Spring Smile

Hello , welcome to my room . Hope that you and yours are going to have just the best weekend .
I managed to create a card today for a challenge " Spring" theme for craftysentiments

Now I figured that Spring is like Autumn , an  in between season . Sometimes bright and sunny , sometimes cool not so warm . That's where I drew my inspiration from . The season of Spring itself .

The card base of Very Vanila and the first layer of Crumb Cake represent the mildness of Spring . In contrast,  the yellow dotty designer series paper from the Brights Collection , the bright Melon Mambo and the Whisper White are the hint of the warmth of coming Summer. The jug of flowers is  from the set A Flower For All Seasons. The sentiment is from set Fabulous Phrases. The little daisys at the bottom are from Hero Arts. I embossed the first layer to add texture and added jute to tie the elements together.
hope that you found this card to be worth a visit to my blog . Thank you for calling in .
 Am entering this in the http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/2011/02/spring.html challenge.

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

Just for you Tag

Hello to you and you and even to you , who have visited often but not left a comment so that I can call on you too. I'd really love for you to let me know of your blog . I do so want to check out your style .
Welcome to my room , where I share my simple creations .
Todays card ..was inspired by  SU

Recipe

Marina Mist, Poppy Parade, Naturals Ivory, Whisper White   and scraps of DSP

Sets, Elements of Style , Teeny Tiny Sentiments and All a Flutter and En Francais.

Inks, Basic Grey , Poppy Parade

1 !/4" circle punch , Sizzix Big Shot Die Tags

Flower Rhinestones

I cut the Whisper White card just a little smaller than the Poppy Parade piece so I had a nice border and before adhering it , I added 3 even strips  of DSP . I could have just placed the strips onto Poppy Parade but this way seems , to me , to have a neater finish and gives a little " body" to the layer.

I added the decorated tag with foam tape

Hope you like the card .

Catch you a bit later , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne.

Believed

Hello my blogging friends . Welcome to my room . Hope that you enjoy your browsing here . Is your week  giving you pleasure ? I hope so.

Todays card is in my usual style ...pretty simple
I love this Poppy Parade card stock as I think it is a really soft red.
And of course my fav stamp type  , Silhouette images  are a feature.

Recipe

Poppy Parade , Whisper White , Pear Pizzazz card

Real Red, Old Olive  ink

Just believe,  stamp set.

Eyelet Border punch

Well one card down for next Tuesdays workshop..

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

       

Blog award.

Always a buzz to receive an award .
Thank you Laura for considering  me and my blog   to be worthy

Thank you Laura.

I recommend a browse through Laura's Blog . Her One layer cards are very Stylish, like the faux postage stamp sets featured in one post. .
Now to things I must do.....

1.Thank the person/persons that shared this award with me and link it back to their blog/blogs.
              And I do thank you Laura ...Hugs .

2.Share seven things about myself.
           I love my family and friends . I am so happy that hubby and I moved into our retirement unit when we did . I love our routine of walking out every morning for coffee . I am constantly amazed I can find anything in my craft room ...as are my friends . I am a hobby demonstrator for Stampin' Up. I love writing and reading .
I hate housework.

3.Pass this award onto seven other bloggers that I have recently discovered.
I have met so many since joining  Less is More Challenge  Blog
  Please check out these blogs , not only are  these ladies great papercrafters but lovely ladies .                

   1. Jane    http://janescreativejourney.blogspot.com/   2 DEBRA http://twistedmonkeyscraps.blogspot.com/
   3. Alizabethy http://alizabethy.blogspot.com/      4. Barbara http://whimcees.blogspot.com/
   5.  Busy lizzie http://busylizziescards.blogspot.com/  6.Pami.. http://pamiscraftycreations.blogspot.com/
   7, Jose, http://josesjottings.blogspot.com/

7.Leave a comment so they can pass along the recognition!

                  Catch you again soon cheers for now Shirley-Anne

" Less is More" Spring Theme Challenge.

Hi every one . welcome to my room and thank you for popping in. Hope you and yours are well and happy.
My card today is for Less is More  challenge which is to have a  Spring theme.

Clean and simple with plenty of white on show . Would you believe the sun was shining and just as I clicked the camera the breeze moved the branch above me and WOOPS a shadow . Did not notice till I came in to upload . Fiddled with edits but this was the best of a bad lot , sorry .
                                                                  Recipe
                                                     Whisper White card base
                                                     Stamp Asian Artistry, SU
                                                     1  1/4"    Circle Punch , SU
                                                     ink, Pink Pirquette, SU
                                                     Markers , Always Artichoke, Not Quite Navy, SU
                                                     Sentiment , computer generated own words.
Of to place on linky thing  to enter card .
Catch you again soon , cheers for now Shirley-Anne.

Just a Blue card.

Hello crafting buddies . Hope that you have had a FANTASTIC weekend . Welcome to my room . I am so far behind making comments it's embarrassing and I am sorry . Will try to add a couple tonight and some more tomorrow afternoon .
A card by accident is one I share tonight .
I used an old stamp recently , a large bow , a lucys stamp . Well I found the Ribbon Border that went with it . I was enthused by the find and honestly this card took maybe 20minutes from thought to creation.
I made it while a crafting buddy was making up the card kits I had prepared .Thanks for your company today Jane .
here is the card .

Dark blue card base.  Light blue card  embossed and trimmed to just smaller than card front .
Whisper White card has  decorative punched border and then  Ribbon Border  stamped in Brocade Blue .I stamped both the border and bow on blue card and  pieced the cut out onto ribbon border on the white card. Added a few rhinestones and rounded the corners before assembling .

Hope you like it .





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

On my Mind.

Hello blogging friends, welcome to my room . Why is it that time, over weekends , seems  to speed by. Hope you are doing what you love to do with your time .

Quick ...no double quick post today . I have used this layout before in darker colours but this time I wanted something lighter , sunnier and  softer . Have you ever said " you're on my mind " ? Most times when I have said those words , the person in question has been in the forefront of my thoughts but this time,  in this case , I

wanted to show that thoughts of someone can be subtle , fleeting

and sometimes hazy but never the less warm and sincere.

I have used Whisper White as card base and So Safron , SU .

Ink is Summer Sun and I think I could have used a little darker yellow but I did not have So Safron ink so this had to do .

The image is from Pocket Silhouette, while the sentiment is from Upsy Daisy.

Scallop Trim Border punch used for bottom edge , where I placed some rhinestones as embellishment . Ribbon is from my stash .

Just a close up of image and sentiment .

Not very good but you get the idea I hope .

Next time will use something like

 Pumpkin Pie if I have not bought

the So Safron already.

That's it for now . Enjoy your crafting .

EDIT 19.02.11 just a bit later.                 Changed colour of image and sentiment . Gave the sentiment a shadow effect . Ink used was Pumpkin Pie. Used Stamp-a-ma-jig to place new sentiment over first one .

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