HAPPY ANNIVERSARY {DigiStamps4Joy Challenge 101 Anniversary}

{Digi Stamps 4 Joy DS4J: DT Project Challenge #101}

Another design team project for our current challenge over at DS4J's challenge blog. The theme for this fortnight is ANNIVERSARY.  Spending my childhood years on a Protea Farm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, it is just natural the Protea is my favourite flower.

I have used the following Protea flowers from DigiStamps4Joy:

1. KING PROTEA
2. PROTEA

The flowers have been coloured with H2O Derwent Pencils and a Blender Pencils.  The sentiment is one yours truly created and I am offering it as a freebie a bit lower down in this post.  The design papers are from FabScraps and BasicGrey and the bling is from my stash.

Looking forward to seeing your 'ANNIVERSARY' creations. So hop on over to DS4J's challenge blog and link your Creations to Challenge #101.

... and here is the sentiment, just click on it and then right click and save it to your computer.  Would love to hear from you, should you use it.

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

Just Keep on Creating - ATG

Through the Craft Room Door - ATG 

Crafting from the Heart - ATG 

Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes with uplifting sentiment 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

613 Avenue Create - ATG + Optional Twist

Eureka Stamps - Use Some Bling

In the Pink - Pink + Sparkle and Bling

A Creative Romance - In the Garden

Alphabet Challenge - Use 4 of Something (1/1) (4 smaller Protea flowers)

Brown Sugar - ATG (2/2)

Simply Create Too - Its a Special Occasion (Anniversary)

Sister Act Card Challenge - ATG

Allsorts - A Stitch Up (faux stitching around big Protea)

Crazy 4 Challenge - Leaves (1/1)

Glitter n Sparkle - Use some Flowers

One Stitch at a Time - ATG with a Flower

Incy Wincy - Something Old Something New (first time I have used the Protea flowers and the bling has been in my stash for more than 2 years)

The Pink Elephant - ATG

Whoopsi Daisy - 2 or more designer papers

Deep Ocean - At least one Flower

Just Inspirational - Folds (Centre step card design and folded corner embellishments)

Thank you for stopping by and I trust that you enjoyed your visit here xxx

Crafty hugs

AN APPLE ... {DS4J is sponsoring Open Minded}

{Digi Stamps 4 Joy DS4J: Guest Design Team Project for OPEN MINDED}

DS4J's is sponsoring OPEN MINDED CRAFTING CHALLENGES and I have the honour of being a guest designer for their current challenge. Their theme is SUMMER FOOD, BARBEQUE, PICNIC, etc. 

I have used the following image from DigiStamps4Joy:

1. MINI MISTERI WITH APPLE BASKET

Apples is such a lovely fruit to have at an open air picnic and for me smacks of summer. Then of course the humble apple has so many health benefits and I thought it fit to use this saying on the card.  I have designed the sentiment in PhotoShop and provide it at the end of this post as a freebie.

The folded embellishments have been created with circle punches and here is a tutorial elsewhere on my blog for them.  The bling and design papers are from my stash.

Hop on over to OPEN MINDED CRAFTING and link up your summer food creations there to stand a chance to win some lovely prizes. 

Just right click on the sentiment and save it to your computer.

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

· Sister Act Card Challenge - ATG

· 613 Avenue Create -  ATG and/or Optional Twist - Use a Sentiment
- Crafting from the Heart - ATG (2/3)
- Through the Craft Room Door - ATG (2/2)
- Just Keep on Creating - ATG
- Crafting at the Weekend - ATG (2/3)
- Scrappy Hands - Paper Punch (used circle punches for the folded embellishments)
- The Crafters Cafe - Use a Digi
- Divas by Design - ATG
- The Paper Shelter - ATG
- Penny's Paper Crafty - ATG
- Sisterhood of Crafters - Die-cuts and/or Punches (used circle punches for the folded embellishments)
- Bearly Mine - ATG
- 4 Crafty Chicks - ATG
- Crafty Girls - ATG (2/3)
- Delightful Challenges - Bling it On
- A girl Who Crafts - ATG
- Country View - Word Play
- Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
- Mema's Crafts - ATG
- The Sisters of Craft - ATG
- Craft for the Craic - Craft Item not used besore (the green design paper)
- Fussy and Fancy - Words
- Quick Quotes - Repeat Yourself (repeated the folded circle embellishments)
- The Stamping Boutique - Fancy Folds (the folded circle embellishments)
- Crafty Calendar - ATG (1/1)
- My Sheri Crafts - Shaped Card (centre step design)

