Christmas Dress

Oh, I'm late again tonight, I decided to go for another walk with the dogs, they are only small dogs but nearly pull my arm out of the socket for the first half hour, I have to set a fairly fast pace to keep up with them, LOL.
It is still very warm here and I was getting a bit hot sitting in the dining room and again here in front of the computer monitor, they certainly put out some heat!
So, I've been fiddling around trying to decide what to make and this is what I have come up with.
My basecard is a green cardstock from stash and then a piece of SU Very Vanilla and a piece of DP from a mini paper stack from Hot off the Press - a freebie with a magazine. I stamped this cute "Gorjuss" image called "Little Heart" onto white card and coloured with Copic Markers, cut her out and adhered to a cream oval diecut and then onto a nestie diecut in green and finished off with this lovely lush red ribbon. I decided not to put a sentiment on.
I would like to enter this into the challenge at Shelly's Images - theme is Anything Goes.
Well better hurry and post this,
Thanks for stopping by
Take care,
Sandy

Angel Song

Choir practise tonight so thought I would use one of my little angel stamps and make another Christmas card to share today.
It was my Thursday craft group today and as Jane is away on holiday we had it at my place instead. I also had to babysit two of my grandchildren, a 3 year old and a 6 month old. Perfect as usual, Layla played with the toys and watched some tv in the family room while we crafted in the dining room. Little Isaac rolled around on a blanket for a while before everyone arrived and then I nursed him off to sleep and popped him into my bed for a sleep. He slept right through then until my DIL arrived and he had a cuddle with a couple of my friends who hadn't seen him in real life yet, Mum gave him a feed and then they hopped into their car to go home and get the oldest granddaughter. Out to tea with my youngest and her boyfriend, a couple of friends and then to choir. I came home about 9.30 changed into my joggers and took our two dogs for a walk for an hour (or did they take me?) The first half an hour they were raring to go but slowed down on the return journey until they hit the top of the street. Even in the dark they knew we were nearly home!
So... did sit down and put this card together as I had already stamped and coloured the image and I just needed to work out what else to do with it.
Here is what I come up with.
The spotty DP is from My Mind's Eye (I think) the music is from Kaisercraft , basecard is SU Real Red and I cut a nestie ribbon banner with SU Bashful Blue,
The little angel is stamped on a white Nellie Snellen diecut and coloured with Copics.
Off to bed, thanks for popping in - hope to see you again soon.
Take Care,
Sandy

A Little Birthday Wish

Another day nearly over for me, I taught another Christmas card today at class. I was still missing one of the ladies who was very keen to make cards and hasn't turned up for 3 weeks now. Not sure what's happened to her. It is a community craft group run by a local church and the people that attend don't pay anything so I suppose it is no loss to her if she doesn't come, but it would be nice to know from week to week who is actually going to turn up! I did have 3 sometimes 4 people but only had 1 today. So no waiting for someone else to finish with stamps or cutters etc.
It's been another lovely day, hubby did some more painting after work today so there is still the reek of paint wafting through the house, I wouldn't mind so much but it tends to give me headaches. So I think the room should now be finished and ready for youngest son to start moving things back in to his old room and as soon as he gets another bed, I can get our spare bedroom back!
Well onto my card for today,
I've used a cream cardstock for the base, the DP's are from a mini paper stack by Merci from one of the cheap shops. I used one of my Martha Stewart punches and did two layers of the edging at the bottom of the card. The Die Cuts are both cut with Nellie Snellen Dies. The little bird is from Doodle Pantry ( I think ) and the greeting is called "Little Birthday" made by Stamp-It and inked in SU Real Red. I added a little trail leading from the bird using a brown Marvy Marker.
I would like to enter this into Make It Monday #63 - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by and also for your wonderful, encouraging comments.
Take Care,
Sandy.

Born in a Stable

Hi and welcome to my little piece of blogland, Just a quick post as it's late and gotta get some sleep.
The card I am sharing is one I taught my class last Wednesday. I've used and 8" x 8" square and made this smaller square card by scoring and folding so when you undo the ribbon is opens back out into the 8" x 8" square again. I've used this sweet nativity scene with angels and the baby Jesus, It is a Stampendous cling rubber stamp called "Manger Kisses" I inked it in Close to Cocoa and coloured with Copics. The sentiment is from a SU set and I've also added a sentiment from Kasazz Stamps on the inside.
Hope you find it interesting, I enjoyed making and teaching it.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Sandy

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

Postage Stamps

Hi everyone, another busy day today! I finally got to bed at 2 a.m. after dipping and rolling all the jelly cakes and then was up at about 6.45 a.m. as hubby had to go to work and I needed to whip the cream, split the cakes and fill them with cream. Off to church, then I delivered the cakes. I made the mistake of wearing new shoes to church and had to walk a fair distance to drop off the cakes. By the time I got back to my car I had rubbed both sides of my feet and caused the skin to tear, so am walking around with bandaids and very sore feet!
I got home from doing that and straight into moving furniture etc to make room for our son to move his belongings back in, I then had to put all my craft away as family came for tea and picked names for their Secret Santa gifts. So I haven't hardly been off my feet for two days and my knees have gone kaput!!
So... I've not had time to do any crafting at all and am so tired I am heading off to bed shortly. I thought I would share one of my cards from last year that I sent off as a swap card. I cut an aperture of Australia into my card and then used Australia postage stamps to fill it in as the theme was postage stamps. I've also included four ATC's that I made for another swap which had an oriental theme.
Hope you find them interesting,
Thanks for stopping by,
Take care,
Sandy

Happy Engagement

Hi everyone, are you enjoying your weekend? Mine has been busy so far, I've done at least 6 or 7 loads of washing and now have started making 5 -6 dozen jelly cakes, I hope I get them all cooked as I have to have a shower and be ready to get picked up to go to an engagement party. I have just finished the card so I am going to do an early post because I won't have time later tonight. Two of my son's popped in, I thought it was a bit strange as the youngest rang first to see if I was home and said they were coming to see me. They don't usually ring they just turn up. Well the youngest son has broken up with his girlfriend and wants to move back home, he doesn't even have a bed now because after taking it with him, they decided to sell it. Luckily we do have a spare, but his room has been taken over by bits and pieces and he will have to use our spare room that we usually keep for guests. Oh well, we will see how it goes.
Here is the card I made for the engaged couple!
I've used a navy blue basecard and then stamped congratulations on it in silver ink. I stamped the champagne glasses in the same ink onto a scrap of the blue and punched out with a circle punch. I mounted it onto a piece of DP from Prima Marketing paper stack called Londonerry and punched with a larger circle punch then mounted it onto a blue matte and then onto a white nestie label and added some little bling hearts in the corner. I stamped the glasses on the inside of the card too. The stamp is called Glasses and is from Lucy's Stamps.
Sorry the scan has made the card look a bit patchy, you just never know what it is going to do next, LOL.
Well thanks for looking, gotta rush and get the cakes out of the oven,
Take care,
Sandy