Colour yellow for March

 Hi there ,welcome to my room and blog post  .Hope that you have pulled up your chair , and will enjoy what you see here . It is early afternoon here ,sunny but cool and we , Doug and I , have had our lunch so for a while I am free to spend time in my craft room .

I have been browesing through some challenge blogs to check out or to inspire me as to what type of card I will create today . 

Two of my favourite challenge blogs have not opened . Moving along With The Times and Less is More have not opened another challenge . Can any one tell me if this sad news is permanent? 

Today I will be creating an  entry for  Cookie https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/

https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/2023/03/cookie-challenge-178-march-yellow.html

Yellow card base .yellow gingham matte , 3" green card  circle along with  green and white tags 

Sentiment from stamp set  free with a magazine .

Hope everyone has had a pleasant day . 

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu

                                       Catch you again soon , cheers for now Shirley-Anne 

A couple of techniques on show .

Hello and welcome to a chilly night here in Adelaide . We have had a few drops of rain today and may have more tomorrow . And that means we can't go for a walk , Hubby and I. Oh   what a shame .....I'll just have to fill in time in my craft room , won't I?  
Already tonight I have completed two projects for Sunday craft  ladies .
This one shows off repitition stamping [ stamping off] .  Ink the image , stamp the image , in this case I stamped onto project , restamp the image one or more times without reinking the stamp.
I began with a white gloss card base  and a layer of textured pink card. On  whisper white cardstock trimmed a bit smaller than the pink layer  I stamped, in basic black , flowers from Vintage Vogue. I added strip of the pink edged with decorative punch. Over this I added ribbon and scallop circle, and 1 3/8" nd 1 1/4 " circles with butterfly image in Pixie Pink from set,  Dreams du Jour.  Then adhered all to card front. I finished off by adding a couple of pink Rhinestones in some of the flower centres.

This second card I show off the brayering  technique as background .
The card base is from Pretty in Pink. Only one layer of Whisper White .Over  this , before adding to card base , I placed a piece of thin paper with a hole torn in the centre . Over this I brayered Brilliant Blue as background piece.
Flower and small butterfly  inked in basic Black is from set , Live Your Dream. Top butterfly is from Dreams  du Jour In Basic Black as well as the  greeting  from Whimsical Words .
I completed the layer by adding clip from Hodgepodge hardware and some black ribbon .



Well that's it for another night .
Hope that you have enjoyed your browsing here tonight .
Catch you again tomorrow,  perhaps .
Cheers Shirley-Anne

Mondayitus?...not for me!

Well, it's late tonight but I have completed my planned two cards . Tomorrow I have my workshop at the Round-a-bout so may not manage to create new cards , so I really wanted to upload these for you tonight . Hope you like them .

Quiet Sunday

After the usual mundane home duties have been attended to on Sundays , I am lucky enough to be able to indulge myself in a little creativity. Here are two of my mini works of ART that I would like to share with you today. Hope that you like them.
Shirley-anne

Idle Days

Hi there , great to have your company .

Here we are , the middle of January already... !

"I am aware
How many days have been idly spent;
How like an arrow the good intent
Has fallen short or been turned aside."

This excerpt from a passage of verse by William Wadsworth Longfellow, came to mind as I struggled for inspiration since my last entry. This challenge must come to all of us from time to time , I think.
How do my fellow creators overcome loss of mojo? Maybe by browsing through magazines , or Blogs or joining a group of like minded papercrafters.

At last, today I found inspiration in a challenge in a web site called Splitcoaststampers.

"Clean and simple" was the card challenge . There are plenty of creative people on the forums who have shared their work and that is what has inspired me today .
I have a card or two that I would like to share with you now...

Catch you again soon . Shirley-anne