Make a wish

Hello and a warm welcome to you and you ..oh and of course you too . 

Thank you to those who left comments on my last post .I read and appreciated each one . 

I do hope that each visitor finds a little craft  inspiration from my posts. 

I was struggling to choose a stamp set or indeed even an image for my next card . My mojo had no idea what type of  card that  I wanted to make . I mean I have hundreds of made cards in my stash ready for me to use or  donate  to the Salvos so it is not that I needed a specific card . Does any one else understand this situation ?  And I did not feel like trying a new technique this time .

Anyway  I was just browsing through Pinterest waiting for something to jump out at me . As  you do . Research I call it,  LOL.

I did give up and I thought bugger it I am going to my pile of stamps and the first thing I pick up is what I will use . Well do you think that this was the end of the dilemma? Frustrated by this time by trying out several papers and layouts I finally settled on this .

The empty bowl says it all .

       SU Basic thick  White card base .SU stamp set Happy Tails using SU dog punch and I fussy cut the bowl . I layered images onto  die cut ovals using SU Layering Ovals Framelits dies . The sentiment is from  SU set Life is Grand . The back ground mat is from my Signature Neutrals Colour collection from Kraftyhands .

OH MY  I miss the girls from that UK group .Must go back through really early posts to see if they are still blogging and will say hello .      oops off the track here .

I cut around the sentiment and layered onto brown card to coordinate with the oval carrying the images .

The inside is blank but may well have a birthday wish sentiment .

Now if you have made it to the end of my post WELL DONE and thank you for sticking with it .

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

Birthday wishes

Hello visitors .Thank you for calling in .
Welcome to my room where I am happy to share some time with you .Still getting the blogging groove going here , trying to post on a regular basis .

I must say that I am enjoying the visits to some of my oldest fellow crafters pages ...Not that they are necessarily old in years I mean , you know but  that they have been sharing their makes for quite some time ...WHEW! I hope I got outa that one ok LOL

Adelaide ,in fact quite a large portion of Australia is , like,very hot ,sweltering in fact .Just googled  the temperature here in Adelaide and it is 43 degrees . You know , that info does not make me feel any better ...

But ,sharing my make for today will definitely raise my spirits .

This sweet card  has a SU Thick Whisper White   card base .I am using retired card Tangerine Tango and some Gingham paper from my stash as mattes for my labels and the sentiment, which is from SU  Best Bunny stamp set . The floral image is from Bloom and Grow cut with Budding Blooms dies Both SU products .
The labels once adhered together are added to card front with foam dots just so message pops a bit .
I coloured  floral spray  with SU water colour  inks  and an aqua pen .
Not one for a lot of embellishing I just added a little heart to top of label .

A challenge I will enter
http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2019/12/anything-goes-challenge-our-last-for.html

  Well that's it for today and I hope if stayed for a while that you liked my make

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

Sporty Boy , PUCK PUCK

Hi everyone . Sorry about the strange heading for my post .I just could not choose between the two , so went with both .
Welcome to my room , Lovely to see you here .

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
                                              Zig Zigla


First post for 2019 .
This is my DT card for   http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/

Image, pre coloured , Ice Hockey from Sponsor,  Printed on Whisper White card , SU.

Card base Emerald Envy , SU. as is matte for image and circle button   Chain circle die , a Memories Die in Night Of Navy card , SU 

SU star punch with yellow card SU from my scraps .Wink of Stella on stars.

No.1button  from SU set , Badges and Banners 

Happy Birthday from Little Birdie clear stamps  set , 

Back ground paper from SU stash 

                            

Thank you to our sponsor for this image to use .

Ice Hockey -

https://www.thepapershelter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&am... 

PRIZE:  3 digital stamps

Thanks to the team members who share creations  with us every week , endeavouring to  inspire you to join us .
Now from our admin team .......

Just Released! ...

The January-February issue of Through the Craft Room Door is now available in the Subscribers Only Area of the Website. 

Through the Craft Room Door is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to bringing you exciting projects to inspire your card making and scrap book endeavors! In addition to articles, product reviews and kid friendly crafts, each issue introduces new or well-known digi artists and their works.

