MIM#160 Autumn Delight with StampArt Designs by Kathryne

It's Monday, hip, hip hooray! Linky Party Time at Make It Monday.

I enjoyed visiting lots of different blogs again this week to check out your beautiful papercraft projects and leave comments too. Who's ready to party. We would love to see plenty of entries this week and don't forget all you need to do is to pop in to some of the other entrants' blogs and leave a comment to be in the running for this week's prize from our sponsor ~ StampArt Design by Kathryne. 
Congrats go to Skye as our featured artist this week and also to Diana who won the prize offered by last week's sponsor. Enjoy!
We are so lucky to be able to choose a digi from Kathryne to create our DT cards. I chose this digi called Autumn Delight which is a new release for September. I enjoyed colouring it up to use on my card.
I stuck with Autumn colours to create my card to share.....

Front of card.... I think I could probably use this card for several occassions as I didn't put a specific birthday greeting on it. Maybe would be nice as a Get Well card or something to cheer someone up!

Inside of card.... I added another flourish but chose to do it in Kraft cardstock and flip it the opposite way so it hugged my circle diecut.

Recipe:
SU Early Espresso cardstock for cardbase
SU Peach Parfait cardstock mattes
White cardstock from stash
Green and Kraft cardstock from scrap stash
DP from Kaisercraft - orange dotted paper from Rewind Collection and the green one from Lush Collection
Image is Autumn Delight by StampArt Designs by Kathryne
Ticket Sentiment- sorry can't remember where this one came from
Ticket Punch
Nestie Dies - Grand circles
Couture Creations decorative dies - Moments in Time
Pearls from stash - various sizes
Copic Markers
Foam Dots
DS tape roller

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #30 ~ Anything Goes
Come and Get It Challenges - Fall Colour Challenge
Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 66 ~ Autumn
One Stitch At A Time - Challenge #183 ~ Autumn


Our sponsor details for this week are as follows.....

StampArt Design by Kathryne

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 Hello stamping friends! Thank you for welcoming me into your home and hearts.  My desire is to inspire hope and joy, with celebrations of love and inspiration at the heart of each drawing for you.  I am delighted to sponsor your challenge and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kathryne

Prize

Choice of 5 free digi’s of your choice from my catalogue at Whimsy Stamps Store

 POTW Time once more........... hope it's yours!
Wow this one is just gorgeous, love the wonderful scene Heather from Heather's Haven created and you can check it out more on her blog

And you know me, too hard to choose just the one from so many wonderful cards, so here is the second from Sharon of The Little Stamper and you can find it here
The fairy is very sweet and Purple is my favourite colour so that was another big tick for this card.

We would love it if you visited the DT members and checked out their posts and left a comment too. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Take Care,

Hugs,

Sandy

A Pop Up Giftcard Holder Card for Dana's Wedding

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying your weekend, it's late Saturday night here and we've not been long home from my husband's niece's wedding. It's been a long day, We had to be ready to leave here about 10:20 a.m. but we were running a bit late. One of our sons and his wife came here to come with us and we had to pick up another daughter. I realised I had left the card (which also included a gift of money) at home and we had to come back to get it. We were heading up into the hills to their wedding ceremony on private property in a forest. There was an accident in the Adelaide Hills and traffic had to be diverted so there were delays and detours which meant a lot of quick thinking and map revision to work out how we were going to get there. We only had an hour to get there from when we left home and didn't think we were going to make it but we arrived with only a couple of minutes to spare only to find out the bride had planned to be 30 minutes late anyway. They had problems with one of the wedding cars not working and were an hour late!!! It was freezing in the forest and not easy to walk quite a long way in to where the ceremony was held. I had heels on and a lovely dress which I covered up in the end with a red coat (but froze anyway) It was supposed to be a 12:00PM service and we hadn't eaten. Ended up eating about 2:45PM and then had to fill in time until the reception at 5:30PM. The grand final game of football was on and a couple of us didn't want to walk around anymore so stayed in the pub we had lunch at until reception time. The reception was also outside so more time being really cold and sinking into the soggy grass, my shoes have mud all the way up to the sole! So twelve hours later we are home and I'm now warm sitting here in my PJ's typing away. It was a nice wedding and the bride looked lovely in a vintage style lace gown and veil. She had made pretty bunting using vintage doilies and had jars of flowers and served soft drinks in glass jars of all different sizes and shapes.
Well, I am thinking of heading off to bed now so will share a couple pics of the card I made them. This is the first time I've tried making a Pop Up Gift Card and enjoyed making it. I tried to make it a bit vintage style for her with the papers and doiley diecut. I have a stamp of a victorian bride, but couldn't find it when I started making this card last night so went with this image which is a bit more modern. Probably just as well because I bought the other one second hand and had quite a bit of trouble getting it to print properly, if I remember right, I pulled it off the wood in the end and mounted it onto some stamping foam to use on a clear block.