A big welcome to my new Followers, hope you will enjoy your visits here.  Also thank you to my loyal and faithful followers who always leave such wonderful inspiration here for me to feast on.  Leaving you with some photos I took of my niece Heidi's eldest, Alisha celebrating her 10th Birthday.

I would like to thank all my new and current Followers for all your support in helping me reach 900+ Followers.  Yes this wonderful milestone happened for me on 3 July 2014.  And you know what this means - my 900 Follower Celebration Give Away has gone live.  So hop over here and make sure you stand a chance to win some wonderful prizes from my awesome sponsors i.e. ART BY MIRAN, DIGISTAMPS4JOY, CREATE WITH TLC and FRESH BREWED DESIGNS.

Crafty hugs

LIVE like its Heaven on Earth {ArtbyMiran}

{DT PROJECT FOR ART BY MIRAN}

I have been playing again and this time with this gorgeous Girl created by the talented Mi Ran.  Do yourself a favour and hop over to Mi Ran's Etsy shop and check out her awesome digi creations, here.  You can purchase this cute Girl here.

Our theme for February is Green.  So I tried to create a monochromatic green design. I used H2O pencils this time to get a softer colouring effect.  The flower embellishments were created by cropping one of the flowers in the main image, in Photoshop, and printing it a few times.  The flourishes have been stamped with Chiswick Acrylic Stamps and the sentiment has been created by yours truly.

Here is the sentiment.  Click on it first and then right click and save it to your computer.  Hope you will have fun with it.

I would love to enter this into the following challenges:

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes + Optional Twist

Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Inky Impressions: Monochromatic

Rhedd and Rosie: ATG

Whimsy Stamps: Something New (Its the first time I have used this image)

Crafty Hands: Shades of the same Colour

One Stitch at a Time: ATG

Digi Make Over: ATG

Papertake Weekly: ATG 

Crafting by Designs: ATG  

Catch the Bug: ATG (1/3)

Great Impressions: Floral Images

Love to Scrap: Who loves ya baby - use the word love (3/3)

Pennys Paper Crafty: Something Old Something New (the image is new and the bling has been in my stash for ages.)

Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge:  ATG with patterned paper

Jos Scrap Shack: ATG

Simply Create Too: Mothers Day or something for a Female

Signing off with a photo I took of my niece Liesl and her hubby Mario on their wedding day in 2012:

Thank you for stopping by xxx

Creative Hugs

LIVE INSPIRED {DS4J}

{Digi Stamps 4 Joy DS4J: DT Project Challenge #84}

Another design team project for our  challenge over at DS4J's challenge blog.  The theme for Challenge No.84 is REAL RIBBON.  Our talented design team member, Antoinette is hosting this challenge.  Thanks Antoinette for choosing this awesome theme for us.

Another centre step design.  I have used the following images from DigiStamps4Joy:

1. Wisteria Splendour
2. Drangonfly

A tent card design.  The images have been coloured with H2O pencils.   The design papers are from FabScraps and the ribbon is from my stash.

Looking forward to seeing your creations. So hop on over to DS4J's challenge blog and link your Creations to Challenge #84.

I am proud to say that this time the sentiment has been designed by yours truly in Photoshop.  Hope you like it, as I am sharing it here for you to download and perhaps use on your craft projects.  Just click on the image and then right click on the image and save it to your computer.  Would love to hear from you, should you use it.  