If you are interested in subscribing, details can be found on the website: http://craftrmdoor.ning.com/.

 As always, our challenges are Anything Goes and we love seeing your crafty entries each week however, we must have rules for you to follow to keep it fair and fun for everyone.

1. Only 2 entries per person
2. No back linking - all entries must be new and not posted prior to the start of the challenge.
3. All entries must include a link - back to Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Blog.

Word Verification Blogs are commented on at the discretion of the Design Team so your awesome project may or may not be commented on.

As always, our challenges are Anything Goes and we love seeing your crafty entries each week however, we must have rules for you to follow to keep it fair and fun for everyone.

1. Only 2 entries per person
2. No back linking - all entries must be new and not posted prior to the start of the challenge.
3. All entries must include a link - back to Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Blog.

Word Verification Blogs are commented on at the discretion of the Design Team so your awesome project may or may not be commented on.

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   WE all would love to see your makes so come on link up and share with us .

                  

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

Wishing You

I have long been a fan of CAS cards and so most of my makes  have been of CAS  style .

I think mainly this is so because I suck at placing embellishments and  postage costs rise dramatically when letters are bulky . 

Hello to you and you and especially you .Welcome to my room and thank you for calling in . 

I never tire of creating CAS cards but I hope you are not bored with them when I post .

Maybe when you comment you could suggest a style just to challenge me 

But for today...

 

Chocolate Chip card base .Brown gingham paper  layer  from my stash 

SU , Flirty Flamingo and Whisper White 

SU, Neutral Candy Dots 

Sentiment and image free stamps with magazine .

and the inside 

Now, as this card will no doubt be posted I did not want more dots as embellishing on the inside so
after I had adhered the Whisper White to the Flirty Flamingo card I used my SU  cropadile to make holes in the corners before adhering to back of card . Looks cool in real life !

may well enter this challenge
https://sunnydaycrafting.blogspot.com/2018/08/aug-15-sept-14-challenge.html

Thanks again for calling in .

                                                 My thought for today

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny.
 But what we put into it is ours.

                                                           Dag Hammarskjold 


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

Crosswords

Hi , everyone .
Welcome to my room .
Have been busy with mundane house work , shopping and all that jazz!
Not much card making so once again sharing a card I had as a kit for my Tuesday ladies ..
Front
Now this was taken outside in bright sunshine which , I think reflected off cream wall back to camera. I have used this image before and I do have a few Male family members who are keen on crosswords so this card will go to my stash .
And the inside of the card was photographed in my room under my desk lamp .

It is almost the same as the front but I only inked the one hedgehog for the sentiment block .
It is a Very Vanilla card base with a matte of Old Olive with a strip of scrap striped dsp .The circles to the side are made up of two different sized circle punches .
The image is from Penny Black , Hedge-word..
Thank you for calling in to see me . Thank you if you left a comment to let me know you have been .And I hope you liked the card .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

Eat Cake

Hi there . Welcome to my room . Thank you so much for calling in .
Hope that all is right in your world .
Welcome to new follower Tan, hope we see each other again soon .
Still cool here but at least no wind or rain . Spent a bit longer in craft room today as Doug dozed a lot in his chair after a long gopher ride by himself yesterday . I dont think that he realises how mentally challenging it is for him , having to be alert and making decisions .
Any way onto my card for tonight .
Now , I dont think that this one is really finished yet because I am undecided as to wether to use flowers or rhinestones as embellishing . What I would have liked was a little whisk or spoon charm . So If and when I do decide on any additions I will edit this post .


The card base is a retired SU product , while paper is also SU , along with the Whisper White card on that image is stamped. Mouse image is Chef Amanda, Stampabilities. Scallop circle and circle punches SU used for sentiment .

Just a little cupcake and diecut frame for inside , with sentiment from SU, Well Scripted.

Now for a couple of blog visits before some research ...Craft magazine reading ...that is .

Thank you, again , for calling in ,hope the rest of your day includes some craft time .