Okay, here is the card.........she loves blue and the wedding was themed with this colour so used lots of blues on her card.

front of card...

inside of card showing the pop up mechanism

 Close up of the sentiment on the inside...

 

Recipe:
SU Bashful Blue cardstock  for basecard and diecuts
White cardstock from stash
DP are both from SU
Image - wooden stamp - just called Romance (no brand name on stamp)
Sentiment on outside and inside word window - Inkadinkado - Wedding Bliss
Sentiment on inside circle is from SU - Marry Me set
Dies - a lace doily (might be a Cheery Lyn Die)
       - Nestie Dies - Romantic Rectangles, Classic Circles ~ small  and Captivating Squares
Punches - Word Window, Decorative Label, Circle and Scalloped Circle
Copic Markers
Pearls from stash

I made the little envelope and popped the money into it, you can see it peeking out. We decided on cash as it means they can go to any shop to buy something or they can use it for spending money on their honeymoon.

I am entering the following challenges:
A Creative Need - Challenge #11 ~ Weddings/Anniversaries
Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #26 ~ Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Challenge #38 ~ Inside!
4 Krafty Girlz Challenges - Challenge 2 ~ Anything Goes

Off to bed now to warm up some more, LOL. have fed the dogs, our two and our daughter's two, let them out for a drink and have put them to bed in the laundry. Hubby has to work tomorrow, so he is already fast asleep.
Thanks for stopping by, hope I haven't bored you!!!
Hugs,
Sandy

PSC93 We three Snowmen

Hi everyone, today marks the start of a new challenge at the Perfect Sentiment and the theme this week is "Snowflakes" Why not join in the fun and make another card for your Christmas stash.
While I'm writing this my little grandson is tinkling on the piano, whoops, he's just taken off with his plastic lawnmower so it is quiet in this room for the time being, lol.
Here is what I came up with for this week's DT inspiration, Hope you like it! I've also decorated the inside but have to go and find something flat to go in the middle of my snowflakes so will add a picture later.

Reciped:
SU Bashful Blue cardstock for the basecard and the diecut
White card from stash
White pearlised textured card from stash for snowflakes, swirl and mattes
DP - the front one is from Bo Bunny - Powder Mountain collection and the one behind it was from stash (I've lost the packaging but  they were about an 8x8 set of papers ~ Christmas themed)
Image is from Stamp-it - a stamped image given to me by a friend
Nestie Dies - Captivating Squares, Classic Circles ~ large and small (the small one is on the inside)
Punch - Ticket
Memory Box Die - Frosty Border
Cuttlebug Die - Snowflakes#2
Ticket from an internet find and I stamped the sentiment into it.
Sentiment from SU Petite Pairs
Pearls from stash, they are a gorgeous blue with a lovely sheen to them and I've used all the different sizes!

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Lady Anne's Challenges - Stamp Challenge #11~ Anything Goes
Simon Says - Wednesday Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine Challenges - Challenge #105 ~ Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Challenge 45 ~ Christmas
Party Time Tuesdays - PTT#139 ~ Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Well, it's lunchtime so I had better go and get Isaac something to eat and then I'll tuck him up in bed for an afternoon sleep. I can get stuck back into sorting a few things in the craft room then!

