WOYWW and more wedding cards

You did not seriously expect a clean desk two weeks in a row now, did you? When I got home from school yesterday the postie had delivered my whiff of Joy Spring kit. What is a girl to do? Of course I had to mount and stamp immediately! So on my desk you will see the first coloured image with all the papers and embellies I am considering to use.
And to the left of that, my Copics at the ready. Waiting to get to work on the other stamped images. They are absolutely gorgeous, I am so happy that school closes tomorrow for mid-term break, a whole four days of crafting awaits! Hop on over to Julia's blog at (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com )to have a peek at everybody else's desks,

I did have some time to play over the weekend. I made two more wedding cards for friends. It seems to be wedding season at the moment. The first one uses a sketch from Mojo Monday ( a very old one) Cardstock is Bazzil, Dp is Making Memories, the ribbon is from Realy Reasonable Ribbon which I stamped. The image was a freebie with a magazine a while ago.Bling is from my stash.

The next one uses the LOTV image again and the same MM paper as the previous one (I am not sure why it looks so different in this pic. The ribbon and dragonfly are from my stash.

I hope you all have a fantastic week, I am a happy girl because I get to play with my new stash and there are some new orange paper in my LSS that is calling my name. (keep me a few pieces Audrey please!)

Hanging my head in shame (Lynette, moenie hier lees nie)

I am really hanging my head in shame today. There is a huge difference between creative chaos and a 'hot mess' and what we have in my craftroom today, is a 'hot mess'. That is why I am only showing you a very small portion of my workdesk. To my shame, I have not yet put away the flower containers that have been on my desk since last week, in fact, they have been joined by even more flower containers and... and... and, so I am not showing that today. You will see some red embellishments that I bought to finish Lynette's birthday present. I adore the wire hearts that I found at Creative Talents. For fear of incriminating myself, I am not saying another thing about my desk. If you would like to know what I am talking about, check out Julia's blog here: ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ )

I thought I would show you what caused the 'hot mess'. I made a birthday present for my dear blogging friend Lynette. Hope she likes it. I think you are bored with the new Sugar Nellie stamps, but I can't help myself. Before I know it I am busy colouring another one! I made a set of cards for her and then needed a box to send them in. Found a cheap box that really needed to be altered, so here is the finished box. Papers are Making Memories, Cardstock is Bazzil. The image was coloured with my Copics. The flowers are by Wild Orchid Crafts (how beautiful are those tulips?) and from my stash. The butterfly is from Creative Talents and so is the wire heart.

Here is a close up of those flowers. They were all given a liberal Stickle coating.

Inside the box I put some cards and some flowers for her.

And here are the cards. All Sugar Nellie digi stamps. You can buy them from Funky Kits. I think the embossed paper is by Doodlebug, but I am not entirely sure. The ribbon is from my stash and the beads from the local Chinese shop. I do apologise for the bad photo's but it has been raining here all day, so the light is really bad.

This one uses ribbon found at Habby and Lace. I just love that I didn't have to gather it myself.

The next one I used paper from my scrapbox. yeah me! The ribbon is from my stash and the lace from my late mother's sewing box.

So what do you think? Will she like it? I really hope so.

I am off to read the blogs that the girls at school started as a creative writing exercise. I hope they like it as much as we all do and that some of them will carry on blogging long after the project finishes.

NOT AGAIN!!!!! New beginnings.

Edited: I can NOT believe I did it again! I got the stamp wrong! Got excited for nothing - Somebody pointed out that the stamp was a Penny Black and not a House Mouse stamp. I feel SO STUPID! I blame it on old age. (That's my excuse and I am sticking to it!)
I was so excited when I recieved a card in the post today telling me to collect a parcel from the Post Office. I could not wait and went to fetch it immediately. What did I find, my blog candy from Jay-Jay. This adorable House Mouse stamp. Of course I had to ink it up immediately. Then, when I read my daily inspirational blogs I discovered that Curt posted on a Monday (he usually only posts on a Wednesday) - his post? He is part of the House Mouse Challenge Blog blog hop ( http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-beginnings-blog-hop-for-challenge.html). I think its a sign. Especially since the challenge is 'New beginnings' and I think this little stamp is the beginning of a beautiful relationship with House Mouse stamps.

The dp is Making Memories, cardstock is Bazzil. The image was coloured with my beloved Copics. Lace and ribbon is from my stash (I used my brand new Bow Easy that arrived in the mail last week) The little blingy heart was a gift. The sentiment is a digi freebie and I forgot to check by who.
Here's a close up of the bow and heart, beautiful, don't you think?
It is raining cats and dogs here. In fact, my garden is saturated, the water does not even drain any more. Not complaining though, we really need good rains.
Have a great day everybody. I'll be back soon to show you some of my other crafty endeavours.

Mojo Monday.

A very good Monday to all. I have had a wonderful, but very tiring weekend. It was our annual family reunion and my brother, sister and I were responsible for the arrangements this year. Very stressful, but worth it in the end. We decided to get together for only a day this year, because most of us are a bit strapped for cash in this economic climate. In spite of the fact that there were two weddings on the same day, we still had about 75 people at the reunion and everybody that was there had a fantastic time. My son in law (born and bred in Manchester) attended his first one as part of our family and walked away with the trophy for the best "potjie"! Not every day an Englishman wins such a very traditional Afrikaans cooking competition. He has not let that trophy out of his sight.
On Sunday the whole staff went to a show in honour of our school's secretary that is retiring after 35 years at our school. She is an amazing woman who knows all 850 girls in the school by name! We all love her and I don't know if we will ever be able to find anybody to replace her. All of those things meant that there was no crafting this weekend, so I just had to do something this afternoon when I got home.
This card is based on the sketch over at Mojo Monday (http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/ ) Such a fun sketch to work with. The image is a freebie from TLC ( http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.com/ ) I printed it directly onyo the dp by Making Memories and then coloured it with my Copic markers. The other dp is from Bo Bunny and the cardstock is from Bazzil. The ribbon and lace is from my stash. I cut the mat out with a Nestie. The sentiment was stamped with Versa ink and embossed in gold.

Here is a close up of the image. Hoping you can see the glitter on her wings and on the dp.

Have a great week everybody. See you very soon.