Inspire

Hello to my visitors, welcome to my room . Michelle sorry you are not feeling 100% . To all my friends who don't feel 100% today here's a big  HUG    and warmest wishes for a speedie recovery.
I made this card for two purposes . One for a swap on  craftymess ' Wallet ' card swap.
And secondly for a challenge 'Just For You' on   http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/

                                                                    Recipe
                                                      White Gloss card.
                                                        DSP SU.
                                                      Diecut envelope SU
                                                      Image Tote-ally Tess and sentiment on envelope   SU
                                                      sentiment on card  from Just believe, SU
                                                       Rub-ons at top from my stash . Inspire, Create Imagine.

Will add diecuts and whatever when sending as swap.     

Hope that it is acceptable for Just for you challenge on    http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/

Thanks for calling in . 

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

Swap card for Ally

Hello Blogging friends . Welcome to my room . These days it is taking me longer to create , photograph and post,  but that's ok,  just as long as I DO!   And I'm sorry I don't get to comment  on your blog as much as I should , even though I do visit as  many of you as often as I can .
I would like to share , with you, a swap card which is WELL OVERDUE! Sorry Ally.
.......dry embossing , with just two layers one 3D
Not sure that the  3D sentiment is classed as a layer but this is what I came up with .

The card base is Rose Red and the embossed layer is So Safron. The embossing folder is Elegant Bouquet SU / Sizzix. The sentiment, from Every Day Messages ,  in Rose Red, has been punched out with SU Curly Label Extra Large . I added colour to centre of flowers  with a marker and a self adhesive pearl.

Using a Sizzix Trading Card diecut for two layers as insert , with a little embossing in one corner .

Hope Ally thinks it suits our  swap and hope you like it too.

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

ATCs

Hello there and welcome. Hope that your day has been full of good things .  .
Firstly , I must thank Lisa Jane for the blog award . It is on my side bar and just click on picture and it will take you to her blog . Lisa is an artist extraordinare.

Lost my mojo for card creating today so I tried some mini works of art . I have not joined in an ATC swap for a while . And now that I think about it I have not seen any ATCs  on blogs  that I visit for a long time .
ATC stands for Artist Trading Cards . These are 2.5" x 3.5" cards. They can be journalling cards, and/or swap cards.
Here are the three I made today . These are pre cut cards by Urban Lily.

I love these little gems as you can use up a lot of your small  left over bits to add to the stamped image or sentiment . Like here , I have used just the smallest bit of lace on one and  the little friend button was the last on the sheet . 

Now what to do with them ??

I'll find 3 fellow bloggers  to send them to and hopefully they will send a swap. 

Will it be you ..or you ?

Watch this space !

Catch you again soon , cheers Shirley-Anne

Vintage friend

Hello once more and welcome . Hope you have had a great day .
Another cold day in Adelaide , another good day for crafting .
Have a new craft friend who has sent me some beautiful creations as swaps . Hi there Ally .

Tonight I share with you her latest' vintage ' swap. It is adorable . There has been some clever use of the negatives of punched scallop circles here . I did fluff up the flowers that got squashed a bit through posting but I love the lace bow with pin. And that image is so cute .
Ally has raised the bar for me as I struggle with styled or vintage cards , but here  is my effort .

Actually , I love it . My second one of this kind in a matter of days !
All made from clutter on my desk and my stash of bits  , I might add.
Anyway short and sweet with posting tonight , am late with my commenting on blogs I love to visit so
             catch you again soon , cheers for now Shirley-Anne

You're on my mind.

Hello there and welcome to my room . Hope the beginning of the weekend was good for you.
Remember yesterday,  I said that Doug wanted to go somewhere else for our morning coffee?
Well we did! We went to a place in Burnside , here in Adelaide , that has been advertising of late on the radio. First time ...last time .  We were placing our order of 2 mugs flat white, one serve toast and one serve of fruit loaf and the woman was chatting to someone else,  and all the while loudly   ' darling 'this and 'lovey ' that to my Doug whom she does not know. That in itself was a turnoff for us. But when we got our order , coffee was luke warm,  there were two serves of fruit loaf and they were cold. The butter was served in a lump in a dish with the jam... So back to our usual haunt I  think tomorrow morning .
ANY WAY ..sorry about the griping .
Todays card is a swap . An  aperture was the requirement this time

Everything used in this card is from SU . I created the aperture in card front using a die cut and Big Shot,  then I used a Chocolate Chip marker  around the edge to create a frame . I used Crystal effects on that to add dimension and 3D effect.

On the inside , behind the aperture , I used the card  piece that was cut out , covered it with DSP , added a flower and brad.

I placed it behind  aperture so that the flower was slightly raised when card closed .

I liked the look of the framed aperture but next time I might try putting dsp on front first to soften the  look.

I love that crystal effects as the clear laquer just stayed where I squeezed it around the edge of frame .

The sentiment I thought , was fairly plain or blunt which suited the style of this card.

I hope that you have had a great day and that you can call in again soon

until then , cheers for now Shirley-Anne

Swaps with Ally

Hello everyone , welcome . Hope that you are either' warm as toast' or 'cool as a cucumber' which ever suits your enviroment . Very cool weather here in Adelaide.
Today I  created a card for a swap with Ally . The theme for our swap was " Trees"

Firstly this is the swap from Ally . It is on white card and has a layer of acetate over front. Ally has used Stazon to ink tree image on to acetate and has stamped other trees onto front of card. This has created an amazing scene.

My card for her is from SU cardstock, the bird on branch from set Asian Artistry. And I have used 1 3/4 " circle punch.

The Tree is from the set I won recently . Branch Out by annabelle stamps. I sponged white around apeture and at base of tree just as a highlight. I think type of card is called a tri fold .
Hope you like them . Completely different aren't they?
                      Thank you for calling in , catch you again soon ..   cheers Shirley-Anne