Award Received

Goodday friends. Hope you are all having a great start to the week. I received this award from my blogging friend Melissa "Sunshine Honey Bee". Thank you Melissa. I now have to tell you 5 things about myself, of which one must be craft related.

1. I have just become the owner of a Cricut Expression, and am not sure yet whether I really like it or not. So am making a very big effort to try and become familiar with it, but a bit frustrating at times.
2. Used to make chocolates, from my home based business.
3. Love spending holidays in the mountains
4. Enjoy having a good glass of red wine in the evenings.
5. My grandchildren are very special, and enjoy spending time with them when I can.

I am now supposed to pass this onto 5 of my blogging friends. I wouldn't like to single out anyone, so would like to invite you to please take this, and to pass it on.
Enjoy your week and hopefully see you soon.

Birds and cages

Happy Sunday everyone.
Hope it is a relaxing one whatever you may be doing. Today's card is again for 2 challenges
Paper Craft Planet.. Anything but cute,,, Hang something off your card
The Outlawz colour challenge.... Blue, Watermelon, white, plus lace/scollops or eyelet.

This is what I did.
Paper.. DP from My mind's eye - spring papers.( A freebie pad in a magazine.)
Onto this I placed a scolloped square cut with a nestie
Bird cutout with a Marianne Designs die
Image .. Great Impressions... (local SA company) Stamped onto pink bazzil, embossed with black, cut out and hung from the branch.
Sentiment. Great Impressions
Finished off with 3 brads.
Wishing you all a great week.

Anything but a card

Hurrah!! Weekend. Hope you will all be enjoying a lovely weekend. Here it is still cool, but a lovely sunny weekend forecast, so maybe a little bit of gardening time, mainly tidying up.
Firstly I want to thank my new friends following my blog. I do appreciate you visiting and love your comments.
Today I have made a corner bookmark for my challenge entry at
Sentimental Sundays as the challenge was for anything but a card. I enjoy making these bookmarks, as they slip inside a card very nicely for a small gift.
Paper ... Pink cardstock and DP from My minds eye, came as a free gift in a magazine.
Sentiment.... Sentimental Sundays, printed from the computer and cut with a Nellie Snellen die. Added some colour with distress ink pads.
Finished off with a flourish.... Marianne Designs and pearls
I don't usually put any flowers on as I find this creates too much bulk, when using it as a bookmark.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Today we are having some family time. Doing a walk with our 2 grandsons at their nursery school and then off to watch our eldest granddaughter in a horse show, jumping and dressage. So a good outdoor day, thankfully the temp should be about 18deg C.

Hello Friend

Hello friends,
I visited my friend Joan at Country Crafts earlier this week and picked up this embossing folder, which I thought was just too lovely. So I had to give it a try and decided to make a card for The Outlawz greeting challenge this week.

Paper.. white card, matted blue.
Embossing folder .... Woodland Folk by Docrafts ... coloured with Distress ink pads
Image ... Whiff of Joy ... coloured with aquarelle pencils, cut out and placed under the tree.
Punched out flowers and 3D them onto the embossed flowers with a pearl centre.
I think I will use this embossing folder quite often.
Not long to the weekend, have fun and see you soon.

A card this time

I did say I would try and be back with another posting. I finished this card this morning and I want to enter it into 3 challenges.
Dutch Card Lover's No 93 There is a sketch to work from and a choice. I have used Die cuts, flowers and glitter.
Crafting for all seasons ... Anything goes
Paper play challenge..Blossoms and blooms

My card was made from one I saw a while back, but can't remember where. (I must remember to make a note of these things)
I used a cream shimmer base card.
The double sided DP doesn't have a name... I cut a scollped edge on the right and folded it over, cutting away the base card, so the inside is visible.
I made the flowers with punches, and Marianne design dies. The flourishes are from Crealies dies.
The images stamped on the inside are from Hero Arts stamps, as is the sentiment.
I added pearls and glittered the flourishes.
Left blank space on the inside, with a flourish for the message.
That's it from me for today. Enjoy the rest of the week.

June calendar page

Happy Wednesday bloggers.
It is a cold winter morning here in South Africa, no wind but freezing. the temp as I type this is -1degree and it is now 6.30. the max. forecast today is 13 deg, but at least the sun will be shining. Enough of the weather forecast. LOL
Can you believe the first day of June, we will soon have to start thinking of Christmas!!
I have another calendar page for today. This was made by Sylvia from our stamping group. It has a very warm African look to it.
Have a wonderful day, downhill to the weekend. Will be back later, I hope with a card.

Buzzy Bee.. colours

Happy Sunday friends. The first week back has flown by, and I am now back into the normal run of things. A pewter workshop tomorrow, so had some prep to do and a sample to finish. I needed to make a card for 2 challenges, and got it in just in the nick of time. A plain but quick card today.
The first challenge is on PCP. calling for colours of a bee. Yellow black and white
The second challenge is for The outlawz Monday greeting card.. no stamped images only a sentiment.
Paper... white card, matted with black and yellow gingham DP.. no name
Punched border with MS punch
Silhouette cut with a Marianne designs die.
Black flourish
Yellow flower and finished off with black pearls

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead.