Joyful - Flourish With A Bling Blog Hop

Hello again friends and hoppers! We hope you're having a fabulous time on our Flourish With a Bling Blog Hop, and getting lots of inspiration on how to put your FWAB to good use. Haven't the projects you've seen so far been amazing? Well there's plenty more eye-candy to come!You should have arrived here from Angella Peardon's blog. But in case you stumbled here by chance I suggest you start at the Flourish With A Bling Blog and go from there. If you get lost, here's the blog hop order:

Flourish With A Bling
Amanda Redcliffe
Angella Peardon
Catherine Lane (You are here)
Elena Olinevich
Emilia van den Heuvel
Ilene Tell
Jennifer Hodge
Kate McCulloch
Natalie Elphinstone
Sandi Smith
Sonia Thomason
Flourish With A Bling

We're so excited by all the changes that have been happening at FWAB over the past year. We've had the addition of a new Design Team, some stunning new products (the Elise flourishes) and the most exciting of all is FWAB going retail! That means you can buy all your favourite bling straight from the FWAB store itself!Some of my favourite pieces are the FWAB Grace Pearl Flourish Pewter and FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Plum and here's a project I made with them to show you how you can use them.

Your next stop on the Blog Hop is Elena Olinevich andI just know you're going to love what she's created. Don't forget to follow the Hop all the way back to the FWAB blog and leave a comment there for your chance to win the grand prize and here it is:

The winner will be announced next Friday the 19th!! Good luck, thanks for stopping by and happy scrapping!! xx

Happy Hours On Tamborine Mountain - Once Upon A Sketch March Challenge

Hello friendies! March is gone...anyone know where it is? Didn't get much done this month but I was not going to miss out on an opportunity to take advantage of another beautiful sketch by Nadia at Once Upon A Sketch for the March challenge. The theme of the challenge is "It's the Weekend". This photo of little Isabella was taken during my visit to Australia in 2012. One weekend we decided to drive up Tamborine Mountain and the beautiful scenery took me right back to South Africa even though I was in a different country and the few hours we spent there almost made me feel like I was back home together with my family. Of course little Isabella took every opportunity to explore, and of course I took every opportunity to take a picture. At five years old, this little girl already has such a busy little life..school, homework, karate, swimming and the list goes on, so when the weekend arrives, it's bliss not only for her, but also for Mommy! :) Here is the gorgeous sketch for this month. Journaling is done on a piece of vellum rolled up and tucked into the torn section on the left of the page.

I also used some pretty pearls from Flourish With A Bling being FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Pewter
and FWAB Adhesive Pearls 100 Pack Plum. And with that I am going to love and leave you and try and get on with my next project. Happy scrapping!!xx