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

Just purrrfect for you

Hi every one .Welcome to my room .It is very late so this may be Friday not Thursday's post . Thanks for calling in .
Just going to share a card I made the other day for to make into  a kit for a craft  session with friends .

Loved this little pussy cat from Inkadinkado. I stamped this in Basic Black onto Whisper White and paper pieced  it before adhering  onto frame that holds the sentiment from Stamp-It.
Well just as I thought ! it is now Friday .Wow time flies . Hope that you have some wonderful memory making moments planned for the weekend ahead. The weather here in Adelaide is going to be fine and sunny so  I can see lots of walking in my weekend as Doug will want to gopher about our parks again .
Catch you later , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne .

Mid week madness

Hello you all . Welcome to my room .
Hope that your week is going along happily .

My day has been a right pickle .. apart from being wet and cold . I have been multi tasking all day . Washing machine going ,preparing crockpot for dinner , sweeping front veranda ...AGAIN..running after Doug etc .. etc and in and out of my room checking emails  and  earmarking pages in  magazines and the like .

And you know what ...not achieving a lot .
But I see that there two new followers on my blog .To Lisa M and to Dora.    Thank you welcome to my room ladies .Hope you visit again soon .

What a pleasant surprise though from blogland . Monica has chosen to give me some blog awards

  

Thank you Monica , I will place them on my side bar soon . This one special blogger who donates many of her creations to charity and is also very generous with her  kind words in comments .
Only one of my craft day cards to share tonight .

Just made from my stash .The image is Oriental Collage from My Stamps .
Now the day is nearly over so I am off to bed . Not a bad day after all .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne .

Sneak peek

Hello,  you wonderful crafting buddies .How are you ? Thanks for calling in to browse . Hope that you leave a comment to let me know you were here so I can return the kindness.
Today I have a sneak peek for you . Not able to go into details SU protocol you see. But I can show you a card I  have made from one of the new images out soon . I have used an example shown in the new catalogue and made it my own by changing a few things

 I began with the card base , Cajun Craze . The scallop edges are from More Mustard card. I have two little mats of Whisper White  with 3D  piece of Confetti Cream  on which the image is  stamped using Soft Suede. I coloured sparingly with SU markers . I used an old tooth brush to spritz some Soft Suede ink over corners of Confetti Cream piece , which does not show in photo , sorry .
 I added some Basic Pearls , SU.
The sentiment is from Stamp-It.
And before  I go,  Fran shared a couple more Christmas cards for the challenge ..well done Fran they are super fabulous .

Well That's it for today ..hope you enjoyed the show . Please come again ..you make my day!
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne .

Another large stamp

Hello Blogging buddies .  Welcome to my room .
Hope that you have had an amazing day filled with pleasant memory making moments .
My craft ladies , Fran and Sandy , took me craft shop hopping after our session on Tuesday morning . Thank you so much Sandy , the driver . We also had a light lunch while we were out . I was a bit nevous about leaving Doug on his own for couple of hours , but it turns out that he coped very well . Even hobbled off to kitchenette to get himself a peanut butter sandwich as a snack . Mind you he left everything out on the bench afterwards ..but that's ok ..too late to retrain him now I guess! LOL
This little card  that I'm sharing has another  little mouse image . Just love these little critters.

I began with River Rock card base and some dsp , the label of which I  have missplaced sorry .
the happy birthday background stamp lge is from Stamp-It.   This I  inked with the brayer too and Creamy Caramel  , and after it was dry  I used some glitter gel pens  [ green and red ]  to highlight some of the sentiment . This litttle Party  Mouse is from Stampabilities  and was inked with Basic Grey onto Whisper White  . I paper pieced  the party hat.  The image was then layered onto Certainly Celery card before 3D onto card front .
Loved it hope you do too.
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

My week

Hello Blogging friends , welcome to my room . Hope that you and yours are well .
This will be the longest post I have ever done so grab a cuppa and I  hope that you find something that interests you . Firstly,  thank you to those who have joined my blog and to those who have taken the time to to leave much appreciated comments .

