You're on my mind

Hi there,  I am thrilled that you have taken the time to visit . Hope that you are well and managed to get some crafting into your day .
We have had a wonderful day , Doug and I . My son Sonny ,his new  partner and our two  grandsons are back  from visiting Michelle in Queensland . They spent today with us and will do again tomorrow . We all talked and talked , as you do when loved ones who live far away come to visit.
No card made today but I would like to share this one I made the same time as Warmest Wishes post 26th September.

Chocolate Chip card base here with pink  from DSP,  Patterns Stack  Subtles Collection and River Rock for image and sentiment . It too has been made with sympathy wishes in mind.

I tore  pink piece just a little smaller than card front and adhered it flat .

When I stamped the flower spray . from Kaisercraft, I cut around right hand side so that it would fit snugly into card corner overlapping pink layer when attached with foam 3D tape The sentiment from , Upsy Daisy, was punched out with SU 1 3/4"  Circle Punch and adhered to pink .

I added some rhinestones to finish .

A friend said to me , regarding this card , isn't the bright pink and the sudued  colour of image and sentiment at odds with each other ?. This was my rational . The darker colours represent,  to me,  the sadness we feel for their  loss but the pink is for the happy memories we hold dear.

Complicated arn't I?
Hope you like it . 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

Sea Creatures

This would have to be the first card
that turned out exactly how I invisaged it
even before I began .

Hello every one . I hope that you have
enjoyed your weekend . I had a couple
of craft friends over for a fun card

creating afternoon . So I am on a high .

This is the card  that I mentioned earlier.
Using card base of Certainly Celery I stamped , in Sahara Sand,
the seaweed swirls randomly over card front. This and the sea creature images are  from the set ' Ocean Commotion' . Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, and Creamy Caramel SU are inks used .
I embossed card front before adhering 3D  images as shown firstly  onto circles of DSP , SU., then onto card.







Hope that you can see  the impression that I was trying to
convey. That is an underwater scene .
I would be really interested in your comments here .
                                                             Cheers , catch you again soon ..Shirley-Anne

Art or Graffiti ?

Hi there.  Where ever you be, I   hope that you are warmer  than  me!

It is only going to be 19  here today .  

Not that yet!

This is the first time that I have created a card with this technique.

Brickwall.

In some tutorials that I have seen the bricks on the right have been staggered to represent a wall in progress

But this time I have chosen to show a view of completed wall .

I used Creamy Caramel cardstock and DSP  Sweet Slumber Speciality, SU . Two  SU stamp sets , Garden Whimsy and Close as a Memory .

I used SU markers for images and morter between bricks .

I used DSP instead of cardstock  because it is textured and although it does not show up in picture it has a light pattern adding to the background.

Hope you like it .

Cheers Shirley-Anne

collage card

Hi there, thanks for popping in today.
Last night I tried another challenge for myself. I wanted to try a stamp collage card . As I have said 100 x before I find it hard to add more than two or three items on a card. So I gathered some stamps together that I thought " went together " with the card stock and paper I had chosen.
And here is the resulting card.
I used Bashful Blue card and dsp from Bella Blue, SU
Inks were Baja Breeze and Brilliant Blue , SU
The music  image  , from Vintage Collage [ TJ Designs]  was second generation stamped onto unknown sourced  pale blue rectangle piece. Over that I stamped postage mark and bird from Song Birds of same company.
Wishes greeting is from set  ' Heard From The Heart' , SU . And the small flower images are from ' Cottage Garden '  set from SU.
I adhered this onto card front with Stampin' Dimensionals .
Added embellishments of ribbon and flower were about all I could manage , before I felt this was almost too much .
I am actually happy to share this creation . May be,  you might have a tip or two that you can  pass on to me about collage, to help with my next stamp collage card.
Cheers for now , Shirley-Anne

punch template

When I first joined SU a fellow crafter gave me a punch template, which I have used a lot and so I made one for my downline , Terri.

Because there are quite a few punches I cut an A4 size cardstock in half and punched around edges then laminated to finish. Here is the result .

A New Year begins

Hello there , welcome to my room . Hope that you all had safe , happy and joyous Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Here in Adelaide it's a hot start to January. A sad one for MFM [my favourite man] and myself. Today our little dog, Sandy, passed away after a short illness. Thank you Sandy for 13 years of wonderful friendship.
Have been busy for some time caring for her so card making has been spasmodic. But there a few to share with you . hope you like them .

Last of 2009

Well hello again , it is great to have you visiting again. It was over 41 degrees here today so under the aircon and in my room to create the last cards for 2009.
Both are from examples in my Australian Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft magazine.
It's the first time that I have tried the Quiltblock technique as in the first card. the fussy cut flower arrangement is from Stampin"Up Designer series Paper ' Holiday treasures'.
Now I will take this opportunity to wish all a Happy New Year.
Hope to see you all here in 2010.