Twisted easel card

Good morning friends and a BIG welcome to all the new visitors and friends that have joined. It is always good to have new faces around.
Wednesday already, middle of the week, middle of the month, where is the time racing off to. It is an absolutely beautiful morning here in my part of the world, hope your is also lovely. I am excited because, last week we finally did a booking for our trip to visit our son and family in New Zealand in April. So now the countdown has started and we have 6 weeks to go. Do I panic now or later...LOL! So much to do, as we shut up our little business for the duration of our holiday. We need to let everyone know, so that they can stock up, and the list just gets longer and longer. But enough of that now, here is a card I made for a challenge on my PCP group. A twisted easel card and it was so EASY, I just loved it.

The cards was made almost entirely with RAK gifts I received. The only bit of my own was the base card and the paper for the butterfly and flowers.... so thanks to all my friends for RAKS, they come in so handy.
The butterfly was cut with a Marianne design die, using Making Memories - Paper reverie.
The roses I made from punches using Kaisercraft - English rose collection.
The image was stamped with a stamp from a local store, and has no name on it.
Thanks for visiting and I hope to be back soon. Enjoy the rest of the week.

Birthday Candy

I am back again with some news. My fellow SA blogger Theresa (Tee) is having a birthday next month.(just before me). She is giving away some lovely candy, so hop on over and leave her some love. You never know you just might be lucky. I have the link on my side bar.
Enjoy your week.

Thanks with hot chocolate

Hello blogging friends. I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday. My card to day was made for a swap on a PCP group. We had to make a thank you card with a winter theme. Here in South Africa where I live, our winters are actually quite sunny most of the time. We do get cold days and the nights can be very cold and frosty, so what is nicer than a lovely mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows....... hence my card.

Paper. White card, matted a blue then DP, but don't know the name. It was a piece left over.

Image. Whiff of Joy, stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured with distress ink pads, Cut out with Nesties, also a blue nestie for layering.

Sentiment was cut with my cuttlebug alphabet.
Added some small flowers to the mug and bling snowflakes to the top.

I wish you all a wonderful week, and a day filled with love tomorrow.

Birthday butterflies.

Happy Saturday to everyone. I hope wherever you are you are having a wonderful day. I have just come home from watching my grandaughter taking part in a horse show. She did very well jumping 80 and 90 cm, unfortunately she wasn't placed as she had a penalty in one, and her time wasn't fast enough in the other. But she jumped well and in her equitation got a 1st. So well done to Kellie.
I need more birthday cards, so here is another quick one I entered in the Outlawz birthday challenge.
Paper: just cardstock in 2 colours, no DP paper today.
Image: Crafty individuals, inked up the stamp with my colourbox inks..pinks, purple, lilac - applied randomly ... to match the cardstock and stamped onto some shimmer card.
Butterfly punched from some freebie paper.
Sentiment: Just right stamps, and attached with a ribbon. Added some bling.

Added ribbon and butterflies to the inside and also embossed a piece of glimmer paper with a butterfly folder and cut out an oval for space to write a message.

This really was such a quickie card, but I liked the outcome. Hope your weekend is a great one. Warm wishes.

A Fairy Happy Birthday

Good evening friends, Here we are in the middle of another week, in fact over the middle I guess. This card was made for the birthday challenge atThe Outlawz. It called for a card with fairies, angels or butterflies. So here is my entry.

Paper - white cardstock. The DP is from a local stationr PNA, but has no name, just Scrapbooking Paper. I got these double sided papers on a special of R5.95. per sheet, which is under a $ dollar and very good value. Many colours to choose from, so I stocked up. I used a pink for the first matt, and then a green/yellow/pink, which I cut with a Nellie Snellen die and matted over the image.

Image is a digital, and the artist is a very talented South African lady, Jen Leefling from Durban.
I got it from Digistamps4Joy as a freebie.
I have wanted to colour her since I got her and now was my chance.. Used my distress ink pads and some ranger glitter, also Twinkling H20's.

Finished the card with two ribbons, some gems, a butterfly.
The sentiment was stamped and cut out with another Nellie Snellen die.

The inside was decorated with the same DP, and a white die cut again Nellie Snellen, for the message. Finished off with some flourishes in the pink DP. Enjoyed this card.
Hope to be back soon.

Award received and Blog candy

Hello and happy Friday everybody,
This has not been the best of weeks for me, as I started off with a bit of flu and even with medication, it is still lingering. I will take it easy this weekend and hopefully be good by Monday.
I received this award from one of my fellow RSA stampers Susan

The aim of this award is to give it to 3 -5 blogs you have visited that are relatively unknown and bring them to light [not with thousands of followers already]. So here are the terms for accepting the award:
1-create a blog post showing your award and say you accept it - done
2-say who gave the award and link back to them - done
3-link to 3-5 of your favourite blogs and let them know about the award - done

So without further ado, here are the blogs that I wish to showcase to you all. Please pop in and join them and leave a message for them.

1 Moz from Pietermaritzburg
2 Petra
3. Theresa
4. Tertia
5. Tilly in New Zealand

IMPORTANT BLOG CANDY FOR SOUTH AFRICAN BLOGGERS: Please visit ABCCrafts for some lovely candy.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Another month another page

Hi to all my blogging friends. Not been too well the last week, a bit of flu, but getting over it now.

Well the first month is done and dusted, so I need to show the second month of the calendar, that was made with the group I belong to. February is the month of LOVE so, Cariena made this page befitting that theme..... I do hope that all my friends in the cold frozen areas of the USA and Canada are OK and also down on the other side of the globe in Australia, facing the cyclone. Take care, be safe and my thoughts are with you all. Hope to be back soon with a card. Warm wishes.