Two Door Chevvy

Well, this week has gone so fast I hardly had time to register it! I wrapped a couple of presents and put under the tree today, we are giving our son and DIL some money towards a trampoline with the net around it for our granddaughters for Christmas but still wanted them to have some something to open so just small things like a book, socks, knickers and a top. I wrapped them individually so they have more fun opening them.
I've actually finished my card early tonight so I might have an early night as well.
I decided to make a card for a male as I don't have too many of them in my stash.
The basecard is real red cardstock from SU, the DP came with a magazine and is called Celebrate by teresa collins. I used layers of real red and black offset them on the front of the card and then added the image. It is from Kaisercraft - a set of clear stamps called On The Move. I inked the car in SU Basic Grey and coloured with Copic Markers and added some small black bling to the corners.
I am going to enter this into Make It Monday #65 - Anything Goes and also into the challenge over at
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge - Celebrate
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend, don't get too stressed doing your Christmas Shopping!
Take care,
Sandy

Boy Holding Christmas Banner

Hi everyone, hope you have been enjoying your day. Mine has been another long one. I started off with picking up a friend and driving down to the Diabetic Association for a two hour session to learn a bit more about Diabetes. I was diagnosed around about April and my friend is borderline at this stage. Next week they have the dietician telling us about what we should be doing and I'm not sure what is on in the last week. I dropped her off and then went to craft where my little group were meeting to go off for lunch and a trip to a couple of craft shops. Our break-up party, as some of the gals can't come in our last couple of weeks. We were late coming back so I only had about 20 mins home before going out for a meal with my hubby and another couple of friends. I dropped Adrian home and then went into town for choir practice, home again a couple of hours later, watched a little bit of tv and then got stuck into making this card, Oh, LOL, I fed the dogs too, I've let them outside for a bit and will let them back in so they can go to bed soon.
So here it is!
The cardbase is SU Real Red and the green card is from stash. I used several sizes of Nestie circles and the DP is from a freebie mini stack of papers. The image was also a freebie digi but I'm sorry I forgot where I got it, so if you know whose it is let me know so I can give them credit. I coloured with Copic Markers and used a glaze pen to go over the banner word. I used a rub-on sentiment and some little star shaped bling to finish it off.
I would like to enter this into Annabelle Stamps Challenge #044 - which is a sketch challenge this time.
Well I need to get some sleep, so thanks for popping in and also for the fab comments you leave.
Enjoy the rest of your day or evening,
Take care,
Sandy

Just a little Snowman

Hi everyone, late again! I went to our last official Wednesday craft session today, I didn't teach as I had a singing rehearsal for the concert they put on for the end of the year.
Came home and drifted off for about 10 min nap until the phone rang with some tele-marketer wanted to sell me something!! Left my husband to make his own tea as I had to be ready in my choir outfit and head off by just after 6p.m. A friend was supposed to come to my house but at 6 p.m. her husband rang saying that she had a big stain on her white blouse and couldn't get it off, so go without her. She ended up coming but we had already started our performance and had done about 4 songs. So she had to sneak in and find a chair.
After the performance a few of us went to a restaurant/cafe in town for something to eat and a cup of coffee. I got home just after 10.30 p.m. and have been fiddling around with this card ever since! Just couldn't find the right paper. Hopefully this is okay.
I've used SU Old Olive for the cardbase, the spotted DP is from My Minds Eye and the tree paper is from 3 bugs in a rug - it's called Snow Much Fun - Christmas Trees
The little snowman came from a clear set of freebie stamps and was inked in SU Basic Grey and coloured with Copic Markers, cut out and mounted with foam dots.
I used a Nestie for the sentiment which is a rub-on from the cheapie store. I sponged around all the papers and sentiment with SU Garden Green.
I would like to enter this into Sir Stampalot Nov challenge - Blue and Green ( Hope I can get away with the bits of white that are showing)
and also into
The Poodles Parlour - Christmas
and Addicted to Stamps challenge #18 - Christmas
Well better insert the scanned picture and get this published,
Thanks for stopping by,
Take care,
Sandy

Baby Fairy

A warm welcome to a couple of new followers, Betty and Lisa. Thanks for becoming followers and hope to see you from time to time.
Well a long day today, Fran and I went off to Shirley's for our weekly class and made 3 fab cards. We grabbed some lunch at a little deli on our way home. I had found out very late last night from the secretary of the choir that I belong to that they wanted members of the choir to try and go into the town hall this afternoon for a photo shoot. We are performing in the Mayor's Gala Concert next Tuesday afternoon. Well it was all a bit of a rush getting organised and getting a fellow chorister to pick me up. Her son drove so he could just drop us off. Finally got home late afternoon and hopped straight into my car and headed off to the hairdressers! I had my haircut on Friday and I wasn't really happy with it so went back. She layered the back for me and didn't charge me and also gave me a $5.00 voucher to use next time. It looks much better now. Home again, made zucchini slice for our evening meal, and then out to choir practice and home after 10 p.m. So it is rather late now and could do with some sleep. We have a craft breakup Wednesday week and I was asked to sing so need to find something and take for a practice tomorrow.
Well onto my card,
I've used Regal Rose from SU for the cardbase. Layered a DP from Fancy Pants Designs called Precious - Baby mine. I added some pink ribbon with stitching on it (from stash). The cute image is called Baby Fairy Flora from Stampavie and is a Mo Manning design. I coloured with Copics after stamping it onto a white nestie diecut. I layered this onto to some sparkly pink card and trimmed around to match the nestie shape. Voila, finished, I am going to send this to a friend who is a Grandma for the first time.
I would like to enter this into;
Flutterby Wednesday's #181 - open theme as long as it has either a fairy, butterfly or angel on it somewhere.
also entering my card into the challenge over at Make It Monday #65 - Anything Goes
Thanks so much for popping by today, hope you found something to interest you,
Take Care,
Sandy

