Stitched Angel - Monochromatic

Hi again, We've been out tonight to see our daughter baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. There were just a few of us there. A couple of friends, ourselves, our DIL and the 3 grandchildren and also herfiancee, her new godmother and her MIL to be (in a couple of weeks)
It was an interesting ceremony and then we all went out for a meal as the ceremony was at 6 p.m.
I got stuck into making this card to enter into a Monochromatic challenge.
So here it is......

Front of card ( I haven't done the inside as yet, ran out of time)

Sorry this is not 100% clear but you can see it better if you enlarge it.

Recipe:
SU Real Red cardstock for the cardbase
DP's are from My Minds Eye and also Kaisercraft (these are red tones, but look a bit pink here)
A piece of twine
Stitched image on red card using gold thread.
Gold Sentiment sticker


I am entering this into the following:
Unstampabelles Challenge - Challenge 17 ~ Monochromatic
Everybody-Art-Challenge - #214 ~ Angels


Gotta go and get some sleep so I'm ready to look after the grandchildren tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping by,
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

Embroidered Christmas Tree Trio

No craft today with Shirley as we decided it was best to cancel while Michelle (her daughter)and her family were down from Queensland for a visit. Our two youngest grandchildren stayed overnight as our DIL had to go to a funeral in Mount Gambier and as it is a long drive from here in Adelaide, she went yesterday afternoon. The funeral was at 11 a.m. so it was a long day and she got back late tonight so we offered to keep the children another night as I was babysitting tomorrow anyway and it saves her a bit of time in the morning. She can go straight to work and Amelia can go with her. She works for Scripture Union and their office is in a house, so it's a bit of a rabbit warren. They are family orientated so there is no problem with Amelia going with her and she can keep herself amused with games etc and she can always read the children's books that they sell. They have display ones there.
Fran and I (and the kids) popped out to a craft shop, it's their birthday and they are having a progressive sale. something different each day. They had embossing folders for only $2.50 today and 30% off the Kaisercraft range of stamps. I needed to get quite a few of my copic markers refilled too.
We stopped at a little cafe for lunch and then back home here - Isaac went off to bed and Layla played with the Duplo. Our eldest daughter called in to use my washing machine. They have moved house over the weekend and she hasn't got a washing machine yet. She was renting with our other daughter and using her washing machine. She got rid of her own as it seemed silly to have two.
Choir practice tonight!!! We've started on the Christmas music and also rehearsed some music for The Lord Mayor's Gala Concert which is next Tuesday and we are one of the performers. Also we are singing soon at one of the big city churches for a service put on for the Heart Foundation where they remember all the people that have died from heart failure during the year. They invite the relatives and light candles for each person who died.  They have a balcony at the entrance of the church and we will be singing from there. The congregation don't actually see us only hear the voices floating out.  It's a lovely service.
Now that I've been chatting away, I'd better get on and share my card too.
I've made a double slider card for my Christmas Stash!!! and I decorated using paper embroidery in the form of 3 trees
Here are the scans -

Front of double slider card

Right hand side when pulled out

Left Hand side when pulled out

Sorry, I should have put something dark behind it to define edges of the white card for you, but it's late and I want to head off to bed soon.

Recipe:
DCWV textured cardstock for the basecard
White card from stash for the topper and also the slider sections
Plastic bag - to created the slider mechanism
Mettalic threads for stitching.
Tree Prick Pattern
Punch - small circle
Hole Punch
Ribbon from stash
Stamps from SU More Merry Messages
SU Early Espresso inkpad

Gotta go, thanks for stopping by and to those who left messages while they were visiting, thankyou, they are all read and appreciated very much.
Take Care,
Sandy

Christmas again

It's late Sunday night here in Sth. Oz. and all those late nights are catching up with me, I've been yawning on and off all day so I'm going to have an early night.
My card for today is one I made a little while ago and have not shared yet, so here goes.....


Front of card

Recipe:
SU Real Red cardstock for basecard,
Variegated thread.
Silver Metallic thread. Gold metallic thread
Peace sentiment is a metallic and acrylic embellishment
Silver sticker sentiment.

