HAVE YOURSELF ... {DigiStamps4Joy November 2018 Challenge}

HAVE YOURSELF ...

Design Team Project for  DS4J's challenge blog. 
The theme for this month is
ANYTHING GOES + USE RIBBON OR LACE

I have used the pre-coloured image LEAF FAIRY
which you can purchase here.  I have added the background in PhotoShop CS3. 

The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC . 

The flat pearls, paper clip and poinsettia ribbon flower are from my stash. The folded flower has been created with punches.  The design papers are from my stash.

Looking forward to seeing your creations. So hop on over to DS4J's challenge blog 

and link your Creations to Challenge #154.

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

Just Keep on Creating - ATG
Love to Craft - ATG
Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge - ATG if you are on a design team
Polkadoodles Crafting - ATG
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Christmas Option

Crafting from the Heart - ATG

Creative Fingers - ATG

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - 
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
Craft Rocket - Christmas is coming
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Love to Scrap Challenge Blog - ATG
4 Crafty Chicks - Christmas
Brown Sugar - Thankful ... for the birth of Jesus
Morgans Art World - ATG

Crafty Friends - 2 or more patterned papers
Simply Create Too - more thank one fold
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore - ATG
Crafting by Designs - Get ready for Christmas
PDE Linky Party - ATG
A Gem of a Challenge - ATG
DL.Art - November Linky

Crafty Catz - ATG + optional add sentiment

Daisy Chain - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - ATG
Your Scrapbook Place - ATG
Crafty Creations -ATG
A Perfect Time to Craft - ATG
QKR - ATG
Papercraft Challenge - ATG
Crafters Castle - ATG and/or Option
Not Just Cards - ATG
Creative Crafters - ATG
Rabisco - ATG
Merry Little Christmas Challenge - ATG Christmas
12 Months of Christmas - ATG Christmas and/or all tied up

I also would like to enter my latest Scrapbooking Design (Kit) over at Lets Scrap Sketches 10-15-18

Leaving my lovely readers with my latest CROCHET pdf PATTERN called
CHRISTMAS BAUBLES
(written with step by step coloour photos) which is for sale at
R80.00 (South African Rand) or  US$6.00 (US Dollars)
Just leave me a comment with your email address if you are keen. 

Thank you for stopping by and all the wonderful uplifting love you leave behind.

ATG with CREATE WITH TLC: Challenge No.22 and WINNERS

CHALLENGE NO.22
{ends 16 August 2018}

Paulette from Create with TLC and I, {Doing Life} want to thank those who have taken the time to enter our previous challenge. Your creations are all so wonderfully creative.

Paulette posts regular freebies on her website and you can collect some of them here.

Also visit Create with TLC's Store here and have a look at the wonderful and versatile

Wordart and Image Sets available.

There are also beautiful vintage images  designed by Paulette here and here are some of the latest images in the shop, so hop on over and have a look for yourself at Paulette's amazing vintage images, which are all so versatile for creative use:

How to Play

• Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
• UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
• Link up your entry(s) from a separate blog post) in Mr Linky below.
• The Monthly Winner will receive a Create with TLC set (of their choice) and our Winners Badge. 
• Three Top Picks will also be chosen and can display our Top 3 badge with pride. 
• Please remember to link your POST and not your blog to the Link tool below.
• Also, you must create a link on your blog back to this challenge post!

Unfortunately there has to be a few Rules

• Become a Follower of Create with TLC's blog and Doing Life's blog via Google Friend Connect.
• New challenges will be posted on the FIRST of every month at 8am (CAT/ GMT+2) 
• Your entry must be new. No backlinking to previous posts
• Please link back to this blog {Doing Life} (http://desiref.blogspot.co.za/)
• All themes are Anything Goes.
• Use Inlinkz to link directly to your PROJECT only, please don't link to your entire blog
• You may combine this challenge with other challenges
• Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
• UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
• A special request ... this is a 'family-friendly' site, please respect this and only enter projects that are child-friendly, and not satanic, demonic, gory, or dark! If we feel your entry does not respect this, we will delete your entry.

So before we get onto the next challenge, here are the Top 3 Entries

for Challenge 21.  Huge congrats ladies.  Right click on the Top 3 badge below and display it with pride on your blogs:

13. WendyLynn

14. Karen C

3. Kathy A

 

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.... and well done and congrats to our WINNER who is 

 17. Tammy A 

Tammy, please go and select a set of your choice from
CREATE WITH TLC here

and email your choice and the link from the store to Paulette at tlc4lo@ca.rr.com

Right click on the WINNER's badge below and display it with pride on your blog:

Here is a layout using one of Create with TLC's
wonderful sentiments.

