Flowers make me smile.

Hello craft pals , welcome to my room .
I am absolutely thrilled that you have popped by and hope that you like my share today .

My happy aunt,  I am shocked to see that it was in November that I last blogged .

And, I have been remiss in visiting you all too. So, I must say sorry for that .
I must admit that apart from being time poor a little laziness had crept in too .

Just as well that this blogging and /or card making caper can withstand the lack of attention and it only takes a spark of inspiration to fire up the enthusiasim again .

So ...to share a card today

White card base ,Older SU paper ,MFT die for Smile . 

Flowers and butterfly from my stash. Bling from SU. 

Sentiment from MFT. 

I wonder if there is a challenge that I could enter .

Off to search .  

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/challenge-190-team-cs-designs-15th.html 

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com.au/ 

Most smiles are started by another smile.

Frank A. Clark

Not much of a post this time but hopefully I can do better next time .Off now to make a Christmas card .

Sending a smile to those who long for one and a hug to those who need it .

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

Floral tribute for Birthday

Hello there visitors,  so happy that you have called in to my room . 

Hope that all is well with you and yours .

Well , in my last post I did say that I was not well .Thank you to those who left kind words for quick recovery .  Not 100% but more like 85% better so nearly there . 

Today's card to share is mainly to show off some of the new paper from SU 

Delightful Daisy DSP.

Love all the floral papers in this pack  and you can look out for more cards from me as I use it till it is all gone .Not going to hoard papers any more ...said a card maker EVER!!

Thick Whisper White card base . Yellow and green card mattes from my stash .

I must admit to using pinterest images and Digi images but really there is nothing like holding a stamp in your hand ,inking it up , die cutting or punching it out . No matter if it is an image or a sentiment.
 What do you think ?

            
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. 
                                               
                                          Stanislaw Jerzy Lez.

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

Daisy topper

Hello to you and you and of course you too. Thank you for calling in to my craft room where I warmly welcome you , hoping that you like my share today . 

Please let me know that you have been so that I can visit you too by leaving a word or two in the comment box . I would really appreciate that .  

Rain is so loud and the wind so strong just now that I can hardly hear myself think . 

It has been bitterly cold all day . And I think that the best place for me right now is tucked up in bed . 

But before I go,  I do want to share a card made today . 

 

Enjoyed playing with my new Daisy stamp and punch set . Thick White card base with paper from my stash .Die cut edge with my new MFT Stitched basic edges. The daisy was inked with Summer Sun yellow on white card . The leaves  were two step stamped on green card  . This time I just punched a small circle from Basic Black card scraps for daisy centre. The little sentiment stamp for bottom  corner of card is from a stamp set from a magazine . I stamped and punched out 3 daises, offset layered them all and added to card with foam dot .

I love the colour combination here for this simple card.

                       Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
   

                                                                       Roy Bean

                 

                        

Watering can and flowers

Hi there , welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .

Raining heavily as I type . 

Had a scare today . I did not tell Hubby the details of my Dr visit today . It was for prescriptions I told him . Not exactly a fib cause I did  pick up prescriptions . 

I have had a few little chest niggles recently and a couple of "sad " moments maybe more teary than sad I guess but any way not my usual strong self  that much I know .  So I thought that my blood pressure may be up . And it is . And I am the heaviest that I have ever been ,

What a clutz I am ! Must stop having the other half of Doug's pie or half his apple turn over . 

Less sitting and more walking too 

Just here to share latest card for now .

 

Thick white card base.  Paper from my stash . The can of flowers image is from Pinterest ..The leaf is from Lucy's stamps inked in Old Olive SU . 

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. 

Joyce Meyer

Got to start working on that . 

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

Tweet Happy

Hi there , welcome to my room . Thanks for calling in .

  Ended up being a hot  35 here today .  Doug and I  drove out early for coffee and scones , meeting up with Sandy and Jane at our regular B&B café. Then home to our cool unit .

 Hope that where ever you are and what ever you are up to that you are happily  sharing your day with friends and family .

Have this to share today

                                             

Whisper White card base with 1st layer Pacific Point both from SU.
Whimsy Shapeology  die , Happy . SU punch for decorative edge
Was going to add  bling but thought that images were pretty enough to stand alone .

Created this card from  Kraftyhands CD , Spring Time Garden




Hope that you liked the  card . would like to enter this challenge
http://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-17.html

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

Happiness

Hello you all . Thank you for popping in and welcome to my room .
Warm wishes to you and yours .
I hope that your weekend is going to be one of the best .

It is a long weekend here and the weather is going to be good .
I hope that I get a bit of craft in as well as photography .Had a pleasant afternoon with Sandy,  die cutting and embossing .No dent in my scrap stash but .

Created a simple [ huh , what's new] card this evening  to share with you .
  I also want to enter it into a new challenge .

http://aagwat.blogspot.co.uk/                       Challenge 01

The theme is Always Anything Goes with a twist

as its our first challenge the twist is an easy one of 'Anything Goes'

 

 

Hope it goes well for you , Zoe .

 

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

Using a Yvonne Turner image

Hi there blog pals  Have not posted for a few days now because of one thing or another .
A couple of days ago I did manage to create a card using a fabulous image from Yvonne Turner.

This is  one Blessed lady with  a God given talent who is happy to share her creations and so I encourage you to visit  http://yvonneturner7.blogspot.com.au/  to be as inspired as I .

Welcome to my room and thank you for calling in . Some new followers too which makes me happy so thank you and hope you enjoy your visits .

Now this is nothing like the elegant creations  /style that Yvonne shares but I did enjoy making it .