Hope to see your wonderful creations on the Perfect Sentiments challenge blog this week.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs,
Sandy

Vintage Cards to Share

Hi everyone, thought I would share the cards I made last Tuesday at Shirley's house. Shirley normally makes up 3 card kits and we stamp and colour and put together. This time it was just the two of us and as she has had a bit on her plate lately,  she put out some of her pretty papers and postcard toppers from Kraftyhands on the table for me to play with while she coloured in a DT image for Make It Monday where we are both teamies.There is no craft today as her daughter and SIL and grandies are here to visit her and I think she and Doug will be pretty busy entertaining and being entertained too. LOL.

This first one is a wonderful vintage card for a Male. Love the muted browns of the DP paper and the fab vintage postcard topper. I adhered it on an angle and added the SU sentiment which was stamped, cut out by hand and placed onto Old Olive cardstock and then punched with the matching punch ~ also from SU.

This second one is going to be for my Mum (who reads my blog~just pretend you haven't seen it when you finally get it, LOL) I love the fresh daisy paper and these fab horses. I chose not to add a sentiment to this one as I really wanted the horses to be the main focus. After rummaging through Shirley's copious amount of flowers, I finally found one to go with my card and then it took us another five minutes or so to find something to put in the middle.All the bling that might have matched were just too small.  Shirley had these little round white discs that already had a piece of adhesive on the back and she coloured it with a Copics Marker to match it in with the paper.

This last one is a take on one she did as a DT card for Krafyhands, using the same paper and general layout, but I changed the bottom section slightly by adding a sentiment in the middle and some pearls on the top and bottom of the panel. I just love this wonderful floral paper. Just gorgeous!!! 

 

It's been a while since I have posted something other than DT cards, so I've enjoyed sharing with you some of the other things I have been making. Next term I will be teaching a few different Christmas things, so I will be able to share them too after my class have done them.

Have a great day and thanks for popping in.

Hugs,

Sandy

MIM#159 A Stitch In Time with Rick St. Dennis

Well the weekend has finished and a new day has begun. Yesterday I went off to church in the morning with my hubby and they had a church luncheon to raise money for a mission hospital in India that they have been sponsoring for about 12 years. We came back home, hubby went off and bought a trailer and I went shopping for some food to take up to our son's for a barbeque. Adrian left before me so he could mow the lawn before we got there and I boiled up some eggs to curry, made a salad and cheese platter, threw in a yeast bun. I grabbed the two dogs and headed out as well. We had an enjoyable night with all the family and I offered to bring our youngest grandson home with us for the night as he is normally here Mondays anyway and will save my DIL some time getting organised in the morning.
It's time for a new linky party to begin at Make It Monday .    We had so many wonderful entries last week and are hoping for lots more this week. I hope you are managing to get to some of the other blogs and check out the wonderful creations!
Congratulations go to Kerry as our featured artist and to Kit as the winning commenter. This week we are being sponsored by the very creative Rick St Dennis and I chose this delightful digi called A Stitch In Time to work with. I hope you like what I did with it.

Here it is........
This first picture was done in the scanner with the card closed

and the second one here was taken outside on the cane chair with the card opened.

and the last one is a close up of the image itself....

Recipe:
Pale Grey cardstock from Stash
SU Daffodil Delight cardstock for mattes
SU Night of Navy( I think) cardstock for mattes
Background was an steampunk style image I found on the net and printed onto white cardstock
White cardstock from stash
Image is from Rick St. Dennis and is called A Stitch In Time - printed onto white card and the corners cut off to let the blue card show through
Nestie Die - Classic Circles - small: 
Punches - Scalloped Oval and Large Oval
Copic Markers
DS Tape Roller
Foam Dots

I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #29 ~ Anything Goes 
Come and Get it Challenges - Happy birthday
The Squirrel and the Fox - Challenge#53 ~ Happy Birthday
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Challenge #48 ~ Anything Goes
 

Our sponsor  is Rick St Dennis and he is offering the winning commenter 2 Digis of their choice from his etsy shop

Rick St.Dennis Etsy Store

 

It's POTW Time - Yeah!!!!