Off to sleep..... (yawn, yawn......) Thanks for stopping by and for those who took the time to comment, it's much appreciated and I always enjoy reading what is left for me!!!!
Take Care,
Sandy

Stitched Rose

Hi again,
After a quick coffee with friends this morning, I came back home and spent the rest of the day with our two youngest grandchildren. When little Isaac went to sleep, Layla decided she wanted to make a card, I wish I had taken a scan of it before she went home as it turned out quite nice.  She is only four, but did a good job on colouring an image of a surfer and helping to make a surfboard background. She is quite keen on making cards and usually has a bit of a go when I have the time to help her.  She really likes turning the handle on the Cuttlebug and making diecuts and embossing.
I played around with making my DT card for Make It Monday and just have to get a decent picture of it.
My card for today has some paper embroidery on as the main feature. This is one of my other crafting passions although I don't do it as often as I would like.
Here it is:

Front of card

Inside of card

Recipe:
SU Cherry Cobbler cardstock for the basecard
Red and Green Metallic threads
Rose stitch Pattern
DP from Stash
Pearls from Stash
Sentiment from SU stamp set "It's Your Day"
SU Cherry Cobbler inkpad

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 232 ~  A stitch in time

Thanks for stopping by and for those that took the time to comment, thankyou, they are read and much appreciated too.
Have a great weekend,
Take Care,
Sandy

A Cup of Thanks

Well, it's Friday night, still freezing cold and lots of rain too. I didn't do much today, Fran and I and my two youngest grandchildren caught up with Doug and Shirley for a coffee at North Park. We both had a SU order that didn't arrive on Tuesday so we were expecting it to have arrived and were going to pick it up today. Well the orders are running behind schedule. I suppose because there is a new catalogue  coming out soon and they are discontinuing products, people are ordering more things and this is causing a backlog!
Oh well, it can wait, I think it was only card and or an inkpad.
I dropped Fran off and then came back here, got the fire started and decided to attack another of the boxes piled up in the lounge room. I threw a lot of old papers away and reduced two boxes to one. Still have to go through it again as only did a rough sort.
The rest of the day was spent with feeding Isaac and getting him off to sleep without his dummy as there wasn't one in his bag and he didn't have it attached to his top when he came this morning and then I fed Layla and myself, LOL. She is a real snacker, so every now and then she would pipe up that she was hungry, the last time I offered her a banana and she decided against that. She was really interested in some fruit lollies in the snack drawer, which she had already had a packet of earlier. When she realised she wasn't getting any more, she wasn't hungry any more!!!
Papa came home as I was feeding Isaac so I let him take over and spend some time with him before Mum came to pick  the kids up.
Our youngest daughter came over for a while and then has come back to spend the night with us and we are getting up early in the morning to travel to Victor Harbour for the Lion's Charity Auction. She is hoping to pick up a table and chairs.
Well, I had better hurry and share my card and get some sleep since I have to be up at the crack of dawn!!!
Here it is:

Front of card

 Inside of card

Recipe:
Blue Cardstock from stash for base card
SU Bashful Blue
SU Tempting Turquoise
Blue ribbon from stash
White scalloped and embossed ribbon from stash
Stitch Pattern
Blue silky thread for stitching
Sentiment from SU set Tea Shoppe
Circle punch
Scalloped circle punch
Nestie die-
SU Pacific Point inkpad
Bling from stash

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Annabelles - Say it in...Shades of Blue and white
Delightful Challenges - Punches and Dies
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes


Well, I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend, catch you soon
Take Care,
Sandy

