A wedding box

Another exploding box, I know, its getting boring now - but it is so addictive! I didn't want to make another square box. It had to have six sides, but how? Then I remembered that my son is an architect. I did not pay all those fees at university for nothing and it was finally time for him to prove that he did actually learn something. LOL He designed the box for me, made a template and all I had to do was print it out and use it as a pattern. See, its worth letting them study!
This box was an order from our pre-school. They wanted something different to a traditional card for a teacher that it getting married. I had to use ivory, brown, bronze and bright yellow not exactly my colours, but it turned out quite beautifully.

Put a lot of flowers on the lid. The brown ones were spritzed with glimmer mist. The dp is offcuts I bought in bulk from a printing company a long time ago. The cardstock is Bazzil.

And here is the inside of the box. Back and front looks exactly the same. The Magnolia image was coloured with my Copics. The staff will sign their names and write messages on the side panels.

A close up of the image, hope yoy can see the bling on Tilda's dress, flowers and shoes all done with Diamond Stickles.

Have a great week everybody, I am off to Stellenbosch for Drummie Nationals. I'll be back on Saturday, but I am going straight from the airport to Loftus Versveld (the stadium)to watch the Bulls play the Stormers (GO BULLS!!!) The kids bought DH and I tickets for DH's birthday. He doesn't know yet, but everybody, including his brother and nephew will be there with us. Should be a great party.

Finaly! Some pictures of LO's from SA Scrapbook Convention

Before the Convention started we were given the themes for each of the classes with a list of the photo's we would need. The theme for this was: "This is how I roll". I thought these pictures of Tertia-Lee would be perfect, but when I got there I found out that it was a boy LO with monsters! How can I use monsters with these pictures? Plan B - replace the monsters with flowers. I think it turned out pretty well.
Love this one too. It has a wheel that turns at the back of the right hand side to reveal more pictures and journaling. Simple joys for me is to just spend some time with my gorgeous grandchildren. This was a day spent at the Johannesburg Zoo. Did you notice Tertia-Lee reading the map and telling us exactly where she wants to go next? How cute are those butterflies? Made from flowers, just by cutting off one petal. Learnt how to make the purple flowers too.

One of my favourites. The Prima layout. How wonderful are those flowers. Don't think there is anything more I need to say about this LO. Its just beautiful and perfect for photo's of the most beautiful place on earth.

Have a great day everybody, I will be back with some more LO's tomorrow.

WOYWW can elegance come from this mess?

A very simple and elegant card made for one of the girls in our Birthday club. I have had this image coloured for the longest time and just knew that it was the right image for this card when the request came to make a card for her. Not too cutesie, use blue (her favourite colour) and flowers. The image is coloured with Copics. Ribbon is from my stash and the cardstock is all Bazzil, embossed with my Cuttlebug.
Did not want to jump straight to my desk, because if I hung my head in shame last week, then I am currently hiding under the table, whimpering every time somebody looks in! I am still blaming it all on the postman though - that man brought me three lots of goodies in the last week! I kid you not - THREE lots. My order from Sweetpea stamps, a gift of Bidmalara stamped images from a friend and the blog candy that I won on the Shoestring Scrapbooking blog.

Be honest now. Would you tidy up if you had very little time and all those fantastic new goodies to play with? I didn't think so. I think I might be forced to clean up soon though, because it is getting so bad I am having trouble finding my scissors (Don't say anything! I saw them on the photo! LOL)

This is the pile of papers that seems to have a life of their own and keeps growing. Some stamped and coloured images lurking there too.

Here is the other side of the work desk. This side was clean last week, but things are spilling out over there now too. That folder contains my stamped images that are waiting to be coloured. The beautiful box is filled with the layouts I made at Convention. The newspaper? I don't know, but I am sure there is a good reason for it being there. The Asthma pump? You would also need one if you had to work here.
I am going to try to visit more of you this week. We are having a long weekend here in South Africa this weekend- Friday is National Braai(barbeque) day or Heritage day, so I am planning to have a massive tidy up in my scraproom then. Lets hope I can show you my desk with pride next week.

Have a great Wednesday everybody, see you soon. Hop on over to Julie at ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com ) to visit everybody else's desks.

Mini Hanna & the real Hannah - Who's cuter?

I recieved my Pixie Cottage stamps in the mail last week and just had to colour them immediately. They are so cute. She is called Hannah, just like my granddaughter and I think she is almost as cute as my Hannah!
The first card uses cardstock that was left over from the Convention, I think it is by American Crafts. The dp is Melissa Francis. The ribbon, flowers and butterfly are all from my stash. She was coloured with my Copics.
The next card is very unlike my style. Halloween is really not a very big thing in South Africa, but this little Hannah in her witch costume just cried out to be used. The dp is from my scrapbox. The ribbon is velvet with purple bling - really gorgeous IRL, the flowers are Prima and some very dark purple roses I found at the Chinese store. The butterfly is from my stash.

And now for the REAL Hannah! I could not believe it when I realised it was Monday morning. This weekend just went by in a blur. I had my two granddaughters for a sleepover and we had so much fun, I didn't even notice how the weekend flew past. We spent the whole day on Sunday making clothes for the fairies in my garden.
Step 1: You beed to find exactly the right leaf or flower for your creation. This takes a lot of concentration.