The fun part after spending the week commenting on various entries is to browse all the entries and find one or two to feature here on my blog. I hope it's yours!!!
I've chosen two entries. The first one is this lovely encouraging card from Pia at Pias Papir op Perler and you can find it here

The second entry I chose to feature is from Sweatpea at Jan's crafty spot and can be found here. Fab embossing and those flowers look wonderful

 

Well that brings my post to an end, please drop in on my teamies and leave them a comment about their wonderful creations. You can find all our blog links on the Make It Monday Challenge Blog.  We all love to hear from our Make It Monday entrants and any one visiting.
Don't forget to pop on over to as many of the other entries as you can. Some lucky person will be the winner of Rick's marvellous digital images.
Good luck.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs,
Sandy

High Flyin Mouse 613 Avenue Create DT Card

Hi everyone, it's late Saturday night as I'm writing my post up for the new challenge that has started today(Sunday) at 613 Avenue, Create. Hubby and I have just come back from friends' where we had a meal and then sat and looked at their holiday photos. They have just been away for a few weeks in their caravan touring interstate. It was good to catch up and see some of the lovely coastal scenery and ports and river towns they took in and well as our country's capital too.
I've been doing a little bit of viewing on the computer looking for some new projects to do during the coming school holidays so I am ready to teach next term. Hopefully get some Christmas card ideas and some gift/treat boxes etc to make. If anyone out there has any ideas or links I would appreciate if you leave me a comment and pass it on.
Well I had better get on to the reason for this post, and that is to share my card and encourage you to join in the challenge at 613 Avenue, Create. We have a fun challenge for you this week. It's a create your own Colour Challenge and I will include the chart in my post, so scroll down and you will find it below my card.
We are being sponsored by the marvelous Rick St. Dennis and I chose this cute flying mouse to showcase.
Here is my card........
I used Grey from Column A, Red from Column B and Yellow from Column C. I have some white in mine too - I printed the image onto white card and one of the DP's has white on it..

Recipe:
SU Daffodil Delight cardstock
Pale Grey cardstock from stash
DP is from Mini Deco Paper stack and Kaisercraft (sorry can't find the name of the collection)
Image is High Flyin Mouse from Rick St. Dennis
Sentiment from a freebie set of stamps
Nestie Dies - Classic Circles ~ large and small
Copic Markers
Red Button from stash (I had to cut the shank off it first and attached with a foam dot)
Bling from stash
DS Tape roller
Foam Dots



Here is the chart for you to choose your colours from.

The first colour in column A is White and the one at the top of column B is supposed to be PINK
You must use 1 colour from each column.

This week's sponsors are:

                                           

      

I hope you have had a good weekend so far and are keen to get creative and join in the challenge. We would love to see you! Please leave a comment and visit my teamies' blogs and leave them some blog love too!!!
Thanks for stopping by and if you are leaving me a comment, I really appreciate them.
Hugs,
Sandy

PSC92 Find Me Some Fall - Perfect Sentiment DT Card

Once again I feel as though the year is flying past at such a rate that it will be soon Christmas. Here in Adelaide the big department stores in town have decided to bring out their Christmas Trees and decorations to tempt people into spending. It's just plain crazy!!!
It's Springtime here, the last 24 hours have been windy and wet and as I sit here typing my post it's 11:30 pm Tuesday night and I can hear the wind whipping around outside making all my husband's bit and pieces of junk - oops, I meant really useful stuff, LOL,  shake, rattle and roll.
A new challenge is starting at The Perfect Sentiment and the theme is "Find Me Some Fall".  I love the rich colours of Autumn and have used the rusty red and orange in my card.

Here it is....... this is an aperture card. I used my nestie's to cut a hole through the front of the card and then added the image on the inside of the card. I used two nestie dies together to form the scalloped frame around the opening.

Recipe:
SU Cajun Craze cardstock for my topfold cardbase
White card from stash
DP is from
Sentiment is from Pattie's Creations ~ Mums in Basket
Nestie Dies - Scalloped Circle - large, Classic Circle Small
Button from stash
Twine from stash
Copic Markers
D/S tape roller
Foam Dots

This week our sponsor is PATTIE'S CREATION

Pattie will give one random winner 3 free digital images

That's it from me for today, I hope you decide to enter the challenge this week. Don't forget we are a card challenge blog and we need to see a sentiment on the front of your card. Happy Creating!
Thanks for stopping by today,
Hugs,
Sandy