A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ... {2nd Reminder Design Team project April 2020 Color It Create It Show It Off}

{WISHING YOU ...}

My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge

Hi to all my lovely followers.
Here is my 2nd Reminder April 2020 project for My Besties Colour It! Create It! Show It off! using this super cute STARS IN YOUR EYES girl from Sherri Baldy and you can purchase her HERE.

The sentiment and background are from Create with TLC

The image has been coloured in Photoshop CS3.  The folded embellishments have been created with circle punches and the brad, clip, buttons and design papers are from my stash.   

You can find my TUTORIAL for the folded Circles HERE

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:

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge - ATG if you are on a design team
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Geometric Shapes Option

Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Aud Sentiments - Birthday

Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Lemon Shortbread - ATG
Incy Wincy Designs - Shoes
The Outlawz April Linky
The Outlawz Festive Fridays - Female Birthday
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG

My Besties Brazil - ATG 

DL.Art - April Linky

Daisy Chain - Birthday
Fab n Funky - Spot or Dots
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Bunnies Birds or other B's (Balloon, Birthday, ...)
Creative Crafters - ATG
Arty Divas - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - ATG
Creatalicious - ATG + optional Marble background
Cardz TV - ATG
All Fun Challenges - ATG + Easter option
Crafting Happiness - ATG + Easter option

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ... {Design Team Project August 2019 Color It Create It Show It Off}

{HAPPY BIRTHDAY ...}

My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge

Here is my August 2019 project for My Besties Colour It! Create It! Show It off! using this fun Pets Boy from Sherri Baldy and you can purchase him HERE.

I have coloured him and added the sentiment and background in Photoshop CS3.
The circle embellishments have been created with circle punches and you can find the TUTORIAL for them elsewhere on my blog HERE, and the design papers and brads are from my stash. 

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:

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge - ATG if you are on a design team
Polkadoodles Crafting - ATG
Colour Crazy - ATG that is coloured
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
Creative Moments - 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
Craft Rocket -
Brown Sugar - ATG
CCC Digi Creations - Summer
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - 

Morgans Art World - ATG

Crafty Friends - Summer Colours
Aud Sentiments - Sentiment + for a child
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore - ATG
Lemon Shortbread - ATG
Crafting by Designs -
A Gem of a Challenge
My Besties Aussie - ATG

My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG 

My Besties 3D and More - ATG
My Besties International - ATG 

My Besties Brazil - ATG 
My Besties Art Spain - ATG 

DL.Art - August Linky
Cute Card Thursday - ATG

Your Scrapbook Place -
Crafty Creations - ATG
Pearly Sparkles - Something beginning with B (Blue and Birthday and Boy)
A Perfect Time to Craft - ATG
QKR - ATG
Papercraft Challenge - 
Crafters Castle - ATG and/or Any Occassion - Birthday
Knutsel Kadootjes - Blou Geel Wit
Creative Crafters - ATG
Double Trouble - Something Anything
Rabisco - ATG
Arty Divas - Anything Goes

Also leaving you with one of my latest crochet cardigans ... for a little boy

ATG with CREATE WITH TLC: Challenge No.12 and WINNERS

CHALLENGE NO.12

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

41. Jacki - and the WINNER of this challenge (see below!)

46. Margaret

1. Margaret

.... and well done and congrats to our WINNER who is Faith -
{Faith has been so generous as passing the prize onto JACKI as she is on the Create with TLC design team.  Thanks so much Faith for your generosity:

13. Faith

Jacki, 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 card I created with one of Create with TLC's
wonderful sentiments,

 

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

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.

... and here is the tutorial for the folded embellishments on my card:

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

HAPPY {Guest Designing at My Besties Germany}

{Guest Designing - MY BESTIES GERMANY}

It is such an honour to have won a guest designer position over at MY BESTIES GERMANY.  Thanks so much Gudrun. Please hop over and have a look at all the guest designers' and talented design team's creations.

I have created this little center step card using this cute pre-coloured My Besties Girl
which you can purchase here.
The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC, I just added the Happy Birthday.
The papers (are from my scraps file), chipboard and brads are from my stash.  The crochet flower has been made for me by a very dear friend. I have painted the chipboard flourishes with Stickles. The folded flower has been created from paper squares - see TUTORIAL below. 

... and here is the TUTORIAL for the folded flower, I used two 5x5cm squares:

I would love to enter this into the following challenges:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Halloween
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 Aussie - 

My Besties Deautschland - ATG ??

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG + Happy Birthday
My Besties 3D and More - ATG ??

My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or Halloween Autumn
My Besties International - ATG or Halloween ??

My Besties Brazil - ATG and/or Halloween

Creative Moments - ATG ??

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

Scrapping4Fun - ATG

The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or Autumn Colours
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - ATG ??

