DREAMS {DigiStamps4Joy New Releases}

{Digi Stamps 4 Joy DS4J: NEW RELEASES}

A design team project for our  new releases over at DS4J's shop this Sunday.  I have used this cute new image called Pillow Talk which has been designed by the talented Jen for DigiStamps4Joy,  

Hop over to DS4J's blog and have a look at the gorgeous creations my talented design team mates have created with some of the wonderful new release images.

The folded embellishments have been created with scallop square punches. The image has been coloured with Copics and paper pieced with some design paper. The sentiment is from Paulette {Create with TLC}.  The design papers and brads are from my stash.

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

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

613 Avenue Create - ATG + Optional Twist

Inspiration Destination - ATG

Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes with uplifting sentiment 

Sister Act Card Challenge - ATG

Papertake Weekly - ATG

Artistic Inspirations - ATG and/or add Doodles

One Stitch at a Time - ATG

Scribble and Scrap - ATG

The Corrosive Challenge - ATG

Thank you for your wonderful visits here and all the love you leave behind.  I am apologising for my lack of commenting of late on your gorgeous creative work.  Life is just getting in the way,.
Hope I am forgiven xxx

Crafty hugs

CHASE YOUR DREAMS ...
{DT Project Tammy's Scrapin Corner: Challenge #55}

This week our theme for Challenge #55 at Tammy's Scrapin Corner  is ANYTHING GOES, BUT A CARD.  I used the Chase Your Dreams sentiment from Bugaboo.  You can purchase the image here.   

This was quite a challenge for me as I don't do off the page/card projects.  But hey, nothing ventured nothing gained.  I recycled an old tea box, Five Roses Tea is a well-known tea brand here in South Africa.  I have been collecting the empty tea boxes for more than a year now, having in mind to alter them as gifts in which one could put some yummy stuff.  I have cropped a butterfly from the main image, blown it up a bit and printed it out a few times.  I coloured the butterflies with Copic Markers.  The design paper is from Basic Grey.  The flat pearls are from Blueberry Bear.

Hope you will play along this week - so come on link your Anything but a Card creations to Tammy's Scrapin Corner's Challenge No.55. Can't wait to see what you create.

Here's a few pics of my {Doing Life's} recent two Scrap Days here at my home studio.  Its always great to have the ladies over for some scrapping therapy.  Below are also the two layouts I designed and presented.

Off to link this altered tea box creation to the following challenges:

• Bearly Mine: Anything Goes
• Craft-room: In the Garden - Anything Goes
• Through the Craftroom Door: Anything Goes
• Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes
• Crafting for all Seasons: Anything but a Card
• Stamp n Doodle: Anything Goes
• The Perfect Sentiment: Fairies or Butterflies
• Word Art Wednesdays: Uplifting Sentiment
• Happy Campers: Add Dimension:  The box is 3D and some of the butterflies have been mounted with foam tape)
• Shelly's Images: Anything Goes
• Make it Monday: Anything Goes
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes (3/3)
• Crafty-Emblies: Anything Goes - Altered Item
• One Stitch at a Time: Use a Digi
• Brown Sugar: Anything Goes
• Craft Us Crazy: Anything but a Card
• A Blog Named Hero: Free Style
• The Outlawz Paper a la Mode: Anything Goes
• Pin and Tack: Anything Goes
• Eureka: Its in the Words

A huge welcome also to all my new Followers who have entered my 500-Follower Celebration give-away and also thank you to my loyal and faithful Followers who have also entered.  There is still time until 14 April 2013, to stand a chance to win one of the three $15 DigiStamps4Joy Gift Certificates.  So come on enter, you don't have anything to loose.

We here in South Africa are experiencing a problem with our local Internet Service Provider since Thursday last week.  Here's news on the situation from MWEB themselves:

Dear MWEB Customer

The Seacom cable, which provides a significant portion of our international capacity, has been damaged off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. Early indications are that it may take up to two weeks to repair the break and restore full capacity. We also have capacity on the WACS cable, which runs up the west coast of Africa, and this is currently able to meet about 45% of our total needs. As a result, most international services will be degraded. We are in ongoing discussions with various operators to secure additional capacity to meet our total requirements until such time as the Seacom cable is fully operational again.

We will keep you updated of any changes to this situation via e-mail, our Facebook page and twitter. Kind regards
The MWEB Team

Thus our internet is super slow and its hard to leave comments.  So please will my lovely Followers who leave such wonderful comments here, be patient with me not being able to leave comments at the moment.  As soon as things are back to normal, "I'll be back" - in the words of Arni lol.

{Doing Life} Dainfern Scrap Day
25 February 2012

I am sure all had a wonderful day filled with scrapping bliss and catching up with friends' doings.  Thanks to all you lovely ladies for making the day so much fun in enthusiastically taking part in the competitions, especially the Speed Queen competition.

The ladies went two-two against each other in determining whose the fastest in sticking six sticky squares onto six small blocks without touching any lines.  Heidi Nel came up trumps as being the Speed Queen for the day.  Heidi's name is next to be engraved on the Speed Queen Trophy. The ladies form Harties made a clean sweep of the day's prizes.

Also a huge thank you once again for Michelle flying up from Durban to assist me on the day.  Michelle, you are a true friend in every sense of the word.

 Back: Michelle Ramsay, Aziza Ahmad, Karen Koen, Heidi Nel (Speed Queen), Marietjie Buys & Ursula van Rooyen

Front: Anne-Marie du Toit, Shanaze Ghood, Debbie van Tonder & Denine van Wyk

Below are the snapshots of the two double page layouts we did on the day, which are available over at www.doinglife.co.za.  Just click on the links below to take you directly online to the shop at {Doing Life}.

