YOUTH IS THE GIFT OF NATURE {Guest Designing Scrapping4Fun}

{Guest Designing - Challenge 74 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 74 - Masculine.  Thanks so much. Please hop over and have a look at all the guest designers' and talented design team's creations
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I have sourced the images from the internet.  The folded embellishments have been created with paper squares. The Youth sentiment is from Paulette from CREATE WITH TLC I just added the 'Happy 70th Birthday'. The vintage sentiment has also been sourced from the internet.  The design papers, brads and photo corners are from my stash.

 I also upcycled an empty baby milk tin.  This was a gift for a family member.  In case you wondered, the tin is filled with yummy choccies.

So hop on over to SCRAPPING 4 FUN and take part in the MASCULINE challenge no.74.

I would love to enter the following challenges with this:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG
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
Glitter n Sparkle - Add some Metal (metal gold brads and metal on car)
Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Crafty Gals Corner -ATG
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Artistic Inspirations - ATG
Simply Papercraft - ATG
Allsorts - Anniversaries and special occasions (Birthday)
Love to Scrap Challenge Blog - ATG
CCC Digi Creations - 3 of a Kind (3 folded flower embellishments)
OLLCB - ATG

Sunny Day Crafting - ATG
Just Keep on Creating - ATG
Aud Sentiments - Fall Colours + Sentiment
Star In My Pocket - Its Fall (used fall colours)
Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
Craftaholics R Us - Birthday Cards for Guys
Country View - Travel

Some more UPCYCLED TEA BOXES

UPCYCLED EMPTY TEA BOXES
{Wedding and Easter}

Trust all my bloggy friends are keeping well and enjoying the month of March.  Yes, where is the year going too - all the more reason to make the most of every day that is gifted to us.  I have recently been busy with a few commissions for upcycled empty tea boxes.  They are time consuming, but so rewarding.  Thank you to my loyal and faithful clients that keep on placing orders for these and for those awesome friends who goes to the extra effort of collecting the empty boxes for me.

So up first is Easter themed treat boxes for the kiddies.  The bunny house image is a pre-coloured image from DigiStamps4Joy and can be purchased here.  The sentiment has been sourced from the Internet.

Next up are some Easter boxes for grown ups.  The beautiful Word Art is from the very talented and special lady, Paulette from Create with TLC and can be purchased here.

Then lastly, a commission for an upcycled Wedding tea box.  The colour scheme of the wedding is purple.  The gorgeous word art on this is also from Paulette from Create with TLC .

I would love to try my hand at the following challenges with my little upcycled tea boxes:

613 Avenue Create - ATG with optional twist
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG (2/2)
Inspiration Destination - ATG
Word Art Wednesday - ATG
Altered Eclectics - ATG
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - ATG
Recycle Re-Purpose Re-Invent - ATG but must Recycle
Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything but a Card
QKR Stampede - Bring on the Green
Craft Your Passion - ATG
Crafty Boots - Anything but a Card
Eureka Stamps - ATG
Get Creative - Green
Scrap Creations - Green
Crafty Glas Corner - Cute as a Button
Creative Moments - ATG/Spring Green
Little Red Wagon - Cute Cute Cute
Sisterhood of Crafters - Photo Inspiration

Thank you again for all your wonderful visits and all the love you leave for me here. My apologies for not returning all your comments, but I promise to catch up soon xxx

Crafty hugs

UPCYCLED MILK TIN

UPCYCLED EMPTY BABY MILK FORMULA TINS

{Warning Photo Heavy Post}

It was cute little Nina's FIRST Birthday on 4 February 2015 and her dear mom, Jeanine has been saving all Nina's empty milk formula tins for me to use in my upcycling projects.  So I thought it fit to upcycle one especially for Nina to gift her a 1st birthday gift with.  I have used the cute little dancing elephant from QKR Stampede which you can purchase here.  The folded embellies have been created with scallop square punches. The sentiment is from Hannelie (Desert Diva). 

... and here are some photos of the photo shoot I did of Nina's cake smashing celebrating her first birthday.  The grown ups had more fun than little Nina, as she is a very neat little girl and did not want to get dirty at all.  It was more a cake caressing than a cake smashing photo shoot, lol. Nina's mom Jeanine, baked and decorated the beautiful cake - such a shame to have to dig into it.

