Here’s my first design for the new digistamp drawing challenge at CDAC.
The theme for October is “Sparkle, Twinkle or Shine”. Although there are already so many digi drawings of shoes out there, I decided that after all, a girl can never have too many shoes now, can she?
Have a fabulous day!
Nan has this gorgeous blog called “You could make that” where she shares tutorials, loads of eye candy and her lovely paintings….
She and I enjoy many of the same things even though, as she says, “we live around 9000 miles apart”, in different countries and on different continents. She’s over in Wisconsin in the USA, and I’m here in Gauteng in South Africa. It would take me an 18 hour flight to New York, and another 4 hour flight to Chicago (correct me if I’m wrong here) and then a 3 hour drive to get to her part of the world! Blogging sure connects people!
A quick heads up to pop on over to this site: (click on the button)
Isn’t his pillow adorable? - I love the soft natural colours of your bedroom, Nan!
Nan made two of these lovely pillows and so she has one of these as a giveaway…so do pop by! She’s celebrating having almost 300 followers!
To qualify for entry into the giveaway – you need to
Hi there! Happy weekend! Hopefully we’re looking toward some slightly warmer weather! It has been freezing here! And we had – weirdly enough - 13mm of rain day before yesterday. It’s not supposed to precipitate here on the highveld in winter! Fortunately in 10 days time it’s mid-winter – yay the count-down to summer begins! Only around 1 1/2 months left and the weather will start warming and the days will get longer little by little.
Thinking of summer makes me think of flowers and pretty things, so I got creative…
I have a pretty free printable quote for you today. Simply click on the image to download it, then print onto paper, pop it in a frame and hang it on a wall or add it to a table-scape. I think I’m going to make one for my daughter’s bedroom.
Enjoy!
This pretty floral frame is from The Graphics Fairy - I edited it slightly in Photoshop.
Hi there crafting friends. I just thought I had to tell you about an online self-paced class that is starting on 12 November 2010.
My blogging friend, Bonnie, is running a really fun class :
“A Pocket full of Posies”
She will be teaching the art of making various types of flowers from fabric, felt, crochet etc. I love the variety!
To find out more, click on the image below to be directed to her blog…
Please join me, I’m signing up!
Hi everyone, I have been in such a crafty mood of late! My family thinks I’ve lost it totally as each day I present them with one or other craft – be it a new crocheted square for a blanket I’m making or a bag full of wool for a tea cosy or these cute cupcakes.
On my recommendation my mom visited a new store in a mall near our home called “Succulent décor and café”. She came back gushing about it.
Now this store is what I would call fabulous! Two of my friends told me that when they saw it they thought it’s just my kind of shop. I would say it has a unique flea market style. They love to take old furniture and revamp it by painting it and/or re-upholstering it with some funky fabric in amazing colours.
They have the most amazing funky light fitting hanging at the entrance – it’s an enormous drum shade covered in pink fabric – it must be almost 1.5 metres in diameter! Then hanging from underneath it is, well, – stuff. All kinds of things – even a little kids tricycle, a teddy bear, large cups, a painted egg... quite strange, but so cute!
Have a look at their Facebook photos here – I find it totally inspiring, I just wanna go and do some serious crafting! (Though this is not unusual for me LOL!).
Anyway, I digress…. My mom saw some gorgeous cupcakes made from facecloths there and commented on what a cute little gift it would be if you added a soap with it. I had seen them too. So I decided I wanted to know how to fold the facecloth.
Out came my old friend “Google”…
And it lead me to this blog – Paola’s My {Creative} Place. (a fellow South African no less!). Paola has some great tutorials on all kinds of things – just check out the labels on the left column. Fun to browse around.
I watched her video on how to make these cute cupcake facecloths and they are really so easy and quick to do. Try it!
I made up a couple for two of my daughter’s friends having birthdays this weekend. I love giving teen girls a gift bag filled with girlie goodies for their birthdays. Lip gloss, a soap, some kind of jewellery, perhaps some hair clips, basically whatever I find. So these cupcakes are perfect!
My daughter chose the facecloth colours as she knew what her friends would like.
I rolled up the facecloths and popped them into a cute cupcake wrapper I had bought. And as my ‘cherry on top’, I found some red foil-covered chocolate balls – perfect – now they even get a chocolate to nibble on while they bath LOL!
I packaged them in clear cellophane tied with an organza ribbon and popped one into each gift bag along with a handmade soap, a charm bracelet and some lip gloss.
Thanks Paola for a great tutorial – so much easier than trying to figure this one out on my own!
Have a great week!
Veronica xx
I am linking up here:
In view of the fact that Spring is just around the corner here in the Southern hemisphere, I decided that I need to do some Spring cleaning. A little clichéd maybe, but heck I really need to do some Spring cleaning around the house!
Over the next week or so I will also be re-designing my blog and giving it a fresh new look to go with our wonderfully warmer Spring weather. My {really*messy} studio will be getting a Spring-clean too & I’ll be posting some pics of it soon.
