Three Christmas Mice

Sorry, I've been forgetful and forgot to welcome my latest follower, Sam. Thanks for joining and I hope you find something here to interest you and that you manage to pop in from time to time.
Well, it's been another hot day today and the clothes out in the laundry were calling out to be done. I started early and finished hanging out the last load about 4.30 p.m. I also washed the dishes and sorted out several boxes of craft. My lounge room is very slowly getting back to normal. I still have a folding table in the middle of the room with lots of containers overflowing and also boxes and bags on the floor. I have so many bits of paper with embroidery patterns and copies of projects etc it is going to take me forever to get them into folders. I also sorted out several boxes of beads, I need more containers, LOL. I think I should have made a New Year's Resolution not to buy any beads this year and to use up my stash. I still have another very large container with beads in but I think I will leave that until some of these other boxes are sorted.
I know, LOL. I admit it, I need help, I am a Craftaholic!!!!
Well, onto my card for today.
I decided to make a Christmas card, I think this is the second one for this month and hopefully if I keep on track I won't have to stress at the end of the year!
The basecard is SU Real Red then a layer of SU Old Olive, The two DP's are from My Mind's Eye and the second one is layered onto a red piece as is the image.
The stamp is a House Mouse one and was inked in SU Basic Grey and coloured with Copic Markers. I stamped the paisley shape in Real Red and then cut it out and tied a little silver tree charm to it. To finish it off I added 3 pieces of bling to the corners and one to the little flower in the middle of the paisley shape. I decorated the inside with a white piece and a piece of red and a piece of DP. The sentiment is from SU clear mount set Beautiful Season.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Make It Monday #77 - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenges #82 - 2 Designer Papers and 4 or more gemstones
Christmas Card Challenges - Week #12 - Christmas card with Paisley
ABC Christmas Challenge - C for Charming!

Thanks for stopping by and hope to pop in and visit you soon,
Take Care,
Sandy

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Make a Wish

It's me again and yes I am again very late tonight. My OH went out in the afternoon to visit our son and family and got home after 7p.m. so we had a late meal and then our son and future DIL popped in to bring us a little bit of the cake that they will be having for their wedding. They are going quite plain and having rainbow cake with a white icing and decorated with hession. She is also having hession around the vases. Her colour scheme is pink and brown. She likes arty decor and things a bit different.
Anyway better not chit chat, need to get some sleep tonight.
My card for today is on Quill cardstock called Musk and then I used SU Lucky Limeade and this lovely DP which is also from SU. I am not sure where the image is from. Will let you know if I find it. I can't remember if this is one I stamped or if it was a digi. I tend to stamp images off to colour later or print them off and do the same thing. Sometimes I colour them up and put into a little container for later use. I coloured her in with Copic Markers and then trimmed around her leaving a little bit of white. The sentiment on the front is from Penny Black called ...a wish and inked in SU Orchid Opulence.
I decorated the inside of the card as well with another little scrap of the DP layered onto white card. The sentiment inside the card is from SU set Happiest Birthday Wishes.
I would like to enter this into the following:
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Flower power
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 142 Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by, hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Take Care,
Sandy
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Shiver Me Timbers!