... and here is the Create with TLC Sentiment, I used on my layout to which I added the word LIFE in Photoshopt CS3. 

Just click on the sentiment first to open up in a new window, then right click on it and save it to your computer.  Hope you will also have fun with it.

Cant wait to see your creations, HAVE FUN!!!

{Our apologies in advance, but we cannot comment on Google+ submissions.}

ATG with CREATE WITH TLC: Challenge No.16 and WINNERS

CHALLENGE NO.16
{extended to 31 December 2017}

Paulette from Create with TLC and I, {Doing Life} want to thank those who have taken the time to enter our previous challenge.  Your creations are all so wonderfully creative.

Paulette posts regular freebies on her website and you can collect some of them here.

Also visit Create with TLC's Store here and have a look at the wonderful and versatile

Wordart and Image Sets available.
There are also beautiful vintage images by Paulette here

How to Play

• Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
• UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
• Link up your entry(s) from a separate blog post) in Mr Linky below.
• The Monthly Winner will receive a Create with TLC set (of their choice) and our Winners Badge. 
• Three Top Picks will also be chosen and can display our Top 3 badge with pride. 
• Please remember to link your POST and not your blog to the Link tool below.
• Also, you must create a link on your blog back to this challenge post!

Unfortunately there has to be a few Rules

• Become a Follower of Create with TLC's blog and Doing Life's blog via Google Friend Connect.
• New challenges will be posted on the FIRST of every month at 8am (CAT/ GMT+2) 
• Your entry must be new. No backlinking to previous posts
• Please link back to this blog {Doing Life} (http://desiref.blogspot.co.za/)
• All themes are Anything Goes.
• Use Inlinkz to link directly to your PROJECT only, please don't link to your entire blog
• You may combine this challenge with other challenges
• Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
• UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
• A special request ... this is a 'family-friendly' site, please respect this and only enter projects that are child-friendly, and not satanic, demonic, gory, or dark! If we feel your entry does not respect this, we will delete your entry.

So before we get onto the next challenge, here are the Top 3 Entries

for Challenge 15.  Huge congrats ladies.  Right click on the Top 3 badge below and display it with pride on your blogs:

29. Edwina

23. Wendy

2.Robin

.... and well done and congrats to our WINNER who is 

 30.Kathy

Kathy, please go and select a set of your choice from
CREATE WITH TLC here

and email your choice and the link from the store to Paulette at tlc4lo@ca.rr.com

Right click on the WINNER's badge below and display it with pride on your blog:

Here is a layout using one of Create with TLC's
wonderful sentiments.
Also entering this layout at Scrapping4Fun - Tic Tac Toe
(Quote, Patterned Paper, Use a Punch)

... and here is the Create with TLC Sentiment, I used on my layout.  

Just click on the sentiment first to open up in a new window, then right click on it and save it to your computer.  Hope you will also have fun with it.

Cant wait to see your creations, HAVE FUN!!!

May 2017 Colour It Create It Show It Off REMINDER POST

{WISHING YOU ...}

The theme for the month of May at
My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge, 
is ANYTHING GOES.

Here is my REMINDER project for My Besties Colour It! Create It! Show It off! using this pretty fairy from Sherri Baldy which you can purchase HERE.
I am sure you will all agree, that she is just adorable.
I have coloured her in Photoshop CS3.

The folded embellishments at the top have been created with scallop square punches. 

The flowers and background are from Fred She Said and you can purchase it here and here.
The design papers are from my stash.  I also added some Stickles for a bit of sparkle.

The sentiment is from
Paulette {Create with TLC} 

Hop over to
My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge
and enter your creations. 

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

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Inspiration Destination - ATG

Crafting from the Heart - ATG

Creative Fingers - ATG

Simply Papercraft - ATG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG 

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Crafty Friends - Cute

Simply Create Too - Use a Digi Stamp
Aud Sentiments - Flowers + Sentiment
Card Mania - Life is Colourful
Crafting by Designs - Fantasy
Alphabet Challenge - E is for Enchanted Creatures
My Besties Deautschland - ATG

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG
My Besties 3D and More - ATG

My Besties Dutch Girls - Bestie with Flowers
The Crafters Cafe - Birthday

Create and Inspire - Add some flowers
Daisy Chain - ATG
Crafty Purple Frog - Fabulously Floral
Fab n Funky - Kids and /or Teenager Birthdays
Craft for Craic - ATG
Making Memories - ATG

I have created this wildlife layout with photos I took during our game trip in Pilanesberg in March this year.  This zebra was just too funny for words and I am sure you will agree that he needs to get hold of a toothbrush.  The Blacksmith Plover bird had such a wonderful time bathing and preening his feathers.
I would like to enter this layout over at Lets Scrap Sketches for their
Sketch 5-15-17 challenge

 

ATG with CREATE WITH TLC: Challenge No.10 and WINNERS

CHALLENGE NO.10

Paulette from Create with TLC and I, {Doing Life} want to thank those who have taken the time to enter our previous challenge.  Your creations are all so creative.

