Merriest Christmas to You - Second Post for Today

LOL, I told you I would be back..... I decided I would do a Christmas card for this month a bit earlier than January's. I still want to try and do at least 1 a month. It was a lot less pressure at the end of the year. If you missed my first post for today just scroll down to take a peep.
A reasonably quiet day today, washed the dog's bedding and hung out under a threatening sky, but it has held off and not rained at all. Mum rang up to ask if I would come with her to the cemetery and cut the grass away from my step-father's plaque, so we did that and gave it a bit of a wash as well. The plaque is set into the ground not standing up, so it does get a bit dirty. Lucky Mum had a bottle of water in the car as the taps there weren't working and she needed some for the flowers and also to wash the plaque. We came back home and had a bit of lunch together before she left. Just pottered around for the rest of the afternoon sorting out another box of crafty bits and pieces and throwing away old envelopes and papers.
Well here is the card!
Basecard is SU Real Red then a layer of white. I stamped the sentiment (Penny Black - merriest) in Real Red and then put it through Divine Swirls embossing folder leaving the left hand edge unembossed. I then stamped 4 various sized strips of white card using some stamps from a Do-Crafts Christmas set and also a snowflake which comes from the same set as the Father Christmas, I'm not sure what I did with the packaging for this one so I can't tell you who made it. I used SU inks, Real Red, Certainly Celery, Basic Grey and Island Indigo. I coloured the holly images with a blender pen and ink and distressed each strip as well. I used a scallop die and a circle die from Nestabilities.
I am entering this into the following:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 58 - Use a diecut
Christmas Card Challenges week #10 - Create your own background
Christmas Challenges (with sketches) I've just been back to the blog to get the link and read they wanted Kraft card which I can no longer get anywhere! I hope it still meets the requirements as there was a lot of work involved in this one. Oh well, something different to put in the Christmas Stash box - it won't go astray!
(just had a comment saying my card won't be accepted in this challenge, so I am adding it to another Christmas challenge blog)
Make It Monday #75 - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything goes + No pattern paper ( I've made by background with embossing and stamped images)
Christmas Inspirations Challenge #40 - Anything Goes
It was good to see some of you popping in today, I appreciate your lovely comments.
Take Care,
Sandy

Floral Card for LIM

Hi everyone,
a quick post to share the card I made for the LIM challenge - Week 53 Colour, Aqua
I've used a flower from SU set "Love & Care" and inked with a Marvy Marker pen called Aqua Sea - stamped on a panel and then adhered this to a white cardbase. I added some embossed lines and also a sentiment (coloured with the pen) from SU set "Happiest Birthday Wishes"
I've scanned it with a darker colour behind it so it defines the edges of the card!
LOL, will probably be back later tonight with another post.
Take Care,
Sandy

Miss You

Welcome to my blog. Hope you are all having an enjoyable weekend. Mine is nearly over.
I had church this morning, Adrian was not up to coming yet so I went on my own. I remembered to take my choir outfit as it was our first Sunday back singing after having January off. Our conductor organizes other people to sing for those weeks we have off. I meant to take my outfit back earlier but forgot so made sure to grab it on the way out the door. I missed Thursday night practise but the song we sang was one I knew so that was no problem. Hopefully next weeks is as well as we only practise fortnightly.
A funny day weather-wise today, warm enough to just wear a blouse (and jeans, LOL) but we had rain as well. Good, I don't have to water the garden but didn't do any washing either, yesterday was the same except I hung out two loads and brought them in wet because I was out and it rained on my way home. Adrian can't take them off with his broken shoulder blade and ribs, so there they stayed until I plucked them off!
An early post for me tonight as I've had time to sit down and craft earlier tonight.
Here's my card,
Basecard is SU Certainly Celery, a layer of SU Bashful Blue, DP is from a paper Pad called "Tiny Woods" by KaiserCraft. The stamps I used are also called "Tiny Woods" made by the same company. I coloured the two images with Copic Markers and added a bit of colour for the ground. I layered the image onto the Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue. The sentiment is from a retired SU set called "Bow Bear" and was inked with a Marvy Marker and cut out with a ticket punch and then mounted onto the green and blue again. I drew the outline of the ticket in with the brown marker as well. I used foam dots to mount it onto the card.
I also decorated the inside of the card using Bashful Blue and small strips of the DP. I added a stamped image of mushrooms from the "Tiny Woods" set and coloured with Copics, the colours didn't come out quite right as the card was blue to start with.
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Perfect Sentiments Challenge - PSC17: Missing a Button
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Punches and/or Die's ( I used a ticket punch)
Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C122 - "Make a Scene"
Make It Monday #75 - Anything Goes
Well, it was wonderful to "see you" today, thanks for popping in and for the wonderful comments too,
Take Care,
Sandy
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Royal Couple

