Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge + Nicecrane Butterfly & Flowers

Hullo there everyone ... well this is a bit rare, two posts in one day! but really am getting backlog of cards so need to do something about it!! these two have made in the last few days.. 
First is seeing Mrs A. Butterfly challenge required yellow and any number of butterflies, thought of this image and away I went! used CB folder "Daisies", SB Fancy Oval for image (detailed with frosted yellow chalk + glossy accents), SB oval petites and Fancy labels 3 for greeting, ribbon and pearls. Bible verse stamp is from Our Daily Bread, so entering it also in their challenge.

 Using the Nicecrane Vintage Butterfly and Blossoms set on both cards. Below is the card I was working on my desk late Wednesday, is already winging its way to England. Made with CB Kassie's Brocade larger folder, SB Beaded Ovals for image, (Panpastel dusting on open areas before removing die), greeting in SB Fancy labels, EK Success Arrow punch used with ribbon and pearls.

I made it into an Easter card as the Bible verse digi stamp is about the Good Shepherd from Word Art Wednesday, and thought it appropriate.

 

Here is the verse here if you would like it.

Verse is by Karen of Word Art Wednesday, see here. Right Click on it to save it.
I wrote a poem to go inside my friends card .. and although not brilliant, you are welcome to sue it for your Easter cards if you wish.

Jesus said: “I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:11

The Lord is my shepherd,

We are the sheep of His pasture,

What great treasure is this!

To have this comfort through each day,

Whether it brings good or something amiss,

God blesses His own, come what may!

This Gift found freely in Jesus, His Son,

Is waiting to be accepted by every one.

SLG – 2.4.14

God richest blessing to you this Eastertime,

As we remember this great Gift given for us.

  May the LORD richly bless you and those you love today and in the week ahead that the LORD has given. If you are struggling with burdens or cares, take to them to the One Who understands - like no-one else! For in Him we find Strength, Peace and Rest; freely given to all who call upon Him.

Love and prayer for each of you dear ones out there. You are such a blessing to me,

Shaz in Oz.x

Would like to join these over with the following:
1.  Mrs A's current Butterfly Challenge where we have to use 'yellow' for Spring:

2. Di's Snippety challenge - Used snippets on second card.   http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/ 

3.Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au
4. Over at Our Daily Bread Designs blog they're celebrating their anniversary. Woohoo! "Use ODB stamps", so would like to enter the second card.
 http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/anniversary-challenge-4-have-with-odbd.html
5. Stamping Sensations April Challenge - Use those Dies and/or Punches- used for both cards

Bugaboo Expecting Baby card

Hullo there everyone!!

Mm, have had the first card waiting in  the wings for some time now.. it is puggle card.. what is "puggle" you ask? well, according to common parlance in Oz it is a baby platypus - however quick Google search has said common parlance is not right (now who will adjudicate that??)  see here,  or  for image see to the right... 

Anyway, I wont decide here! It was the name friends of my sister gave the baby before it was born as they thought it better than saying "it". My sister wanted to give them a "Anticipating your new puggle" card and so hunted for a image and we found this ultra cute one by Bugaboo! cute huh??

Made it up with snippety bits and did a piece of paper piecing on it too! mm, that was fun! very simple layout , but used some chipboard first time for yonks!

When the baby son arrived here is the card I made with it!! Used some SU (discontinued) papers here again rather snippetty bits - I find lots of my DP are this way! Another Bugaboo stamp chosen by my sister - again ultra cute! 

Use EK Success Arrows punch on border, Spellbinder squares; one square was made into rectangle, more Spellbinder for greetings.

Thanks so much everyone for popping over for peek and chat.

 May God bless your day wherever you maybe!
Shaz in Oz.x

Would like to join these over with the following:

1. Di's Snippety challenge - Used snippets on card.   http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/

2..Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au
3. Stamping Sensations April Challenge - Use those Dies and/or Punches- used both on second card.

WOYWW + Nicecrane Blossom Birds Vintage Images

 {Warning ~ photo heavy post}

Hullo there everyone - Yesss! another week of desk hopping again already over at WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday chez Julia) and wow! what glorious autumnal day we have here in Oz! Just superb, God-blessed, sunshiny weather, with some good rain at night .. perfect Goldilocks weather. 

Here is my desk as left last night - you can see me in the middle of making another card with the wonderful Nicecrane images shown on last week's desk.

Using the Vintage Butterfly and Blossoms set this time around.. will share when done!