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Crafting from the Heart - ATG

Little Miss Muffet - ATG (1/1)
Crafty Gals Corner -ATG ??
Morgans Art World -
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Artistic Inspirations - ATG Just for Fun
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - ATG ??
Simply Papercraft - ATG
Just Us Girls - Olive Gold Rust
A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Allsorts -
Crafty Friends - Autumn colours
Creative Fingers - ATG ??
Jos Scrap Shack - Recycled Scraps (all the papers on this card is from my scraps left over file)
Simply Create Too - Halloween
Aud Sentiments -
CRAFT -
Craft Rocket - Happy Birthday
Fresh Brewed Designs -
The Paper Shelter -
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore -
Card Mania -
Crafty Boots - Halloween
Love to Scrap Challenge Blog -
DL.ART - October Linky Challenge
DL.Art - Thankful Thursday - Halloween
OLLCB -
Lemon Shortbread -
Sunny Day Crafting - ATG
Crafting by Designs - Add a Sentiment
4 Crafty Chicks -
As you Like it -
Crafting with an Attitude - ATG
PDE Linky Party - All Cards
Creative Ladybirds -
Art by Miran - ATG (1/1)
Brown Sugar - Handmade Flowers
Crafty Girls Creations -
Cutie Pie -
CCC Digi Creations -
Chalk n Stock -t)
Catch the Bug - 
Just Keep on Creating - ATG

HELLO {Guest Designing Scrapbook Stamp Society}

 {Hello Birthday Girl}

It was such an honour to have won a Guest Designer spot over at
Scrapbook Stamp Society with a Besties card made for their challenge blog.
Thank you so much for having me.
This is a girly Birthday Card using a super cute MY BESTIES image
which you can purchase here

  The brads, buttons and design papers are from my stash. The flowers have been created with flower punches.  The folded flower has been created with paper squares (see my TUTORIAL below)  The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC. 

I would love to enter this into the following challenges:

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

Inspiration Destination - ATG
613 Avenue Create - ATG and/or Colours of Fall
My Besties Colour It, Create It, Show It Off - ATG
My Besties Aussie - Layer it Up

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Autumn
My Besties Art Spain - ATG + Optional Black and White

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

My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or Fruit
My Besties International - ATG 

My Besties Brazil - ATG and/or Doily

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment

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

Crafting from the Heart - ATG

Little Miss Muffet - ATG (1/1)
Crafty Gals Corner -
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge -
Simply Papercraft - ATG
A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Creative Fingers - ATG
Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
Aud Sentiments -
Craft Rocket -
The Paper Shelter - Card of Many folds (center step card and folded flower)
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore -
Crafty Boots -
Love to Scrap Challenge Blog - ATG
OLLCB -
Lemon Shortbread - ATG
Sunny Day Crafting - ATG
Crafting by Designs -
4 Crafty Chicks -
As you Like it - Favourite colour combo (pink and green as it is just so lovely and girly)
Crafting with an Attitude -
PDE Linky Party -
Just Keep on Creating - ATG
Creative Ladybirds - ATG
Art by Miran - ATG
Brown Sugar - ATG
Crafty Girls Creations - ATG
Cutie Pie - Cute + Birthday

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY {Guest Designer at Through the Craft Room Door}

{Guest Designing - Through the Craft Room Door}

It is such an honour to have been invited by the lovely Deonna to take part as a guest designer Through the Craft Room Door.  Thanks so much. Please hop over and have a look at all the guest designers' and talented design team's creations
Through the Craft Room Door

I have created this little center step card using the cute Scarecrow Willie from
Digital Delights who is the Sponsor. The sentiment is also from Digital Delights. I have coloured Willie in Photoshop CS3.  The papers (are from my scraps file), buttons and brads are from my stash.  The little flower sprays have been made with punches.  The yellow folded embellishments have been created with a Jumbo Flower punch and scroll down to see the tutorial on how I made them.

and here is the TUTORIAL on the folded embellishments:

I would love to enter the following challenges with this:

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

Inspiration Destination - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG

Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Jos Scrap Shack - 3 Colours, 2 Embellishments 1 Technique (Orange Brown and Gree, Buttons and Brads, Folded Embellishments)
Crafty Catz - ATG with a Anything but Square Twist

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or Use lace or pearls

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - ATG

Simply Papercraft - ATG

Creative Fingers - ATG
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore - ATG
OLLCB - ATG
Sunny Day Crafting - ATG
4 Crafty Chicks - Birthday
Crafting with an Attitude - ATG
Digital Delights by Louby Loo - ATG (1/1)
PDE Linky Party - ATG
Just Keep on Creating - ATG
Creative Ladybirds - ATG
Deep Ocean - Bingo (buttons, flowers, sentiment)

Everybody Art Challenge - ATG
Artistic Inspirations - ATG
Cutie Pie - Cute + Birthday
Love to Scrap - Use 2 or more Flowers
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Fall Colours
Allsorts - Anniversaries or special occasions
Hiding in my Craftroom - Use scraps (all the papers on my card are from my scraps file)
Brown Sugar - ATG
QKR Stampede - Fall Colours
Simply Create Too - Fall Colours
CRAFT - Easel Cards (center step card)
Moving Along with the Times - All kinds of everything
Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge - Use at least 3 pieces of scraps (all the papers on my card are from my scraps file)

SUNSHINEY DAY {My Besties UK Challenge}

{Wishing you a Sunshiney Day ...}

The theme for the month of July at My Besties UK Challenge, is
ANYTHING GOES with an OPTIONAL TWIST of SUMMERTIME.

