WOYWW - 118?

Wednesday again?!! How did that happen? I am glad to be able to tell you that even though I have been incredibly busy in my craftroom, it still looks relatively presentable. OK Maybe not as beautiful as the last three weeks, but still quite clean don't you think?
In the background you will see the pile of wedding invitations I have been working on. To the left is the box of coloured images I found when I was cleaning up. Some I had actually forgotten about! LOL. There is also a tin of fudge (Almost empty!) and then the left overs from the pink Elephant Challenge card I was making and of course my beloved Copics and the new La La Land Crafts stamps I got yesterday in the process of being coloured. I was so excited to finally find summery Christmas images, I forgot that its too early for the C word.
Thought I would show you some more of the awesome La La Land cards I made with my new stamps. The first one is the cheerleader. How cute is she? Papers are from my scrapbox, The cardstock is Bazzil and the doily from my local grocery store. Her dress and poms were glitterified with Stickles.

Seeing that the Rugby World Cup starts on Friday in New Zeeland, I just had to make this little rugby Luka. Coloured him in green and Gold for the Springboks of course! The dp is from a Basic Grey paperstack I have had for ages and the ribbon and button from my stash.

Last but not least, this cute little Luka. Love him! Its so hard to find male images that are not totally depressing and look more like sympathy cards than anything else. The dp is also from my scrapbox. Used a Martha Stewart punch for the border and the ribbon and brad are from my stash.

If you still don't know why I am posting pictures of my desk, go to Julia's blog and join in the fun. ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ )

Have a great week everybody, I am back at school, but will do my best to visit all of you.

WOYWW and some CHA finds.

I can not believe its been only a week since I have been back from CHA! So much has happened. I came back and had to organise a huge prize giving function at school (the old leaders were handing over their reigns to the new ones!) and my grandchildren (3 of them) are being Christened next Sunday, so invitations needed to be made and of course, I was itching to get my hands on all the new toys I got at CHA.
That is the reason for the mess on my desk this morning. I was hoping that it would look better if I took an artistic photo with sunbeams reflecting, but it still looks terrible LOL.It was so bad that I had to flee my craftroom last night and work on the couch!

Now the couch and the TV room looks just as bad as my craftroom! I think its time for a clean up, don't you?

One of my favourite finds from CHA was La La Land stamps. They are just too gorgeous! I bought a whole lot of them, because I could not actually find any that I did not like! For my South African friends - she has some Summer Christmas stamps!!! They were not quite ready at CHA, but I have ordered some if anybody is interested!

The first one uses some Prima and other flowers from my stash and some lace from Wild Orchid Crafts. Of course they were all coloured with my beloved Copics.

Here is a close up, hoping you can see how I glitterified her shoes and jewelery.

They have some awesome boy images. Don't know about you, but I always seem to battle with the boy cards. These images are so cute, this card just came together. The bread tag with the sentiment on is another new CHA find. The die cut is from My favorite Things.

Last, but certainly not the last LA La Stamp you will see from me is this gorgeous Cupcake Supergirl! Just love her! The sentiment is from My favorite Things. All other dies are Nestabilities and all cardstock is Bazzil and the dp all came from my scrapbox.

I am going shopping for paper - not for me, I have to make wedding invitations for a friend's son!

While I am gone go and snoop at all the other talented ladies' desks over at Queen Julia (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/)

Have a great week everybody, its school holidays so I hope to post more than once a week.

Looks BAD!!! WOYWW

Well, good morning to all you WOYWWers out there. It looks like a warzone in my craftroom at the moment. After last week's cardmaking frenzy to have enough stock for the art expo at school, I just did not have the energy to actually clean up too, because I got a few orders to do from the expo. and tried to get them out. My DD finally moved into her first little place and we helped with the move over the weekend, so you see, not lazy, just busy (thats my story and I am sticking to it) On my desk you will find a little bit of everything I own I think. Lost my glasses somewhere there, so if you happen to see them, let me know. Visit Julia at ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ ) to find out why I would show you my mess. Here are a few of those cards. The first one uses a Mo Manning image, I love Mo's images, they are so easy to colour. It was coloured with my Copics, cut out with Nesties and given a little Stickle treatment. Cardstock is Bazzil and the dp is from Kaisercraft. The next image has been lying in my 'coloured images box' for about a year. I coloured her without looking for dp first and then discovered I had no dp to match so in the box she went. Found this Dp last week but in my haste to finish the card I cut off the info strip and threw it away before I made a note, sorry. The hearts are from some ribbon I got from Really Reasonable Ribbon. Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash. I would like to enter this card in the Crafts and Me challenge that calls for YELLOW this time. You can find them here ( http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/ ) This card was a special order. It had to be a tennis player! Have you ever tried to find a stamp like that? Finally tracked down a free childrens colouring page that I resized! Papers are from my scrapbox, cardstock is Bazzil and the Flowers are from Prima (the big rose) and Wild Orchid Crafts. Ribbon is from my stash. The inside of the card has a pocket with cards in the shape of tennis balls for everybody to sign, Really hope she likes it.