Embossed Kassie's Brocade folder (CB), die cut image with Beaded Ovals (SB) and fancy labels 3 with verse from Word Art Wednesday. See also on desk ribbon under consideration, new purchase of tacky craft glue from Spotlight at rear and the "Joy" diecuts still hopefully waiting to be made into Christmas cards.. for quite a few months!
Now on left - my desk a few days ago...

 I really had fun inking up a folder here. First swiped a royal blue pad across the flatter side of folder then embossed in CB  for blue impression on white snippet of card (CB Floral Screen). Took Brilliance Dewdrops in green, gold & iron metallic colour; randomly swiped over the blue embossed card and dried with heat gun. Verse is from Word Art Wednesday. Direct from Karen's blog - see here, or right click to save file:

What a joy to have that strong strength as real comfort in the midst of deep trial - this card was sent to dear brother in LORD, who is really going through the mill - and of course, his wife too - in small Qld pastorate.

Mount images on gold; as was running out of gold paper, I used Verasmark swipe on edge and gold embossing paper for the bottom layer on card base, hence the uneven edge.

And here is the finished card .. must admit these images are even better in real life than on screen and they are so special to work with!! I have a $50 Canon Inkjet four year old printer.. and used ordinary card from Officeworks for this digi image and they print just superbly!
Thank you so much Ignacio, for so kindly sending me these beautiful Birds and Blossoms images!

I thought I would share these two photos as my Aussie shots this week.. 

A few months back family and I were sitting on bank above this beach.. 

Watching as a small group pulled up in a four wheel vehicle with trailer on back, then unpacked the motorised chair below, and the two pups and co. proceeded along the beach for their walk. It did cheer one's heart to see it.

 

Thanks so verry much everyone for popping over for a peek and chat!

May God bless your day wherever you maybe,

Shaz in Oz.x

Would like to join these over with the following:

1. Di's Snippety challenge - Used snippets on card.   http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/

2..Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au

Artneko Christian Images of Children + Texts ~ Snippety like!

Hullo there everyone! Some "snippety" work to share with you here today! First off is some masking and black silhouette embossing with image below. Stamped + embossed image on white snippet. Use Nestie die cut for mask, used Adirondack lemonade and Cloudy blue, mixed with Distress Ink Broken China. The folder is from Forever Friends and used glitter on red embossed heart to tie in with greeting.

Stamps are a new set from Artneko, Christian Images of Children + Texts. So good to work with, so beautifully cut, love them! here they are here. You dont have to buy whole sheet, they can be bought individually

One post few weeks ago, I used some of these stamps with the polished stone method back on this post here... lovely inky fun!

 Another snippets card - had this lovely piece of rose paper (Bearly My Design digi paper) left and the purple and thought could make card with that! so here we are. I used my long Xcut scallop rectangles for the scallop edge.. shifted twice to get the length, plus SU scallop and oval punch with Daily Bread mini tag stamp. Karen, who I sent this card to is really going through the mill. May God strengthen and encourage her heart and pour out His healing mercy - "as thy days, so shall thy strength be" (Deut. 33:22) and I pray for the needs of your heart, too.

Have more cards to share but not time to post it seems. Commenting will be made as able - but really appreciate you all popping over and caring to comment. May God richly bless your day wherever you may be!

Shaz in Oz.x

Would like to join these over with the following:

1. Di's Snippety challenge - Used snippets on card.   http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/

2..Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au
3. Over at Our Daily Bread Designs blog they're celebrating their anniversary. Woohoo! "Use ODB stamps", so would like to enter the second card, which has stamp from Mini Tag set 3.
 http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/anniversary-challenge-4-have-with-odbd.html

Oriental Stamp Art Cards Received

{WOYWW post below}
Hullo there everyone. A very sunny, warm day here - hard to believe it is autumn.. but we are grateful none the less :D 

I have some more cards to share! "Get Well" cards from the wonderful folk of OSA  (Yahoo group Oriental Stamp Art) . We also have weekly card challenges and some of these cards are from these - see blog here. I shared  others last week on this post here.

From Sabine, a lovely easel Panda card - how cute!

Carolyn S. beautiful tastefully executed monochrome card

Lydia S. in Oz made this beautifully toned and embellished Oriental card

Ultra cute glittery card from Margo ~ open it up and it says "I am your biggest fan!" It did give me a laugh!

Card from Nancy F. in chocolate shades and red sparkly embellies.