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

• Make it Monday: Anything Goes
• Sister Act: Anything Goes
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes + Optional Twist
• Scribble and Scrap: Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday: Anything goes with uplifting sentiment
• 4 Crafty Girls: ATG
• Aud Sentiments: Any Sentiment
• Chalk n Stock: ATG with Chalk (used dry chalks at the bottom of the image and on the sentiment)
• Little Miss Muffet: fussy Cutting (around dragon flies and main image)
• Brown Sugar: ATG
• Crafts 4 Eternity: Fancy Folds (tent card)
• Graph It Colouring: ATG + Spring Lilacs
• Patties Creations: Stitching, real or faux (2/2)
• Wags n Whiskers: ATG (2/2)
• My Sheri Crafts: Use a Digi
• Glitter n Sparkle: Stitching, real or faux
• One Stitch at a Time: Use a Digi
• Pile it On: Wood (the door)
• Quirky Crafts: 3 Bs, Birds, Bugs, Butterflies
• Artistic Inspirations: ATG Ribbon
• Card Mania: ATG (2/3)
• Crafting from the Heart: ATG Fancy Folds
• Scrapbook Stamp Society: ATG + Use real Ribbon
• Party Time Tuesdays: Use Ribbon
• Through the Craftroom Door: ATG
• Divas by Design: ATG
• Paper Pretties: ATG
• The Paper Shelter: Digi+Sentiment

Signing off with a photo of my niece's two little boys:

Thank you for all your friendly visits here.

Creative hugs

BE HAPPY ...
{DT Project Tammy's Scrapin Corner: Challenge #68}

This week our theme for Challenge #68 at Tammy's Scrapin Corner  is STEP CARDS.  I used the gorgeous Girlz Barefeet digi from Bugaboo.  You can purchase it here. 

Another Centre Step Design, blah blah, old news, you are probably all screaming.  The design papers are from We Are Memory Keepers, Fabscraps and BasicGrey.    I coloured her with Copics, a white gel pen and dry chalks.  The sentiment was also coloured with dry chalks. The brads and bling are from my stash.  

Hope you will play along this week - so come on link your Step creations to Tammy's Scrapin Corner's Challenge No.68. Can't wait to see what you create.

I have tried my hand, for the first time, at creating a digital sentiment. A friend has posted this beautiful saying on Facebook and I just had to make a sentiment digi with it. So here's a little gift.  Click on the sentiment to make it larger, then right click and save it to your computer.  Enjoy.

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

• One Crazy Stamper: Summer Fun
• Deep Ocean: Welcome Summer
• Through the Craftroom Door: Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties: Summer Fun
• Pollycraft: Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday: In the Summertime
• MilkCoffee: Sumer Fun
• My Heart Pieces: Use a Digital Stamp
• Brown Sugar: Summer
• Make it Monday: Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz: Pick and Mix - Anything Goes and/or Embossing
• Creative Corner: Summer
• Inspire me Fridays: Anything Goes
• Pattie's Creations: Summertime Fun
• Sister Act: Anything Goes
• Stampin' for the Weekend: Anything Goes
• Stampin Dragon: Anything Goes
• Di's Digi Designs: Summer Fun
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes with optional Fat Page/Card.)
• Chalk Ah Lot Cafe: Anything Goes with Chalked (chalked around the image and the sentiment) (3/3)
• Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes
• Hobby Cutz: Anything with H (H=Happiness)
• One Stitch at a Time: Not Square
• Pan Pastel UK: Lots of Layers
• Sentimental Sundays: For the Girls
• The Corrosive: Summertime
• 2 Sisters: Summer Fun
• Crafty Bloggers Network: Bright and Breezy
• Crafty Boots: Anything but Square
• Eureka Stamps: Summer Fun
• House of Gilli: Bright Colours or Anything Goes
• Lexi's Creations: Summer Holiday
• Melonheadz Friends: Summer
• Pause Dream Enjoy: Anything Goes
• Platypus Creek Digitals: Anything Goes
• Bugaboo: Oldie but A Goodie Challenge - Butterflies

Thank you for taking the time to stop by and leaving such inspirational comments. Please know that each and every comment is treasured.