DOING LIFE

Where Flowers Bloom, So Does LOVE

We did the Wally Hayward 10km road race in Centurion this morning and could not ask for better weather.  It was a 5/10/21.1/42.2km road race and there were probably close to 10,000+ athletes.  Having a nice resting sit down in front of the computer for the rest of the day.

My dear blogger friend and staunch Follower here, Helen aka Scrap Addict, loved the card creation I designed after Paulette from Create with TLC , approached me to be a once of guest designer for TLC. I used one of my favourite digi images from TLC's website to create it with. In fact, Helen loved the card so much that she left the following comments for me:

Helen Tilbury said...


Wow I completely love this - it is absolutely beautiful...I hope you keep this gorgeous creation for your desk & don't give it away!!

... as well as

Helen Tilbury said...


I'm just back to say I CANNOT TAKE MY EYES OFF THIS CREATION lol!! I would love to buy it if it is for sale :) It would look great in our hallway & I would frame it in a box frame as a little "piece". Let me know :)

Needless to say, I felt so honoured by this huge complement from one of SA's most creative scrapbookers/crafters - please visit her magnificent blog and feast your eyes on Helen's creativity. In the meantime I have posted this card to her and can't wait to see it box mounted and displayed i.e. there is no way that I would have sold the card, as most of you creative souls know that one cannot put a price on time spent lovingly creating our creations.

Before I sent the card off, I created another version with the same image and just changed the stamped flowers and sentiment as well as made the colour combo more monochromatic. So here is the second version.

... oh, and it would be great if you could let me know which version you like the most, the first version or this monochromatic version.

Once again, I would love try my hand at the following challenges with this:

• Always Crafting #7: Anything Goes
• Anything Goes #66: Things with Wings
• Aud Sentiments: Anything Goes
• By the Cute and Girly: May - Spring is in the Air
• Crafting for All Seasons #26: Handmade Flowers
• Crafty Catz Weekly #130: Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Design: Spots and Stripes (Spots)
• Creatalicious #33: Butterflies and Add Some Flowers
• Creative Craft Challenges2: Anything Goes
• Digital Tuesday #158: Bugs and/or Blooms
• Deep Ocean #24: Use Punches/Dies (used EK Success small circle punch for the inside of the flowers and a big circle punch for the sentiment)
• Divas by Design #33: Monochromatic
• Dream Valley #31: For A Special Lady
• Dutch Dare Card #162: For A Special Lady
• Hookedoncraft #20: Flowers
• Lollipop Crafts #78: Anything Goes
• Make It Monday #87: Anything Goes
• MilkCoffee: Lots of Layers
• Moving Along the Times: Garden or Flowers
• My Mum's Craft Shop #54: The Great Outdoors
• My Time to Craft #178: Gardening Gems
• PanPastel UK #16: Spring Time
• Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey #8: Vintage
• Paper Playtime #73: Anything Goes
• Prairie Fairy Fridays #77: Anything with Flowers
• Stamptacular Sunday #161: Spring Bling
• Sweet Stampin:  Anything, but Square
• The Crafty Pad #168: April Showers Bring May Flowers
• The Paper Players #93: Tic Tac Toe (Diagonally: Flowers/Jewel Stones (my choice)/Designer Paper)
• The Pink Elephant #146: Spring Time
• The Poodles Parlour: Anything Goes
• The Scraphouse: Flowers
• Truly Madly Crafty April: Handmade Flowers

Thank you to all my lovely Followers for your always inspirational comments.