Hi everyone,I would like to again welcome two new followers,Donna and Jennipher, wow, I am nearly at 100 followers, I started off with my friend, Shirley, who introduced me to the world of blogging and I enjoy the time I manage to find to blog and look around. Anyway, I hope you enjoy what I have to share and would love to "see" you from time to time!
I had a great day with friends at our regular Saturday get together.
This week we had a go at decorating a pre-made padded coathanger with beads. I started mine off and had problems with the thread not going through some of the smaller beads a second time, so got frustrated and chopped it off. I took a long time trying to decide what to put on there, I didn't bring enough beads with me so didn't really have what I thought I wanted. Finally got it together and got one drop of beads finished and had trouble with splitting the thread and got in a huge mess. My friend Kim tried to help and in the end still had to do some chopping again, LOL. The result was that I ended up with half the drops finished before I left and as we are continuing doing them next Saturday it might not get touched till then. By the way everyone else's coathangers had lovely beading on them.
Adrian, is starting to improve, not so much pain now and has ventured outside a bit more, spending some time out in a chair reading and also entertaining a visitor who dropped in today.
Anyway, time is marching on and I had better share my card for today.
Here it is,
Basecard is SU Early Espresso, a layer of SU Creamy Caramel and I am fairly sure the DP is SU as well (from my scrap stash) I used a sentiment from a retired SU set called Small Sayings, inked with a Marvy Marker and split into 3 lines instead of the original one, added some faux stitching as well. The King and Queen are embossed card using Tim Holtz "Poker Face Set" and sponged with SU Close to Cocoa. I coloured the hearts and clubs in with Marvy Markers - I popped the Queen on with foam dots.
The inside of the card has a piece of Creamy Caramel and a scrap of the DP. The sentiment is from SU clear set "Happiest Birthday Wishes" and I added 2 punched hearts. Voila - all finished!!
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Kings and Queens
Moving along with the Times - Challenge 134 - Have a Heart
Ditzy-craftymess challenge blog - Anything Goes
Off to bed I think as feeling a bit off colour, just not enough sleep lately!
Hope you are all enjoying your weekend,
Take Care,
Sandy

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Friend to Friend

Welcome to my little piece of blogland, I hope you find something to interest you.Welcome to two new followers, Anne and Tan, lovely to meet you and hope you get a chance to pop in now and then.
I chose not to go to craft group today and met friends Shirley and Doug over at a cafe so I could pick up an SU order and then go to a craft store afterwards to pick up several Do Crafts magazines that we order in, of course, LOL, I did buy a couple of other things.
Tonight I have chosen to make a card using this lovely image called "Psst Danni and Taylor" by Mo Manning and sold by Stampavie. I inked it in SU Basic Grey and coloured with Copic Markers. Layered onto blue card (from scrap stash) and then Wild Wasabi.
The basecard is also Wild Wasabi and then I used a Martha Stewart punch called "Garden Trellis" and a scrap of Lucky Limeade, On top of this I added a small scrap of brown card and stamped the sentiment (SU Teeny Tiny Sentiments) with SU Pacific Point. The DP is also SU and the circle is from the reverse side and cut with a Nestie Die. I popped the image onto the card with foam dots.
I am entering this into the following challenges:
Diva's by Design - Challenge 20 - Anything Goes
Bronte and Bella's Challenge Blog - Challenge #120 Anything Goes with a Mo image, optional sketch
Delightful Challenges - Punches and Dies
Do You Stack Up Challenge #57 - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by, hope you have had a marvellous day
Take Care,
Sandy