Card is from my stash of SU stock , Old Olive . Random  papers from my stash . Punched butterfly and ribbon along with some rhinestones the only embellishing .
I think that I could have made the centre strip a bit narrower. But still ..a blind man would be happy to see it , I think .

On Friday one of my craft friends , Jane,  bought along her SIL to join in our craft session .

We  enjoyed  so much chatter and laughter .
While these two made up the kits I had prepared earlier I Cuttle bugged my way through some of my scrap stash . Mind you ..I don't see any dent in the stash at all!!.
Tuesday mornings and Friday afternoons are my R&R  times and I am thankful to " MY GIRLS" for the sharing and caring .

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

SIGH !

Hello  there , welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .I do hope that you say hello too . My pick from comments for the give away card will be at end of post .

A pleasant day here in Adelaide with a little sun shine . Not much warmth yet but there just the same . Doug and I managed a quick trip out for coffee . As it was cool in the shade along the trail of Linear Park I did not linger to take photos today . May be tomorrow .
Tonight I have a card to share .
Remember the post I did on a card I created using A little bit Naughty Toppers ?
http://shirley-anne-stampingforjoy.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/you-are-special_12.html

http://shirley-anne-stampingforjoy.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/love-skin-youre-in.html

Well here is something from the other side of the coin .
A gatefold card with SU stamp , Hardwood ,used for back ground .
Not that you noticed that ...right?

                                         Inside

The main image is the cover topper for the Birthday Beefcake set , from Kraftyhands as are the flowers . Card stock from SU and papers from my stash .
 Hope that you like it .

Now my give away card will  go to Pia .Thank you Pia for your visit and comment . Please email , shirlb1@bigpond.com  , me with your snail mail address and I will post to you asap .

I do appreciate all the visits to my blog and to those on my followers lists a huge thank you too .

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

Just For You

Hi there blogg pals . Welcome to my room where the fan is barely making a difference . Another muggy day yesterday too . I have to remember to see that Doug is drinking the cool water I leave by his side . I have never known any one to be as adverse to  drinking water as he is ..not even that  with cordial .
What a shame ,  that because the unit is closed up to keep the heat out through the day ,  I cant do the ironing , the vaccuuming , baking or dusting and Doug is dozing while watching a movie ...yeah  right ! So I will just have to spend time in my room ....hehehe .

And I did ,  to create this card

 

Card and Paper from SU .Flower image from Funky Flowers , Peachy Keen Stamps

I think that I got the circular sentiment from Lili of the Valley .

The diecut for the bow from MFT

Copics to colour.

 

But I do have to go so ..

 

 

Catch you later , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne

 

 

 

Purrfect wishes

Hey ,  it is Friday !!
SO WHAT? you say.
Nuthin',   just sayin'..


Hi there , welcome to my room . Thank you for popping in .

Went out for our usual coffee and scones at öur B&B cafe ..[ I say ours because we must have 1/2 shares in the place by now after $100s of coffee bought ] and a crafting friend,  Fran , met us to share some cuppa  time . We were chatting about what number one dialed on our mobiles for emergencies .
I was under the impression that 000 was for landline not mobiles .  But a quick check at a Telstra shop squished that notion . So if I need it 000 will work on my mobile .
Nice to know .

Tonight a card made at one of our Tuesday craft   mornings.

 The card base is Always Artichoke , SU,  covered with dsp from my stash .
Two diecut layers , one of Bashful Blue , SU, and the other is the underside of the green paper.
The image has been diecut from a sheet of images from KraftHands. I just embellished with a diecut leaf and a flower from my stash .

 

inside

 

Once again , I hope you enjoyed your visit . Going to be a scorcher over the weekend here so may be too hot to craft  but I  might be able to visit you instead .

 

My words for today

 

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year.

 I told him,

 "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."
Claude Pepper

 

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

 

 

 

 

Wednesday in Vogue

Hi there , welcome to my room .Well ,thank you and you oh and you too , for calling in .Hope you enjoy your visit .Just a quick post tonight because it is almost Thursday .

The weather has cooled off a little and Doug and I welcome that .We tend to hibernate when temp gets above 35 degrees  and too hot to gopher anywhere .That means Doug gets cabin fever and fidgety.

We went out as usual today to have our usual coffee  then took our little Jack Russsel dog named Jacki..,.yeah I know real original, to the park for a run .After a quick lunch I commented on a few blogs and made this little vintage card .

LOOK another inside done .

Card stock is SU and paper is off my desk .The image is a free  vintage digi .

I will edit later with blog name forgot to label the folder with blog name ..sorry but I will credit later .

EDITED   http://freevintagedigistamps.blogspot.com/

Almost forgot I wanted also to share an ATC I made for

http://ditzy-craftymesschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ as a very slack DT member

where we had to make an ATC using only peel offs

This is just beginning is this blog but interesting enough already .Pop in if you get the chance just to see what it is about .

I may enter my card in these challenges

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

In the Kitchen

Hi there , welcome to my room . I love to see you here and I hope that you find something of interest  while you are browsing . Hope too that you leave some blog love and a link back to you , cause I do try to return the visit .Welcome too, a new follower , Hanneke, http://hannekeshobbycorner.blogspot.com/ 
Hanneke likes to keep learning new things crafty .If you visit her blog watch out for her knitted egg warmers.

So busy as of late that I have not posted since Monday and actually not much crafting done either .Had one of  our  sons stay for a while to do some odd jobs around our unit .
But I will share just one  card I did manage to make

sorry the photo is not good as it was dark and gloomy today and even with light over card in my craft room perfection was not achieved .
All material used in the production of this card came from SU . AND was on or near my desk !

It is my sister's  80 something  Birthday soon and she was always a wizz in the kitchen .
So this will be for her .
Thanks again for calling in .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne