Sympathy card using Autumn colours

 Yay! Challenge time once again at 613 Avenue Create Challenge Blog. We are an Anything Goes challenge monthly with an Optional Twist. The twist for this month is "Autumn Colours".

Here's my creation..... I decided to make a Sympathy card.

Hope to see your creations over at the challenge blog. Please take the time to leave a message and also to visit my fellow team mates to check out their makes as well. 

Thanks for stopping by, Take Care, Hugs, Sandy DT member 613 Avenue Create

Challenge time at Aud Sentiments

Isn't the time just flying by again, it's nearly September and I'm looking forward to Spring. It's been pretty cold and wet the last few weeks, so a bit of sunshine would be lovely.
Well, it's that time again - a new challenge starting at Aud Sentiments. The theme is Thinking of You/Sympathy Sentiment. I chose to do a Sympathy sentiment on my card.
Here it is.......

Recipe:
SU Early Espresso cardstock for the basecard
DP is from Prima Marketing 6 1/2x 6 1/2 paper pad ~ Songbird Collection
Floral image and Gandhi sentiment from SU stamp set - The Art of Life
Sympathy sentiment from CTMH clear stamp set - Take Heart
Dies (inside card) Nesties - Deckled Rectangles ~ large and small sets
Inkpads - CTMH ~ Pomegranate ,SU ~ Close to Cocoa & Memento ~ Tuxedo Black
D/S tape roller

Hope to see some of your creations over at the challenge blog this fortnight. Come and check out my fellow teamies creations as well.
Would love to hear from you, so please if you're popping in, take the time to leave a comment.
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Praying Hands

Hi, late putting this post up, so backdating a bit. It's not going into any challenges so I'm safe in doing that. Crafty Girls Creations challenge 38 still has another couple of weeks to go so you still have time to join in the challenge if you haven't already. As always, it is an Anything Goes Challenge and this month it is just for fun.
Here is what I made using a Stampin'Up wooden stamp that I bought a while ago.

Recipe: SU products and a stamp and die combination set.

Hope to see you over at the challenge blog, come and see what you're fellow crafters make too.
Hugs,
Sandy

Flowers are wonders of Nature

I love flowers, some are too perfumed for me but I love their beauty. For my recent birthday I was gifted several boxes of flowers and enjoyed having them in the house. Aud Sentiments Challenge this fortnight is all about flowers! and don't forget to add a sentiment too. We were allowed to use whatever we wanted for this challenge and I chose to use one of Torico's older freebies. It's a lovely framed trio of flowers. Simple and very effective. I chose to make a Sympathy card and I like how it turned out.
Here it is........

Recipe:
SU Tempting Turquoise cardstock for basecard and matte
White cardstock for image panel
DP from Kaisercraft 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 paper pad - Sweet nothings (two different pieces)
Image is an old freebie from Birdie Brown by Torico:  - Doodled Flower
Sentiment was a stamp borrowed from a friend
Copic Markers
Wink of Stella on parts of the flower and on the dove
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Time to go, it's getting colder now at night so I'm off to get something warm to drink. Hope to see you entering the challenge this fortnight.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge #195 ~ Anything Goes with the Optional Twist - Rubber Room - no digis

Welcome to my blog today. Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend. It's time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create Challenge blog and it's ATG with the Optional Twist of using a rubber or clear stamp. No Digital Images or digital pre-coloured image this time around. I'm sure most of you would have a stamp or three, lol, lurking in your craft stash. Time to unearth them and create something wonderful.
Here is what I made.....

Recipe:
SU basic black cardstock,
White cardstock from stash,
Sentiment & Flower from Close To My Heart set ~ Take Heart
Dies - Nestie - Classic Ovals - large & Nellie's Choice Fantasia Frame Dies
Copic Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad
D/S tape roller & foam dots

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Penny Black and More - March 5th challenge ~ Anything Goes (ends 26/3/17)
Stamping Sensations - March Challenge - Close to Nature (monthly challenge)
The Paper Players - PP334 - Cut It Out (ends 8/3/17)
Catch the Bug Challenge - March Anything Goes (ends 8/3/17)
Di's Digis Designs - Die Cuts and/or Punches challenge (ends 8/3/17)
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - No Designer Paper (ends  8/3/17)

Yeah!!! My card won second place at Catch the Bug Challenge. Thanks for the wonderful prize!



