DOING LIFE

EMBRACE YOUR INNER CHILD

Trust you all had a fab weekend.  The weekend was a busy one on this side.  I attended a great ladies morning listening to a 3-hour talk by Gretha Wiid (a motivational speaker) in Krugersdorp, with my dear friend Belinda.  Belinda's SIL shared complementary tickets with us (thanks Ronel - the best gift ever).  This was the most inspirational talk I have ever attended or listened to, in my four decades+ lifetime and can really recommend that, if you reside in South Africa, to make the time and effort to go and listen to Gretha.

On Sunday, me and hubby (my personal coach) ran the Benoni Slowmag half marathon (21.1km) and I am still in recovery mode, but really enjoyed doing the distance for the first time in two years again.  It was a lovely cool autumn morning and perfect conditions for running.  In the afternoon I had some clients popping in to do some retail scrapping therapy with {Doing Life} - so there was no rest for the wicked.

So onto my creation for this week.  Recently I made the Top 3 at Poodles Parlour Challenge blog for one of my card creations (see sidebar) and won seven lovely digi images from Digi Garden.  Gorgeous little Ella & Clover was one of them and I tried to bring her to life with this.  She was coloured with H2O's.  The trees and fence was created with wood mounted rubber stamps from my stash.

The sentiment was a freebie from TLC and here it is.

Once again I would love to try my hand at the following challenges:

• Basic Grey # 66: Spring Colours (Design papers from Basic Grey)
• Card Makin Mamas: Getting Girly
• Crafty Sentiments Design: Use a Digi
• Crafty Creations #165: Flower Power
• Craft Your Days Away #43: Metal (the three photo turns/anchors are metal)
• Craft Your Passion #106: Die Cuts and/or Punches (Used a rectangle scalloped punch for the sentiment and a circle punch for the centre of the flowers)
• Crazy 4 Challenges #C4C132: Buttons
• Cute Card Thursday #212: Spring Flowers
• Delicious Doodles #17: Loads of Layers
• Digital Tuesday #156: Distressed (Used inking)
• Dream Valley #30: Earth Tones
• Great Impressions #2: Flowers
• Just Keep on Creating #1: Anything goes
• Karens Doodles #102: Something Spring
• Make It Monday #85: Anything Goes
• One Stop Craft Challenge #178: Three Circles (circle punch-outs on three flowers)
• Southern Girls #42: Fancy Folds (Step card)
• Sweet Stampin: Girly: But No Pink
• The Pink Elephant #44: Colour Inspiration
• Unique Crafters #2: Paper Flowers
• All That Scraps: Anything Goes
• Craft Us Crazy #25: Mothers Day & Flowers
• Inspire Me Fridays #54: Anything Goes
• Paper Sundaes #116: Anything Goes
• Whoopsi Daisy Challenge: Free & Easy
• Robyns Fetish Digital #103: Spring Image Cards
• The Stamping Boutique #34: Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments Challenge #52: Spring or Summer Colours
• Allsorts #150: Buttons & Thread
• 2 Sisters #87: Flowers
• Creative Mondays #6: Yellow & Sunshine

Thank you once again for all your wonderful inspiring comments - each and everyone are treasured.