Oriental Chic

Hi all and welcome to my blog. Today's challenge at Crafting From the Heart is as always, Anything Goes. Our sponsor for the challenge is the fabulous Rick St Dennis.
Here is my creation.......

Recipe:
SU Basic Black cardstock & white cardstock from stash
DP from
Image is from Rick St Dennis - CanToN Chic digi stamp
Sentiment is from
Punches - SU circle and Carl scalloped square
Copic Markers
D/S tape roller & foam markers

Come and join the fun of a challenge and check out all the different DT makes and all the creative entries.
Love to hear from you, so if you're popping in, please leave a comment.
Hugs, Sandy

Oriental style for Bingo and Sentiment challenge

Oops, have just realised that I didn't post this card for the challenge. I've had some health issues which have kept me off the computer and I thought I had scheduled this one to pop up on time. I'm backdating so It appears in the right spot on my blog and will not be adding it to any challenges for that reason.
The challenge theme is Bingo and a sentiment and our sponsor is Star Stampz.
Here is my card.... and I will add the bingo chart as well.

Recipe:
SU Rich Razzleberry cardstock,
White cardstock from stash,
Oriental DP from stash
Image from Star Stampz - Kimono Portrait
Sentiment from SU stamp set - Picture Perfect Birthday
Copic Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad
D/S tape roller & foam dots

Bingo chart.....       

Hope you managed to join in the challenge.
See you soon,
Hugs, Sandy

Oriental Style

Time for another challenge at Crafting With Friends. Our sponsor is Moonflower Digi Stamps
Here is what I've created.......

Recipe:

SU Real Red cardstock,

White cardstock from stash

DP from Sugar & Spice Studios 12x12 paper pad ~ Peony Garden

Image  is from Moonflower Digi Stamps - Sakura Maiden

Sentiment from Close to my Heart stamp set - Kind Thought

Copic Markers 

SU small wide oval punch

Die - Paper Rose ~ Stitched Rectangles

D/S tape & foam dots

Well still having pain in my left arm and shoulder so won't stop and chit chat. Will go and rest it for a while.

Hope to see you entering a card or two in the new challenge.

Take care,

Hugs, Sandy

Smelling The Cherry Blossoms

This post reminds me of my trip to Japan last year, I can hardly believe that it is a whole year already!
I enjoyed seeing all the cherry blossoms and the girls decked out in their kimonos walking along the streets.
This challenge for Get Creative Challenge blog is being sponsored by Drawn by Krista, Fred She Said Designs and Rick St. Dennis. The theme for the challenge is to use Flowers and Lace on your creations.
Here is what I have made.......

Recipe:
SU Gumball Green cardstock for basecard
White cardstock from stash for matte, diecut and punched piece
DP from Marianne Design - Pretty Papers Bloc ~ Oriental1
Image from Fred She Said Designs - Smelling the Cherry Blossom
Sentiment from Hero Arts boxed set - Friendly Greetings
Die - Floral Ovals cut twice and then I cut the inside oval out to make a frame for the image
Flowers - Crafty Fox
Lace from stash - picked up in an 2nd hand shop
Punches - SU circle and scalloped circle
              - MS Leaf
Copic Markers, Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad, D/S tape roller & foam Dots

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you over at the challenge blog this month.
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Oriental Style

Hi and welcome. It's the start of a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations, an Anything Goes challenge blog. Our sponsor for the challenge is Scrap N Dipity
Here is what I made using one of the images........

Recipe:
SU Dapper Denim cardstock for base card, and sentiment matte
SU Blushing Bride cardstock for mattes and sentiment diecut
White cardstock from stash
DP from Marianne Design - Pretty Papers Bloc ~ Orient 1 ( had nearly forgotten I had this lovely pack of papers)
Image from Scrap N Diptiy ~ Sally Geisha
Dies - Lawn Fawn - stitched rectangles
        - Hobby Craft and Scrap - Nesting die ~ Curvaceous
        - Avery Elle - Sentimental
Copic Markers
D/S tape roller & foam dots