Well,  the weather has improved here in Adelaide and we have had a couple of sunny days where Doug and I have been out and about , walking . That being  one of the reasons  for lack of  postings .
Sunday was a great craft day with Sandy and Jane . Sandy  bought along some of her Jelly cakes for our afternoon tea . Hand made jelly cakes to die for . while we had two each Doug saved one of his for supper so I  thought that  I  would show you just how yummy cream filled they were!

THANK YOU SANDY

And here are some of the cards we made

Then today Fran and Jill came for papercrafting . Now Fran does not have a blog but wanted to join in my Christmas card challenge . Here  are  photos  of some of her 38 cards

Definately a fun day today with Fran and Jill .Things kept going missing , and turning up right under our noses ..as missing things do!
Poor Jill ,who walks to my place , weather permitting , walked right way  past   my gateway before realising her error . And Fran left her order behind when it was time to go . I did manage to call her back to pick it up .
Fran , Doug and I then went out for lunch at a cafe nearby
And here are two of the cards we worked on today .

Fran suggested this as the insert below .

and for the  last card

Well I  hope that you have enjoyed your visit here today .

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

Make it Monday sharing

Good morning / afternoon/ evening  bloggers . ..Well ,  we are world wide aren't we? It's Monday , or in some places nearly Monday , and time for my DT duties .
Welcome to my room where it is only a little warmer than outside . I think it is about 11 degrees as I post this .Takes a while before the aircon fills my room with warmth .
Firstly I present to you Heather , entry number 141 . Heather is my pic for the week .
This little gem shown below ,  that Heather shared with us on Make it Monday , just warmed the cockles of my heart and reminded me of Doug who is spending a lot of time in his armchair now. 

I love the papers and the layout and the inside is beautifully presented as well .

 http://kurly-q.blogspot.com/   this is Heather's place , where you will find it and some more equally stunning creations as well .
Plenty of stunning entries this week again and it was a pleasure visiting many of them .
Congratulations to  last weeks winners.
Hope that you all enjoy entering again this week . Our Sponsor is

Ladybug Crafts Ink - http://www.ladybugcraftsink.co.uk/


And the prize
  Stamp of the winners choice to the value of £6.50

The card I created for this week shows off one of our sponsor's images from the shoes and bags sets .

The image and the sentiment are from the same set . This is one of many reasons I love these sets because the sentiments match the images so well but still lend themselves to other applications . All items to make this are from my stash and I  coloured with copics .


 Now don't forget this week you can be one of the winners too, even if you don't have an entry to share , just by commenting .When commenting on another’s MIM entry don’t forget to mention that you saw it on MIM and the more entries you comment on in this way, the more chances you have of winning.

And so I leave you now with this thought ..
                                                       When you can think of yesterday
                                                         without regret and tomorrow without
                                                           fear , you are near contentment.

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

          

A few cards to share

Hello  to you and welcome to my room . Thank you for visiting and I hope you see something you like .
Thanks, also ,  to those who are new followers , I hope you visit again and again and again ..
To those of you who visit from Craftymess , I am having trouble working out how to transfer my page and The Candy Bar over to new site , so I may end up opening as new member .
Just a quick post to share a few cards made in the last couple of days .
The weather has been so cold and damp here in Adelaide that I have been in my room quite often blog hoppin and researching craft magazines

Sorry that I am running late tonight and I have turned off the aircon so it is getting chilly .
Enjoy the rest of your day /evening .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

Floral Birthday Wishes

Hello there , welcome to my room . So happy that you could call in .Hope that you are having a great weekend .
Hope too, that  you like todays card . Very quick post tonight as I have lots of commenting to do and a draft for
 Make it Monday Blog and an ATC to make for the ATC Challenge Blog,

All card stock and dsp  is from SU .

I coloured with Copics

Inked image in Basic Brown .

Image from Penny Black.

Sentiment from SU, Well Scripted.

Edge Punch Fiskas

Butterfly Punch , MS.

Could not have placed the sentiment without the Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Enjoy the rest of your day . Your visit is appreciated and all comments  make my day .