Cute Pup

Hi everyone,
Another very cold day and rain, rain, rain!!!
It's been bucketing down since about 2.30 p.m. starting when I was at Jane's house for craft. Only 3 of us today and Jane had to go to for a blood test, so we packed up early. I hope she didn't get too wet as she had to go into town and would have been hard to find a park close to where she had to go.
We had our usual meal out tonight but instead of just 4 of us, there were 16. Our youngest daughter's boyfriend's birthday yesterday and we all got together to help him celebrate. I gave my apology for choir practice which was just as well because they only had one girl taking the orders and there were several big groups in ordering at the same time. We arrived for a 6 p.m. booking and had to wait a while for everyone to get there and choose what they wanted before getting in line.  We stood in line for at least 15 mins before getting served and finally started getting our meals about 30 mins or more later. So, we didn't start to eat until after 7 p.m.  It was a good night, even though it took longer than usual to get our orders.
I've spent the rest of the night doing some commenting and finishing off this card. I did make a card for the birthday boy but have taken pics with the camera and haven't uploaded yet, so I will share that another day.

Here's my card: I haven't decorated the inside yet.

Recipe:
Sand coloured card from stash
White textured card
Image was a freebie stitch pattern I found on the net years ago
Sentiment is from a Kaisercraft set of clear stamps
I used SU Pacific Point ink but because it is textured cardstock, it didn't stamp 100% so I went over it with a blue Jelly Roll Pen - gives it a sparkly look
The pup was coloured with watercolour pencils and I used a lovely textured thread to embroider him with.
Also used blue silky thread and  gold and red metallic thread to stitch with.

Thanks for stopping by and for those who commented while they were here. Thankyou, I enjoyed reading your comments.
Take Care,
Sandy 

Time

Hello again, more rain today! I was babysitting the two youngest grandchildren and the only thing we did was to pop up to the shops for milk and something for lunch. They both were really good and Isaac had a big sleep after lunch. Papa came home before Lisel came to pick them up so he spent some time reading and playing with them and partially fed Isaac some food. He decided he wasn't too interested because they were both sitting down on the floor. I remedied that by putting him in the high chair and he then ate the rest up no problems.
We had roast pork for tea and I invited our youngest daughter and boyfriend over to eat with us. Our eldest daughter and her fiancee popped in as well, I offered to feed them, but they bought pizza instead as George didn't want the pork. We got halfway through our meals and our youngest son came home. I wasn't expecting him home as he had gone to some car race? where he was part of the service crew for a friend who had a car entered.  I thought he was going to be quite late so hadn't saved him any tea. I decided I had eaten enough so share my roast potato and there was still meat and gravy left but no vegies. I also gave up my piece of crackle too!!! A favourite food item in this family, LOL. there is usually a bit of mucking about trying to see who can pinch a bit before it actually gets to be shared out on the dinner plates.
Hubby has to work tomorrow and starts at 6 a.m. from the work yard, so he has already gone to bed and also Laurie is doing more servicing and is getting picked up early too. So they both hit the sack a bit earlier tonight.
I'm going very shortly, just want to share this card with you.
It's one I made a little while ago but hadn't posted yet. I haven't decorated the inside as yet.
Here it is,

Recipe:
Burgundy and Blue cardstock from stash
Cream cardstock from stash - stamped with a clock stamp (no brand) and then I pricked this pattern and stitched it with a dark browny/red thread.
The clock images and the word time are images from an assorted pack of images that I picked up a couple of years ago in one of the cheap variety shops.
I matted them onto some of the blue card
I distressed the edges of the cream and blue card.

I hope you find it interesting,

I am entering this into the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Challenge 165 ~ Use stitching
It's all about the Vintage - Challenge #23 ~ Anything Goes (used the old fashioned stop watch image)
Tuesday Alchemy - Challenge #24 ~ Very Vintage (or at least looks like it)

Thanks for stopping by and also for the many comments left for me.
Hope you have an enjoyable weekend,
Take Care,
Sandy