So honoured to be on this design team and here is my very first design team project for My Besties UK using this super adorable fairy from Sherri Baldy which you can purchase HERE.
She is just precious with her little butterfly friend.

The  folded embellishments have been created with tag punches.  The buttons and design papers are from my stash.  The image has been coloured in Photoshop CS3.  

The sentiment has been coloured with dry chalks and is from Paulette {Create with TLC}.  

Hop over to My Besties UK Challenge and enter your Bestie creations. 

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

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Butterflies
613 Avenue Create - ATG or Roses

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

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

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Butterflies

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG + Happy Birthday
My Besties 3D and More - ATG

My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or Flowers Lace
My Besties International - ATG or Fantasy

My Besties Brazil - ATG and/or Bingo 

Creative Moments - ATG + Summer

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

Scrapping4Fun - Travel and/or Holiday

Little Red Wagon - Button It Up
The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or Hobbies
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - ATG

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Crafting from the Heart - ATG

Little Miss Muffet - ATG (1/1)
Crafty Gals Corner - Summer Fun
Morgans Art World - Pattern Paper
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Artistic Inspirations - ATG
A Bit More Time to Craft - ATG
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - ATG
Crafting by Designs - ATG
Crafty Creations - ATG (2/2)
The Paper Shelter - Photo Inspiration
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - ATG
Sisterhood of Crafters - Created the background in Photoshop
Seize the Birthday - Birthday + Bees, Butterflies
Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Girls of Summer
Simply Papercraft - ATG
Catch the Bug - ATG
Crafty Calendar - Punches and/or Dies (tag punches for the folded embellishments) (1/1)
Just Us Girls - Summer

Thank you for your wonderful visits here and all the love you leave behind.

SUNSHINEY DAY

 {Wishing you a SUNSHINEY DAY}

Hope all my bloggy friends are having a wonderful week.  It is a public holiday here in South Africa, namely Youth Day, so its a lovely excuse to spend the sunny winters day indoors with some crafty goodness.
I am here today with another Birthday Card using for the first time, My Besties FLUFFY BEACH BABES, aren't they just pure fabulosity. You can purchase them here

  The buttons, brad and design papers are from my stash. The folded embellishments has been created with circle punches {see tutorial below}. I also used some dry chalks on the sentiment. The flourishes were stamped with Chiswick acrylic stamps.  I added the coloured background to the image with gradient fill in Photoshop CS3.
The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC.

Here is the TUTORIAL for the folded circle embellishments.

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

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Fathers Day
613 Avenue Create - ATG or create own challenge

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

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

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Butterflies

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG + Option Crafty Paper
My Besties UK - ATG with Flowers

My Besties 3D and More - ATG
My Besties Art Spain - ATG
My Besties Aussie Challenge - ATG + Die Cuts
My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or boys
Just Keep on Creating - ATG

Create and Inspire - ATG

My Besties International - ATG 
My Besties Brazil - Bingo (Die Cut-Flowers, Flower, Metal-Brads)

Creative Moments - ATG + Stitching

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

Scrapping4Fun - Travel and/or Holiday

Little Red Wagon - Off we go
The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or bling it on
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - ATG

Our Crafty Corner - ATG

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Through the Craft Room Door - ATG

A Beautiful Mess - ATG

Crafting from the Heart - ATG
The Paper Nest Dolls - ATG
Crafting with an Attitude - ATG
Little Miss Muffet - ATG (1/1)
Creative Fingers - ATG
City Crafter - Lets go to the Beach
Crafty Gals Corner - Summer Fun
Morgans Art World - Happy Birthday
2 Creative Chicks - ATG
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Artistic Inspirations - ATG
Get Creative - Bingo straight down (Digi Stamp/Black Brown/Sentiment)
The Paper Girls - The great outdoors
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Summer (1/1)
Crafting for all Seasons - Make it girly
Crafty Creations - Tic Tac Toe - straight down (punch, image, birthday)
Fresh Brewed Designs - Life is a Beach
Sisterhood of Crafters - Summer Time Fun
Stampavie and More - Summer
Simply Create Too - Buttons or Bows
Cardz 4 Galz - Summer Fun
A Bit More Time to Craft - ATG
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday - Use Buttons
The Outlawz June 2016 Inlinkz
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie

I also managed to crochet another scarf for hubby.  Used a weave pattern this time.

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

Crafty Hugs