I am off to the dr. and to try to get my passport sorted out! Just my luck, they announced last week that passports will be double the price from 1 April, so now every African alive (including me LOL) is trying to get one - wish me luck!

The last of the new WOJ Spring kit/

Good morning everybody. Yes, you read right, its still morning and I am posting. No, I am not bunking, school I finally gave in and went to see the dr. yesterday. Turns out I have Bronchitis, on top of my lungs being weak it has really hit me hard. Thank you for all your concerns and good wishes on my previous post. I have some serious antibiotics and a whole lot of other meds, dr. says I will be up and running by Monday. Boring being at home all alone, so thats why I came to chat.
The next card was made with some more of that wonerful dp from the local firm Paper Explosion. The quality is really nice, I think I found a new favourite brand.
She was coloured with my Copics the punch is a new one and the ribbon is from my stash. I did follow the sketch from Friday Sketchers, bur seeing that it is Friday today, I think I am late.

This one uses my favourite, OK ONE of my favourite colour combinations. The dp is from Melissa Francis. The lace is from my mom's sewing basket, so it must be quite old. The ribbon is from my stash.

Thats all of them except the bacground stamps which are just as delightful, I just ran out of EZ mount, but found some at the Hobby Ex yesterday, so watch this space. First I have to play with my new Sugar Nellie Adorables.

Have a fantastic day.

WOYWW Dustin Pike meets Elizabeth Dulemba

Its Wednesday (yes Annette, I do say wed - nes - day every time I type the word, but I am Afrikaans and thats how we were taught.) and that means we are all heading off to Julia's blog to join in the stalking of other people's desks in the hope that there is one, somewhere out there that looks worse than ours. (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com )
This week I am not posting a photo of my craft desk, in fact, its not even in my craftroom, but... this is where I have been spending most of my time these last 9 days. In front of my computer, reading between 50 and 60 blogs a night. Some crazy teacher (I think it might have been me) got it in her head that she was having so much fun blogging that it would be a great idea to let the girls in her class do a creative writing project where they have to create a blog and post a photo every day for 30 days and blog about it. Stupid woman never thought that she would have to read all those posts and comment on ALL of them, because the girls get very hurt if she doesn't.
The only silver lining to this very dark cloud is that some of the girls are starting to talk about carrying on with blogging after the assignment finishes - catch them young I say. They are also looking at their 'old' teacher with new respect, they could not believe that I actually have a blog of my own and the biggest surprise? "She's actually got some followers guys!'

I have been able to squeeze in some cardmaking. ( I would suffer withdrawel symptoms if I didn't). Made some very quick Valentines cards. All cardstock is Bazzil and all papers are fom my scrapbox. All images were coloured with my Copics. The first image is one of Dustin Pike's images, I just love that elephant.The ribbon is from my stash and the buckle from blog candy that I won a while ago.

I am in love with dragons and this one is a new freebie from Dustin Pike. The ribbon is from the ribbon club at Really Reasonable Ribbon. The little hearts are from the blog candy again and so is the charm.

This dragon is super cute and is from Elizabeth Dulemba. I adore her images. Although they are actually colouring pages, they work very well on cards and they are a dream to colour. I glitterified his wings with Stickles.

This image is by Elizabeth as well. The image was cut with my Making Memories circle cutter (yeah me, I am using my tools that are covered in dust!) The heart trim is from Really Reasonable Ribbon again.

Wish me luck with reading all those blogs. I will try my best to visit some of your blogs too, but I can not make any Promises.

