88 Today

I need to say a special Happy Birthday to my mom who is turning 88 today.

Yesterday we had cake and tea with her, my dad and the rest of the family.

My sister baked a Carrot cake, using a recipe my mom once won a price with.

It was delicious!

My niece and I made her a 3-D birthday card which she enjoyed a lot.

After the party I took out all the hearts and flowers and stars.

Tied it into a bundle and she took it home.

Happy Birthday Mom, we love you lots. x

Cards with Doilies and Roses.

This was the last card class for 2013.

One of the cards will be published in a magazine, so I will not have a picture 

of that card until it was published.

If you count the layers, you will see that there are 5 layers of paper.

I think that is enough to give you space to work with color,

texture, pattern, shape, contrast and dimension.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and may all your New Years wishes come true.

Saturday is our first class for this year and I still need to work on those cards.

May you all have a very creative year!!

xx

Glitter on my sneakers

Last night I painted the sneakers and it was a surprise to see them this morning. 

Normally I use Dala Sun paint on the sneakers, but I wanted this colour 

and couldn't figure out how to mix it. So I used Acrylic paint.

 Dala Sun paint is very fluid and the canvas of your sneakers doesn't

become hard or stiff when it is dry. 

I used the excess paint to stain the laces.

They have a very distressed look to them.

Now I need to do the bling!! 

I like the colour and the glitter. 

Shiny but not to shiny.

Cotton Canvas Sneaker Trouble.

Glitter, the trouble is glitter!

You need sparkle in your life and you need to

 leave a little sparkle where ever you go!

So the next thing is glitter for my tekkies.

I am still figuring it out how to get the glitter to stick to the tekkies

so that my you won't be able to follow my glitter trail all the way home.

Fabric medium or Gel medium will surely do it.

I hope to get them done before next week.

Will keep you posted !

French Blue

Any one that knows me, knows that I love blue.

Quite a while ago I made three cushion covers, but I still need two more

and I had to use blue. Blue Stencil paint and blue lace This colour was the closest to 

Woad and to me Woad is the perfect colour blue.

 

I could really sit and do this for hours, I just need someone to bring me 

some coffee once in a while! 

 I added a little bit of silver on the crown.

Then I took another design and did it in red. 

This is all the same colour red. Just add more or less paint.

 I will cut these two designs smaller and stitch them onto the bigger covers. 

Then I will add some ribbon and lace.

OK, now for the confession.... they are still under construction

and when they are done I will post the pictures.

What I have done in the meanwhile.... baked some Ginger biscuits,

some Soetkoekies and Lebkuchen. 

Completed the last card class for the year and wrote two 

articles and completed the two projects for magazines

 that are to be published in 2014.

That is why there were no blog posts.

Sorry guys! 

Stencilled Shopping Tote

A lot of family and friends are celebrating their birthdays this month.

So it is time to make gifts.

Decorating this cotton canvas tote was quick and it was fun.

You don't need a lot of supplies and there are so many

different ways with paint, oil paint sticks, Sharpie markers,

Ribbon, lace, buttons and.....

Always have a piece of fabric at hand that you can practice

your skills and colour combinations on.

If you think it looks a bit plain, zoosh it up with

a little bit of French ribbon,

If you want to die the tote, wash it to get rid of all the starch.

Then die it while it is wet. Colours blend better on wet fabric.

Have a good week.

Create and have some fun!

The Space!

I am slowly moving into my new space and I am loving it!

The sun is still shining through the window, the music is playing and

there is paint and paper and glue and stuff...

what more can I want?

 

 

It is so easy to fill up a space with craft supplies.

 

 

I also had my first class last Saturday.

A tekkie class! Here are the girls creations.

 

 

 

Here is the project for the class on 

 

Saturday 16 November at

 Sweetscrappins.

Christmas Door Hanger.

 

 

 

 

R140.00

 

09:00 - 12:00

Techniques: Stamping

Die cutting

Colouring with Distress markers

Spraying with Glimmer Mists

Contact Carla at: 012 329 9175

 

 

 

 

Altered Cigar Box

Sometimes you just have to make something, just because

 you want to, or as Benice says: Just because you can!

 

 

Cigar boxes are wonderful to work with and a excellent object to alter.

This is what I have done with mine.

 

Remove all the existing paper. Take the all the measurements and cut

the paper into the different sizes. I took my guide from the box itself.

 

Plan the cover carefully and don't glue anything down until you have a

place and a space for everything.

Move it around until you are happy with your layout.

 

 

I used:

Prima Paper

Silk ribbon

Antique lace

UTEE

Distress stains

Distress paints

Glimmer mists

Embellishments from my stash

 

 

A sneak peak of the indide of the box.

You will find more detail in the latest Scrapping & kie

magazine. Issue 57.