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

Wish

Hello blogging friends , welcome to my room . Hope that you and yours  are all well and happy. Nearly time to close up my room and put my head on a pillow before it hits the keyboard!  I did want to complete some commenting and this post but got waylaid  so am very late .
This is the last card and kit for tomorrow's girls . I recently bought this  Sizzix die " wish" and wanted to try it .

                                                                        RECIPE
                                                        Pink Pirquette, Whisper White , Old Olive and dsp SU
                                                         Sizzix Die Phrase " wish"
                                                              Image Hero Arts
                                                          Embossing folder , dots.
                                                             SU markers.
                                                             Self adhesive pearl.
A really quick card ...no frills .
Next lot will have to be vintage , I think . Not made any of those for a while .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.


                                                         

Blue jeans

Hello everyone , welcome to my room . Very warm here in Adelaide today .A whopping 32 degrees . I think the weather forgot that it is Autumn.
Made a card using paper piecing again .

All card and papers are from SU.
The corner punch for striped paper is from SU . The tag under the image has been cut in half and spread so shows on either side of  image panel .  The girl is from Penny Black.
I paperpieced the shirt and jeans . Coloured girl with copics ...they are great to use just have to learn to get their full potential '
Just for a fun bit I placed a flower rhinestone in her hand while a few were placed around frame .

The birthday sentiment is from Happy Moments , SU
Hope you like it .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

stripe me pink...

Good afternoon friends , welcome to my room . Hope your day is as sunny and bright as Adelaide's is .If it is not then I send warm wishes your way.
I have a little stash of ironing that I really should do tonight , so posting now. Mind you , that is not to say I will  tackle the ironing tonight , just that I could  if nothing else comes up.
Today I share this little number.

Mmm ,  now that I see it in print I think that I will stamp the actual gift box in darker colour or on patterned  paper and piece it on original image , which is a bit pale...insipid really .

Recipe..

Lolly Stripes from Special Occasion Stationery.

Old Olive Tag embossed .

Whisper White card base and for image .

Ribbon from my stash .

dsp SU

image from Stamp-It

sentiment from Judith .

EDITED

I did change the gift box image ...and love the result

 

Actually just remembered I must make a card for " less is More " challenge.Might do that tonight ,there is nothing else  really pressing to do.....chuckle.

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

Birthday Wishes

Hi there , glad you called in,  hope that you like what you see. I have begun to replenish my male greeting cards with one more made today . I can't tell where this image is from as it was a swap and  I forgot to note the maker .

 

Recipe

Basic Black, Basic Grey, Going Grey Naturals Ivory. DSP, SU

Sentiment , Expressions

Ink , basic Black , Soft Suede, SU

Bigz Die , Scallop Square Duo , SU

Hope you like this one .

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

       

Wishing you a Happy Day

Hello my blogging friends , welcome to my room . It's a long weekend here and the weather is superb. I hope that where ever you are that the weather is as kind .
My card today was partly inspired by one in the CS&P magazine .VOL 17 NO.1

Recipe

White Gloss card, Very Vanilla. SU.

DSP , Woodland Walk , SU

Ink , Chocolate Chip , Summer Sun, SU

Cake , Hero Arts,

Gift, sentiment,  Expressions.

green Markers ,SU

I was tempted to colour cake and gift but decided not to, after I sponged edges of centre piece and added lines within.

Love the card and hope my ladies will too at our craft session in the morning .

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

Pastel Colours for Happy Birthday

Hello visitors, welcome to my room. Such a busy day with the usual housework only getting to my room rather late in the day and just finishing my 3 cards and kits for 5 ladies . Love Tuesdays and our craft time . Because it is late and I am hoping to visit The Candy Bar   at  http://craftymess.ning.com/.
quickly ,  I have a card I would like to share with you before I link it to the  Pastel Colours challenge  over at
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/

Recipe

Blushing Bride, Bashful Blue, So Safron,Whisper White card, SU.

Ink ,Brocade Blue, SU

Flower Ribbon   my stash

Dot embossing folder.

Decorative Label Punch SU

Off now to enter into  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/ challenge

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