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Crafting With Friends - Challenge 40 ~ Anything Goes (ends 16 or 17th/4/17
Kitty Bee Designs - Challenge  #91 ~ Spring Cleaning - Use something/tool/technique you've forgotten about or haven't used in a long time. (mine is the designer paper that I've had for years!) (ends 10/4/17)
Making Memories Crafting Challenge blog -  Challenge #3 ~ Add some layers (ends 9/4/17)
Polkadoodles -  Week 12 - Anything Goes (ends 7/4/17)
Simply Papercraft - Challenge 45 ~ Anything Goes
Southern Girls Challenges - Challenge #156 ~ Use Dies





Hope we see some of your work over at the challenge this month. Come and check out my teamies cards as well.
Thanks for stopping by, love to hear from you.....
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge #101 ~ Japanese Cutie for Aud Sentiments Challenge

Hi, it's time for another challenge at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog. This fortnight the theme is to make a card with a sentiment for a girl - young or old
Our sponsor is The Paper Shelter - lots of delightful images to play with.
Here is my card using  Japanese Cute Doll (it includes the image and paper)

Recipe:
SU
SU Bashful Blue cardstock
Brown cardstock from stash
Image is Japanese Cute Doll (this includes the backing paper)
Sentiment from
Crane is cut from a piece of Marianne
Copic Markers
D/S tape Roller
Foam dots
Memento black inpad
Pearls from stash

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Crafty Girls Challenges - Challenge 12 ~ Anything Goes
DLART Thankful Thursday Challenge - Challenge #127 ~ image of a girl or lady
Seize the Birthday - Challenge - Anything Goes Birthday
7 Kids Challenge Blog -Challenge #94 ~ Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Simon Says Anything Goes with Pearls

Our sponsor details are as follows:

For this challenge we are so excited to have The Paper Shelter as our sponsor. They are giving the winner a $20 Gift Certificate to use in their store. Thanks so much!

The DT have made some lovely creations this week and we would love to see you pop in and leave a comment on our blogs and we look forward to popping in and getting a closer look at your creations too! Don't forget you need to put your sentiment on the front of your card. This week it's for a girl - young or old!!
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs,
Sandy

Lilac & Lace Gingerloft DT card

This weekend is my busy post time with Gingerloft, 613 Avenue Create and Make It Monday needing to be posted within the next 12 hours or so. So  I would love it if you popped back and checked out the other two posts, one before this one and the other tomorrow morning.
This post is to launch the start of another challenge at Gingerloft this fortnight and the theme is:
 

"Lilac and Lace"

I loved this theme as my favourite colour is purple and so was very happy to rummage in the craft room for papers to use. 

Here is what I have come up with!!!

I have a new camera and I took this at night so not real happy with the pic, makes the face too pink, it doesn't look like that in real life!

Recipe:

SU Wisteria Wonder cardstock for the cardbase and matting

Lace from Lincraft

Image is from Gingerloft Digi Stamps

DP are both from Sugar & Spice Studio ~ Lantern Festival

Sentiment is from SU - Happiest Birthday wishes - set 2 of 2

Bling from stash

Copic Markers

Foam Dots

DS tape roller

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #19 ~ Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes

Well I hope you all will enjoy this fabulous theme for this fortnight and get stuck into making some cards or projects to fit. This would make a lovely scrapbook layout theme as well. So... looking forward to some gorgeous entries. 

Hugs,

Sandy

No Colour Challenge - Gingerloft DT card

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. I'm writing up this post and it's officially Sunday here in Australia. I started a card for Saturday about an hour ago and haven't quite finished and this post is due up today anyway so will save that card for next week and put this post in a bit early (the challenge may not start till later today, my time!).
It's a new challenge over at Gingerloft Challenges today and the theme is ~ No Colour.   Love to see you pop over to the blog and check out the DT cards and add your entry as well. It's an easy theme with lots of scope.
Here is my card. I've used this wonderful panda image in black and white and used 3 different Oriental papers to make it stand out.

