ink .
Then adhered circle with foam dots .

For embellishing I punched out small flower and leaves .

I am happy with the color combination   so I hope that you like it too and the card as well .                         

 

Thanks again for visiting .

My thought  for today 

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. 

George Santayana 

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

Just the cake

Hello craft pals , welcome to my room . Thank you so much for calling in .
I do hope that you say hello .

Very hot here so staying indoors where it is a lot cooler . Have finished 3 kits for tomorrow morning so not actually card making but sharing on blog instead .

For this card I have used a pre cut SU card base from SU.
This a Sweet Moments Simply Sent card kit .
Had a few cards left over so using up in a different way to that  suggested .
Front image is from Jim Holtz coloured with copics . The sentiment is from Tasty Trucks , set , SU.

Cake from Big Day set , SU . Circle punches from SU.

 

Sentiment for inside is from Big Day as well .

 

This was a pleasant way to pass a hot afternoon .Just hope my girls enjoy making kits this way ..

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

Delightful hearts and daisy.

Still wintry weather . I am happy to say that I am feeling much better this afternoon .
Thanks to all that sent get well  messages .
Great to see you call in to my room to check  if I have been crafting .
I haven't,  but I do have a card that I  made before catching the bug .

This is another using paper from Delightful Daisy DSP along with the punch and stamp set , Daisy Delight .  Thick Whisper White for card base , Some SU yellow card from my stash for mat .Stamped and  punched 3 flowers , giving the top one a yellow centre before joining together off set then adhering to panel with foam dots . Greeting from set , Happy Birthday Gorgeous . Just added little hearts to add to the loveliness

 

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot 

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

Water colouring

Hello there and welcome to my room . So happy that you came to visit and I hope that you like what you see in this post .

Tonight I am happy to share a card made today using water colour . I was researching for ideas earlier today , finally made my way to SU demonstrators planning place [ a closed group] where I watched a video from Hannah Jones .
Slightly changed some aspects of her card to make it my own .

Entering challenge
http://desiref.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/atg-with-create-with-tlc-challenge-no12.html 

Here I have used SU thick white card base and water colour paper along with the thinlits Happy Birthday  die . embellished with SU candy dots.
I cut a piece of watercolour paper 5cm x 15cm and brushed water over to dampen the panel  before colouring strips of different inks .When dry I cut small tags to adhere to front of card
                            Inks used
                                                       

 

And for the inside 

Back ground mat has been water coloured too. 

I am hoping that this will brighten some ones day .

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

 Will Rogers

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

Cup Cake just for you .

Hello papercraft pals . Hope that you are enjoying a pleasant weekend .
Welcome to my room and thanks for spending some time with me .

In some small way I have started on the destashing of my craft room .

This is the second card recently made from CTMH card kits
This one is from the Jubilee card kit .once again I have not  used a CTMH image but one from Pinterest . The black circle for image came with the kit .
I embossed a square of white card adding it to a piece of Basic Black card leaving small border . Punched out a sentiment from Label Love SU set  and tisied up  with some SU Sprinkles Embellishments .

Would like to enter this challenge
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/182-add-some-texture.html
Embossing and sprinkles ...

 

For the inside I found some cup cake images on Pinterest , printed and punched out on Whisper White . HB sentiment from SU set , Well Scripted .

   

Poor hubby has the dreaded MAN FLU and is not a happy chappy . 

Therefore I have spent the day dispensing TLC and very little crafting . 

I managed this post while he is dozing . 

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

 Barbara Bush 

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

Ahoy There

Well I think that I have almost caught up with cards I had to make for sale and to hand out to  family . I have even been ahead with card kits for my craft  sessions and also found time to add some commenting . The task I am still dreading to start is the decluttering of my craft room .
I have "started " several times but just can't stick to it ..
Has any one have the same problem ?

Hello there , welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .
Hope you like the card shared today .

 

Card base is SU , Mint Macaron , Paper is new , SU, By the Shore designer paper 

Fish images are from Seaside Shore  set . Top sentiment from same .

"happy birthday"  from Teeny Tiny Sentiments , SU . 

INSIDE

Wonder if this might fit  some challenges ?
Must check around .


You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. 

Bob Hope 

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