Precious - Maja Design

Hello friends :) This is my last project for Maja Design as guest for April. It was  a wonderful month and I really want to tank Jenny and the Maja team for having me. I tell you girls, once you have worked with these papers you'll be as hooked as I am!! :) I just love this little photo of my darling niece Isabella...she was still so little and my heart aches every time I look at her photos. I especially love the way she always put her little hands together :) Miss this little girl so much...time to plan another trip to Australia :)  I made this layout using the following colelction of papers:

Maja Design: Life In The Country:

Maja Design: In my Flower Bed

Maja Design: Strawberries With Ice

Maja Design: Sowing Seeds BS

Maja Design: Kitchen Garden

That's all for now :) In the next few weeks I have to work furiously on my daughter's wedding stationery and that is going to be an absolute blast!! Till next time..happy scrapping!!xx

My Molly - Maja Design

Hi friends!! I have another project to share with you which I did for Maja Design and I'm feeling rather sad that my month as guest is almost over :( I am loving each and every one of these papers and I would just like to mention to my South African friends that these papers are available from Scrap and Card Boutique . Merle has a lovely selection of Maja Papers.  The little lady in the photos is as most of you know by now, my sweet Miss Molly. The two of us are joined at the hip :) If you're curious to know how I made the beaded flowers on this layout, I have done a little tutorial which you will find at the end of this post. I have no idea what flowers they are so I kind of invented a name for them and called them "Beaded Delphiniums"..lol!! They look so cute if you do them in blue because then, at a glance they really do look like little Delphiniums.:) AND they are super easy to make.  Yes, I know that Delphiniums don't hang downwards and they are not viny either but in the scrapping world we don't care, do we?? LOL!! Oops, almost forgot to give Vicky Alberto credit for teaching me how to make the white flowers with her wonderful tutorial which you can find here. Whilst mine are not nearly as pretty as Vicky's, I just love them and loved making them :) Thank you Vicky...your flowers are just awesome :)x

Products used:

Vintage Summer Basics - 1922

Vintage Summer Basics - 1904 BS

Vintage Summer Basics - 1933

I have also used the beautiful flourish from Flourish With A Bling being FWAB Grace Pearl Flourish.

Other products used:
Imaginarium Designs - Silver fern leaf
Imaginarium designs - 4 Small Butterflies
Martha Stewart Punch
Clearly Impressed Stamp
Prima Bird Cage
Chiswick Alphabet 2

I also stumbled upon a beautiful sketch on Pinterest and traced it back to Scrap Friends. 
I thoroughly enjoyed working with this sketch and just wanted to say thank you for the inspiration :)

Here is the littlle tutorial as promised. Should you give it a try, please send me a link to your layout so I can admire your beautiful little "Delphiniums"...lol!

Materials needed:

Wire
Florists tape
Seed beads (colour of your choice)
Glue gun
Wire Cutter

Step 1.
Cut a few pieces of wire in different lengths.

Step 2.
You now have to work relatively fast as hot glue dries very quickly. Heat up the glue gun. Take one strand of wire and adhere hot glue to one end of the strand. It looks very "blobby", but don't worry about that. I covered about 3.5cm with hot glue.

Step 3.
While the glue is still hot, dip it into your little bowl of seed beads and twirl it around so the beads can cover all the glue.

Step 4.
Whilst the glue is still warm, press the beads firmly into the glue using your fingers. If you find that not all the spots are covered, you can always just add an extra little bit of glue on those spots and then dip it back into the bowl of beads.

Step 5.
Gently remove any excess loose beads and this is what it should look like when it's nicely covered.

 

Step 6.

Now you can take a strip of florists tape and start winding it around the wire starting close up against the beads, working your way down.

And this what they look like when they are all finished and ready to "prettify" (is that a word?) your page!!

I think they are just too cute and the nice thing about them is that there are no two that are the same. Have fun and I hope you enjoy making them as much as I did!! 

I have the flu so I'm on my way back to bed and no doubt Miss Molly will join me :)

Till next week, take care and stay safe!! xx

Up Close and Personal - Maja Design

Hi everyone :) This is another Guest Creative Team Member project for Maja Design. I've been wanting to scrap this photo for over a year but just couldn't find that "perfect" paper until I saw this "Walking In The Forest" collection from Maja. The photo was taken on one of the very rare ocassions that I go away for a weekend. Getting this close to an elephant was to say the least an amazing experience. One of the very few regrets I have in life is that I didn't follow my dream of becoming a Wildlife Conservationist and if I could have my life over again, that is what I would do.:) Oh well, back to scrapping...lol!! I took the time to do a little tutorial on how to make the pinecones which are tucked between the flowers as you can see in the close-up below. Hope you give it a try:)

