CTS#202

 Hi everyone!!!

Oh, boy, I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth, I've just lost my mojo for cards and blogging and enjoyed the lovely summer weather we've had over the last few months!!!!  I hope that you all had a fantastic festive season and that the new year is treating you well!!!  I wish you all a great 2017!!!!

I had a craft stall at a local church, during December and I'm happy to say that I'm quite pleased with how it went!!!!!  I didn't sell as much as I hoped for, but apparently everyone's sales were less than previous years, so I'm happy with my sales!!!!  I've sold quite a lot of cards and that makes me very happy!!!!  I think I will do it again this year!!!!

And then I want to apologize to all my friends for not commenting on cards for such a long time!!!!  I follow so many blogs at this stage that it is really becoming a great thing to keep up with commenting!!!!!  When it happens that I miss a day or two it is already such a big thing to get to everybody, that I often just not have the time to catch up and very soon it is just impossible to get to everyone without having to spend hours and hours at the computer!!!!  I really hope to work out a way to keep up to date with commenting and not falling behind so often this year - maybe that's a good new year's resolution, hey!!!!  Some friends also had their birthdays some weeks ago and I will be having something in the mail for you shortly!!!!


I had a look at the current sketch at the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog last night and I decided that it's about time that I make a card and take part in a challenge again!!!!!  This is the sketch:

and my card:

Stamped some Altenew flowers in black on the card base.  The dark panel is grey and I sponged it with Brilliance Dew Drop, Moonlight White, ink which I also used for the stamping.  Added a silver glitter panel for some sparkle. 
Sentiment stamp from a local craft shop, Great Impressions.



OK, I'll be off - my son is leaving on an action cricket weekend, this afternoon and I have to get his stuff ready!!!


Thank you so much for visiting - I have really missed you all so much over the last few months and I will be popping in at blogs and leaving some luv shortly!!!!


Have a wonderful day!!!!

    


 

CTS#186

Hi, everyone!!!!


It's been some time since I last posted!!!!   I've been very busy getting fit again and I've set myself the goal to walk at least 200 km (124.75 miles) during August!!!!  I've started on Monday the 1st and yesterday I've reached 203 km for the month!!!  With another week of the month left I should be able to reach 260km!!!!  Hubby and I have also started running again and we are following a lovely program to build our fitness gradually to hopefully be very fit again, soon!!!!  At this stage I'm hoping to do some half marathons again, next year, but there's still a lot of hard work to do before I will be ready for that!!!  After our run at 7 in the morning I do a 7.5 km (4.7 mile) walk and in the afternoons hubby and I do a 4.0 km (2.49 miles) walk!!!!!  And the wonderful bonus - I've lost more than 10 kgs (22 pounds) since 18 July when I started with all of this exercising - yeah!!!!  I've also been very busy getting all my stuff ready to hopefully be selected to have a craft stall, at a local church, over Christmas.  I have to submit photo's of all my products I would like to sell, by September, and then it's holding thumbs that they will like my stuff and allow me to have a stall!!!!  I think the Christmas Market at the church will be a much better option than the Farmers' Market I did last year!!!!



... on to cards and taking part in the CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge!!!!!  This is the sketch for the week:

and I had such fun creating this card:

Leaves dies from Cheery Lynn - cut from silver glitter paper and green cs.
Flowers hand punched.
Afrikaans sentiment saying: 'Congratulations'.


That will be it for now!!!!  Thanks for popping it - hope to see you again, soon!!!

       

Another CTS#183

Hi everyone!!!!


I made another card to link at the current sketch challenge over at the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog!!!  This is the sketch:

and my second take on it:

This time I worked with washi tape.
Leaf die from Couture Creations.  Thread nest behind the leaf.
Swirl stamp from Altenew.
Afrikaans sentiment saying: 'Congratulations'.




That will be it for today!!!! 
Lovely having you here - thanks for the visit!!!

CTS#183

Hi everyone!!!!


There's a great sketch up at the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog and I made a card to link at the challenge, last night!!!   The sketch:

This is the card I've made:

Both the snowman and sentiment stamps are part of stamp sets that were magazine freebies a few year ago!!!!
Notebook edge die from MFT.
Got a thread nest behind the snowman.




Thank you so much for the visit - hope to see you again, soon!!!!!

CTS#181

Hi everyone!!!


Made a card last night to link at the CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge!!!!  The sketch:

 and my card:

Used my Tim Holtz chevron die to cut a stencil.
Sentiment stamp from a local craft shop, Great Impressions.
Added some dots with a white gel pen.



I made another card, using a different sentiment:

Sentiment stamp from PTI.

The sponging I've done with Worn Lipstick and Spiced Marmalade DIs.   I've seen a card by the talented Loll Thompson, on her blog, Stamping with Loll, where she had used these two colours together and I loved it!!!  So credit for the colours I have worked with, goes to Loll - thanks Loll!!!


That's it for now!!!  Thanks for popping in - your visits and  comments are appreciated so much!!!

FMS#245

  

Hi everyone!!!!


Made a card this morning to link at the Freshly Made Sketches Blog!!!!  This is the lovely sketch for the week:

 

and my take on it, flipping it upside down:

Strelitzia and shadow stamps from a local craft shop, Great Impressions.  I love how the Strelitzia does not stamp a solid image.  I've heat embossed it.
I've got two scorelines below the sentiment strip.

Afrikaans sentiment saying: 'Heartfelt Condolences'. 

 This is what a Strelitzia looks like in nature:

You can see why I worked with orange and purple on my card.

I will leave you with that for today!!!!  Such a joy having you spend some time with me!!!!!  Hope to see you again soon!!!

FMS#244

Hi everyone!!!!


Had some time to make a card to link at the Freshly Made Sketches challenge before we left to visit a friend on a farm about 3 hours' drive from here, sleeping over on Sunday night!!!  This is the sketch:

 I turned the sketch on it's side and made this card:

Daisy stamp from Verve.  Leaves stamp and die from MFT.

Bg paper from my stash.  B&W stiped paper from Kaisercraft.

Afrikaans sentiment saying: 'Congratulations'.

I had fun taking some photo's on the farm!!!!!   

That will be it for today!!!!  Will be popping in at everybody during the next day or two!!!!



Thank you so much for spending some time with me!!!!