Engagement Card for Katie & George

Hi all, wow, we've had still more rain overnight and again during the day. I think it is still raining on and off at the moment. I'm not as cold tonight as I put extra layers on today and I decided to drag my craft bits and pieces out to finish this card in the family room - where the fire is, LOL.
I've finally finished the card I started about 3 weeks ago for our daughter's engagement. It is now late!!! I found this lovely paper embroidery pattern in a Hobbyjournaal Magazine and thought it would be just right. They also had the alphabet, so I added their initials to the heart pattern to personalise it for them. I used a variegated green for the swirls and leaves and red for the top of the heart and metallic gold for the intials.  I finished the stitching this morning at craft and put the card together tonight. Thought it would look nice as an easel card, so that is what I did.  I made some more flowers, this time from some scraps of red card and added some white pearl beads to the centres. The sentiment is from SU set A Word for You and was inked in SU Early Espresso onto a wide oval and then I used red card and a decorative punch. I added the oval to this and popped it up with foam dots so it would hold the front in place when open. I added some small flat pearls to it as well. I finished the front of with a few pearls as well. Not sure where the DP is from but I've had it in my stash for several years (at least 5!!! - must use some more of my stash instead of buying more, says she who bought 2 more packs today, LOL.)
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Make It Monday Linky Party - #90 Anything Goes 
Bearly-Mine Challenges - #36 ~ Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Times - Celebrate Challenge but NO Birthday

Thanks for the comments left for me and also for stopping by today.
Take Care,
Sandy

photo of open card

again the scans aren't wonderful !
front of card

 inside of card

Wonderful Mother

Well, it's Mother's Day tomorrow and some of the family will be dropping in and some will be here for tea - pizza with self-saucing chocolate pudding for sweets. If it's Mother's Day in your part of the world, I wish you a happy day.
I had a busy day today. I went off to the shops to buy some groceries and to have a look around at some clothes. I bought myself a pair of cord jeans. Love corduroy and this is the first time I've been able to fit into a pair for many years so am pleased.  I spent the afternoon baking small cakes for tomorrow's choir fundraiser. Adrian and I went out for a meal with our  eldest daughter, her fiancee, his mum and sister and our youngest son tagged along too. We had Chinese food, which was quite nice. We came back home and our daughter, her fiancee and our son went off to the pictures. Laurie has only just got home and it's just sneaked over midnight (I'm going to tweak my post to come in just before midnight as I did finish the card before then, LOL.)
I spent some time watching tv and then jellied the cakes so they will be ready to be split and creamed in the morning. It is a time consuming job!
My card for today is for Mum for Mother's Day - so sorry if you've looked at the blog Mum, it won't be a surprise.
I used SU Garden Green for the basecard and then a layer of purple card from stash. I used a green silky thread to embroider the swirl pattern and then stamped this lovely butterfly from SU onto white card and cut it out minus the antennae. I also stamped it onto another piece of card and cut out with a circle punch. This was then adhered to a black scalloped circle. The sentiment is from SU Well Scripted and inked with Basic Black. I went over the word "mother" in black pen to emphasize it a bit more,  On  the inside I used a piece of SU Certainly Celery and stamped a swirly pattern of butterflies in SU Basic Brown. The stamp is from a cling rubber set by "Stamp-It"
I would like to enter this into the following challenges
Addicted-to-stamps challenge - mother's day (card for a woman)
Celebrate the Occasion -  Challenge #62 - Mother's Day
Party Time Tuesdays -  PTT#67 ~ Mum's the Word
Tuesday Alchemy - Challenge #13 ~ Mother Dear

Well that's me for today, hope you are enjoying your weekend and thanks to those who popped in and left comments. Love reading them, thanks!!!
Take Care,
Sandy

front of card

 inside of card ( the green hasn't scanned very true, it is a much nicer colour in real life, LOL)

