Door Hanger Recipe - For Paper Play

Hello everyone, I hope you’re doing well?

Today is Thursday and that means a new challenge over at Paper Play!

The theme for this week’s challenge is...............

A Recipe!!!

3 Different Embellishments, 2 Patterned Papers and 1 Lace! 

That’s the recipe! 

We are kindly sponsored by Just Some Lines.

Do you need some inspiration?

Here is my creation:

My mother and I have been invited to a Friend’s baby shower on Saturday, so I decided to make a girly door hanger for her, to warn her other children when the baby is sleeping. 

I used one of my favourite stamps. It’s a Whiff Of Joy Stamp Called: Willow Holding Baby.

I have been wanting to use this stamp on a door-hanger for our house ever since my mother fell pregnant, with her last baby. But when my mother lost the baby, I had no use of making it anymore. Now I made one for this lady and I really, really hope and pray that I will be able to make one for our home for a new baby too, very soon.

I coloured this stamp with the following Copics:

 E37, E35, E33 and E53 - for her hair and the baby’s hair.

R20, R21 and E00 - for their skin.

G17, G14 and G12 - for her green dress.

RV34, RV13 and RV10 - for the baby’s blanket and the lace on the mother’s dress.

W3 - for a shadow around the stamp.

On the left I wrote: “Shhh........ Baby Sleeping” in my favourite font and printed it in dark pink. I added a flower at the top of the image as one of the embellishments. On the right I added five dark pink pearls for another embellishment.

For the third embellishment, I made holes in the top two corners with gold eyelids and threaded an organza light pink ribbon through.

This lace was the left over of the skirt my mother made me for my birthday and I think it really looks nice on this creation!

I printed out a little poem and stuck it at the back of the door hang and I think it makes it very special.

I hope you like my door hanger. 

Please hop over to Paper Play Challenge and see if you can take part in our challenge. There are some more great inspirations to draw from! 

With this door hang I would like to take part in the following challenge:

AiFactory - Anything Goes

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes in August

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes 

Stamp Insanity -  Anything goes

Truly Scrumptious -  Lace

Bearly Mine -  Bring On The Bling

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything But A Card

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Favourite Stamp

Have a blessed day everyone. Till next time...

Crafty Greetings

Announcing The Winner Of My Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #2 - Anything Chocolate...

Well as you know, it is Monday which means...... it is time to announce the winner of my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #2 - Anything Chocolate!

Thank you so much for everyone who entered!! All your chocolate recipes looks delicious and it is so nice to get a few new recipes. I had 6 entries with the chocolate challenge.

The winner, voted by all my blog readers is the 12 year old................

Sarah!!!

Congratulations Sarah, for winning my second Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge! I’m going to try your Chocolate Macaroons recipe soon. 

Here is your special blinkie with a picture of your Chocolate Macaroons:

All you have to do is right click, then click “save image as”.

Then you can proudly display your winner blinkie on the side of your blog with a link back to this post so that your blog readers can see you won and also join in next time.

Now if any one would like to win a blinkie like this, all you have to do is enter here. The next fortnightly baking challenge is Cupcakes, and ends the 22nd of August.  I even have a cupcake recipe that you can use. You just show us a special decorating technique!

Please join in the fun!

Have a blessed week everyone

Baking Greetings!

Happy Birthday Card For Daniel And Some Birthday Pictures!!

Hi everyone! As you can see I’m doing a lot of postings at the moment! 

Today I would like to show you a card I made for my little brother Daniel’s 3rd birthday and some of the party pictures.

I really like this paper and image - it makes me think of Daniel as he loves cards and airplanes!

I used a digi stamp from Sew Many Stamps called Miki in Helicopter that I won long ago. I colored it with the following Copics:

E37, E35, E33 and E53 - for the monkey/bear’s skin

Y15, Y11 and Y00 - for all the yellow on the image

 R29 and R27 - for the red helicopter

G17, G14 and G12 - for the helicopter blades 

B05, B02 and B000 - for all the blue on the image

W3 - for a shadow around the image

I played around with ribbons and buttons to decorate the card. The beautiful ribbons are all from what a dear friend gave to me for my birthday.

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

Pixie Dust Studio - Boys will be boys

Divas by Design - Birthdays

A Spoonful Of Sugar -  Happy Birthday

Anything Goes Challenge -  Happy Birthday/Celebration

Crazy Amigo Challenge - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Birthday

Here are some pictures of the party.

Daniel wanted the “Cars” movie cake, so we gave him a “Lightning McQueen“ and “Sally” cars cake.

My mother with 5 of the 6 boys, decorating the plastic tree with icing and sweets.

Very exited little boys!!

The cake...........

With icing.

In progress.

Take a look at our “clean” table!! CJ makes all kinds of cute little things to put on the cake.

While I prepared the different icings!!

We worked till 01h30 on this cake!!!

The boys had just woken up the morning and saw the beautiful cake for the first time!

Michael decided to help himself, before the party even started.

The adults’ table.

The children’s table.

Daniel blowing his candles.

Opening the presents! (Josua, Daniel, me and David)

Daniel had a lovely birthday and enjoyed it so much!

Daniel is still a baby in some ways. I love that - I love little children! Daniel has got such a sweet way to laugh.

Crafty Greetings

I Got Ballet Pointe Shoes!!!!!!!!!

As some of you know already, my best and only sport is ballet. I have been doing ballet since I was five, which means this is my 10th year of ballet.

Two weeks ago, my ballet teacher told me and a few other class friends that our feet are now strong enough for pointe shoes. Yes, I though I was not hearing right. Finally! After waiting so long! Since I was a little girl seeing the “big girls” dancing on pointe shoes I wanted to have them too.

So on Monday the 8th I got my first pointe shoes.

My ballet teacher went with us, to make sure we got the right kind of shoes and that they fit correctly.

Me (right) putting on my “toe caps”  

Putting on my first pair of pointe shoes on.

My first “rise” on pointe.

After trying on a lot of different makes and sizes I found a pair “Sansha” size 10, Width W.

When I got home, I took a few pictures:

That afternoon my mother attached the ribbons and when my dad got home from work we had a “photo shoot” of me and my points!

I just LOVE this picture!!!

I love my new pointe shoes! I know I’m going to have to work very hard to be good, and I need to work my feet to get them even stronger. Some girls said very different things about pointe shoes, that it’s SO hard to dance with and rising and all that. It is difficult to keep your balance, but if your feet are strong then it’s not that hard as some girls say! Practice makes perfect!!

This picture (at the top) is one I took! In a mirror of me with my pointe shoes and ballet dress of last year’s ballet consent and I would like to enter it into Monday Moments Photo Challenge - Reflection. 

This is what it looked like when I took the above picture!

My dad took this one with his iPhone. My mother (hiding away) is holding the mirror straight while I try to balance myself, getting a pretty position, keeping the camera still and take a picture.

I hope you like my photos!

Have a blessed week further!

Heidi-Mari