Another Blog Award!!!!

Hi everyone! I hope your all well! Guess what..........I received another blog award!! Yea! I’m also very proud to say this is my 100th blog posting!!

Check it out! Isn’t it a pretty award!

I received it form Christine at Scrap Pickul. Thank you so much Christine! I’m honored!

All I have to do to get this award is list 8 things I know about myself and give this award to 8 other blogs!

So here we go:

1 I love ballet

2 It’s one of my biggest dreams to be chosen as one of the main characters in a ballet concert.

3 I love to wear dresses

4 I love a big family and I want to have a big family, when I get married, too.

5 I love crafting 

6 I love Italian foods like pizza and pasta

7 I love new born babies!! (really I’m serious!)

8 And I like to read adventure books and watch adventure movies!

Here are the 8 blogs to which I would like to pass this award on:

It’s always very hard, but here they are!!

Jan form Water Lily Cards 

Jan has done so much for me by choosing me to be part of a challenge blog!

I love reading her blog and looking at her creations!

Di from DizzyDan Designs 

Di is a sweet friend of mine that designs the most beautiful digi stamp!

Di also makes beautiful happy bright cards and I just love her blog!

Tracey form Crafty Corner

I love your blog Tracey your cards are so like my style.

You are an inspiration to me!

Sarah from Easy Make and Do 

Sarah is a South African homeschool girl who like to post about baking and making stuff. I enjoy reading your blog a lot! 

Mandy form A Sprinkling of Glitter 

I have recently discovered Mandy’s blog.

Her cards are so pretty and I love every one.

Margret form Denique Crafts 

Margret is also a South Africa lady with a heart of gold!

I love reading her blog!

Kelly-Anne form Beautiful Girlhood

Kelly is a dear friend of mine that also lives is South Africa on a farm.

Kelly writes a lot about her farm live and family!

Claudia form Pretty Pressings 

Claudia’s blog I’ve also been reading for a long time.

Her cards are always joyful and make me feel so happy just to look at it!

Please check out there blogs, they’re great!

Have a blessed weekend

Crafty Greetings

Tea Time - Book Mark

Hello everyone, I know I have not been posting for a while!

But some of the things I’m making at the moment is for my mother’s Birthday (22 Feb) and I can’t post that or else my mother will see it!

But here is a bookmark I made for myself!!

First time I’m making something for myself

I like it because it’s different from a normal bookmark.

It fits over the corner of your book. You can go and look at the tutorial on how to make one here.

This is how you put it in your book. It fits over the corner of the page!

This is what the back of the page looks like when you turn the page over.

I used an old digi stamp and colored it with my Copics........ Yes I said Copics!

My brand new Copics that I bought from a friend, here in South Africa! 

This is my first creation with them!! So here is the colors I used:

E37, E35, E33 and E53 - for the mouse’s skin and the chair.

RV34, RV32, RV00 - for the top part of the Mouse’s dress and the bottom part of the cupcake.

RV13, RV11 and RV10 - for the mouse’s dress, tee cup, tee pot, flower and the snail’s back.

Y00 - for the flower pot.

B000 - for the water in the flower pot.

E00, E21, R20 - for the snail’s skin

G17, G14 and G12 - for the table cloth and flower leaves.

W3 - for the shadow around the image.

I used my heart puncher to make a pretty border at the bottom of my bookmark.

Here is the back of the book mark.

I used some pretty ribbon and lace with a nice sparkly rose paper.

I would also like to enter this book mark into the following challenges:

Anything Goes -  Distressing

Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - use punches or dies

KB Cute monday - Glitter

Ooh La La Creations  - Pink, pink and more Pink
Stamping Scrapping Central  - Pink

Stamps R Us - For the Girls

Anyone for Anya  - Anything but a card

Cheerful Stamp Pad - Anything but a Card

I Did It Creations - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations -  Distress

Little Claire's - Anything Goes

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge  - distress it

Guylou's Inimitability - anything goes

Wags 'n Whiskers - punches

Have a blessed week

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Monochrome Card For Stampin for the Weekend Challenge

Hello everyone! It’s Friday and time for a new challenge over at Stampin for the Weekend! And this week I hosted the challenge!!

Before I announce the new challenge, please go check out the challenge blog, and see if maybe you made the top 3 or is the winner of the last challenge! (St Valentine’s day)

Now for this bi-weekly challenge:

Monochrome!!!

We would like to see you make a card/project in monochrome - (which is tones of one colour.)

So 

Now here is my card for this challenge:

I think it’s the first blue card I made for a lady! 

All the other blue cards I made have been for men! This card is for a special friend of mine who’s birthday is coming up soon!!

I used a stamp a friend sent me, long, long ago. Already stamped on paper and I could just colour it!