I would love to try my hand at the following challenges with my upcycled milk tin:

613 Avenue Create - ATG with optional twist
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG (2/2)
Inspiration Destination - ATG
Word Art Wednesday - ATG
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - ATG
Recycle Re-Purpose Re-Invent - ATG but must Recycle
Flashback Friday - Use Pink or Blue and something more than 1 year old from your stash.  The flat pearls has been in my stash for nearly 2 years)
Just Inspirational - Any Animal
The Outlawz - Tuesday Colour Inspiration

Crafty Glas Corner - ATG
Decorate to Celebrate - ATG
Paper Shelter - Recycle
Craft for the Craic - Birthday or Anniversary
Creative Corner - Kiddy Fun
A Gem of a Challenge - Children's playtime
Dis Digi Designs - Lots of Embellishments
Come and Get It - Birthdays
Crafty Boots - Use a Sentiment
Through the Purple Haze - Embellish Embellish
Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG
Not Just Cards - ATG

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

Crafty hugs

XMAS TEA BOXES

UPCYCLED EMPTY TEA BOXES
{Warning Photo Heavy Post}

Happy Boxing Day to all my bloggy friends and I trust that you all had a blessed Christmas yesterday or just felt the love and peace on the day, if you do not celebrate Christmas.  Me and the hubby had a very peaceful day, just the two of us, as we already had our family celebrations last Saturday.  It was also my niece, Heidi's middle son's 9th Birthday celebration on 20 December, so it was a double festive celebration.

I baked some homemade chocolate crunchies and fruit squares to fill these empty tea boxes with.  I decorated the boxes with BoBunny design papers and the sentiment is from DIGISTAMPS4JOY called JOY N PEACE and can be purchased here.  The sentiment has been coloured here and there with Copics.  The flat pearls are from my stash.

The tasty treats inside:

I would love to try my hand at the following challenges with my little upcycled tea boxes:

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Christmas
Allsorts - Last minute gifts
Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Whatever is needed for Christmas
We Do Doobadoo - Festive Spirit
613 Avenue Create - ATG with optional twist
Come and Get It - Merry Christmas
My Besties Norge - Christmas/New Year Celebration
Pile it On - ATG Christmas/Holiday
Sentimental Sundays - Anything but a card with a sentiment
That Craft Place - ATG (1/1)
The Christmas Challenge - ATG as long as it is Christmas
Card Mania - Christmas (3/3)
Dream Valley - Christmas (3/3)
Melonheadz - Christmas/Winter Holiday
Not Just Cards - ATG
Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Option Christmas
Stamp and Create - Christmas
Stamps and Fun = Creativity - Christmas
The Crazy Challenge - Everything Goes
Deep Ocean - Christmas all around
Just Inspirational - Christmas
PDE Linky Party - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG (2/2)
Bafies Kreativladen - Gift Packaging
Inspiration Destination - ATG
Miriams Crafting Blog - Handmade Gifts
The Paper Shelter - Christmas Challenge - ATG (3/3)
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG (3/3)
Word Art Wednesday - ATG
A Girl who Crafts - Christmas
Altered Eclectics - ATG
Always Something Creative - Christmas
Bearly Mine - Anything but a card
Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Extra - ATG Christmas
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - ATG
Scrap It Girl - Wrap it Up
Scribbles Designs - Tis the Season
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - ATG
The Craft Garden - Christmas
Recycle Re-Purpose Re-Invent - ATG but must Recycle
CRAFT - ATG
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday - Twist is ATG
Just Add Ink - Giving

Leaving you with some of the family photos taken to Birthday/Christmas Celebration:

My nieces, Liesl and Heidi with Alisha and yours truly

The Birthday boy - Zander

The little poser Alisha, Zander's sister

The guys having a little fun

My niece Heidi and her beautiful family

Thank you again for all your wonderful visits during 2014 and all the love you left for me here.  Wishing you all a blessed time during the remainder of the festive season.

Crafty hugs

ONE STITCH AT A TIME {CS Designs Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent Challenge Blog}

{CS Designs Recycle Challenge}

I was so thrilled when the lovely and very talented Chris Stern from CS Designs approached me to do a guest designer project for her December Challenge.  And of course I did not even hesitate with the YES answer.  

Chris gave me this awesome SEWING SERIES to play with.  Now this set has everything you will need for any sewing themed projects.  And I am sure you will agree, they are just so versatile. 

Here is a link to Chris's online shop i.e. CS Designs.

The CS Designs Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent Challenge is all about upcycling any items you would have trashed.  I have used an empty baby milk powder tin for my project.  A friend of mine has a 9 month old baby girl and goes through about 5 of these tins a month and has been saving the empty tins for yours truly.  The tin is quite large and makes for a lovely container gifting a gift with.

Here is the link to CS Designs Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent Challenge

Hop over and have a look at me and the other guest designer(s) projects and reduce your carbon footprint here on earth by upcycling an item and enter it into the challenge.  The them is Anything Goes.

For my project I used cardstock circle punch-outs for the folded embellishments.  I have coloured the buttons on the lid with Copics.  The brads and buttons are from my stash.  The measuring tapes round the top and bottom of the tin is also part of the Sewing Series, so too the image on the lid, the sentiment and the manikins,

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

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes + Optional Twist
Sister Act Card Challenge - ATG
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
Word Art Wednesday - ATG with a Sentiment
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG (2/2)
Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG (3/3)
Inspiration Destination - ATG
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - ATG

Its all about the Vintage - Home made embellishments - (the folded embellishments have been created with circle punches)

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

Crafty hugs