Embroidered Panel

A quick post, I seem to be in the wars lately, I've pulled a muscle or something in my back again. I must have a bit of a weakness there now as I've done this at least 4 or 5 times over the last year. I woke up with a slight twinge, but after doing some more housework, washing the sheets on the spare bed and remaking it, I was in a fair bit of pain.
I had already decided not to go to craft (had too much to do at home), I did tell one of the ladies yesterday, but she didn't pass on the message so an hour after class should have started I got a phone call from another friend to see if I was alright. I was supposed to be showing them how to make a picture using a serviette. Oh well, there is always next week.
My future DIL asked me about a week ago if I wanted to come with her when she went down to the reception venue. Her mum, one of the bridesmaids, her brother (who wasn't supposed to be there) and myself all went down. We took her decorations for the tables, the jars for the lollies and little organza bags etc down and she paid for it all. Things have certainly gone up since our oldest son got married 9 years ago, the price was just over double of what they paid.
I wanted to thank Shirley for choosing one of my cards for her POW from last week's Make It Monday linky party and also to Michelle for featuring yesterdays card on her Pink Paper Paradise facebook page today.
Anyway, here is my card for today.
Another example of my paper embroidery work. It is one of my favourite techniques and I haven't been doing much of it lately. I'm thinking of doing it on Fridays at class instead of taking stamping/colouring work to do.
The basecard is a bright orange card from stash and I embroidered the pattern with blue and orange metallic threads. I used a border punch and also put a line of gold border sticker down each side. I haven't decorated the inside yet. Haven't quite decided what to put inside.
Thanks for stopping by and I've enjoyed reading your comments.

Orchid 3D with paper embroidery

Another day over and we are already into March. I don't know where the time goes really, you wake up and the days just seem to fly by and it's time for bed again. Do you feel like that? Our little granddaughter is staying for a second night. We went off to craft for a couple of hours this morning and then back home for lunch and a play. She also came with my friend and I to the concert in the park tonight. We left here about 5.30 and picked up Fran and then headed up to get a close park. There was something on at the oval so a fair bit of parking was already taken and so we had to walk a little way. They usually have a barbeque put on by the Lion's club with several choices but tonight they had one of the local highschools doing a fundraiser and they only had sausages in bread, so we decided to walk over 2 streets and buy take away. The concert wasn't bad, an ensemble of 4 people playing classical music on 3 violins and 1 bass and a second act of a solo guitarist playing in between one of their breaks. A cooler night so we took jackets, scarves and a blanket and I convinced Layla to sit on my lap for the last bracket of music so we could share the blanket because she didn't want it on and I didn't want her to catch cold. We bought some glow sticks and she had fun playing with them. It went till about 9.45 p.m. and by the time we walked back to the car, dropped Fran home and drove to our place it was probably about 10 p.m. I watched a little tv after putting Layla to bed and left hubby to read her a story and turn out the light. So another long day but an enjoyable one.
For my card tonight I've decided to share an embroidered card I made a little while ago and haven't put on the blog yet. No stamping involved in this one.
I embroidered a corner pattern in a blue variegated thread and then punched slits on the side and threaded some blue and white gingham ribbon through them. I made up this lovely orchid 3D which I saved from a share on a 3D group a couple of years ago. I put this one together using silicone. The topper was adhered to a blue basecard made from stash card. The best wishes is from a gold sticker sheet
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Sandy

Girl in Kimono with paper embroidered frame

Well, the last day of the year has arrived. My OH and I are going to my Son and DIL's tonight. The rest of our family are all out doing something with friends tonight. My daughter's boyfriend's arm is on the mend, he ended up with two puncture wounds to the top of his forearm and one underneath that they hadn't even realised was there until the doctor looked at his arm. I hadn't realised they were quite so far from home when it happened and had several hours drive back as there was no hospitals in between their campsite and the city. Hubby's party went well and again we probably all ate too much. I will be glad to get back to normal eating!! It is 36.6C at the moment and is supposed to get to 38C. Tomorrow is going to be a sizzler reaching 41C and we are thinking of taking a drive down the coast to visit some friends who are having a break from their farm. They bought a holiday house and try and get down there as much as they can.
Well, I'm scheduling this post for tonight as we will be out and will probably see the New Year in before coming home, although I am tired at the moment but I suppose the grandchildren will liven things up a bit. LOL.
Well here is the card,
No stamping today.
The little oriental girl is a 3D image and I stitched a frame around her using a variegated thread, The base card is a vibrant pink from stash and I stitched onto a white panel of card and then adhered to the base card,
Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoy seeing the New Year in.
Take care,
Sandy