 Products used: Maja Design

Maja Design: Walking In The Forest - Knitted Sweather

Maja Design: Walking In The Forest - Autum In the Air

 Maja Design: Walking In The Forest - Autumn In the Air BS

Maja Design: Walking In The Forest - Flannel Shirt

 Maja Design: Walking In The Forest - Die Cut Sheet

A Little Ray Of Sunshine - Maja Design

Hello my friends :) Just sharing a layout I did for Maja Design as Guest Creative Team Member for April. I am so totally in love with the Vintage Spring Basics range :). For some reason unknown to me, I always seem to shy away from yellow but I just LOVE the beautiful soft yellow tones in these papers and was drawn to it at first glance.  The little beauty in the photograph is of course my sweet, precious little niece Isabella who truly is a ray of sunshine in every sense of the word.:)

Products Used:
Vintage Spring Basics

 Vintage Spring Basics 1st of March

Vintage Spring Basics 2nd of April BS

Vintage Spring Basics 7th of April

Vintage Spring Basics 7th of April BS

I also used Flourish With A Bling 100 Pack Adhesive Pearls in Antique Gold and Pearl.

And that my dear friends, is all for today. Till next time...happy scrapping!!xx

Spring - Maja Mood Board

Hello ladies :)
This is my very first project for Maja Design  as April's Guest Creative Team member and I created this one for Maja's April Mood Board using their gorgeous Vintage Spring collection. These papers are just so beautiful and the colours are so soft!! Just love it!!

Product used:
Vintage Spring Basics 7th of May
Vintage Spring Basics 4th of March

So, if you have a moment, hop over here and have a look at the mood board and the details of the challenge.

Till next time...happy scrapping!!xx

Scrapmatts and Flourish With A Bling Product Swop

Love is A Four Legged Word

Hello again my friends :) Phew, it's been a hectic month, work-wise and scrapping wise. At the beginning of February I couldn't help wondering what happened to January? It seemed as if it passed me by completely and now I am sitting and wondering what happened to February?? Welcome to the Scrapmatts and Flourish With A Bling Product Swop for March 2013! It's been such a lovely project to do because who doesn't love chipboard and bling together? Here are a few projects and close-ups using the lovely Scrapmatts and FWAB products.

Product used:  Scrapmatts CB1016 Birdcages.
                                              
 Product used:  Flourish With a Bling FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Antique Gold

Product used: Scrapmatts CB6072 Birdbaths.
                                           
Product used:  Flourish With a Bling FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Antique Gold

Product used: Scrapmatts CB5060 Signboards. These chippies are sooo beautiful :)
 

                                

Product used:  Flourish With a Bling FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Antique Gold

Product used: Flourish With a Bling FWAB Chloe Pearl Flourish Antique Gold, my all-time favorite flourish!!
                                   
                                                


And here is my second project for the product swop:
 Cherish

This is my gorgeous niece Kathleen and yes, I am going a little vine crazy lately...just love making them but it takes forever!! Once again I have a few close-ups of the products used on this layout.

Product used: Scrapmatts CB5083 Leaf Spray 03
                   


Product used: Flourish With A Bling FWAB Chloe Pearl Flourish Antique Gold. Can't keep my hands off this flourish. Reaching for it has become an automatic reaction..lol!!

                                             

Products used: Scrapmatts CB1170 Wicker Chair 02
                 

Products Used: Scrapmatts CB5060 Signboards 02. I used the centre piece of the original signboard above.
Products Used:  Scrapmatts CB6071 Assorted Words 07
                                
                         
              
And then there are a few close-ups where I used the Flourish With a Bling FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Antique Gold.
                                   

Altered CD

I had so much fun doing this one. Made it for my dear sister in Australia who is constantly in my thoughts and I really do feel like a bird without wings since she left. All the modern technology in the world doesn't make up for not being able to jump into your car, meet, have coffee, laugh the afternoon away, go shopping and just enjoy being together. :( Anyways, let me not ramble...this post is long enough as it is and I really hope that your'e not bored stiff by now..lol!
Products used: Scrapmatts CB1016 Bird Cages 01
Products used: Products used: Flourish With A Bling FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 pack Pewter
                                    
                                                                  
Here are two close-ups of the birdies used.

Products used: Flourish With A Bling FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 pack Pewter.
And a close-up of the gorgeous pearls...love this colour!!

                                            
Now for the best part of this whole product swap!! To celebrate our very first product swap, we'd love to give you a chance to win this fabulous FWAB prize pack:)

 

Leave a comment under this post over at the FWAB Blog (and any of the other FWAB/Scrapmatts product swap blog posts) by clicking on the title at the top of the page and scroll down to the comments section and you wil go into the draw to win this fab prize pack to be drawn on Friday 9th march 2012. "Like" us on  Facebook and leave a comment that the FWAB/Scrapmatts product swap sent you and receive another entry! Don't forget to also go over to the Scrapmatts Facebook page and "like" them and say that FWAB sent you and go into the draw for a fabulous Scrapmatts prize pack up for grabs on their page as well! Don't forget to check back with us tomorrow for another DT share for the Scrapmatts/FWAB product swap and also make sure to check out the Scrapmatts blog here for stunning creations by the Scrapmatts design team.

HAVE FUN and take care!! xx