Come and join in the fun of the challenge, check out all the DT makes and the other entries as well. Great place to find inspiration if your mojo has upped and left!
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,\
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge #194 at :613 Avenue Create

Hi everyone, I've been in the wars lately with a sore back and now an abscess on my gum. So feeling a bit sorry for myself, lol. But, life goes on and these are only little trials.
We have a new challenge starting today at 613 Avenue Create and the theme is Anything Goes with an Optional Twist - Sentimental Journey - CAS (use the colour blue and make the sentiment the focal point).
Here is what I came up with...... Background made by stamping ink onto an acrylic block, misting with water and stamping. I like how it turned out....a bit like a cloudy sky which I feel suits the sentiment.

Recipe:
White card from stash
SU Tempting Turquoise cardstock for the matte
Background handmade
Sentiment from CTMH stamp set Card Chatter - Sympathy
Pearls from stash
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad
D/S tape roller

Time for a cuppa so might I encourage you to pop over to the challenge blog and leave us and entry or two. We would love to see your creations! Check out the fab DT makes too while you're there.
Thanks for stopping by,
If you have time I'd love to hear what you think of my card.
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge #95 at Crafting From the Heart

Hi once again, hope all is well in your part of the world. We are still on holiday, so this is a scheduled post.
Our sponsor for the new challenge starting at Crafting From the Heart is Pattie's Creations.
I used an image I already had to make my card.\
Here is what I came up with.

Recipe:
White card from stash
DP from 6x6 paper pad - stash
Image from Pattie's Creations - Daffodils Circle Scroll
Sentiment from SU
Copic Markers
Pearls from Krafty Hands
D/S tape roller & foam dots

Hope you all take some time to enter the challenge and check out the fab DT creations and maybe hop to some of the other entrants' blogs too.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge #71 at Crafting From The Heart

Welcome to my blog today I hope you have time to check out some of my previous posts while you're here. Another cold day with some sunshine and some rain as well. Isaac and I stayed inside with the fire on while he watched a couple of cartoon series with Lego Ninjas and then a documentary style film Walking with Dinosaurs. Apparently he is really into dinosaurs at the moment, lol.
Anyway I will move on and share the details of the challenge starting today at Crafting From The Heart. Our sponsor this week is a new one for us and is the fabulous Luna Girl
Here is the card I made using one of the images from a full page of images.

Recipe:
SU Tip Top Taupe cardstock for the card, embossed piece, diecut and punched label
SU Pink Pirouette cardstock
Sizzix Embossing folder
Dies - X-Cut die
Punch from SU
Image from Luna Girl - Butterfly cards
Sentiment is from SU -
SU inkpad for distressing the embossed panel and fram
D/S tape roller
Foam Dots

Well I had better go and check on the salmon I am cooking for tea. Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out all the fab inspiration from the DT and why not join in the fun and be in the running for a wonderful prize from Luna Girl'
Thanks for stopping by
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Thinking of you with CTMH

Another full day, left here early this morning with my youngest daughter and my future DIL to go look at some dresses to wear to her wedding. I bought a lovely beaded one and of course (and luckily) it's in my favourite colour purple!!! My daughter thought it looked to old for me when it was hanging in the shop but changed her mind when I tried it on. It's been horrible weather here today, very hot and muggy and not ideal for putting clothes on and off half a dozen times trying different outfits. I also bought a bargain dress, not quite as dressy but will still be worn in Vietnam for the meeting of Emma's parents - it was marked down from $100 to only $15!!! Love it.
I was about an hour late for craft this afternoon and so didn't get much done. Tea out with friends and then home here to watch tv and try and stay cool.
I have done another case of a card which I saw in an old magazine, slight variation to the layout and used different dies etc.
Here it is.....

Front of card... I tried scanning but because things are popped out on the front it was all fuzzy so I've tried taking a photo. It's turned out marginally better but it's not blurry!

Inside of card - this one's scanned 

Recipe:
Maroon cardstock from stash for the basecard
White card from stash
Scraps of green card 
DP from Grace Taylor 12x12 paper pad - Hello Sunshine
Chipboard flower from Craftworks
small flower from stash, inked around the edges with Pink Pirouette
Brad from stash
Nesties - Classic Circles - large and small
               Big Scalloped circles - small
Cheery Lyn Design - Olive branch die

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
(back tomorrow with some, LOL, it's too late)

Thanks for popping in today, Hope you are having a wonderful day and maybe getting some time to craft too!!!
Take Care,
Sandy

Thinking of You - Stitched Cross

Sunday is just about finished and I managed to get a bit of blogging done today. We started daylight saving here in South Australia and luckily the phone changes time automatically and the alarm went off at the right time so I wasn't late for church!!!
I stopped on the way home and grabbed a few groceries for the next few days. Hubby was home when I got in and we had some lunch.
A quiet night at home and I got to watch the Mentalist and then sat down to make a card for today's post.
Here it is:

Front of Card

 Inside of card - blasted scanner has made it look dull, lol, it should be the same as the front!!!