Hedgehog with Holly

Hello everyone, just got home from our concert, we popped into a small gelatti shop and had an iced coffee afterwards. I was supposed to get picked up at 7.15 but my friends were 15 minutes late and we had to bang on the door of the venue to get let in. The room where we all meet is right down the end of a long corridor and down a short set of stairs, we could see everyone lined up getting ready to go on stage and luckily one of the men turned around and saw us as I'm not sure they heard the banging, LOL. Anyway we made it in time to go on stage. It went well and now we have a break until late January - must look up the starting dates.
I went out looking for DVD's for my DIL and couldn't find them so will have to look again in a different shop tomorrow. Starting to get worried I won't find them and then will have to think of something else!!
So onto my card for today,
I've used red card for the cardbase and then a piece of white that I've done some paper embroidery on and then stamped with this cute Penny Black Hedgie. I coloured him with ink and a blender pen.
I am going to enter this into the Annabelle Stamp Blog challenge - Say It With Christmas -3- Cards
and also into the challenge at Oldie But A Goodie - Christmas Animals using a stamp at least 6 months old.
I've had my Penny Black Stamp at least 1 year as I used it last Christmas.
Nice to see comments from some of you that have stopped by today, I'm hoping to get a bit of time soon and come and visit your blogs too.
Gotta go,
Take Care,
Sandy

Bear inside paper embroidered frame

Hi everyone, how is your weekend going. It's been another warm day but a bit muggy and we have had thunder, lightning and rain from late afternoon. I'm quickly posting this as I don't want to be on computer too much while there is an electrical storm!
I've been out to craft today with friends and made a tissue box cover with card and embossed panels. I made it in white and I like the look. I haven't quite made up my mind whether to leave it plain or put a stamped image or flower etc on it. When I decide, LOL, I will try and take a photo to share.
Tonight we went out to a meal with lots of cousins, first, second and ? it gets confusing after that LOL!!
It was a huge house about a year old, the walk in wardrobe was big enough to make another bedroom! The first floor had four bedrooms, the daughter's room had a walk in wardrobe and an ensuite bathroom. The master bedroom was absolutely massive and then the huge walk in wardrobe as well. It also had a balcony. Two other guest rooms and they all had built in televisions too, an area at the top of the stairs with a lounge and tv too. A small built in area that you could make tea/coffee and I presume under that would have been a bar fridge for the milk etc.
Downstairs was a large office area, a lounge and then a large open kitchen (with a large walk in pantry that held cupboard space and the fridge and freezer.You wouldn't know it was even there except I asked for a glass of water.) a dining area and another lounge area - outside was a covered area and then the pool. Also a toilet and not sure if it was another bathroom as well. His property also has a creek running to one side. The house also has an enclosed garage and on the other side is another contained living area for his Mum. She has her own entrance from outside and has a bedroom, large bathroom area and open living, dining and kitchen. All this under the one roof. It was a good night, got to catch up with my SIL who has had breast cancer and still has one more lot of radiation treatment to go. Her hair is only just barely started to grow back. She is a lovely girl and has a positive attitude which has helped her through this.
So, I've not had time to make a card, therefore I am going to share another one of my swap cards.
This was a colour swap and luckily for me was my favourite "purple" I embroidered a frame on lilac cardstock, used a corner rounder and made up this sweet little 3D bear to put in the middle. I then mounted it onto a purple basecard.
Hope you find it interesting, thanks for stopping by
Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend,
Sandy

3D Flowers with embroidered frame.