New Arrival

How are you today? I hope you have had a good day and all is well in your part of the world. I had a quiet morning at home and then joined 3 other friends for our Thursday craft group, We started off at the church I attended hoping to meet a need in the community but it just never got off the ground. The area is only five minutes from the city and I suppose a lot of people worked and those that didn't just weren't interested. I am the co-ordinator of the group and as I no longer attend that church we meet at Jane's house as she has a nice big table and LOL, air-conditioning!!! We started off with about 8 people and some of them have moved on and been replaced by a couple of others. There were 7 of us last year and now we usually have between 3-5 regulars. We always enjoy our get togethers.
I don't usually make cards during class time, but mainly stamp and colour images for later use, today I shocked the girls by finishing a whole card, LOL.
Here it is, I made it for a young couple at church who have just had a baby boy named Samuel.
I started with SU Night of Navy for the cardbase, a layer of SU Bashful blue, distressed the edges. The Dp is a scrap from stash. I then layered another scrap of a different DP onto Bashful blue and again onto Night of Navy, Both these pieces of card were distressed. I tied a strip of ribbon around this little layer and then took another length of ribbon and threaded it through the first ribbon and tied a bow, a new way of making a ribbon for me. The image is from SU called "Bringing the Baby" and was borrowed from Jane, I coloured little sections with Copic Markers and matted with the two blue cardstocks which I distressed as well. Sentiment is from a retired SU set and inked in Pacific Blue. I used the word window punch and the decorative label punch and added some bright blue bling to finish it off.
All card except for the basecard was also from my scrap stash, hope this qualifies for Pixie's Challenge.
I would like to enter this into the following,
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog - "What's new Pussycat"
Pixies Crafty Snippets Challenge - no. 5
The pic with the stork is the front of the card and the other pic is the inside.
By the way, I just found out one of my cards was picked in the top three for a sketch challenge at Come and Get it Challenges. Thanks Jane for letting me know.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Sandy

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You're too Cute

Hi again, a lovely day here in Adelaide, a bit cool to start with but warmed up nicely. Did a bit of phone chasing today re paperwork to sort out some of the issues that have come up because of Adrian's accident. Have to get details of his injuries and recovery prognosis but the hospital doesn't work very fast and it could take 2 weeks so that means organising insurance payments that cover his wages won't happen yet either, need the medical details for that!
Laurie has just rung from Cambodia and things aren't going very smoothly with the bikes they bought, everyone is having to fork out money for repairs. He had fuel problems and found that there was salt in his fuel tank. Also the foot peg broke and he had to have that fixed. The guy that organised the trip has just had a piston break and will have to rebuild the engine. They may find themselves not doing that much touring if they are stuck waiting for repairs!!
I've managed to find a bit more time tonight and have my card finished and ready to share.
The basecard is SU Peach Parfait card and I've used left over bits and pieces on the rest of it. A piece of brown cardstock and I used a border punch on two edges. A scrap of orange and white striped DP. I cut 2 shapes using a Nestie circle die and a Nellie Snellen die out of scrap pieces of card and I had a small piece of this spotty DP and I cut a large circle out of it. The image was stamped onto white card with SU Basic Grey ink and coloured with Copic Markers. The little girl and sentiment are from My Favourite Things and is called "Enjoy Every Moment". I stamped the sentiment onto white card with SU Rose Pink ink and then cut it into separate words and mounted onto scraps of the Peach Parfait and then the brown. To finish off I added a tiny little clear bling on the heart of the little girl's dress.
I am going to enter this into the following:
Make It Monday challenge #74 - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #65 - Anything Goes
Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge 5
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #53 - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by, I'm off to do a bit of visiting blogs,
Take Care,
Sandy