Bird song for open- minded challenge

Hello there craft buddies welcome to my room . Thank you for calling in and I hope that you like what you see . Thank you also to some new followers .

We had a great weekend here . After a quick outing in the mornings Doug and I were once again couch potatoes watching V8 racing on TV . My dear SIL came over this afternoon  and enticed me to accompany her for a short walk around a nearby oval . I really needed that , so thank you Carol .

Some news to share .Seeing as how life has settled down again I applied to some challenge blogs for DT positions . 
 So am sharing my excitement tonight as Alanna from http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
invited me to join the team there .
Hopefully , if I can organise myself and learn the ropes , I will hop on board next challenge .





I would love it if you would pop over and check this weeks challenge
Challenge #51 -- Color Challenge

By the way , now wearing my Kraftyhands DT hat , there is just a little time left for that challenge so I do hope that you can join us here as well , http://kraftyhandschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/


WHEW , hope that you are still with me as I would like to share a card made today , once again using card and die cut shapes /labels from my stash . I even used a very old SU stamp . Friends 24-7.
The card base is DS patterned from my  SU stash .
And super organised I even found the challenge first . 

The challenge for which this card was made ..

http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/challenge-23-fowl-of-all-kinds-midway.html

                     Theme of Fowl or birds and you have until midnight, EST on November 21st, 2014 to create your All About Fowl Creations.

That is it for tonight .Have a great week .
                                Catch you again soon , cheers for now , Shirley-Anne

No fuss , no frills so simple.

Hi there chums , hope life is good for you and yours.

Welcome to my room and thank you for calling in . I see new follower ,Donna, and I hope that I can visit her soon .

Had a fabulous afternoon with Jane and Sandy . You know I don't remember having  as  much fun when I was younger . Must be something in the water /tea / coffee here . right girls??

Tonight I jumped right in to kit making . The first thing on the to do list was to grab a hand full of papers 12x12 from my huge stash and some scraps of coordinating card . I am still wading through my stash  . I had already researched my saved card photos and had in mind a card I wanted to make .

My card
Card base , Early Espresso , SU.   Paper from  Craft Concepts. 
Sentiment from SU .
The inside has same paper and larger die cut circle for greeting .
                                  

I am using this sample , below ,  as inspiration for  my   masculine card , no fuss no frills and simple to make .

                                   

Thank you MFT

I was inspired by the odd shaped back ground paper layer and the CAS style .

Now off to look for some challenges to enter ..


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

Lookin' good

Hi there , craft pals  , welcome to my room .

Very hot here in Adelaide . I am working hard to keep Doug hydrated as usual .

I found this new Challenge blog , and entering this card


http://aliciabelchallengeblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/challenge-1-anything-goes.html

You do need to use an image from the online shop but that's ok cause the images are neat and the service  is great .

I chose
Melanie At The Gym

Card stock from SU .         Paper from my mile high stash .      Embossed with my cuttlebug
Coloured with copics .       Sentiment a retired SU set .             Flowers, and bling  from my stash .

Thank you for your visit. I'd  love to know that  you have been ..Enjoy the rest of your week .

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

Adding the last bauble .

Hello to all my visitors and followers old and new , thank you for your interest and welcome to my room .
Hope that your week is shaping up to be a happy one .
Sharing tonight another Christmas card

For a while now , I have been trying to use up stuff from my stash .Paper,  die cut images , card stock and card kits  along with part packs of post card images .

The card base ,  decorative edge and all here ,  is from SU Simply Sent pack .
The Santa image is from a trimmed post card from Kraftyhands  S for Santa post card stack and the little red rhinestones are from my stash .

Would like to enter..

http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-50-faith-based.html

This week, our challenge is Faith Based. However, if this isn't your thing, the only real rule to play along with us each week is to make a holiday or Christmas card.

Enjoy the rest of the week blog pals

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

Am I too late?

Hi there , welcome to my room .
Thanks for calling in .
Thank you also to some new followers ,I do hope that like what you see here and you call in again soon .

Can you believe that we are in the first week of NOVEMBER!!


And just to make the point louder the
 Kraftyhands  November Challenge - Christmas Cheer is up and running .

Now the whole idea is to show case your creations and to find inspiration from other entries  and or DT samples then spread some blog love /comments , cause that's what crafting buddies do .  Isn't it?
So I can't wait to see what you post .

Here is my DT contribution

Using image  printed from CD , Santa's Little Helpers ,
 while back ground paper is from
S for Santa Paper Stack.
Pearls and all  from Kraftyhands on line store
                      

 

I do hope that we see you at the Challenge blog . Thanks to the amazing DT there is plenty of inspirational projects to see . Please do pop over to their blogs and leave some appreciative comments for their hard work ..

 

 

 

 

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

OH WHAT FUN

Here it is  mid week and all is well .
 Spring is a springing , Doug is a happy chappy ,  Twiggy is ....well,  Twiggy and I am holding my weight so life is good .
Even better now that you are here of course.

Hello and welcome to my room , thank you so much for calling in .

Hey , are you over Christmas card making yet ?
I am .  Don't get me wrong I looove creating Christmas cards , browsing through blogs , magazines and pinterest for inspiration .
BUT ... isn't there  always a but!

By the time ..  about this time ,  I find that I have soaked up so much inspiration that I am overloaded but find that nothing I create  ever seems to be  as  amazing , awesome , stunning as that which I see elsewhere.
And that's ok because really , I am happy with my style .

This Christmas card is my offering for tonight.

Made especially for this challenge
http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
Challenge #49 -- No Embellishments

                                   

 

Card stock and paper,  SU.

Image LOTV

Sentiment SU, Christmas Messages

 

Hope that the rest of the week brings you joy and I will be back on Friday for the Kraftyhands Challenge post .  See you then .

 

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

 

 

Small card big message

Hi there welcome to my room and thank you for calling in .

It is a cool Sunday here in Adelaide . Not much doing here . Have crock pot on with dinner  simmering .

Doug is dozing in front of TV . Dare not go to switch it off because he will swear that he was watching the movie .

In the mean time ....

I am having another go at using some of my scraps and part kits .

I have some images and sentiments left over from a Kaszazz Christmas kit .

So using some new SU  Crumb Cake Note Cards 12.7cmx8.9cm , because they came with envelopes to match I created these little Christmas gems .

Talk about CAS . I think I will make a few more .  May be another scrap  bag emptied .

Would like to enter a challenge or two ...
http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-48-anything-goes.html



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