Here she is - My Hannah - told you she is cute!

Step 2: You now have to make sure that the flower or leaf that you chose will fit the fairies. This requires very precise cutting.

This is Tertia-Lee, cutting a flower that became a dress for some lucky fairy.

It takes a lot of concentration to cut a single leaf into a fairy coat.

Step 3: When you are done, you have to leave the clothes in the fairy house in ouma's garden. (If you don't believe there are fairies in my garden, ask any one of my four children. There is a magical place where the fairies live - they have all seen them when they were little!)

Have a great week everybody. Hopefully the week will be a little slower than the weekend.

80 Its just a number.

A friend asked me to make a special card for her father's 80th birthday. he sounds like an incredible man. Still very hip and happening with a wicked sense of humour.When I first got this digi stamp, I knew that I would use it one day for somebody just like that.

The stamp is feom Just Inklined ( http://justinklined.com ) He is called Albert and I just love him. If I have to get old, I hope I end up just like him! He was coloured with Copics and cut out with a Nestie. The lights and window of his walker were covered in Dimentional Glaze. The Cardstock is Bazzil and the dp was from my scrapbox. The ribbon is from my stash.

Here is a close up photo - hoping you can see the glaze on the lights, horn and window.

I hope he likes my card.

Have a great Thursday everybody, I might be back later with my little Hannah's, but first I am going to have a look at a few more desks from WOYWW.

WOYWW Hanging my head in shame!

This week my desk is a disaster zone! My excuse? Well..... I went to the Scrapbook Convention this weekend and I had to get all my photo's and tools ready for that last week and when we finished on Sunday, I was so inspired that I came home and finished all the LO's we did in class and then, well then... I was too tired on Monday and I had to finish a project for my guest dt before Tuesday and then... on Tuesday the postman brought me some stamps from Pixie Hollow and I just had to ink them up immediately and I had to make a card for a friend, so you see, its not my fault at all. Its the postman's fault.

There you see my new mini Hannah's that I am busy colouring, you can see the envelope they came in and the rest? I don't know how it got there.

Here is the view to the right of my work area. That beautiful piece of green paper is for the little Hannah's and the rest of the pyramid of papers are the leftovers from Convention.

If you look to your left, you will find more mysterious things that just leapt up on the table all by themselves. It wasn't me -thats my story and I am sticking to it! LOL

I have to show that I can be organised if I want to be. Here are the shelves with all my flowers on. All in plastic containers and colour coded. Pretty, don't ya think?

Yes, those are more rulers in the bucket, but please don't tell.

Why don't you pop over to Julies blog (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com ) and have a look at everybody's desks? You might even decide to play along, its very therapeutic.

I am a Guest Designer at Digistamps4Joy!

Good morning everybody. Now I can tell you my exciting news. Melanie from digistamps4joy asked me to be a Guest Desibner for this challenge. I am so excited. It took for ever to decide which image to use. She keeps adding more to the store and they are just getting better and better! ( http://digistamps4joy.blogspot.com/ )
This time the challenge asked us to use something recycled on our creations. I have had this cute little box lying on my desk for a long time. One of my scrapping buddies brought the scrapping group some chocolates back the last time she went overseas and I knew that I wanted to do something with the box. I pulled it apart and covered it with pretty paper to be used as a gift box at Christmas. Then I discovered the leftovers of some wool that brings back so many memories in my mother's box of 'stuff' and I just had to use it. So, without further ado, here is my project.

I hope you like it. Isn't that giraffe just too adorable? It is so hard to find Summery Christmas images. My son keeps complaining when I make snowmen and winter scenes. Hope he is going to stop moaning now. There is another giraffe image in the shop - just as adorable - go and have a look. The images were coloured with my Copics. The fairylights were given a Stickle treatment anf the giraffe's nose and eyes were given a layer of Dimentional Glaze to make them shine. I cut the image with a Nestie. The Cardstock is Bazzil and the dp is Basic Grey.

The Sentiment was computer generated and punched with my Making Memories punch. The glittery thread is actually wool. When I was about 12 i saw this wool at a woolshop and begged my mother to please make me a top from it. She kept saying that it would scratch badly and I kept begging her. In the end she gave in and made the top. She was right, it did scratch like crazy, but I was not going to admit it, so I just had to grin and bear it! It made me smile when I found the wool in mom's box of 'stuff'.


Here is a close up of the Giraffe, hoping you can see the Stckles and the Dimentional Magic.


And this is the box after I took it apart. I am very proud that I remembered to trace around it to use as a template for later use, because I really like the size of it. Ideal for a small gift - I thought chocolate, but my DD says she thinks it would be perfect for a watch. (Do you think she is trying to tell me something?)

And finally, the finished box. I printed another image, coloured it and punched out just the head to make a tag for the box.

I hope you liked my little project. Pop over to the digistamps4joy blog and visit the design team's blogs for more inspiration.

I will be back after school with my WOYWW post (hanging my head in shame today) Have a wonderful morning.