Hi everyone,Saturday is just about over and I've just finished my card.
I went out this morning with a friend to a craft shop which is about 30 minutes away. We arrived and got out of the car and then realised it was closed. The owners are Seventh Day Adventists and don't open on the Saturday but do on Sundays. To compensate for the lack of craft shopping, LOL, we went and had a coffee and then popped into Spotlight so we could buy some more foam dots. I also bought a couple of candles which were half price so I could put some stamped images on them later. My friend dropped me back home and I got myself organised to go to another friend's house for our Saturday get together. We craft together, beading, cardmaking, helping Judy with crafts to sell for charity some weeks. Today we did two totally different things, I showed the girls how to make a Secret Box, we got about half way through that and we also used serviettes to make a picture on an artist's canvas. Quite easy, you paint the canvas let it dry and then adhere the serviette with modge podge and coat the whole thing. They all turned out really well.
I came home again and our youngest daughter had come to have tea with us. We just bought a take away cooked chook and a few chips and made some salad to go with it. We watched a DVD and she showed us a couple of her text books she now has for her nursing course. She starts next week and then will be very busy with classes and work as well.
Well here is the card.
I used a blue card from stock for the basecard and then a piece of SU Wild Wasabi. Both the DP's are from My Mind's Eye. The image was from Dustin Pike (I think)
The sentiment on the front I made up and printed using the computer. The one on the inside was either one I bought or a freebie, really not sure and I don't think I wrote where it was from either. I also decorated the inside of the card using the Wild Wasabi and one of the papers.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches #22-A Sketch by Jennifer Timko

Hotshot Craft Blog - Challenge #4 - One for the boys
Stampin with the Dragon - THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments and to all that pop in, especially to those who come every day, thank you... thank you!!
Take care,
Sandy

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Happy Joyful Birthday

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by today - i hope you are all looking forward to your weekend. Our granddaughter went home today. DIL, and the other two grandchildren came too so I got to have a cuddle with little Isaac as well as a hug with Amelia.
I stayed home today, I am usually out at a friend's craft group but hubby used the car and told me he would be a couple of hours so I didn't get organised and then by the time he did get home I decided it was too late to go so stayed home and did more washing, it just never seems to end!!!
A friend called me to see if I wanted to go to the free concert in the park that our local council holds every Friday night in Feb (last weeks got cancelled because of the rain). Tonight's concert was a Jazz one and next week will be Latin and then they have rescheduled the rained out one for the first week in March and that will be classical. The local Lions Charity Club put on a barbeque so we usually support that while we are there.
My card for today is a shaped card made with Nesite Scalloped Circle Die and also the plain Circle Die.
I used SU Basic Black for the base, added another scalloped black circle to cover over the little spot where the fold is and then a circle in red and another in white with the little House Mouse image stamped in Basic Black ink. The stamp is called "Mice-tro" by Stampabilities. I just coloured the face, hands and feet and the music. I also stamped it again and 3d the image. The sentiment on the front is from SU set "Small Sayings" and so is the little heart stamp.
I also put red and white circles inside with a sentiment from SU set "Whimsical Words" and again stamped 3 little hearts in SU Real Red.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
I did make it for the challenge over at Annabelle's but looks like I missed the boat!!!!

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #89: Shaped Cards
One Stitch At a Time - challenge #100 - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 141 - Free and Easy February

Well off to bed, have a great weekend.
Take Care,
Sandy

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Christmas Penguin

Today was another lovely summer's day and I spent it with OH and our granddaughter (did the dishes and two loads of washing while he painted her face)this morning and then she and I went to a friend's house to have a craft session. There were 5 of us today. I just coloured images, one girl did a Bunka embroidery picture and her daughter did some cross stitch, while the two others made cards, Layla played with some toys and coloured in some pictures. I made sure the face paint came off before we left home!!!
A trip out for tea with two of our sons and our future DIL, hubby went off with them shopping and I took Layla with me to choir practice. She was funny singing along while she was colouring in and when we stopped she filled in the gap between songs still singing away without even realising we were all having a smile and a bit of a giggle. So cute...
So I'm very late and better get on with posting my card,
Here it is, not sure it is quite what I wanted to achieve. I decided not to use any DP on this one.
Basecard is a bright green from stash followed by a panel of SU Real Red another layer of green. I pricked some decorative corners and added some red bling. The penguin was a freebie image and I'm not sure I saved who it was from. If I find it, I will add it later. I coloured it with Copic Markers and used a white gel pen to define the flipper as it disappeared when I coloured it. The sentiment is from the Button Bear set I previously used this week. I used a couple of different size circle punches for the sentiment and also a larger punch for behind the penguin.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Perfect Sentiments - PSC19: All Holiday and Seasons - Need to have the sentiment on the front and also add some paper piercing.
Christmas Inspirations - Challenge 41/2012 - Anything Goes
Phindy's Place Challenge Blog - Challenge #92 - Round and Round

