Shaker Christmas Card

This lovely image from Susan Brown is free ,so pop along and enter your card in the challenge. from Unscripted Sketches -
Incy Wincy Designs - week 104 - shaker cards -perfect for Christmas themes.

I've used water colour pencils ,the paper and snowflakes I printed out on the computer.I was hoping to find some tiny snowflakes in my stash but had to make do with glitter and stars.I need to give it a shake my glitter is all at the right hand side.
Enjoy your weekend ,we have 4 houses to look at ,a mix of very old and ultra modern.This week has been very busy ,the Red Cross are opening a new shop and I have been helping to stock it ready for the grand opening next Friday. I've had a lucky week with my cards and won some images from KennyK ( not really my style) and some Kaszazz stuff.
Catch you later.

Christmas in July

this entire card is made from magazine scraps and a few bits of lace and pearls from my stash.The sentiment stamp is from Lucy's.I think I should go back to the craft room and add a strip of black velvet ribbon with a bow (across the top of the lace border). What do you think ?
I'm a bit disappointed with my photo ,it's very very sunny today and the antique colours all look way too bright.
Unscripted Sketches - challenge 116 -above sketch.

Make My Monday - challenge 8 - Vintage with lace and pearls .They have had the vintage theme running all month and it's one of my favourites but for some reason I just haven't found the time to enter.

Beautiful you

Background paper - "timeless" collection from Kaisercraft
Check paper -Botanicabella from graphic45
Centre image -Steampunk collection graphic45
Scrap card ,lace , pearls ,flowers and crystal stickers just from my stash.

Card and a Half - challenge 3 - layout shown above.

Sand and Sea

Papercraft Star - challenge 54 - Summer Beaches and the photo at top of post.

Creations by Gill - challenge 12 -Beach Scene - there is an optional sketch as well.

Fairy tale - challenge 20 - Summer ,Sun,Sunshine

I'm not sure what to think of this one ,I love the star fish which is raised on sticky dots ,I printed out the shells added the glitter and stuck them on, I'm not so happy about the way they look,the glitter was not my best idea.The colours are there in a subtle way.

Flying High

I love to recycle much to my husbands dismay .The background is tissue paper which my new shoes were wrapped in.

Sugar Creek Hollow- Wing Things challenge

Crafty Creations -challenge 127 - Boyz to Men - Which little or big boy doesn't want to fly a plane .

Birthday fun

All the papers I've had for a long time ,the poppy stamp is from Abi's Craft.

Unscripted Sketches - 115 - shown above.









Papers used are from Franchville and Kaisercraft.

Unscripted Sketches - 114 -shown above.I'm not always very bright ,I made this card and then forgot to post until now,probably too late for the challenge.

Cupcake Crafts- challenge 151 -wish upon a star -
Birthday Sundaes -challenge 18 - Birthday Card using the word "Birthday".

Birthday Celebrations

UnstampaBelles- challenge 1 -Celebrate - The only stamps allowed are for sentiments, I just hope this one is OK.

My Mum's Craft shop -challenge 14 -Pearls and Swirls/

This morning saw the worst frost this Winter ,luckily the bright blue skies and sun have made this another beautiful day.My laundry is outside drying so I'm going to sit on the deck with a cup of Earl Grey tea,my fav.Enjoy your weekend ,I suppose we will be house hunting yet again .I'm always surprised at how little effort is made by some vendors ,(the words clean and uncluttered seem to be absent from their vocabulary).

Yummy cupcake

The paper is a scented drawer liner ,both stamps are from JustRite ,the paisley border is from K-Mart.Flat back brown pearls from Porta Craft.

Papercraft Star -challenge 56 - my take on the above sketch.

A Spoon Full of Sugar - challenge 160 -Pink and Brown
Cupcake Crafts -challenge -Cupcake 150-Make a card using details from a previous challenge - Pink and Brown from challenge 110.

Just right for the cold weather

Flashback Friday 13.0 -challenge -repost the first shaped card you put on your blog.This was originally posted in July 2009.

Butterfly Greetings

I hope you all had a good weekend ,the weather here is Tassie has been bitterly cold but lots of sun and blue skies ,just my kind of winter. We are still house hunting,the criteria is a large block of land with a smallish house and views of the river.Not to much to ask for lol ,it could take some time .


Papercraft Star -challenge 52 -Photo at top of post -I really struggled with this one.I love the colours but couldn't see any way to incorporate them,my only solution was the butterfly .

Card and a Half- Extra challenge 2 - Any sort of creature .

I used a post-it-note to mask the centre of the card and then stamped with the butterfly.The paper behind the tag is a peach and white gingham stamp with orange flowers.The butterfles I painted with water colours,tag sentiment is from VIBGYOR Crafts .

Fast approaching tea time

The hands on the clocks are fast approaching time for afternoon tea, yummy .



Unscripted Sketches- sketch 113 -shown top of post- For the whole of July they have lots of prizes,games and tutorials .Come along and join in the Christmas song Bingo Game -you must have your entry in before Saturday .

My Time to Craft - challenge 147 A la Carte - Include food on your card.
Craft your Passion- challenge 66 -Anything goes.

Some Bunny Special

This is my take on the above photo for Papercraft Star, challenge 51 .I shed a few tears as this is the last of my pink stripe and pink gingham paper, I'm determined not to buy anymore until I have used some of my other papers.