Have a great week everybody.

WOYWW - I didn't want to, but I was forced to!.

Horror of all horrors, I cleaned my scraproom! I really didn't want to, but my scrapping group is coming over tonight for the first play date of the year and there was NO space for them at the table, so I had to clean. ('the table' is actually two tables pushed together to form one)
Whats left on my workdesk? Some happy mail. I won some blog candy from Tilly McLeod in Nieu Zeeland and that arrived yesterday. She gave away her extra copy of a magazine she was published in (beautiful cards!) and added some gems - some fantastic ribbon, some flowers and gems and some wonderful charms, even a stamp with my initial, Thank you so much Tilly.
You will also see a coloured Mo manning digi. Can you believe that I have 11 shades of green cardstock (I kid you not!) and none of them is the right shade of green!! I had to go and buy some today. If you think I am joking, cast your eyes to the left of 'the table' and you will see my collection of cardstock and my ribbons too.

If you have no idea why I am showing you my workdesk, hop over to Julia's blog and all will become clear. ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ ) I made it through the whole list again last week. Could not leave comments for two of you because mr. Blogger was being rude. Will try again this week, but I am not making any promises.

Don't you just love this little fairy, I found her at Funky kits. She is coloured with my Copics and cut out with a Nestie. Cardstock is Bazzil and dp is from Basic Grey. Ribbon and flowers are from my stash.

The next fairy is a freebie I found somewhere in the early days of blogging before I knew to remember who designed them, so if you recognise her, please let me know so that I can give credit. I think she is absolutely gorgeous Cardstock is Bazzil again and the dp from a DCW glitterstack. Flowers and ribbon are from my stash.

I covered her wings in Stickles, hope you can see in the close up. If you spotted it, yes, I forgot to colour her pencil and only noticed now.

Have a great day everybody, I am off to stalk all the other WOYWWers.

A sympathy card and here she is... my big girl!

I don't know about you, but sympathy cards are not up there with my favourites. I needed one quickly for a friend who's son was killed in a car crash. The image is a freebie from Marjie ( http://marjiesmalarkies.blogspot.com/ ) . Coloured it with my Copics, cut out with Nesties.
The dp is some of my favourite Basic Grey papers. The ribbon is from my stash.
Lynette, these are for you. You asked me to post pictures of Hannah's first day, so here she is. Brother reluctantly posing with his sister, pulling faces.
How big does she look? I get all teary eyed just looking at these pictures. My beautiful girl, all ready for school and so very proud of herself when she got home, because: 'You know what, ouma? I was the only one that didn't cry! Those children are silly, don't they know school is fun?'

Oh, how I hope that school will remain fun for the next twelve years. It took her mom ages to do the plait, but Hannah insisted that she didn't want 'wild' hair on her first day.

And then I couldn't resist. The obligatory photo of her school shoes. There is just something about shiny new, slightly too big school shoes that makes my heart melt. How far do these two little feet still have to go. My prayer is that God will send His angels to walk with her in those shoes and protect her from hurt.

Have a great Saturday everybody, I'm off to watch the cricket and make some challenge cards. Tonight we are going to friends for some Eland steaks, can't wait! Bernard, our friend, is a master when it comes to cooking game.

WOYWW and then some more Sugar Nellie.

I have exactly 5 minutes to finish this post, then I have to be out of here to go and take photo's of my granddaughter, Hannah, its her first day of 'big school' today! My desk is very messy this morning, because I did not feel like tidying last night when I finished playing (Inever feel like doing it LOL) You will see the leftover Basic Grey paper I was using, my Nesties, a container full of awesome ruffled ribbon that I found, two more baby jesey's (my DD knitted them, but doesn't know how to do the neck bands so it reverts back to me. There are some CD's I was listening to, trying to make up my mind which lyrics to use in my classroom in stead of boring old poetry. There are the leftover paperdolls that I am busy making for my grandchildren, and... as you can see a million things at once as usual.
I made it all the way through the list last week and commented on every one = feeling very proud of myself. Don't knoe if I'll manage this week, because school has started.
Go to Julia's blog ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ ) and join in on the fun, you get to peek at other people's crafty desks, very interesting!

Finally - here are two more of the adorable Sugar Nellie stamps that I used to make cards. Gotta run now, will be back later with all the info.

