Floral Ballet Card For Stampin For The Weekend

Hello everyone, it’s time for a new challenge over at Stampin For The Weekend! The theme for this challenge is:

Feeling Floral!

We would like to see you use flowers on your creations.

Here is my card:

Every second year the ballet school Danika (my 9 year old sister) and I dance at, has a ballet concert. This year the theme is Jack and the Beanstalk and the first performance is tonight! Tomorrow there are two more, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. 

At the end of the previous concert our ballet teacher Colleen Williams comes on stage and thanks everyone who helped and we then give her a large bunch of flowers with a card to say Thank You. This year I volunteered to make the card - all the ballerinas write a little note or there names inside. So this is the one I made.

I used the Stamp Called Spring Leap from Whiff Of Joy and coloured her with the following Copics:

E37, E35 and E33 - For the girl’s hair.

R20, R21 and E00 - For her skin colour.

RV13, RV11 and RV10 - For the light pink parts of her dress.

RV34, RV32 and RV00 - For the darker pink parts of her dress.

RV19 - For the very dark pink lines and hearts on the dress.

E35, E33 and E53 - For the brown basket.

G17 and G14 - For the green leaves.

W3 - For a shadow around the stamp.

Some Flowers from Wild Orchard’s Crafts to add three dimensions to the card.

Some old lace to add texture to the card. 

And some gems to finish the card off nicely.

Please hop over to Stampin For The Weekend and have a look at the other DT’s cards, I know you’ll love them!

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


My Mum's Craft shop - Hearts and Flowers

Whimsy Inspiration - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Distressing
Creative Mondays -  Anything Goes 
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 
Tammy's Scrapin Corner -  Anything Goes 
Whoopsi Daisy  Make It Girly

I hope you all have a blessed weekend!

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Bookmark for Stampin For The Weekend.

Hi everyone, it’s time for a new challenge over at Stampin For The Weekend!

The theme for this fortnight’s challenge is:

Pearls and Swirls 

We are being sponsored by The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop.

I decided to make a bookmark for my mother as well as one for myself:

This is the one I made for my mother.

With a pretty Whiff Of Joy image.

My mother and I are doing a Bible study together by Hello Mornings (read more here) and this is the list of things to read each week.

This is the one I made for myself.

Hope you like them, they work lovely!

Please hop over to Stampin For The Weekend and see if you can take part.

Have a blessed weekend 

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Back To School Card

Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing well.

I’m doing fine, it’s been very busy here lately.

Our family has been sick for the past two weeks, except me and my older brother CJ.

My mother is still busy with our ballet costumes. She does not have much spare time for sewing, between all the little ones.

 Anyway, Stampin For The Weekend has a new challenge this week and the theme is: Back To School.

Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring our challenge this week.

 I’m not in school (we’re all Home schooled) so I thought it will be really challenging to make this card. To my surprise I found it very easy to make!

It’s because I’m home schooled that I have the time to make cards!

We don’t have to do homework like other children after school! We do our subjects till its finished or until our time set for a subject is over.

It’s so much fun to be home schooled! We can work at our own pace, learn about things that interest us and never have a boring moment!

You can read more about our home school journey on my brother, CJ’s website.

 Our parents encourage us to discover and develop the gifts, talents and passions God gave us.

Every card I make is made with someone special in mind and I just love to bless him/her with my God-given talent!

So on with the card:

While I was brainstorming the Back To School card, I kept thinking of red and blue.

So here is my red and blue card!

I used a Sugar Nellie stamp, and coloured it with Promarkers.

My mother helped me write ABC on the piece of wood, with a black gel pen and shadow it with a white gel pen.
I used the following colour Promarkers:

Berry Red – for the hat and bow tie.

Yellow – for the little pieces on the strip of the hat and for the patch on his pants

Sandstone – for the little boy’s hair and the piece of wood

Dusky Pink – for the boy’s skin

Sky blue and Cyan - for the boy’s overall

Apple – for the green on the hat, pants (apples) and the boy’s top.

Bright Orange – for the patches on the pants

Cool grey 1 – for the shadow around the stamps

I just love working with my Promarkers!

I cut out stars with my Silhouette digital craft cutter, glazed them and glittered them with golden glitter.

Please hop over to my DT friends and take a look at their stunning creations!

I also took part in the following challenges:

 Stars and Stamps (no glitter) - use patterned paper

KAH-Wink-E-Dink - kids cards in primary colors

Dutch Dare  - anything goes

 Crafty Ho's - back to school

Paper Take Weekly - White and Bright
Flourishes boutique - NO Embellishments
Shirley2Girls - back to school and use the color red

Have a blessed week

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Christmas in July Card

Hello all my blog friends, today I made a “Christmas in July” Card for Stampin for the Weekend.

Here is the card I made.

This week’s was a sketch and the theme is Christmas in July.

The sponsor for Stampin for the Weekend this two weeks is:

Simons Says Stamp.

So I made a Christmas card with the sketch.

The stamp is one of my Sugar Nellie stamps called Winter Wonderland.

And I think it is a very pretty stamp.

Here I zig-zaged golden threat on the top rectangle.

It was my mother’s idea to make the tree ribbon loops, because I just could not find anything that fitted.

And the flower is one of my favourites.

I wrote ‘Warm Wishes’ as a sentiment.

Please hop over to my fellow design member’s blogs to see what they created with this sketch and theme!

I also took part in the flowing challenges:

Aly's Sunday Challenge -  Flower Power

The Corrosive Challenge blog - Flowers, Flowers, FLOWERS
Quirky Crafts Challenge - Ribbons

Magical Crafts Fortnightly  Challenge - Flower Power

Crafty Cardmakers - Inky Fingers
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Flower inspiration

Have a blessed week

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Congratulation Card for a Baby

Hello every one, thank you for stopping by at my blog today.

I really appreciate it!

This week I made a card for Stampin for the weekend.

Jan, Sandie and the DT members of Stampin for the Weekend asked me to join them for 6 months!

So this is not my last time with them.

This week’s challenge was a sketch in which you must include the colours blue and yellow.

This is the sketch; I just loved working with it!

Here is my card. I made the card for a friend of my mom who is expecting her baby in 7 weeks.

Aunty Emma is always so happy and full of joy! I never hear her complain about anything.

She is expecting her fourth child, a little boy.

So I made her a lovely card.

I used a stamp of my Sugar Nellie collection called Vintage Baby.

When I got the paper I knew exactly what stamp I was to use and to whom I will give it.

I glittered the cloud that the baby is sleeping on with silver glitter and believe me it took a while!

I put two rows of star ribbon on the left bottom corner.

I bought the ribbon long ago and never used it.

It fitted perfectly with this card!

Here I wrote Dream Baby, because Aunty Emma has such a soft, dreamy look in her eyes when she talks about this new baby!

I made a corner out of paper and put it on a pop-up.

I also glued some golden stars on the card to give it a finishing touch.

Please pop over to see all the other DT members of Stampin for the Weekend’s Creations.

I used the Stampin for the Weekend lay-out to took part in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz Challenge - All About Bling (challenge #24)

One Stitch At A Time - New Releases and Celebrations (challenge #17)

Crafty Cardmakers - Cards For Men (challenge #23)

Crafts and Me Challenges- Friends and Family (challenge #6)

Cupcake Craft Challenges - One For the Boys (challenge #95)

My Time To Craft- Xtra Special (challenge #95)

That is all for now and I hope you like my card.

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