Recipe:
SU Choc Chip cardstock for the basecard
SU More Mustard
White cardstock from stash
Nestie die - Labels Eighteen die
Cross Paper Embroider pattern
Bronze metallic thread for stitching
Cream Glossy card - stitched panel
Kula Cream cardstock for inside.
Sentiment from SU Curly Cute stampset
SU Early Espresso inkpad

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Love to Create - Challenge #35 ~ Thinking of You
Crafty Boots - World Cardmaking Day 2012 ~ anything goes


Thanks for stopping by and also for the wonderful comment left as well.
Take Care,
Sandy

Sympathy card for Ann

Hi everyone, it's been another lovely day weather wise and back to work for hubby and son after our long weekend. Yesterday was a public holiday. The boys were all over and Adrian was spray painting our eldest son's motorbike. So they were helping with prep work.
Today, Fran picked me up and we went to Shirley's for cardmaking, poor Shirley has picked up a cold and she also had 3 or 4 guys there installing the Solar power system on the roof. It was quite funny, us sitting there making cards with them wandering in and out doing bits and pieces and calling out to each other.
We finished up early as I was singing with my choir in the Town Hall at the Lord Mayors Gala Concert and had to be in the hall by 12.15 p.m. for a sound check and also to see where we were standing on stage. We didn't actually go in to perform until about 1.30 p.m. There were 27 of us (only part of the choir) but it went well. As Fran dropped me off I was going to have to take public transport home. My friend, Rose and I headed down the road to go to our bus stops and decided to take a detour into the shopping mall. I thought I would look for a dress to wear to my nephew's wedding.  I tried on several, but none were the right size and too pricey too!!! There was one I really liked but didn't want to spend that much money. We walked down to "Target" and I found a lovely lace dress for less than a third of the price and then went back to the other shop and bought the little jacket that I had tried on. So I got a fab outfit and the little jacket can be worn with other things too.
My feet were killing me by this time and I still had to walk quite a way to the bus stop. I stood waiting for the bus for absolutely ages and started talking to a lady who was waiting for the same bus. It wasn't until I told the bus driver where I wanted to go that the woman asked me my name and we found out she was one of my neighbours only a few houses away on the other side of the road. I've met her a few times but don't see her around much. I did think she looked a bit familiar, LOL. So we sat and chatted on the way home and walked down the street together. I really only know the neighbours on either side of me and a couple across the road. We just don't see people around much.
Anyway, I've been out at rehearsal again tonight, it's been a crazy night and got home rather late so will push on and share my card with you.
This one was a commissioned card for a friend. One of her friends lost his wife and she rang and asked me to make her a card and wanted it to be fairly plain - not fussy as it was for a man.
This is what I made for her.

Front of Card

Inside of card

Recipe -
Blue card from stash
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Nestie dies - Label Twenty - one (I think-will go and check later) and  the oval die
SU Ballet Blue inkpad
Script embossing folder
The sentiment on the inside is from an SU set - Love & Sympathy
Sentiment on front is from My Favorite Things - Clearly Sentiments About Sympathy

Thanks for stopping by and many thanks for the wonderful comments.
Take Care,
Sandy

Sympathy in Blue

Hi, how is your weekend going. We headed off down south to Victor Harbour to go to our friend's son's 21st. We arrived about 12 noon and found that it was a themed party - Western. My hubby had not told me, so we hadn't dressed up at all. The party was not starting until 2.30 onwards as a lot of Owen's friends work in the hotel industry down there and had to come in between shifts. We did eat a little something earlier as Vaughan threw a bit of meat onto the barbeque for us to keep us going until everyone arrived.  I helped Marianna out a bit making salads.  We had an enjoyable time catching up with our friends and Owen liked his card.
My friend Fran messaged me about 4 p.m. to let me know her Mum had passed away, so I rang her back and had a chat with her to make sure she was okay. I had rung her earlier in the morning to see how her Mum was and to let her know we were not going to be around for the day. 
We left Victor about 6.15 p.m.- stopped for petrol and then headed off back home. About 10 mins later I checked my bag to look at my phone and realised I didn't have it. I had left it on the little side table when I had rung Fran, so we had to turn around and go back for it as I don't know when I would have been able to get it back as the house there is their holiday house and they live in the country on a farm. LOL, not just down the road.
 My tooth is bothering me again, the one that he did root canal work on that cost me $600 so I'm not impressed, so I dosed myself with panadol and closed my eyes on the way home. I don't think I actually dropped off to sleep but I did feel marginally better when we got home about 8 p.m. I rang Fran when we got home and asked if she wanted me to come over, she said yes, so Adrian and I both went over and talked with them about her Mum and came back home again around 10 p.m.
So, it's been a pretty full on day with a sad end, Fran is coping okay at the moment, but when everyone goes home, that's when it will hit her that her Mum has really gone.
I sat down after we arrived home and made this card to give her.