Thanks for all the lovely comments I really appreciate the time you spend typing them and for stopping by to see what I've been up to.
Enjoy your day and happy crafting!
Take Care,
Sandy

Girl with flowers

Hello and welcome to my blog today. Another lovely day here but not quite so hot as yesterday. I have my youngest granddaughter staying with us today and tomorrow. She came to craft with me this morning and as it is held on a church premises they have a Sunday School room which is quite large and filled with so many toys. She has a ball! I don't see her at all for 2 hours as she is so engrossed with playing she doesn't even come out for her drink and snacks! My craft table is just outside the room so she doesn't have far to come looking for me.
I was teaching today and chose to do a little project called a secret box, we didn't manage to finish it so will have to take the cuttlebug with me again next week. One of my ladies was the co-ordinator of the group and didn't even manage to sit down long enough to do all the measuring and cutting so it will be another full lesson for her and that is if she doesn't go off wandering again.
My card for today is done in my favourite colour Purple
The basecard is SU Concord Crush and then a piece of SU Wisteria Wonder. I cut a 3cm strip of the Concord Crush and used Martha Stewart's picket fence punch and layered this over the lighter purple. The sentiment is from a retired SU set called "Happy Everything" and inked in SU Elegant Eggplant. I also used the word window punch and added some bling on the flowers and on the fence piece. The image, a digi from Pink Gem Designs called "Kaya with Flowers" was coloured with Copic Markers (skin tones, browns for the hair and lilac for the dress with a touch of red on the shoes) and I used two Nestie dies to make the circles. I used a piece of Wisteria Wonder for the inside of the card and matched it up with the front again using the picket fence border punch.
I would like to enter this into the following:
The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge #36 - Happy Birthday
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #61 - Monochrome Magic I've used shades of purple with just a touch of red and skin tones and browns for the hair.

Thanks for stopping by, hope your day was a good one,
Take Care,
Sandy

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Brown, Orange and Teal

It's that time of the night again for me. I had planned to get an early night as I was feeling a bit unwell. I stayed home from choir rehearsal so I've now used up 1 of the two times we are allowed to not go before we can't be in the performance.
I went off to craft this morning after hanging out one load of washing and putting another on. Mostly Laurie's clothes from his trip. We had a good class and finished early. I'd noticed a shoe shop on the way there so I asked my friend would she mind stopping to see if there were any shoes that would be suitable to wear with my dress for my son's wedding. Yeah!!! I managed to pick up some silvery sandals with a small heel and some shiny bling on them and they had been reduced from $110 down to $39 and then another 20% off so in the end I only paid $31.50 - a real bargain. I also picked up a little glomesh handbag in black and grey with a little strap made of linked metal. So that's me set now, will have to see what hubby decides to wear.
Enough prattle and onto tonight's card,
I have used brown card for the basecard and then a layer of SU Pumpking Pie and some torn pieces of teal card (from stash) I added some blue and white twine and 3 little flags. The sentiment is from SU retired set Button Bear and I think the image is a CC Designs stamp - I stamped and coloured this one a while ago so not sure. She was coloured with Copic Markers.
The inside of the card has a layer of the Pumpkin Pie and a piece of torn teal. The little balloons are also from Button Bear set and coloured with Copics. I hand drew the black strings.

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I would like to enter this into the following:
Make It Monday
#76 - Anything Goes
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge #6 ~ Color Combo - Brown, Orange and Teal
Cupcake Craft Challenges ... Cupcake 179...Entwined - must use twine
Well this time I am off to bed,
So goodnight, hope you've had a good day and see you tomorrow,
Thanks for stopping by
Take Care,
Sandy