 K0125 Fernandes Siblings

K0128 Sunshine

Looking forward to seeing you ladies soon for some more scrapping therapy and thank you to all my blog buddies for taking the time to stop by once again.

{Doing Life} Ammazulu Palace Scrap Day

- 12 November 2011 {Kloof, Durban}

Michelle collected me from Ushaka Airport at 7:30am on the Friday and it was fantastic spending a relaxing day with my dear friend. We made our way straight to Reminisce for some breakfast and a good old catching up chat. Then we headed to Michelle's home to collect all the supplies for the scrap day and dropped at Ammazulu Palace for setting up later.

We then made our way to Hillcrest for some retail therapy at Mr Price Home where we both got some lovely 3-tier cake stands which I need for my 3 December Scrap Day here at my home studio. There's going to be 16 ladies, so space will definitely be an issue and these cake stands will definitely save some space when serving muffins and and teatime treats.

Hillcrest The Corner Shopping Mall was our next stop where we had a light lunch at a coffee shop and then strolled through the various shops - with me doing some investigation into what urns are on the market as I will also need to purchase a nice urn to keep boiling water on tap for the 3 Dec Scrap Day. I did however, saw a lovely 10 liter urn at Boardmans here at Design Quarter in Fourways, yesterday and will definitely go back and purchase it. We then floated into various clothing stores and it was great fun fitting clothes together - as Michelle rightly said, its alwas great to have valued feedback on how things look on, from a friend. We ended up with each buying quite a few items of clothing.

Shopped-out we returned to Ammazulu Palace to check in as we were sleeping there the Friday and Saturday night as well as to setup the conference venue the same evening. As we were checked into our room, we were told that we were upgraded to the Presidential Suite. Being a 5-star rated venue, we were expecting just the super best. And as I have never before stayed at a 5-star rated venue, I could not wait to experience it first hand.

But, unfortunately we were disappointed and I just could not visualise SA's President staying in this room. Some random little things we picked up in the room:

1. The safe did not work at all.
2. No instant coffee, only ground coffee, but no plunger to make it in.
3. We were 2 people staying in the room, but only one lonely cookie in a container.
4. Bed light on my side were full of spider webs.
5. No tissues in the room.
6. No hairdryer as it has to be pre-requested and then it was a small little travel one.
7. One towel rail in the bathroom fell off the wall when putting a towel on it.
8. Shower door handle broken
9. No air freshner in the bathroom
10. Soap dish in shower so high one has to stand on toes to reach, and I am not short.
11. No shelf in shower to put sjampoo, etc. on.
12. No shower gel in shower.
13. Only one small towel for 2 guests in the room.

The food on the other hand were top class at breakfast as well as the catering for the conference itself. {Apologies I just had to get the little issues above of the chest.}

We ordered take-aways for supper after we finished setting up so that we could turn in early. The Scrap Day was such a wonderful relaxing, creative experience and it was great catching up with the happenings in everyone's lives. I always say its like a great re-union of scrap addicts. Jeanette Cornell and her daughter, Nicole was immigrating to Australia the Tuesday and it was her last scrap day whilst residing in SA. She will definitely sorely be missed by all. I have heard in the meantime that she arrived safely in Brisbane and is reunited with the rest of her family. Jeanette we wish you every suchess in you and your family's new venture.

We checked out the Sunday morning and dropped the supplies at Michelle's home again. Before we left for the aiport I managed to pinch a few pieces of Michelle's succulants in her garden. I have planted them up here in our garden in Gauteng and it seems that they have all taken.

Me and Michelle {Doing Life} have got one more Scrap event (3 December) to host for 2011 which will be the 10th for this year - so we both need a good rest before the first 2012 event (25 February 2012 @ Dainfern Golf Estate) http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/147294232032966/

Rayna Winson - the best Ethnic Dresser

Sharon Scott - Grand Prize winner

Top right corner - Brenda Dexter

Main photo from left: Gail Bissett & Linda Musgrove

Main photo right: From left Claudette Upfold, Sharyn Scott & Lisa Bartels

Jeanette Cornell - Speed Queen and her daughter Nicole

Main photo: Sheila Corfe & Debbie van Coppenhagen

Top right photo: Dianne Smith

Back row 4th from the right - Shelley Candiotes

Thanks for stopping by.

{Doing Life} 2nd Botha's Hill Scrap Day

Saturday, 26 February 2011

“Life is like photography - we use the negatives to develop!”

Once again it was a day filled with loads of scrapping fun whilst catching up on the lives of fellow scrappers. It seemed like the girls enjoy the layouts and especially the morning's layout which was titled 'CELEBRATE LIFE' - this layout as well as the afternoon's layout 'A GRAND AFFAIR' are now available online at {Doing Life} in comprehensive kit form.

Once again my dear friend Michelle has been a pillar of strength to lean on - without all her unselfish assistance {Doing Life's} scrap events will not be a reality. She has been fetching and carting heavy boxes from the Post Office and used her valuable space in her craft room to store {Doing Life's} stock. She has also been getting me to and from the Durban airport. Thanks again Michelle. A big thank you also goes to Rayna for sorting out the venue and to Shelley for assisting with the catering.

{Doing Life} will be having its shop on site at the upcoming Forever Memories Scrapbook Conference on 12&13 March 2011 at Dainfern Estate, Fourways, Johannesburg, as well as teaching a double page layout on Sunday morning. Here's a sneak peek of the layout that will be presented.

The following weekend, 19&20 March 2011, {Doing Life} will be doing the same thing again for the Cape Town scrappers

Thanks for stopping by.