Front of Card

Inside of card

Recipe:
SU Pacific Point cardstock for the basecard
White Card from stash
Oriental DP from Marianne Design ~ Pretty Papers Bloc ~ Orient 1
Image from Gingerloft Digi Stamps
Sentiment from  SU ~ Teeny Tiny Sentiments
SU Pacific Point inkpad
Word Window Punch

I am entering  this into the following challenges :
Challenges4Everybody - Challenge #6 ~ Anything Goes

Time to go to bed, hope to see your name in the entries at Gingerloft this fortnight!!!
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Sandy

Oriental Man

Hi, sorry didn't get to post last night. We drove down the coast to our friends' house and had lunch with them and then went down to a lake that is fed from the sea and had a swim. Spent maybe an hour or so there and then headed back to the house and organised another meal. Two of their daughters came over and their partners and little grandson as it was our friend, Vaughan's birthday. At 9.30 p.m we were just thinking of heading back when my Mum rang. Her fridge had gone on the blink and as it was 41C yesterday we needed to get some of her food and especially her insulin under refrigeration. She had to throw out quite a lot of frozen meat that had already thawed out, luckily it was her rubbish removal today otherwise there would have been quite a smell! It was about 11.30 when we got to Mum's. LOL, I wonder if the neighbours were peeking out to see what was going on? After grabbing some of her food and insulin, Mum came and stayed the night with us and I took her home about tea time. She plugged the fridge in and a few minutes later the motor kicked in! So looks like it is working at present but still needs to be looked at to make sure it keeps going! No point in restocking it and chancing losing another lot of food.
At the moment I'm in the lounge room and the heat coming from the computer is adding to the general heat already in here, so am going to get on and share my card. I seem to be on a bit of an oriental kick at the moment, three in a row!
I've used a black basecard and then another of the lovely oriental papers I've had in my stash, I love these cranes. The image is one from my oriental collection and I think it may be the only male one I have, LOL, must go through them and check.
I stamped onto white card and sponged blue ink around the edge and also some yellow ink as well and then used a cream cardstock behind it. I decided not to use a sentiment but put something inside later.
Thanks for popping in hope the weather is treating you kindly, ours was another 40C day today but it is going to drop slightly tomorrow to 37C!!
Catch you all later,
Take Care,
Sandy

Girl in Kimono with paper embroidered frame

Well, the last day of the year has arrived. My OH and I are going to my Son and DIL's tonight. The rest of our family are all out doing something with friends tonight. My daughter's boyfriend's arm is on the mend, he ended up with two puncture wounds to the top of his forearm and one underneath that they hadn't even realised was there until the doctor looked at his arm. I hadn't realised they were quite so far from home when it happened and had several hours drive back as there was no hospitals in between their campsite and the city. Hubby's party went well and again we probably all ate too much. I will be glad to get back to normal eating!! It is 36.6C at the moment and is supposed to get to 38C. Tomorrow is going to be a sizzler reaching 41C and we are thinking of taking a drive down the coast to visit some friends who are having a break from their farm. They bought a holiday house and try and get down there as much as they can.
Well, I'm scheduling this post for tonight as we will be out and will probably see the New Year in before coming home, although I am tired at the moment but I suppose the grandchildren will liven things up a bit. LOL.
Well here is the card,
No stamping today.
The little oriental girl is a 3D image and I stitched a frame around her using a variegated thread, The base card is a vibrant pink from stash and I stitched onto a white panel of card and then adhered to the base card,
Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoy seeing the New Year in.
Take care,
Sandy

Oriental Woman

Hi everyone, another long day. I popped out early this morning with a friend to a coffee shop to catch up with our friend Shirley and her husband, Doug. Thanks for shouting me a coffee Shirley!
Then we went to a clothes shop and I bought a top and my friend bought a pair of trousers for her Mum and then I dropped her home and drove to get petrol for the car and stop in for groceries for tonight's birthday barbeque! Then spent the rest of the arvo doing some clothes washing, dish washing and packing my craft gear away again!
Made salads, a potato bake and decorated a shop bought pavlova base. It was nice to have all the family here and several friends to help celebrate my OH's birthday. It has been a very hot day but is lovely outside now, nearly midnight, LOL. Everyone left about 30-40 mins ago and then I tidied up the rubbish and recycling and put in the bins so I've only got some of the dishes to do in the morning as one of my daughters did some of the washing for me already, Isn't she lovely!!
Well, I am sharing a card that I made earlier as no time to craft today.
Here it is,
The basecard if SU Real Red and the DP is from a set of Oriental Papers I bought a few years ago at a craft fair. The stamp is also from a set of stamps I've had several years and I can't remember the name of it or who made it. I stamped it and then coloured with ink and a blender pen and fussy cut it out and added to the front of the card,
I'm going to enter this into Make It Monday #69 - Anything Goes