I used my Copics to colour her:
E37, E 35, E33 and E53 - for her hair

E00, E21 and R20 - for her skin

Y15, Y11 and Y00 - for the bow in her hair, her top, bottom strip of her dress and her shoes 

B05, B02 and B00 - for all the blue on the image

W3 - for a shadow around the image.

I used blue gems to give the card some spark,

and used the tool a friend gave me, to make the swirls!

I wrote “Happy Birthday” in a dark blue and stuck it on ‘n pop-up.

I stuck a blue dotted ribbon with a pearl buckle at the bottom on the right side of the card.

Here is a close up picture of the pearl buckle.

Please do hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and take part in our challenge. You also must go and see the stunning DT creations!

I would also like to take part in the following challenges:

Delightful Challenges - animals

Digi Doodle Shop's Best -  anything goes

Dutch Dare Card Challenge - sparkle/glitter/bling

Meljens Designs -  happy birthday

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

Shelly's Images - show us what you got/anything goes

Stampin' B's - monochromatic card

For Fun Challenges -  happy birthday

Stampavie and More -  monochrome

Pollycraft - Special Birthdays

Have a blessed weekend 

Crafty Greetings

Second Blog Award this time from Margaret!!

Hi everyone, I would just like to show you what I got!!

On Thursday night I received an e-mail from a friend saying that I must please check out her blog as she had something for me............

I went and I found myself being one of her 5 blogs to which she wants to give this award!

Dear Margaret thank you SO SO SO much for thinking of me.

You really are a special friend!!!

I accept the award! 

So the aim for this award is to give it to 3-5 blogs you have visited that are relatively unknown and bring them to light (no blogs with thousands of followers already)

So what do I have to do?

First: Create a blog post showing your award and say you accept it. - Done!

Second : Say who gave the award and link back to them - Done! 

Third : Link to 3-5 of your favorite blogs and let them know about the award - Done!

Here is the following blogs to which I want to give this award:

Kelly-Anne From Beautiful Girlhood

Kelly is a dear Christian friend of mine, who lives on a farm with her 4 sisters and parents. She posts about her life on a farm and everything they do!

Izi from My Point of View

Izi’s blog is about ballet! I love ballet, she writes regularly about what she is learning and doing in ballet and I enjoy it a lot!

My Mother From Back To Ancient Ways 

My mother’s blog is to learn and encourage women and mothers across the world. She also writes about what we learn and about lots of fun things we do.

I really enjoy reading my mothers blog.

So check it out, it may just be what you need at the moment!

Paola From Marvellous Maggies 

Paola is a very special friend of mine!

When I need card making and colouring advice, Paola is always ready to help me. I also bought my copics from her! She helped me so much by ordering the right colors. I’m very encouraged by her blog too.

Carlie M. from Carlie Bug     

Carlie is a girl how also love grafting and her mother also helps her (like my mother helps me). She is very creative and I love looking at her creations!

So there they are! Please do hop over and take a look at their stunning blogs!

Have a blessed day 

Crafty Greetings 

Valentine’s Day Card For Stampin for the Weekend

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well.

It’s Friday and time for a new challenge over at Stampin for the Weekend and this time the theme is:

St Valentine's Day!
We are being sponsored by 'Simon Says Stamp', who are very kindly offering the winner a $20 voucher to spend in their online store.

When I saw this paper in a scrapbook shop I knew I had to buy it!

I just love it!!!

I used an old Whiff Of Joy stamp called: Willow with Gingerbread heart

and colored her with the following Promarkers:

Henna, Terracotta, Spice, Coral and Apricot - for her hair (I just love the way her hair turned out!)

Blush - for her skin 

Appel and Meadow Green - for her dress 

Magenta and Carmine - for her apron 

Ruby and Berry Red - for the bow on the heart

Apricot and Spice - for the gingerbread heart

Rose Pink - for her shoes 

Cool Grey 1 - for around the stamp

I used three of my pretty pink flowers and two of my heart pearl pins. 

I wrote “Be My Valentine” in a dark pink, on a light pink paper.

I do hope you like my card and my fellow DT’s cards too.

And I really hope you can take part in our challenge!

Talking about Challenges I would like to take part in the following challenges:

Didi Doodle Shop Best - Valentines

Creative Craft World - love

 I Love Promarkers - anything goes

 Simon Says Stamp - love is in the air

Sisterhood of Crafters  - anything goes

Flourishes - Valentine

Top Tip Tuesday - anything girlie

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Love is in the air

KB Cute monday - Use Hearts

Lexi's Creations - Valentines

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Some Love

Stamping Scrapping Central - Valentines

Have a blessed weekend 

Crafty Greetings