Today I started by designing a blog button for Pixels & Paperie which has been long overdue. So now you can grab my button over in the column on the right and post it on your blog. {I say this with those big kitty-cat eyes from Shrek –LOL!}. Seriously, I’d love it if you’d display my blog button in your sidebar. And if you would like me to do the same, leave me a little reminder in the comments here and I’ll reciprocate gladly.
Hope you have a great weekend. I’m off to do some Spring cleaning…….
Lately I have been thoroughly enjoying all things creative. I have taught myself to crochet flowers (courtesy of a few websites), I’ve made organza flowers, made a few digital cards, I even did some gardening yesterday and today I made this…
I found this fun collage challenge HERE and decided to take part as I have been in the mood for some digital designing. The animal challenge was particularly fun as I had taken this photo of an elephant a few weeks ago up at the farm. I love how this photo came out SOTC (straight out the camera)…
Talking about ATC’s & vintage, I received the gorgeous blog giveaway from Bonnie which I won over at her blog HERE. A couple of weeks ago she had a ‘blogaversary’ and chose a random comment and I won a whole bunch of goodies. They were all so beautifully wrapped and packaged and so pretty that I almost don’t want to use them. i think they’ll hang around in my little basket on my desk for quite a while before I get the courage up to use them.
Here’s a a photo:
This weekend, I also made these cute flowers which I embellished onto two small bags and added a label made from another image from The Graphics Fairy. My nieces were visiting with their mom over the weekend while my brother went to the rugby (SA vs New Zealand). The girls loved their bags. I also crocheted cute flowers and finished them off with some flowers and buttons from my (very unused) scrapbooking stash and glued them onto plain alice bands.
So easy and such fun. Especially fun to see two happy little girls when they saw their surprises.
Pop around again soon as I’ll be sharing some pics of my gardening. My husband was so amazed that I actually got my hands dirty and planted something! Normally all I do is give instructions – LOL! So this was a momentous occasion!
Leave a comment – I’d love to hear from you!
Hi there! Well I know I have been AWOL for a while, and I really want to update my blog more often, but somehow I just don’t get here when I want to.
Well at least I have a freebie for today…
The rest of the Plumbago kit- yes you can complete the kit now!
Remember that you can use these papers and elements to print out for cards and other craft projects as well. They are not restricted to scrapbooking alone.
All are saved at 300dpi.
Note: For personal use/ scrap for hire use only. Not for commercial use.
Here are the final links to download the rest of this digital kit:
For the elements – click HERE
For the alpha, click HERE
Hope you enjoy them and do leave some love- I’d love to hear from you!
I’ve been having fun making some pretty organza flowers. I recently stumbled across a blog tutorial by Calamity Kim on how to make these. They are super easy and such fun to make. Each one ends up quite unique and i love combining unusual colours to create these shabby chic blooms…
I started off by wanting to make some to adorn a cushion for my daughter’s bedroom. She loves anything orange and wants an orange bedroom. I drew the line at painting the walls orange, as next week she may just want some other colour! (She’s 13 – need I say more?).
So I opted for orange soft-furnishings that will later be easy to change to turn the room into another kaleidoscope of colour.
We have used a charcoal grey, white bed linen, a silvery-grey throw and some orange scatters. I then added these fun organza and satin flowers to a shop-bought charcoal grey round scatter and this is the result:
I’ll take some pics as soon as the room is complete and share them here too.
It’s weekend now and tomorrow my brother & his family are visiting. My niece’s are so cute and so enjoy visiting here with my kids. I’ve made them each a little bag adorned with their own pretty handmade roses and in the bag, a headband with a matching organza flower.
I’m hoping to get some cute photos of them with their flowers in their hair.
I might even convince my kids to pose for the camera…mmmm wishful thinking (but, stranger things have happened! LOL!)
Hope you have a creative weekend….
Here’s a fabulous give-away from Bonnie (Bouncing Bonbon). She has some awesome goodies. Pop over to her blog HERE to see what she has to offer.
I love all her digital stuff as well as her handmade goodies. So vintage & girly and pretty.
The offer ends today – so you must hurry up!!
It’s my son’s “International evening” at school tonight. He is so excited, (even though he won’t actually admit that). He talks constantly about it, keeps telling me where I need to sit to get the best view of his ‘performance’ and what he is wearing. Hopefully he’ll let me snap up some photos!
His grade are representing China, so he is wearing a Chinese outfit (haven’t seen it yet), but he says it is gold. He is playing music (symbols) with a few other boys, while others form the Chinese dragon & the girls are dancing.
It’s quite a fun evening. There are also food stalls with food from the countries represented by the 6 grades. So we get to buy dinner there too. Yay – no cooking for me tonight!
Hopefully I’ll have some photos to post here tomorrow!
Hi there,
I have some free digital scrapbooking goodies for you to download. I have decided to give away one of my old kits which I so enjoyed designing and still love.
Plumbago.
The first giveaway is available HERE for you to download. I will be giving away the rest of the kit too, so do pop in and grab the rest of the files. It’s a mega kit with loads of pastel papers, oodles of pretty elements including a vintage fairy which I hand-coloured, and a hand-drawn mushroom border.
Hope you enjoy it!