Welcome to new follower, Jules, thanks for your lovely comment too.
Thanks to those who take time out of their day to pop in and leave me comments.
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

Oriental Girl

Good evening, wow, another post well before midnight! I didn't go to craft today, my friend rang just as I was going out the door with my crates of crafting bits and pieces to tell me not to come as she was the only one there and a road gang had closed the road off to lay bitumin so I wouldn't be able to get there and even if I could, it is horrible to drive on after it has been laid and I have a white car too. So, stayed at home doing some crafting and catching up on a couple of DVD's that I had borrowed and need to take back - one was the "King's Speech". Mum lent it to me about 2 weeks ago - not a bad film.
The rain came back today after yesterday's sunshine and it has rained most of the afternoon and there are still some showers now to.
So.... here is my card for today,
The basecard is a bluey/green from stash. I also found this lovely DSP that matches it - also in my stash. I stamped the little oriental girl in Basic Brown and coloured her with Marvy Markers and Copics for the skin tone. I used Real Red to stamp the sentiment and sponged aroung the edges. I added a couple of embossed lines at the top and then put some straight border stickers in between.
Well, that's me for tonight, hope you have enjoyed your day and thanks for stopping by,
Take care,
Sandy

Beautiful - Oriental Woman

Well the weekend has nearly finished - close to midnight here, We've had a cold, rainy day and I've had my 3 grandchildren this afternoon until about 7 p.m. Unfortunately the eldest, Amelia, was running a temperature, but the two girls still managed to watch a DVD while I fed their little brother, changed him and got him back to sleep. He was very easy to look after!
After they went home about 8 p.m., I managed to get this card finished. It's on a black basecard, with a pink matte and then a gorgeous piece of paper that my friend, Joyce, gave me for my birthday. The image was stamped on white card and coloured with Real Red Ink and all the flowers etc were coloured with Jelly Roll Pens and look quite sparkly even though that doesn't show up here in the scan well. I tried to colour the flowers with the colours that were in the fans in the background paper. I cut her out and mounted onto a pink Nestie die cut, added the sentiment "Beautiful" also in Real Red and did the "Happy Birthday" onto pink card cut it out with a circle punch, matted with black circle as well and then glitzed it up with lots of bling
Well here it is, I'm going to enter it into the Make It Monday linky party challenge tomorrow.
Hope you have a great week,
Take care,
Sandy

Out for a stroll

It's Saturday and just about ready to go to my friend's house for our Saturday craft get together. I'm taking my cards with me today, we usually bead, but lately have been doing our own thing, but it is really good to see each other and talk and eat!We have afternoon tea on the table whilst we are crafting LOL.
The card I made this morning is again using the same paper as my last card, this time I've used it as an accent by cutting it out as a circle and using this sweet Magnolia girl in a kimono and twirling her umbrella.It's mounted on an ivory cardstock (SU) and then onto a brown base card. I finished it off with a "Beautiful" stamp from SU "Eastern Influences" and using choc chip ink. I decided no bling this time either, just clean and simple.
Thanks for popping in, I hope you are enjoying your weekend!
Sandy

Little Oriental Girl

Here is the card I made late, late, late last night! I found this lovely oriental style scrapbook paper yesterday and decided it would look just right with the little oriental girl (another image that I stamped and coloured last year) I've embellished the card with the stamped fan and lots of amber coloured bling on some of the blossoms. The base card is SU Naturals Ivory, so have again backed it for scanning purposes only to emphasize the edges of the card.
I've been busy doing paper embroidery today, so should have a few cards to share later in the week - some will be Christmas to go towards the stash and also Shirley's Challenge
So here it is - hope it appeals to you, I do like oriental cards and have several stamps, but don't always think to use them,
Bye,
Sandy