Hi everyone, I'm a bit annoyed! My printer is low on ink and is recommending replacing it and I didn't buy any spare cartridges when I bought this unit. So it won't even allow me to scan which is crazy as I don't need ink for that. I made a card tonight and will have to save it for tomorrow after I buy some ink!!
I decided to share a card I made a while ago for a swap, so no chit chat tonight but straight into telling you about the card,
I used orange cardstock for the basecard and then embroidered onto white card with a variegated thread and added a 3d vase and flowers that I made last year.
Thanks for stopping by and I do hope to be able to scan tomorrow.
Take care,
Sandy

3D Roses with paper embroidery

Hi everyone. I seemed to have picked up a sore throat. The Lord Mayor's Gala Concert was today and there were about 38 from our choir that sang. We were first on and sang a fanfare and 2 Christmas Carols and another Christmas song - I managed well until the last one and felt my voice crack so luckily I wasn't singing too loud and the other voices covered it up and it only lasted a few seconds. Just long enough for me to feel bad though! Nobody else noticed not even the girl standing next to me. One of my friends and I asked if we could go upstairs and sit in on the rest of the concert and they said okay, so we got to see it for free. I had a very late lunch!
I took the bus home from town, a very rare thing for me and was surprised at how much I had to pay for a 10 minute bus ride.
Out again for another rehearsal tonight and we have a charity performance at a hospice tomorrow. They have it every year to remember all the patients that have passed away there. Relatives and friends of the patients attend. They have a ceremony out of the front of the hospital where they light up one of the big trees and a soloist sings. Very moving. They have the police there and they close off the road for a short time. My friend and I are also singing at our Wednesday Craft breakup concert too tommorrow morning. I hope the voice is up to it as we are each singing a verse in one song and unison in the other.
Well onto today's card.
Basecard is red card from stash and the topper is white card and I have stitched a swirly pattern on it and added a 3D roses topper piece that I put together a while back and hadn't used.
I am entering this into Make It Monday Challenge #66 - Anything Goes
Thanks so much for stopping by and for your comments, sorry I haven't been looking at many blogs and commenting at the moment - just have had too much on at present.
Take Care,
Sandy

We

Queen for a Day

Hello again, I forgot to tell you my hubby and son started painting the bedroom too yesterday afternoon so the house reeks of paint. They got one coat on everything and then another coat done in shifts today. One middle son did around all the edges of walls and ceiling with a paintbrush whilst the youngest, (who is the tallest, LOL) used the roller and painted from the bottom to as far as he could reach. They both left and when hubby came home he had to get up on the ladder and paint the rest of the wall and also the ceiling. We have an old house which is 13 feet from floor to ceiling, so it is a big job. So we had a very late evening meal.
Hope you are enjoying your day, it has been lovely weather here today, I went and picked up my Mum and we went to one of the big hardware stores so I could get a new door bell as mine has finally died! We had lunch there in a little cafe and Mum bought some Petunias and I got some Mint and a new pot which I use to keep my clothes pegs in. It's very handy as it sits in an old wooden stool which the cushion has been taken off and the pot sits in it very nicely and I don't have to bend to get pegs. We also went to the butcher and got a few things too. I came back home and did 3 loads of washing. My son hasn't had time to wash for 2 weeks! He told me I didn't have to do it, but I already had one load in, so was just as easy to keep going.
My card for today is made using one of my favourite techniques, paper embroidery. I've used a white basecard. I stitched onto a yellow (almost mustard colour) textured card with a variegated thread. The image I used I found on a sheet of gift wrap and cut it out and adhered to the middle of my topper. I cut an extra dress out and added for some extra depth.
I would like to enter this into Make It Monday #63 - Anything Goes
Well off to bed, thanks so much for popping in - I appreciate your comments too.
Take Care,
Sandy

Just Married

Well it's been a lovely day today, had a craft session with Shirley and made 3 lovely cards, after lunch I washed about 4 loads of towels and clothes, it was good to catch up with the laundry and get it folded and put away too.
After tea, I had choir practise which ran a bit late so got home about 10.45p.m. so now I am going to get this post done and get off to bed.
There is no stamping on this one at all and I had to put a piece of paper behind it to show the edges of the card as the basecard is a pale blue and wasn't showing up well in the scan. I've used a piece of textured card and pricked a stitching pattern and used gold and pink metallic threads to stitch it, I added a little gold heart sticker in the middle of one of the hearts. The image is 3D and I added gold corner stickers on the bottom half.
I would like to enter this into: Southern Girls Challenge 28 - Anything Goes
Make It Monday #56 - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the rest of your day,
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