Fun in the Sun Birthday Card for a Friend

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.

Today I would like to show you a card I made for a friend who’s birthday is yet to come.

Since it is so hot here I did a summer card.

I have had this paper for a long time and I have never used it. I waited for the right card.

I have used a sketch I made myself, on my computer.

Hope you like it!

I used a stamp for Whiff of Joy called, Willow with cocktail.

I colored her with the following Promarkers:

Henna, Terracotta, Spice, Coral and Apricot - for her hair

Blush - for her skin 

Ducky Pink - for the cocktail

Appel and Meadow Green - for the cocktail umbrella and her shoes

Berry Red - for the cherry in her cocktail 

Magenta and Carmine - for her dress

Yellow - for a part of her dress

Rose Pink - for her purse 

Cool Grey 1 - for around the stamp.

I stuck a pink flowery ribbon with a bow at the bottom of the card 

And some more of my beautiful flowers in the top right corner.

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

Penny's Paper-Crafty  – anything goes

Sisterhood of Crafters - birthday

Oldie But Goodie Challenge  - Bright and Cheerful

Pile It On - Anything Goes

2 Sisters  - flowers

Catch The Bug  - birthday

Craft Your Days Away - anything goes

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - anything goes

Fairy Fun Fridays – happy birthday

Fairy Tale  - flowers

Sew Many Cards - birthday

Stamp Something - anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - birthday

Have a blessed day 

Crafty Greetings 

New Friendship Card - For Stampin for the Weekend

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a good week!

Today I would like to show you a card I made for Stampin for the Weekend.

The theme for this fortnight’s challenge is:

New and Blue!!

It can be a new baby, new home, new stash, anything new, BUT NO wedding please!

I decided to make a new friendship card.

“I’m Sorry... Let’s Start Over” let’s start the friendship over, make it new!

I actually made this card with scrap paper, and I think it came out nicely!

I used a Sugar Nellie stamp and colored her with the following Promarkers:

Spice, Cora and Apricot - for her hair

Blush - for her skin  

Cyan and Sky blue - for her dress

Rose Pink - for the bow and patch on her dress and her shoes

Carmine - for the bow in her hair, patch and lace on her dress and the flowers.

Apple - for the leaves

Cool Grey 1 - for all around the stamp

I used some of the beautiful flowers and pins, that I got for Christmas.

I put a pretty pink bow on the right half way down the card.

I wrote “I’m Sorry... Let’s Start Over” in a pretty little shape.

And then decorated it with little pearls.

I also added some pearls in the bottom left corner of the card.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Please do hop over and check out the cards from my fellow DT’s. We Also have two new DT members!

There are stunning cards!

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

Ai Factory Challenge - New beginnings 

Dutch Dare Card Challenge - New beginnings 

Southern Girls - anything goes
Rainbow Lady's - something new (paper flowers I got for Christmas)
Stampin B's Challenge - old favorite and something brand (old stamp, new flowers)
Fab 'n' Funky - anything goes
The Creative Cottage - Something New 
Simon Says Stamp - new beginnings

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Crafty Greetings

Christmas At The Lues family 2010

Hello everyone happy new year! I hope you had a great Christmas!

I would like to show you some pictures of our lovely Christmas.

On Friday night (Christmas eve) we had our grandparents, our two nephews, our uncle and aunt for a cheese and wine dinner.

Remember in South Africa it is now high Summer and preparing a warm meal is a huge effort in the heat.

The table

Some of the cheese and biscuits.

The veggie plate

Fruit on sticks for everyone.

And here are the little tarts I made for pudding.

We all had a lovely time! It was so relaxing to have no worries about food getting cold.

Everyone could help themselves and the little ones sat at their own table and it worked very well.

We only open our presents on Christmas morning so that we had a whole day to play with our presents.

We were really blessed to have a lot of presents this year!

Our tree seems to get smaller every year.

(Not really, we only grow taller every year and the tree stays the same)

My siblings and I around the tree on Christmas morning.

(Some of us are still a bit sleepy!)

I don’t have pictures of all the gifts but here are some:

Michael with his new toy truck, this was his first Christmas!

Three little brothers with three yellow trucks.

Little Michael got so tired of all the excitement and fell asleep, early in the morning, on my chest!

Danika got a pink play laptop! Also a new Barbie doll and I gave her, her half of my bog candy. (she didn’t know that she had won until Christmas!)

Josua got a remote control helicopter.

The little boys also got a tricycle, each!

Andrew on the bike!

David with his red bike.

And Daniel with his bike.

Just look at his little face!

I got a box full of card making flowers and pins!

CJ got a model of the Titanic boat that you have to build and paint.

Busy painting the bottom part.

My parents brought themselves a new pasta maker. 

My mother got a new handbag and a chocolate too and my dad got a Andre Rieu DVD. (It is a classical music DVD)

This was our table for lunch on Christmas day.

We also had some more crackers! We put little chocolates inside that melted in the hot weather so we ended up putting the crackers in the fridge! 

I hope your Christmas was great too!

And I wish you all a 

Happy New Year!!

Crafty Greetings

My Top Ten Cards Of 2010

Hello everyone, this will probably be my last posting for 2010.

And these are my top 10 cards of 2010!

I have only been making cards since December 2009 so it is more like a top ten of all my cards.

I saw on one of my card making friends’ blogs about the top 10 cards and decided to join in, in the Top 10 Card blog hop. You can read more about the top 10 card blog hop here.

I was hard to pick only ten but here they are:

As you can see I really love pink and easel cards!

I hope you like them too. I’ll be back in the new year and would like to wish you all a blessed, happy, new crafting year!!

Crafty Greetings 

An Awesome Christmas Present!!

Hi everyone Merry Christmas!!

I just quickly want to show you what I got for Christmas:

A box FULL of the most beautiful flowers and pearl pins!!

Check out my future cards!!!

Thank you so much Dad and Mom! 

Thought I would just share it with you, have a blessed holiday everyone!

Crafty Greetings