OK, I'm back. Survived the first day of school without any lasting damage to my brain. (I think)

Both cards are some of the new Sugar Nellie digi's, coloured with my Copics and cut out with Nesties.Cardstock is Bazzil and the red spotty dp is from my scrapbox. Ribbon and flowers are from my stash.

The next card is the adorable Grace. She looks so sweet! Dp is from Bo Bunny and the spotty piece was a freebie with a magazine. Flowers are Prima and from the Chinese market. The cardstock is a very hot pink piece that was lying around in my craftroom, I think it may have originally belonged to one of my granddaughters.

Have a great Wednesday everybody, I am off to have a peek at everybody's desks.

OOOPS - Not LOTV Challenge - New beginnings and a few Christmas cards.

The challenge over at LOTV ( http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ ) Is "New beginnings", You can interpret that any way you please - new baby, new year, or simply new stash as I have done. I used my new LOTV stamp (Edited to add: My good friend Paola pointed out that this is NOT a LOTV stamp, but from Kanban. Hanging my head in shame, that will teach me to look at the stamp again before I blog. Thanks Paola ) and my new Martha Stewart punch.
The dp is Melissa Francis, the cardstock is Bazzil and the flowers are from my stash, the image was coloured with my beloved Copics and given the Stickle treatment.

Here is a close up of the image, hoping you van see the glittery wings, wand and tiara.

Next is a couple of Christmas Cards that I never got around to showing you. All are very Clean and Simple. No time for elaborate cards this year. All images are digi images from Just Inklined and Bec's place, coloured with my Copics. Cardstock is Bazzil and everything else from my stash.

Don't you just love that pointsettia?

Thats it from me for today, I have to finish my potato bake for tonight's 'braai' (barbeque) at friends. Have a lovely day, see you soon.

FALLing for you - Stamptacular Sunday

The new challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday(http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-87-falling-for-you.html ) is: 'FALLing for you'. You are supposed to use only Fall colours. I thought this birthday'card' that I made for my granddaughter's teacher, fits in perfectly.

She is in the Butterfly class, so the instructions were simple - my teacher likes yellow (lello) and orange and it MUST have a butterfly. Each child in the class was given a tag (I forgot to take photo's) and one of the mothers went in to school on a day when the teacher had to attend a meeting and had every child put her fingerprint on a tag. The fingerprints were turned into little girls by my daughter and the moms wrote a message on the back of the tag.

I made a box for all the tags and put an easel card on top. The stamp is a freebie digi stamp that I have had for ages. It was coloured with my copics. All the cardstock is Bazzil and all the flowers are from the local Chinese market. The sentiment was hand written.

My granddaughter spent the night last night because her parents attended a wedding. This morning I got a phone call from my SIL to tell me that my daughter had been admitted to hospital with a severe bladder infection. The possability is there that my grandson will be born early tomorrow morning. So I get to spend some more quality time with Tertia-Lee. Please say a little prayer that all goes well for mom and baby.

Have a fantastic week everybody. Hope to see you soon with some baby pics.

13th Birthday invitations.

Where have I been? What have I been doing? you ask, Well, I am drowning in marking exam papers. 5 hours worth from every girl I teach! I have been sorting out insurance for my car - R41 000 worth of damage! (Thank goodness for insurance!)

AND.... I have been making Birthday Party invitations for a very special 13 year old girl. She is the daughter of a friend and comes to me regularly to scrap. Her mom is taking a couple of her friends to Gold Reef City (for those of you outside South Africa, its an old mining town that has been restored and is now an amusement park.) They are going to have photo's taken there that look like they are about a hundred years old. Complete with the right costumes. So we thought we would make her invitations to suit those photo's. Everybody expected it to have roller coasters on, but when have you known me to do the expected? LOL
Mom found a photo of her when she was 4 years old, playing dress up with her little sister. we scanned it and enlarged it and then changed it to sepia. How cute is she? All papers are Bazzil. The photo and mat was cut out with a Nellie Snellen die. The flowers and pins are from my stash. Ribbon and lace from my stash as well.

Made three different colours and I can't decide which one is the nicest.

Here is the whole lot together. Quite a job, but the smile on that little girl's face made it all worthwhile.

Have a great weekend everybody - next time I see you I might have a brand new granddaughter - my daughter's waters just broke.