Bloomin ' Marvelous

 
Hello there , welcome to my room .Thanks so much for calling in .I love it when you do .
I know that you must be ever so busy with the season's festivities .

Whoopie Do !! I have  200 followers ..thank you to Michaela for becoming my 200th follower
I hope that you enjoy my posts whenever you visit .
Michaela's blog is filled with amazing projects that seem to have that WOW factor so would be worth a look . http://michaelascraftingcreations.blogspot.com.au/
Can't stay here too long ..have hurt my back somehow and sitting or standing too long in one spot is really quite uncomfortable .
So will just share this card . Made this for my "just because box.. "The occassion and the inside sentiment will determine the use for this type of card .

Green card for  base from SU .Die cut with SU scallop Square

Gingham paper from a stack pad 12x12 that Fran gave me

 

CraftersChoice PrimaryBasics

Flower square image from Kaszazz.

Coloured with copics

Sentiment from SU  set , Bloomin'Marvelous .

 

Don't forget that the Make it Monday Linky Party #120 is playing for two weeks this time ..

 

Words for today ..

                                             If you're in a bad situation,
                                                 don't worry it'll change.
                                             If you're in a good situation,
                                                 don't worry it'll change.
                                                          John A. Simone, Sr.

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

Purrfect wishes

Hey ,  it is Friday !!
SO WHAT? you say.
Nuthin',   just sayin'..


Hi there , welcome to my room . Thank you for popping in .

Went out for our usual coffee and scones at öur B&B cafe ..[ I say ours because we must have 1/2 shares in the place by now after $100s of coffee bought ] and a crafting friend,  Fran , met us to share some cuppa  time . We were chatting about what number one dialed on our mobiles for emergencies .
I was under the impression that 000 was for landline not mobiles .  But a quick check at a Telstra shop squished that notion . So if I need it 000 will work on my mobile .
Nice to know .

Tonight a card made at one of our Tuesday craft   mornings.

 The card base is Always Artichoke , SU,  covered with dsp from my stash .
Two diecut layers , one of Bashful Blue , SU, and the other is the underside of the green paper.
The image has been diecut from a sheet of images from KraftHands. I just embellished with a diecut leaf and a flower from my stash .

 

inside

 

Once again , I hope you enjoyed your visit . Going to be a scorcher over the weekend here so may be too hot to craft  but I  might be able to visit you instead .

 

My words for today

 

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year.

 I told him,

 "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."
Claude Pepper

 

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

 

 

 

 

1937 was a good year.

Hi there . welcome to my room . Thanks for calling in .
Of course I appreciate and read every comment , so if you leave one,  thanks again .
No card tonight from me ..but..
I do want to share some of the cards that Doug received for his 75th birthday , which is not until the 23rd of December. The boy in this  ruggedly robust ,  usually manly man ,  could not wait till then so has seen his pressys and cards . All cards are hand made ...

                                                        From Daughter, Michelle

 

 

                                                                    From me , Shirley-Anne

 

                                                              From Fran

 

from Jane

 

 

From Sandy

 

Did not think Doug would make this birthday after his heart attacks and his recent strokes but there you go !

Happy Birthday  Doug . 

 

 

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade,

 but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement

 the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Friends and Flowers .

Oh Boy,  midweek already .

  Hello blogging pals , welcome to my room and thank you for calling in .

Had a senior moment on Monday . I published my DT post  for Make it Monday and forgot to add my POTW . Well , I have edited my post and inserted my POTW . I do hope that you will scroll down to see which entry caught my eye last week.

Tonight though I have a  what I think is a vintage style card  to share .
The image is printed from a CD , the name of which escapes me for the moment .

The card stock is from SU , the paper from my stash . The paper bow is a diecut from Die-namics, MFT,  as is the corner piece.
The centre piece has flowers and butterflys as 3D but I forgot to take photo to show that .
 I love this  type of creating with CDs for quick cards . Bit like baking a cake with a packet mix . Just add a little touch of your own and a little tweek here and there and it becomes an original .
Just the thing when time is short . Hope you like it anyhows..

                                                        And right now ......

 

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

 

Quiet Please.

Hello there , welcome to my room .
Thank you for calling in and I hope that you like the card that I have to share .

We used to have a shack at Morgan on the River Murry.  It was a tin /iron garage of sorts and we had a wood stove and bunk beds along with other  home comforts so we were not really roughing it . We used to play cards, do jigsaws ,  cook crumpets and drown them in butter and honey or vegemite . But what I loved most was the the roller door at one end which  opened up right at the bank of the river  . So in the mornings we would lift the door and watch the morning mist rise from the water while listening to the raucous laugh of the kookaburras. ...SIGH!
When I saw this image on a Whimsy CD. this memory of times past came flooding back .

The card and paper are from SU . The seagull ,  a free image with a magazine and the sentiment is from unnamed set of stamps in my stash .

 

 

I hope that my girls will enjoy making yet another masculine card for our last Tuesday  craft morning for 2012.

                                                                 A frivolous thought

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

A Monday Hug

Hi there . Welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in .

Well , I hope that you all had a better weekend than we did .  If you saw my  Saturday's post you would have read that one of our dogs died earlier that same day ..Jacki was a grand pal.

Thanks to all for  the warm wishes of sympathy that we have had .

So now Twiggy will become the top dog in our home .

 

But for now,  the new Make it Monday Linky Party  #120 is well on its way

 

This one will run for two weeks to give us a bit of a break over Christmas.

My DT card to share..

 

                                              
                                          And inside

Definately hard to get great photos indoors  but you can get the idea here .
Card and paper from my stash while the image, is from our sponsor for this week .
This week we are being sponsored once again by the everfun and cute Meljen Designs Digital Stamps!
                         http://shop.meljensdesigns.com/

                                                
Meljen Designs Digital Stamps are giving away the lovely prize of the winner's choice of 4
single digis!

Remember, to be in the running to win the prize from our sponsor this week just leave a comment for another entry. Be sure to mention you saw them on Make It Monday. The more entries you comment on the more chances you have of winning!
You may also be chosen by one of the DT as their pick of the week  so call in to their blogs and check that out .
We are having a break over the Festive Season so this papercraft  party will go for 2 weeks this time .


OH NO ..A senior moment
 I have just been told that I have no POTW

Well I did have one just forgot to add it here ..



http://cardsrfun.blogspot.se/2012/12/red-blue-christmas.html
Birgit , thank you for this little gem ..
I loved the moon behind the lamp as well as the beautiful colouring .
               

                                     My thoughts for today

                       Merry Christmas and Happy New Year  .
                          Be happy , be safe , be kind      but most of all be thankful.

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

In Memory of Jacki..

OUR GIRL,  September 1998 --DECEMBER 2012
JACKI.   Great mouser, a tomboy of the highest order. Good friend and companion pet of Doug and Shirley-Anne.
 Remembered fondly , sadly missed.