Daisies in a Vase

Hello everyone,
Welcome to new followers, Loli, Janny and Tracy, great to have you here.
I didn't manage to get the puddings done so will now have to wait until Wednesday. I forgot to soak the fruit overnight and spent the day washing and doing the dishes and putting the Christmas tree up!
So no Christmassy smells lingering in the air!
My hubby and I picked up our friends, Fran & Kim and took them to a local radio station. They have a shed out the back where every Monday night they have a live radio session called "Hill Billy Hooters" Anyone that wants to perform rocks up and they fit as many people they can within an hour. Not really country & western but in that vein. Lots of guitars, ukeleles, mandolins and mouth organs. Ballads and some original songs with a couple of other genres tossed into the mix. We took some folding chairs and sat down and within the first 10 mins it decided to rain - big sploshy drops. Luckily they stopped after about 5 minutes and it is a warm night so we dried off quickly.
So, just got home and made this quick card for:
Less is More - week 43 - Recipe - A Bit of Bling, has to be CAS style card.
Also would like to enter it into Make It Monday - #65 - Anything Goes.
My card base is SU Glossy White, I used SU Basic Grey to stamp the image "Daisy Vase" from Stampendous and also the sentiment from SU set "Happiest Birthday Wishes"
I coloured the image with gel pens and added bling to 3 of the flowers. Two amber ones for the centres of the flowers and one green for the bottom of another as it was facing the other way.
I've scanned the card with a bit of dark paper behind it so the white card can be defined in the scan. The flowers do look brighter IRL and I know the scan has washed them out quite a bit. I tried a photo but it came out too dark and fuzzy.
Thanks for stopping by and all the fab comments, much appreciated,
Take Care,
Sandy

Christmas Tree

Hi everyone, another weekend has gone and Christmas is rushing towards us at a great speed! I think I will have to spend the day making Christmas pudding tomorrow.
My granddaughters went home about 2.00 p.m. after spending the night and coming to church with me. They went to Sunday School and the little one made a cutout of a wiseman and a little box with lots of bling, the older one made a huge star. You might be interested to know Sonia that it was like the one you shared in your tutorial a little while ago but really big, LOL.
I passed a milestone with my blog today. I have now surpassed 10,000 page views. I can remember when I started and I had just one follower, my friend, Shirley, and I thought that nobody would be interested in my cards, Thankyou to all who make it worthwhile posting every day. I enjoy meeting other bloggers from around the world and it is another fantastic extension of cardmaking that I am happy to have become part of.
Well I haven't sat down to craft till late tonight and decided to do something quick and fairly simple.
Unstampabelles challenges require no stamps so I have made my card to suit the challenge.
I've used SU Real Red cardstock for the base and a nestie's diecut tree. I wound some metallic silver thread around the tree and then added lots of bling. The stars, wavy lines and sentiment are all rub-ons. I used a punch for the sentiment.
I would like to enter this into UnStampabelles Challenge #5 - Trees bonus technique Paper Punches/Dies
Well it was good to "see" you today and hope you've had a fantastic weekend
Catch you tomorrow,
Take Care,
Sandy

Pulling the Sled

Hi everyone, another busy day, got up about 8 a.m. and then drove over to pick up my son and his fiance and then drove them into town so they could go in a small bus with friends to the Barossa Valley on a winery tour. It is one of the girls birthdays soon and as it is close to Christmas people will be away etc so she decided to have her celebration early and chose the wine tour. I went the long way home as there was road works the other way. When I got home I had to make chocolate cheesecake slice to take to a craft group Christmas party so that took a while to mix and then cook. Also made some sandwiches because I'm supposed to eat multigrain bread. We had a good time. We helped Judy with some of her craft she makes for the Cancer Foundation. One of the things we did was wrap single toilet rolls with Christmas paper and then entirely in cellophane and attach a tag with this saying on it:
Merry Christmas,
Money is scarce, times are hard,
So I'm giving you this instead of a card,
Christmas cards are expensive it's true,
But this will be handy for you in the loo!!!!!

I left earlier than usual because my son and DIL were bringing the two girls down for me to look after - they are also staying overnight, so we watched "Elf" on tv and had pizza. They are both tucked up and asleep and my hubby has just come home from his interstate mercy mission! It turned out the man felt like he was going to black out while driving the truck. He stopped and they had a district nurse from one of the towns come out to him and they discovered his sugar levels were really high, so looks like he has diabetes and didn't know about it. She gave him some medication and told him he shouldn't be driving and that's why they had to go and get him and the truck. So they must have done a lot of driving to get back tonight.
Well onto my card,
I've made a top fold card with a small step at the front. Sorry I have had to scan it so you don't really get a proper look at the card!
The cardbase is a bright green from stash and I've used a sheet of DP from a freebie pack by My Mind's Eye called Snowed In - Winter Papers, Christmas designs. I stamped the image and sentiment with SU Basic Grey onto white card and used my Copic Markers to colour the image, Red ink for the sentiment. Both the image and sentiment came from a set by Adam Pescott. I used a circle punch and also a scallop punch for the sentiment and added some bling. I put some glitter on the hat and snow.
I would like to enter this into The Poodles Parlour Challenge - Christmas
and also into Fairy tale Challenge #29 - Christmas
Thanks for looking and for your comments too!
Take Care,
Sandy