Stampin For The Weekend Card - Show Us Your Style

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

The theme for this fortnight’s challenge is:

Show Us Your Style!

We are being sponsored by The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop, who is offering the winner 600 Self adhesive pearls in various colours as prize!

Here is my card:

It’s my Dad’s Father’s Day card! Normally girly cards are more my style, but even though this is a masculine card, it’s still my style. I love using ribbon, pearls, Whiff Of Joy images and always distress.

This is the first time I’ve used this image(it’s been lying in my stamp box for a while now!) and I coloured it with the following Copics:

E35, E33 and E53 - For the Mouse’s skin.

R20, R21 and E00 - For his ears, tummy, feet and tail.

B05, B02 and B000 - For his hat.

E37, E35 andE33 - For the log he sits on.

B000, E53 and W3 - For the rocks.

R29, Y15, Y11 and Y00 - For the fire.

W3 - For a shadow around the stamp.

I made a loop with this ribbon and tied it together with a knot and then stuck a pearl on top.

And that same ribbon with the knot and pearl on the inside.

I put a golden corner in the top left corner for a finishing touch.

And a few pearls in some of the other corners.

I hope you like my card! Please hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and see if you can take part in our challenge, there are also some stunning other cards!

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Easter Card 2 for Stampin for the Weekend!!

Here is my blue card for Stampin for the Weekend’s Easter!!! challenge.

I used a very plain layout, but the paper really makes it.

This is also an image I won a while ago from Digital Delight called Easter Egg Boy. I colored him with the following Copics:

E37, E35, E33 and E53 - for the boy’s hair and shoes

E00, E21 and R20 - for his skin 

G17, G14 and G12 - for his hat and the top part of the egg.

B05, B02 and B000 - for his top and the middle part of the egg.

Y15, Y11 and Y00 - on the egg

V06 and V04 - on the egg

W3 - for around the stamp

I then stuck the image on a yellow embossed square piece of paper and put a blue pearl on each corner.

Just as the on the pink card I bought a brown cardboard bunny, colored it with Copics and put some “Royal Coat Dimensional Magic” on.

I also stuck four blue pearls in the top right corner.

On the paper was a small cloud. I printed “Happy Easter” on the cloud and cut it out. (the glitter was already on the sides)

I thought I would give you a close-up picture of the paper with such a cute bunny and eggs.

Please do hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and take a look at the stunning DT creations - they are really VERY pretty this week!!

With this blue easter card I would like to take part in the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy  - Easter/ Spring.

Meljens Designs -  Easter.

The Rubber Cafe -  Easter/Spring.

Simon Says Stamp - Spring colors/Easter

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Easter

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Ooh La La Creations - Happy Easter

Paper Playtime -  Anything Goes

Pink Elephant -  Easter

Stamp with Fun - Easter

Stamps R Us - Easter

Have a blessed day everyone! 

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Birthday Card for Michael And Some Party Pictures

Hi everyone. I’m here with another card, one I made for my little brother Michael who turned 1 year on the 29th of January.

I sometimes struggle to make masculine cards, since I can’t find much boy embellishments and I don’t work easily with buttons.

But I liked this card a lot!!

I have used an old stamp I have forgotten about.

And used it for this card.

I stuck a 1,2,3 on pop-ups in the middle of the card.

I wrote “Gelukkige 1ste Verjaardag Michael!” in Afrikaans, which means Happy 1st Birthday Michael.

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

Aly's Sunday Challenge  - For the guys

Let's Ink It Up - Anything Goes

Crafty Emma - Bold & Bright

Alphabet Challenge  - "M" is for men

Polkadoodle -  party time

Totally Papercrafts - for the kiddies

AiFactory  - for the boys

He had a Pirate party and here are some pictures:

On the morning of his birthday, opening his presents.

He got balls, a big one a three little ones.

Look at his little face!

He also got two hard cover books.

We made little treasure boxes, and put sweets inside including chocolate money!

We decorated the boxes with gold sprayed noodles.

And here is the cake..................

We made a Pirate boat!

From the back.

From the side 

And CJ’s (my eldest brother) anchor!

The party table

All the Pirates! 

(Michael didn’t want to wear his pirate dress-up stuff!)

Check out CJ and Josua’s faces!

They drew the mustache with a black pen.

Even Andrew and David had their pirate faces on!

Daniel only whore his bandana.

And some of the girls where dressed as princesses!

Blowing the candle!

I hope you liked the pictures and my card!

Have a blessed day 

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Thank You Card – For A Male

Hi everyone hope you’re doing well.

Today I would like to show you a thank-you card that CJ asked me to make for a friend of his.

When CJ turned 16 on the 24th of August, a friend gave him a one year subscription for the magazine, “Popular Mechanics”!

CJ’s friend, uncle Wiaan also loves horses and rides on the same farm as CJ. He always helps CJ. So CJ asked me to make him a Thank You Card.

Here is my card

I made photos corners out of red paper and stuck it in the card’s corners.

I also put a strip of ribbon behind the stamp.