Front of Card

Inside of card

Recipe:
Light Blue card from stash
Stamps are all from Annabelle Stamps - Ballerina Rose
Blue and White Gingham ribbon from stash
Pearls from stash
Embossing folders : Swiss Dots and Script
Nestie Dies - Petite Scalloped Circles
                     Large Classic Circles
                     Labels Four and Twenty
SU Brocade Blue inkpad
Foam Dots, DS tape and snail adhesive.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
(back tomorrow with some, I hope)


Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a fantastic weekend.
Take Care,
Sandy

Sympathy card - birds

Hi again, it's been very crisp and cool here today. Fran and I went off to Shirley's house for our weekly craft session. Made 3 lovely cards, one using diecut pictures from a pack that had vintage cars, planes, go-karts and co-ordinating bits and pieces. They turned out well.
We stopped on the way home at our usual little cafe and had an early lunch. I managed to knock over my bottle of diet coke and make a huge mess on the table and the floor. Felt terrible because the owner had to get the mop and bucket out to clean it up. Luckily because we were a bit early, her lunchtime trade hadn't arrived yet and we were the only ones in there for a few minutes which gave her time to mop without a whole shop of people walking over it.
I got the fire going when I got home as it was pretty cold inside too. It's been burning away ever since and is only embers now as everyone has gone to bed (except me of course!) I had to go out in the cold to choir practise and got home about 10.15 p.m.  I got warmed up and then hopped into making a card for this post.
Here is what I used.
Basecard is SU Perfect Plum and then a layer of SU Pink Pirouette. This pretty DP is from the Meadow Lark Collection, a 6 x 6 paper paper stack by Prima Marketing. The sentiment is from SU set, Thoughts & Prayers and was inked in SU Pink Passion. I cut it out with a Nesties Die - Labels Twenty-Four. I traced around the same die and cut it out in Perfect Plum to use as a matte. The corner decoration is made using a Marianne die and white card. I added some small light pink pearls. I also made a small flower with some pale pink scraps of DP paper and added a pearl and some green leaves too.
The inside was decorated with a piece of the Pink Pirouette and a larger diecut in white and again backed with a Perfect Plum matte. The sentiment I used on the inside is from SU set Love & Sympathy, also inked with Pink Passion.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - Challenge #2 ~ Anything Goes

Well thanks for all the wonderful comments and congratulations on my DT position over at MIM.- don't forget to visit the blog and enter a card into the Linky Party.
Catch you tomorrow,
Take Care,
Sandy

front of card

 inside of card - again the card should look more like the front of the card in colouring.

Wildflower Sympathy Card

Hi again and welcome to my small piece of blogland!
A busy day today, popped over to the shops with a friend and bought a few groceries. We then went into town to pick up a couple of products from an Art shop that I had ordered. It's called Zest It and is supposed to help blend coloured pencils. Will have to have a play with it. I also had to go see our youngest daughter as she asked if we could put some money into buying her some new glasses. She will be coming off our private health fund after this next birthday and wont be able to get anything off her glasses next time unless she signs up for her own health cover. Our eldest daughter was there too, as she had taken a day off work. We all went to the shops together and looked at some dresses possibly for the bridesmaids. Also bought some new trainers so I can get out and do a bit of walking. After visiting a couple of secondhand shops, I dropped them back home and headed back here. I stopped at the supermarket on the way and bought some chicken to make butter chicken for tea. It was very nice.
My card today was made using the following:
Basecard is SU Choc Chip cardstock. I then embossed a piece of SU Very Vanilla and ink distressed the edges with SU Close to Cocoa. I used my new nestie again to cut this gorgeous oval in  Choc Chip. I then added a deckled oval in Very Vanilla and stamped the wildflowers from SU Asian Artistry. I added the butterflies which are just a small section of another stamp from another SU set called Up in the Air. The sentiments both on the front and on the inside are from yet another SU set called Love & Sympathy.
I used a large oval to cut the sentiment and then ink distressed it. I used foam dots on the large oval as well as the sentiment.
The inside has a piece of the Very Vanilla (distressed) again I used partial bits of the two stamps to make my image in the right hand corner. I stamped the image onto a scrap piece of the Very Vanilla and then cut out with the Deckled Oval die and cut a larger oval using the Choc Chip.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Lollipop Crafts - Challenge 82 ~ With Deepest Sympathy
Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge 69 ~ Distress it.
Make It Monday Linky Party - #91 Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges2 -  Distressed!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by - hope you enjoyed seeing what I made.
Take Care,
Sandy