Sabine's soft pretty card - which was from a layout challenge here

Wonderful Starburst card by Wendy Mc. - fab isn't it . see "How To" link here with video

Another of the stunning starburst or sunburst card made by Laurel S. - if you watch video, it really is inspiring way to use up double side DP

Well, thank you so very much dear friends for caring enough to send me all these wonderful cards, and for all your cheering thoughts and kind prayers on my behalf. I am much better mostly now .. except last nigh jammed my left (thankfully) paw in the door, now left arthritic finger all strapped up.. kind of as if I want some attention - some way or other!! *grin*.

May God bless you and your dear ones, wherever you may be, and thanks so much for popping over for peek and chat!

Shaz in Oz.x

Oriental Stamp Art Challenge + WOYWW

Yes! hard to believe but here we are again.. checking out desks of the world over at Julia's blog - because, believe it or not, another Wednesday is here! So it is time to link up for What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday!

So here is my desk! As usual a number of things on the go! firstly getting ready to make a card on the left from wonderful Nicecrane images top set was very kindly sent to me for free by Ignacio after I made a comment on Ginny's post on how much I loved the images (- see here her cards with these Birds and Blossoms are just wonderful). 

I also decided to buy this Vintage Butterfly and Blossoms set so .. all being well! and am making a card on the right. 

You see, over at Oriental Stamp art there is a challenge to make a card using circles folded into squares as a card.. it was an idea from my birthday card by Joyce, see her card on left - she used circles folded into squares to make her cheery striking card. 

As I sent the idea in for the card I really thought I needed to make the effort - hence my punching and playing!! and here below is my humble effort. I used double sided paper for two reasons.. meant did not need to paste and as Joyce rightly said it was a problem on her card (mind you love here papers very much) and secondly my punch would punch this but not the washi paper.

I used some Artneko stamps (unmounted, and on sale - see links) on mine and handmade buttons, stamped with another AAA stamp. Happy birthday is also Artneko. This card is good way to use up snippets!

 Here is the Aussie shot of the day - a rainbow lorikeet spied through my kitchen window, nectar loving, they are enjoying the coral Bottlebrush blooms at the moment.

Must move along and try my hand at making the second card in between visiting folk with WOYWW - a learning zone! May God bless your day wherever you may be, and thanks fr popping over for a peek and chat!

Shaz in Oz.x
Would like to join this card over with the following:
Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au

Inkadinkado 'Standing Seagull' card + Word Art Wed. verses.

Hullo there everyone. 

Some time ago late last year, I was in need of male special birthday card and  so out came the Hero arts Seagull stamp, black ink, watercolour paper, PanPastels and mixed pens to colour.

 The card was for a brother in the LORD who has had many struggles with his health so thought it appropriate to put on this card a verse of encouragement - one of many favourite ones from Lamentations 3: 22-23.

I have added the actual verse - it is from Word Art Wednesday & Karen of Papercraft memories (116 of 167 so scroll down, or right click on above image and save it to your picture file).

I think sometimes we are so blinded by the situation or trial that we may be going through we fail to see the many mercies of the LORD in our lives.

I know it is so for me, and ill health seems to be a constant thorn in the side. But God is in it, with us and through to the other side (see here - a helpful post).

'I will lift up mine eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help? My help cometh from the LORD which made heaven and earth.' (Psalm 121:1-2)

The second of the two cards was one for my "super-wonderful" dad, who turned 85 a few days back! Same image as above - it was sitting there (snippetty-like) begging to be used up so out comes same card in different format.

The layout was an idea formed after looking at man's card over at Jobear's blog - here. Have used my Xcut scalloped rectangles to make a fine scallop edge on star paper. You have to shift them twice to extend the die, and only cut one side at a time, but worth it, I think. 

I just remembered the stamp was really bought because of Jobear, too .. see her original post over here with card also with port-hole effect (really like how she 3D-ed the rope on it.. had forgotten all about this card. Was from 2010, so guess there is a reason :D)
Cuttlebug "Oliva" numbers were used on both cards. Spellbinder for greetings, labels 4, and Petite scallop ovals.

Well, thanks so much every one for popping over for peek and chat and may God bless your day wherever you may be. Shaz in Oz.x

Would like to join these over with the following:

 1. Allsorts Challenge - all about the boy - http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/week-251-all-about-boy.html

 2. Di's Snippety challenge - Used snippets on both cards.   http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/

3 .Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au