Paulette posts regular freebies on her website and you can collect some of them here.

Also visit Create with TLC's Store here and have a look at the wonderful and versatile

Wordart and Image Sets available.
There are also beautiful vintage images by Paulette here

How to Play

• Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
• UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
• Link up your entry(s) from a separate blog post) in Mr Linky below.
• The Monthly Winner will receive a Create with TLC set (of their choice) and our Winners Badge. 
• Three Top Picks will also be chosen and can display our Top 3 badge with pride. 
• Please remember to link your POST and not your blog to the Link tool below.
• Also, you must create a link on your blog back to this challenge post!

Unfortunately there has to be a few Rules

• Become a Follower of Create with TLC's blog and Doing Life's blog via Google Friend Connect.
• New challenges will be posted on the FIRST of every month at 8am (CAT/ GMT+2) 
• Your entry must be new. No backlinking to previous posts
• Please link back to this blog {Doing Life} (http://desiref.blogspot.co.za/)
• All themes are Anything Goes.
• Use Inlinkz to link directly to your PROJECT only, please don't link to your entire blog
• You may combine this challenge with other challenges
• Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
• UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
• A special request ... this is a 'family-friendly' site, please respect this and only enter projects that are child-friendly, and not satanic, demonic, gory, or dark! If we feel your entry does not respect this, we will delete your entry.

So before we get onto the next challenge, here are the Top 3 Entries

for Challenge 9.  Huge congrats ladies.  Right click on the Top 3 badge below and display it with pride on your blogs:

5. Lisa Lynn

1. Gloria Shirr

52. Christine Miller

.... and well done and congrats to our WINNER who is:

30. TracyM

TRACY, please go and select a set of your choice from CREATE WITH TLC here

and email your choice and the link from the store to Paulette at tlc4lo@ca.rr.com

Right click on the WINNER's badge below and display it with pride on your blog:

Here is a layout I created with one of Create with TLC's
wonderful sentiments,
This is a baby photo shoot I did early in March this year.

... and here is the Create with TLC  LITTLE THINGS Sentiment, I used on my layout.

Just click on the sentiment first to open up in a new window, then right click on it and save it to your computer.  Hope you will also have fun with it.

Cant wait to see your creations, HAVE FUN!!!

WISHES {Guest Designer at Scrapping4Fun}

{Guest Designing - Challenge 72 over at Scrapping 4 Fun}

It is such an honour to once again been invited by the lovely Rachelle to take part as a guest designer for her Challenge 72 - Anything Goes.  Thanks so much. Please hop over and have a look at all the guest designers' and talented design team's creations
SCRAPPING 4 FUN

I have created a double page scrapbooking layout with some precious photos I took of Nina's 2nd Birthday party at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 31 January 2016. The Wishes sentiment is from Paulette from CREATE WITH TLC. The folded embellishments have been created with a heart punch. The brads are from my stash.  The design papers are from the awesome South African crafting company called CELEBR8, The photo and paper shapes have been created with the T58 Doing Life Template which you can purchase here.

So hop on over to SCRAPPING 4 FUN and take part in the ANYTHING GOES challenge.

I would love to enter the following challenges with this:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Summer
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Inspiration Destination - ATG
Creative Moments - ATG 

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment
Craft Your Passion - ATG

Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Love to Scrap - ATG
Glitter n Sparkle - ATG
Crafty Boots - Anything but a Card
Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
Crafty Catz - ATG with a Birthday Twist
Craft for Craic - Photo Inspiration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY {with a Bestie}

{To a Person I am HAPPY to know}

Hope all my bloggy friends had a wonderful weekend.
It was a sunny winters Monday here in Johannesburg.
I am here today with another Birthday Card using for the first time, this cute pre-coloured Besties image.  Isn't she just pure sunflower delight and so pretty in her country attire.
You can purchase her here

  The buttons, fabric roses and design papers are from my stash. The layered flower has been created with squares of which the corners have been corner rounded first.
The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC.