front of card

 inside of card

Birds on a Branch

Hi everyone,
It's great to "see" you again. I would like to welcome some new followers, I hope you find something here to interest you. Tuesday is the day my friend Fran and I go to Shirley's for craft. We always enjoy the 3 cards she makes for us and our catch up for the week. Thanks for the yummy coffee too!!!  We stopped on our way home for a bite to eat and then I dropped Fran home so I could come and get a bit of housework done. I put a load of washing out but it didn't dry, just not enough heat in the sun so it went on the drying rack again. It seems to be up permanently at the moment.
Choir practise tonight went well although we had a man come in off the street and cause a bit of a ruckus. He ended up leaving but we weren't sure if he was under the influence of something or just had a mental illness. Luckily he left without any physical violence - he was just noisy and very vocal. I missed seeing him inside but he was on his way out when I got there and asked another woman for help so I stuck around and helped her just in case he did something. At that stage, we didn't know he had caused trouble inside. He just asked us for directions but I'm not sure that he really knew where he was or where he wanted to go as he was very vague about the street he wanted to find.
Anyway, I made a very quick card tonight with very minimal stamping and left the lovely paper to speak for itself.. I thought this would make a very pretty sympathy card - the colours are very subtle.
The cardbase is SU More Mustard and this gorgeous paper is froma mini stack by Prima called "Songbird collection" I thought it didn't need any embellishment. The sentiment on the front and on the inside are from a clear set called "Clearly Sentimental About Sympathy" by My Favourite Things. I used SU Pumpkin Pie to stamp the sentiments. The card on the inside is from stash and it is called Kula Cream.
Thanks for stopping by and I have enjoyed reading your comments too.
Take Care,
See you tomorrow.
Sandy

front of card

 inside of card

Sending Sympathy and Prayers

Another day closer to the end of this year. I am astounded at how fast the year has gone by. It's been a warm day here but it's really going to heat up over the next couple of days to about 38C, so will end the year with a scorcher!
It's my OH's birthday tomorrow and we are going to have the family and a few friends over for a barbeque in the evening - hopefully it will have cooled down a little bit. We have daylight saving as well at the moment so at 7p.m. it will be in reality 6p.m. and it will probably still be warm. That's okay, we can sit outside, the big umbrella is still up, just have to remember to get some bug spray so the mossies don't get us, LOL.
My oldest daughter's boyfriend got bitten by a dog yesterday while trying to protect her little daschund/terrier. They had gone camping, arrived and set up and then had gone straight down to the beach and five minutes later he was bitten so that was the end of their very brief trip. His dad and partner had gone too, so they stayed and packed up everything and my daughter drove him back here, dropped the dog off and then took him into the hospital, the doctor was at first worried that the tendon was damaged but thinks because he can move his wrist and rotate it that he doesn't need surgery. They gave him a tetanus shot and antibiotics, cleaned it up and I think stitches but not sure. He had two deep puncture wounds on his forearm. The people that owned the dog didn't even stay to find out how he was - just collected their dog and left. They got the rego number of the car and filed a report but whether anything will be followed up they don't know.
Enough chat, LOL. Onto sharing my card for today.
I decided to make a sympathy card as I only have a couple of these in my stash.
The basecard is SU Early Espresso and then I cut a piece of SU Really Rust and put through a cuttlebug embossing folder with little hearts on it. The image and sentiments are all from the same set by SU called "Love and Sympathy" and were inked in Really Rust onto white cardstock from stash and the backed with Early Espresso. I cut the quote sentiment into a tag and added an eyelet with my Cropadile and a small piece of brown ribbon to finish off.
I would like to enter this into Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge #2 ~ TAG YOUR IT!! Add a tag to your creation.
Well thanks so much for stopping by today and all your lovely comments,
Take care,
Sandy

