Bundle of love

Hi there , welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .Hope you enjoy the browsing .


Hi there to Janet .. A new follower , love to have you pop in from time to time ..

And also to Cindy .


A beautiful Autumn day in Adelaide . Enjoyed this morning at the Roundabout with my crafting buddies .








A little punching for a decorative edge on the embossed layer in the same Pear Pizzazz card stock SU . And some punched labels for words from set Baby Bundle , SU .







Love this frame , a Nellie Snellen die, for this , another sneak peek from Autumn / Winter mini catalogue . The stamp is called Packed for Baby . Sorry that the photo is a bit insipid ..I used copics for teddy and SU marker for hearts ..leaving the rest of image raw. Some ribbon and rhinestones from my stash .

Not surprising have used frame again for sentiment box for the inside of card .

Now I am off to visit all the entries on Make it Monday

I am sure that I will find inspiration for the next lot of kits for next Tuesday's craft morning .

Thank you for popping in ,hope that you say hi . I see that quite a few visitors do stop to browse only and I thank them also and appreciate that they return time and time again . Just like the craft pals that meet up with me for Tuesday's craft fun .

Thinking now of these words.

Let us be grateful to people who

make us happy ; they are the

charming gardeners who make

our souls blossom .

- Marcel Proust.

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

A Tuesday kit .

Hi there , welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in . But don't be shy , do let me know you have been . I really do appreciate all comments .

Another beautiful day in Adelaide .Hope it was the same for you ..wherever you are .

No action packed day here , just the usual walking for coffee , taking dog to park , then the mundane house work before getting to my craft room .

Just a quick post to share the last of last Tuesdays kit cards .This one is a male greeting card .

Card base is SU , Cajun Craze. As is the motorbike image and the sentiment . The tyres and tyre tread marks for the inside are from an unmarked pack of images sorry ..The paper is from my stash which I might add is NO SMALLER . I really do have to have a day of punching and diecutting shapes to use up scraps ...perhaps Friday .

Well it is late , here any way . It may be quite early where you are though .

I will leave you with this thought.....

If you really want to do something,

you'll find a way;

if you don't, you'll find an excuse.

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

Blog Award

Hi there ,welcome to my room . Has been a great Saturday .Doug and I watched the V8 car race on TV . Walked out, early morning , for our usual coffee and took our dog , Jacki, for walk in the park , then were couch potatoes for the day .

Tonight I am sharing a card created with a kit for my next Tuesday craft morning .

But before I do that I want to thank Jane and Sharon for a blog award that have given me .

Now there are rules for accepting these awards and one is that you must choose 5 other bloggers that have inspired you . I am rather pushed for time tonight but I will try to choose and pass award on asap . I believe that it is to encourage bloggers with less than 200 followers .

I follow some awesome papercrafters I might add and it wont take long hopefully .

Thank you, girls once again . I have place this award with others I have been given on a page you can go to on my side bar under heading , Past Blog Awards .

And now my card .. Whisper White card base . A matte of DSP , Beyond The Garden , SU . Riding Hood Red
for the diecut frame . Image and sentiment from set , Silhouette Sentiments , SU.

For the inside , a similar layout .

Well that's it. Hope that the rest of the weekend finds you in good company and a little time for crafting ..

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

Boy and balloons

Hello everyone , welcome to my room . Special welcome to new followers , Lee and Elainea1.
I hope that you all enjoy browsing through my blog .

Well it was certainly a lot cooler today with a light sprinkle of rain . I had my craft morning at the Round-a bout today , sharing a wonderful couple of hours with 5 ladies at the table .Doug did the same as last week .Gophered over to the shopping centre for coffee then back to spend a bit of time with Sandy and Fran at the top of the table chatting while they completed their kits , and I helped a couple of slower newbies work on theirs .

The Church puts on a fabulous 3 course lunch for $6.00 so Doug and I have decided that we would stay for that . We sat at a table with 5 other ladies and spent another hour or so in good company .
Anyway onto one of the cards from today ..

Card base and dsp are from my SU stash . The images are from a set of clear stamps that came free with a magazine .

Well it is the last day of February tomorrow ..2nd month of year gone !

And only 10 months till Christmas ..

Enjoy tomorrow and share a smile .

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

Butterfly and flowers

Hi there .
How are things for you on this Thursday ? Pretty good , I hope .

Thank you for popping in to see me .Welcome to my room .

The weather, here in Adelaide , has been quite pleasant lately . A little on the cool side but great for walking . And for Doug to gopher out on his own for short bursts of ...dare I say FREEDOM. That is , time out from the fussing I do around him most of the time .
Quite a bit of housework done today so am late into my room .
Thank heavens I have some completed cards in hand to share .This one is another Tuesday craft day make .

Inside

I began with a Very Vanilla card base with some patterned paper from a pad of 8"x8"papers bought many years ago in a cheap shop .The butterfly is from SU ..All a Flutter .

I am hoping to get some commenting done tonight . And may be a card made for next weeks Make it Monday . Oh and three more for Sunday fun .

Me thinks I should fly away . Hope that you like tonights card .

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

with Love

Hello , craft pals , welcome to my room .
Thank you you for calling in. Hope you like my card today and if you are a new visitor please feel free to browse through earlier postings and leave a link back to your place because I would love to see your crafting projects too.
This is another card I had made for Tuesday crafting .
Marina Mist, SU , for card base and Pacific Point with Whisper White for panel .
Flower and stem from SU set, field Flowers . Inks SU , Pumpkin Pie and Garden Green .

Front

Inside

I gave this one a larger white panel for the inside as I will write a short , just because , note.

Just have one more Tuesday card to share with you tomorrow and I will be well on the way making another three for next Tuesday . I also have three more to make for Sunday as Sandy

and Fran decide they can come to my place on Sunday afternoon for craft

At this rate I will really make a dent in my craft stash .That will be less I have to move when I finally get to renovate my room . LOL

So , I hope you are enjoying some " me" time, stamping , sponging , tearing , cutting ,colouring , layering , scanning or photographing and all things crafty.

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

Tuesday and craft

HI.

Welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .

Hope that you are happily crafting away there .

Thank you to new follower Manderly , who is definately developing a real fun style with her card making and who is new to blogging .

I began crafting , today , at The Round a bout , a Church run venue .

I missed going here last year as DH was not well enough to leave on his own after his stroke .

I had 6 ladies making up the kits I had prepared . It was a bit hectic as the table was placed in the wrong spot but next week should be better

Sandy and Fran ,who have followed me from pillow to post with card making were there and helped a lot by passing on hints and tips to the newbies who made up the numbers , while I was helping with stamping and layering . Thank you friends .

Using an idea I gleaned from a magazine , one of the cards for today was an easle card with papers from my stash and a stamp set from SU , Elements of Style .Card base is River Rock, SU

I kept the designs pretty simple with not much of a technique as I was not too sure how advanced the newbies were with craft .

Doug popped in to see us on his gopher after he had been for his coffee and then went home to turn the crockpot on to be ready for lunch when I got home .

I felt that the ladies had enjoyed making these kits up and I will share another tomorrow night

Tonight now , I will try to visit you and leave some blog love .

In the meantime heres wishing you happy crafting

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