I used one of my Whiff Of Joy Stamps called “Henry Mouse with large teacup” since he is just so cute!

My mother helped me to stamp this stamp so that you don’t see the Christmas leaves on the teacup.

Here is how:

1. Inked the stamp

2. Then cut double sided tape to fit over the leaves and stuck it onto the stamp over the leaves;

3. Stamp the stamp on your paper and that should do the trick!

I coloured it with the following Promarkers:

Sandston – for little Henry’s body

Blush and Dusky Pink – for his tummy, ears and tail

Henna – for the chair Henry is standing on and the Hot chocolate
Rose Pink – For the marshmallows

Berry Red – for the teacup

Cool Gray 1 – for the steam coming out of the teacup and the shadow around the stamp

I wrote a sentiment, “Sweet Thanks”, since the mouse throws marshmallows into the hot chocolate.

I stuck it on pop-ups and placed it in the bottom, right hand corner.

I stuck photo turners in the corners of the square.

I also took part in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz -  Hot, Hot, Hot

Lily Of The Valley - go dotty with circles

Cooking It Up With Katie - Make it for a Boy (or something boyish) Add some Checks/Gingham/Plaid

Finish with a touch or two of Brown

Creative Belli - round and metal (brads, metal rimmed tags, etc)

Crafty Little Place - food

Rosie D's - one for the boys

Shabby Tea Room - a little bit of metal

My Partner in Crafting Crime – food and drinks

Aly's Sunday Challenge - get dotty Sun

One Stitch At A Time - say it with shapes

Stamp Something - use something digi

Have a blessed week

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Gift Bag for CJ’s birthday

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well!

Today I want to show you a gift bag I made for my brother for his 16th birthday on Tuesday the 17th of August.

This week Stampin For the Weekend’s theme is Anything goes!

Isn’t that easy!

We’re being sponsored by Sir Stampalot

I decided to make a gift bag for CJ.

I found the tutorial here.

And the back, with a pocket and a tag with a note in.

I used a stamp called Giddy Up, one of my Sugar Nellie stamps.

I coloured it with the following Promarkers:

Sandstone – for the hat, horse and pants

Dusk Pink – for the skin

Sky blue – for the top

Gold – for the patches

Berry red – for the hat band, buckle and flowers on the ground

Henna – for the hair, shoes, rope and gloves

Forrest green – for the grass

Yellow – for the flowers

Cool grey 1 – for a shadow around the stamp

Here I made a knot with the two ribbons, red and blue.

I coloured three identical stamps.

The first I stuck at the front of the card, from the second stamp I cut out the top of the boy with my circle colossal and from the third stamp I cut out the horse with my circle colossal.

The little boy I put on pop ups and stuck on the back pocket, with a sentiment: “Happy Birthday, CJ”.

I also repeated the red and blue ribbon, with a knot, on the pocket.

The horse I stuck on the tag.

Please hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and take a look at my stunning DT friend’s cards/creations!

I also took part in the following challenges with the gift bag:

ABC Challenge - Blue

Gingersnap Creations - go dimensional (boxes, bags, etc)

Simon Says Stamp -make a gift

Wild Flower Patch - polka dots

Creative Belli - round and metal (brads, metal rimmed tags, etc)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - vintage (distress it, tear it, etc.)

Kaboodle Doodles - add a little metal

Ooh La La Creations - spots and dots

Stamps R Us - all male theme

Aly's Sunday Challenge - get dotty

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - bold and bright

Just Us Girls - wild wild west theme

I Did It Creations - anything goes

Our Daily Bread Designs Blog - Stamp it more than once

We had such a fun day on CJ’s Birthday.

I baked CJ a Strawberry Bavarian Cake from my Baking book.

Me and CJ

It was delicious!

My mother and CJ

CJ loves horses. He has been doing horse riding for 5 years and is now riding a very special horse for the owner of a Riding School. CJ does not ride the school horses at the farm, since CJ is now too experienced.

The horse he is riding is a merry called ‘Something About Mary’.

She is a beautiful white horse and he loves riding and training her!

But CJ also loves his brothers!

CJ playing with David and Daniel.

I also baked CJ Croissants for breakfast on his birthday.

It was a pile of Croissants! Remember, we are a large family of ten!

By the end of last year, CJ won 3 small rockets as a price for answering 12 out of 12 Science questions correctly, read more here.

So in the afternoon we went to CJ’s horse riding school and launched two rockets.

CJ exploded the third engine while making it!

Ha-ha!!

Some fun pictures of the afternoon:

We all went out to the field on a Quad Bike.

Andrew and David were very exited!

The rockets

And up it went and with a huge speed came down to the ground!

The parachute failed!

It is a tradition in our home, when you are older than 7, to go out for dinner with our parents, on our birthdays.

Josua’s birthday is on the 24th of August, so my parents took them for dinner together.

CJ

Josua

I just love these pictures!

Take a look at the amazing milkshake they had for dessert!!

Although CJ teases me a lot and makes me mad……….I love him as my brother!!

Have a blessed weekend

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