Sending Love & Sympathy

Hello everyone, hope you have had or are still having an enjoyable day. I had a quiet morning at home and did another load of washing, some of my things this time. Priority here for washing is hubby and son's workclothes, then towels and tea towels and lucky last are my things.
I caught up with my friend when I went up to the shop and chatted a bit about how her Mum went with the skin graft. She went in Tuesday and they took the skin from the other leg, but were going to put the graft on today. I caught up with her again as she came out with us for a meal tonight and the doctor wasn't real happy with the condition of her leg so has put off putting the graft on till probably tomorrow and she will have to be in hospital for a while and then have some rehab. She hates hospitals but needs to improve if she wants to stay in her own home. So, hope things go well for her.
I spent the afternoon with my Thursday group. Jane was home from her cruise to Vietnam and gave each of us some cute little vietnamese figures which are magnets. Thanks Jane and glad you had a good time and are back home safe!
No choir practise tonight so I went for a walk with my friend Fran and also took the dogs. Went a bit earlier so it was just on dark when we walked down my street.
Well I'm slightly earlier than usual as I have made a CAS style card for:
Less Is More challenge week 42 - Theme - Silhouette
I decided to make a Sympathy card as I don't have very many of them in my stash.
I have used SU Early Espresso for my card base. I added some embossed lines to make a frame and then I stamped the silhouette image and sentiment from SU set Love & Sympathy onto Whisper White cardstock in Choc Chip Ink, I used a circle as a mask and applied Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress ink over the white card. I finished off with a bow I made using some of the ribbon I picked up off a stall at craft on Wednesday.
Thanks for stopping by again, I am slowly working my way through some of my blog list trying to comment on people's blogs. It is very time consuming, so I do appreciate your visits and especially the time you take to make a comment.
Thanks,
Take Care,
Sandy

With Love & Caring

Hi, well another week over and the start of hopefully a relaxing weekend, No craft with my friends tomorrow as Judy is busy - in fact we may not have craft for several weeks as she is off to Bali soon for a holiday. We were all moaning about withdrawals last week,
It has been another blustery, overcast day today, not a lot of sunshine. I went out to a craft group this morning, stopped in at the local shops to look for a black 3/4 sleeve top. It wasn't easy to find one, I had to go to 4 shops before I found a top - it was the only style in the shop and there were only 4 left, I tried on two sizes and decided on the smaller size. Luckily, I actually like it too! The top is to wear in a choir concert next month, I'm hoping it will not be too hot by then, we usually wear a white blouse and black skirt which are all the same. This time they wanted us to wear the black 3/4 sleeve top and black trousers and luckily they don't all have to be the same, it would be a nightmare trying to get so many of the same product because all the spring season clothing is out now.
The card I made for today is a Sympathy card as I don't make very many of them and I thought it would be good to have a couple in my card stash.
The basecard is SU Elegant Eggplant (I think) DSP is from Rosie's Papers - mini stack
The image was pricked and stitched (paper embroidery technique) and I coloured the hands with Copics. The sentiment and butterfly are from the same set made by SU, I coloured the butterfly with a copic marker, I corner punched the white piece of card and matted it onto bluecard stock. I cut the sentiment out with the wide oval punch and finished it off with faux stitching using a Marvy Marker,
I would like to enter this into Flutter By Wednesday #172 Challenge which is "Anything goes", must include a butterfly, fairy or angel.
Well, off to finish watching CSI Miami and then bed,
Thanks for stopping by today and I've enjoyed reading all the lovely comments left for me,
Welcome also to new follower, Amy, hope you pop in from time to time.
Take Care,
Sandy

Sympathy card for Mum

I started this card a few days ago and it still has to have something on the inside, but the basic card is finished. It's fairly simple with an image from the Just Believe stampin up set and a sentiment stamp by Touche (American) and finished off with a scalloped border punch. I used Close to Cocoa ink for both the image and sentiment.
Thanks for looking,
Welcome also to Jennifer, good to see you here,
Sandy

Well, I finished the inside so have added it to this post instead of making a new one. Not perfect but the sentiment expresses my feelings well

Thinking of You

Hi all, was tired last night so didn't put this one up to share,
A very simple card showing off this lovely corner punch. I've got lots of corner punches and don't use them enough! I'm trying to use something each week that hasn't seen the light of day for a while! LOL Maybe you have things you have stashed away for a rainy day too. Will have to dig out some of my papers this week.
Thanks for looking,
Sandy