I would love to enter my little card creation into the following challenges:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Option Summer

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Inspiration Destination - ATG
My Besties Colour It, Create It, Show It Off - ATG

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Wedding

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG
My Besties UK - ATG with flowers

My Besties 3D and More - ATG
My Besties Aussie Challenge - Die cuts - the flowers
My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or flowers and birds
Create and Inspire - ATG

My Besties International - ATG + Optional Anything but a Card

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG

Scrapping4Fun - ATG

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Through the Craft Room Door - ATG

Crafting from the Heart - ATG

Love to Scrap - ATG
Seize the Birthday -Lets button it
Creative Fingers - ATG
Fussy and Fancy - Say it with flowers
Simply Papercraft - ATG
Brown Sugar - ATG
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Girls of summer
Morgans Art World - Use patterned paper
2 Creative Chicks - ATG
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Artistic Inspirations - ATG
Incy Wincy Designs - Buttons and Bows
The Outlawz June Linky
Julia Spiri - Garden
Crafty Sentiments - ATG (1/1)


Here is another layout I created with South Africa's best design paper manufacturer, Celebr8.
Little Nina was only 9 days old here when I did a photo shoot of her.  Cant believe its more than 2 years ago already.  Here she is with her mom Jeanine and her Granny Joyce.
I would love to enter this layout over at Lets Scrap Sketches as I used this wonderful sketch created by the very talented Michelle van Wyk, as inspiration.

Sketch 6-15-16



Here is my take on this sketch:

Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
A Gem of a Challenge - Anything but a Card

A YEAR FULL OF SMILES + Tutorial

 {Wishing you a Year full of  SMILES}

Hope all my bloggy friends are having a wonderful weekend.  Its a cool and overcast Saturday morning here in Johannesburg, perfect weather for staying indoors and being crafty.
I am here today with another Birthday Card using for the first time, a My Besties FLUFFY girl, isn't she does pure fabulosity. You can purchase her here

  The buttons, brad and design papers are from my stash. The layered flower has been created with squares {see tutorial below}. I also used some dry chalks around the image and on the sentiment as well as a bit of glitter glue to add even more sparkle to her fabulosity.
The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC.

Here is the TUTORIAL for the layered flower (I have used 6cm squares for the bottom two layers and a 5cm square for the top layer):

I would love to enter my little card creation into the following challenges:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Optional layers
613 Avenue Create - ATG 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Inspiration Destination - ATG
My Besties Colour It, Create It, Show It Off - ATG

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Wedding

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG + Option Sketch
My Besties UK - ATG 

My Besties 3D and More - ATG
My Besties Aussie Challenge - Handmade Flowers
My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or flowers and birds
Just Keep on Creating - ATG

PDE Linky Party - ATG
Create and Inspire - ATG

My Besties International - ATG + Optional Anything but a Card

Creative Moments - ATG + Black and one other colour

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG

Scrapping4Fun - ATG

Little Red Wagon - Blooming Fun
The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or add a sentiment
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - ATG

Our Crafty Corner - ATG

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Through the Craft Room Door - ATG

A Beautiful Mess - ATG

Hiding in my Craft Room - Feminine
Jades Sparkling Butterflies - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore - ATG (3/3)
Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Love to Scrap - ATG
The Paper Nest Dolls - ATG
Aud Sentiments - ATG with a Sentiment
Crafting with an Attitude - ATG
Cre8tive Hands Friends - ATG (1/1)
Little Miss Muffet - ATG (1/1)
Seize the Birthday - Add Dimension (layered flower)
Crafty Catz - ATG
Creative Fingers - ATG
Fussy and Fancy - Dies and/or Punches (circle and flower punch)
Simply Papercraft - ATG
Melonheadz Friends - Make it Sparkle
City Crafter - Pretty Pink and Pastels

Digi Choosday - Birthday
Crafty Gals Corner - May Flowers
Craft Rocket - Flower Power
DL ART Thankful Thursday - Flowers and/or Graduation
In the Pink - Happy Anything
Brown Sugar - ATG
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Just Us Girls
Morgans Art World - Add Sparkle
2 Creative Chicks - ATG
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Glitter n Sparkle - ATG
A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers
Allsorts - Birthday
Always Playing with Paper - Photo Inspiration


Here is another layout I created with South Africa's best design paper manufacturer, Celebr8.  This range of design papers features Proteas which is South Africa's national flower and also my favourite flower as I spent my childhood years on a beautiful mountainous Protea farm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
The colours in this range of design papers, complements the 2nd Birthday photo shoot I did of little Nina's 2nd Birthday at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens.
I would love to enter this layout over at Lets Scrap Sketches as I used this wonderful sketch created by the very talented Michelle van Wyk.

Sketch 5-15-16

Here is my take on this sketch:

Lasting Memories - How Many Can You Fit
Pink and Main - ATG
Open Minded Crafting Fun - Use Your Favourite Technique (Paper Folding)
The Studio Challenges - Mood Board

Thank you for stopping by and your inspirational love you leave behind.

Crafty Hugs