Blessed with beauty

We had a wonderful conference beginning of June with Scrapaway and we really had a marvellous time. The venue was lovely and the food was just absolutely YUMMY!!! We had a spitbraai for lunch and then the most DELICIOUS desserts made by Cheryl! The day was a huge success and I loved teaching this wonderful group of scrappers!

I used the gorgeous paper from Pink Paislee , imported by Scrap Shack Studio especially for the conference. With my layout I tried to teach different techniques that can be incorporated in other layouts and cards. The embossed circles were created using a 50c coin and then distressed it with charcoal cats eye. Then followed some "bullet holes", paper weaving, paper frills, folding techniques, layering and tearing, distressing and inking and some hand drawn journal lines and borders.

The lace border around the photo softens the look and the beautiful journal block is perfect for the title! Of course I had to add a blossom for feminine touch and some buttons for flair!

This is a lovely design for very bold papers or different off-cuts you really love! If you don't like the distressed ink look on the circles just leave them plain for a lovely detailed effect! (It's me in the blue shirt age 5!!!)

Happy scrappin'

Butterfly Magic

This layout is still one of my favourites! The butterflies were from a die-cut sheet but the look can easily be achieved by using a slice/cricut/silhouette or even print a butterfly image and hand-cut the design. It is a wonderful way to use pretty off-cut pieces to beautiful to file in the round file :). The words are from a stamp set and were soooo perfect for the layout.

Hope a butterfly flutters by you today and bring a smile to your face (even if it is only a stunning paper or bling one!!)

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Valentine?

I would also have a smile right round my face if I got such a HUGE bunch of flowers. My little one was seriously worried when she got this bunch of flowers from her "valentine"!! She did not know if it was okay to get flowers from this stranger!!! When I explained her daddy is her valentine (now and FOREVER!!) this is the delighted face we ended up with!!

I had to record the story and these valentine's papers were just perfect!

Hope you get spoiled with something that puts a smile on your face!

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I just loved this little pose in our first ever school photo. It is however OBVIOUS this photographer (nor his wife, aunt, cousin, mom or any relative!!!!!) does not scrapbook!! The vivid green background and multicoloured framed is every scrapbooker's worst nightmare. I didn't want to photoshop the background as this is the authentic version - the real first photo :). I must admit the Kaisercraft paper picks up the colours from the photo and in the end the white in the background paper neutralises the vivid green (a little bit, at least!!).

Try and scrap your seriously colourful photos - in the end it is the memory we want to keep forever!!

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Merci

I am in awe of the new Delish range! It is just too gorgeous:)-- (this is the drool face!!). The silver merci frame is actually a blank frame form the Delish range. I fitted a piece of patterned paper inside to which I added the Merci rub-on (also from the Delish range) and covered it with dimensional glaze. This way you can create a mine frame in any colour or with any saying that matches your paper or occasion!

Now I just have to find someone French to say thank you too:)

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Yesterday my little one decided we will be makers today...... (a bit of hesitation as I didn't really understand what being a maker entailed!!) Well, we started of making crumpets for breakfast and we "made" our way to the wildlife sanctuary, we "made" a stop at Wimpy for lunch (which was an ice cream and a Cream Soda!!!) and we ended the day making some yummy biscuits. These were then made up in 12 packets (I got firm instructions who were to receive a packet this week) to say "I love You" to the people that means a lot to her. One for her teacher, teacher's assistant, Music teacher, Ballet teacher, English teacher (since she is in an Afrikaans class in junior Pre-primary they get and English teacher to teach them songs and rhymes on a Tuesday!), playball teacher, computer teacher, aftercare teachers and ouma, oupa and Aunt!!!

I made up the bags with flowers and ribbon and even a little gem! The tags were a whole lot of fun. I used my Spellbinder Nestabilities (NEVER used them before!!) and it was absolutely magnificent! One swoosh through the CuttleBug and voila! Definitely worth investing in........mmmmmmmmmmm:) A few ink strokes and the cutest stamp and they were ready to be sent off to school. Pretty, even if I have to say so myself!!

Only one problem ............. did you see the massive range in the Nestabilities...........

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Holiday Madness!!

I must admit - if I EVER saw a real Lindt chocolate bunny this size, this is EXACTLY the hug it would get from me!!!! :) My little one LOVES the normal size Lindt bunnies and this was just too much for her chocoholic heart to handle!! (.... and yes, I did buy her a little one to make up for the devastation when realising this is not really chocolate and no, she can't take it home!!)

I hope you had a wonderful and blessed Easter! We had a lovely holiday with no computer, no internet and.......you guessed it - no posts. So now, I'm a BB (bad blogger;)..again!

My parents always said after arriving home from a holiday : "Oh, it's sooooo good to be home!". I always thought it was a crazy thing to say - who didn't enjoy holiday!! I must be getting old - those where my exact words when we arrived back at home sweet home.

To top it all I enjoyed the last overnight of the holiday in hospital with UTI (urinary tract infection for the non-medical bloggers:) and must admit I'm still not 100%. The experience made me sooo grateful - it was the first time in my life I had an IV and apart from childbirth it was my first time ever in hospital!! I realised how much I had to be thankful for - the Lord blessed me with such amazing EVERYTHING! Anyhow......

I have a few lovely projects I completed just before the holiday and will post them pretty soon ........... I hope :)

Happy scrappin'