Kylie's very belated birthday card

I made this card using this sketch by Mary Jo. Much the same as this card but I do like this one much better. The dp is Lilac Avenue with the c/s from SU. I love the sprinkles from Annabelle, they are gorgeous. Flowers, pearls, lace etc from my stash. Both the girl and the sentiment stamps are by Stamp It. Kylie has now received the card and says she loves it.
It's not raining so much here now. We've had around 8 or so inches here in the last few days. Very wet.

Today 26th January, is Australia Day, the day that the First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove. Nowadays it's a day to celebrate what's great about Australia and being Australian.
So hope everyone is enjoying their day.
Take care,

Silly Birds!!!

Here is my card for the House Mouse Monday Challenge 'On The Beach'. The stamp is a Stampa Rosa House Mouse called Silly Birds. Yep, makes me laugh. The sketch I used is SCS261. I'm sorry I don't know where the paper came from, had it for years. The hessian is out of my stash, another thing that I've for a very long time.

I silver embossed the bottom edge of the red c/s with a shell edging stamp to take away the plainess and give a bit of interest. I used sprinkles in the right hand corner and added a starfish charm. Kindyglitz was added to add sparkle and represent wet sand and shells.

Hope you like my card and thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment on my cards.

Two challenges

I made this card for two challenges, Monday Lunchtime sketch challenge by Technostamper and this week's Cupcake Craft Challenge #73 Going Girly. I love the sketch, it's fabulous but I'm not really sure whether I've done a decent enough job of the card.
The image is by Stamp It and I've watercoloured it using Lyra crayons. The paper is by Kaisercraft and with pink Bazzill and a beautiful glitter cardstock that I've had for a few months now. Flowers, ribbon, lace and sprinkles all from my stash. I kindyglitzed the flowers to match the glitter cardstock.
The dp seemed appropriate, "made with love" for the way the girl is posed.
Do you think it will pass for a birthday card for a younger female?
Thanks for looking.
I hope everyone who is experiencing very cold weather is keeping warm and the rest of us, keep cool!

Chocolate and Pink

Another birthday card, this time my card for Chris. She loves lace and bears so I thought these papers from Basic Grey teamed with pearls, pink velvet, roses and lace would do nicely.
She loved it. I cased a card I found on one of the blogs I look at, changing papers, colours embellishmets and picture, unfortunately I can't read the watermark on it. I'll have to make sure I print the pics for my idea book at a bigger size.
I thank the original maker of this card, fabulously easy to put together.

Another hot day, yesterday was 39C and today isn't much better. The fog at 5.30 this morning was so thick I couldn't see more than a metre or so in front of the car.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Time Passes, Friendship Stays.....

This is a birthday card for one of the girls in our craft group that meets at Jan's place every month. There's 8 of us altogether and it's a fabulous little group. We celebrate each other's birthdays and this is the card Jan asked me to make for Chris's birthday.

It's the same sketch as my last sympathy card but I wanted to use this curvy verse and felt the book theme went really well with it. The roses and pearl spray with the lace and sprinkles just finished it off. I gave it to Jan last week and she absolutely loved it, so much so, that I have to make another one in burgundy tones for someone else in our group.

Very hot day here and I'm so very thankful that we have the house airconditioned because I wouldn't be able to craft at all otherwise.
Thanks so very much for visiting my blog and the lovely comments I receive.
Have a wonderful day everyone.

Nook and Pantry Birthday

I made this card for a friend of mine. She's having a birthday. The sketch is one that I found on one of the many blogs I look at but unfortunately I neglected to put on a name when I printed it out. The sketch does say © by Nadine. If anyone knows where I found it, please let me know.
A lovely sketch to follow and the card came together really well. The roses have kindyglitz on them as does the pattycake icing.
Thanks for visiting and hope you have a wonderful day.