Mothers Day Cards

I was asked by Craftwise magazine to submit some Mothers Day and Fathers Day cards for their next issue.. I asked the crafty ladies of the RSA group to submit cards to me as well and then sent them off to Craftwise. I hope they publish them all - they were all stunning and I think the editor would be hard pressed to chose only a few!

Here are the cards I made for the submission:

I didn't make any Father's Day cards for two reasons - I ran out of time and I'm not very good at men's cards for some reason.. too fond of bling I think lol! Maybe I'll find some time over the coming long weekends to play and manage to make a few male themed cards.

Anyway till next time, happy crafting!

I'm Back... at last!

Hi Everyone,
I'm back at last after a looooong time away from the blog.
I do envy those bloggers who find the time to create and post everyday...
Anyhoo, I've got a few pics of some things I've created lately as well as a link to a youtube video of the mini album page I made for the Graphic 45 Ladies Diary swap.

This was a card I made for a baby shower.. I used lots of die cuts for a frilly feminine feel.

This is a Pandora's Box... you can put little trinkets in it or gift it as a gift. The top pic shows it open and the bottom one closed with it's lid on. It's fairly simple to make, just time consuming.

 

I've been making a lot of intricate folded cards and off the page type projects - albums and mini books.  One of them was for an overseas swap group and I had to use G45 A Ladies Diary paper.

The link to view the video of my page and another participants page is:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0C5Bca_M8

and let me know what you think.

 

I did another G45 mini album swap in November - this time using the Olde Curiosity Shoppe papers. I'll take photo's and upload them next time.

 

Till next time, keep it crafty!

hugs

Hayley

 

 

Fab digi stamp site to join

Hey there.. I hope you have all had a fabulous crafting weekend. I have been busy catching up with swaps - in between laying grass in the garden and going to Top Gear Live in Durban... So  exciting!
I need to tell you gals about a fabulous site called Broken Box Stock. They have fabulous digital stamp designs and over 80 freebies available for download. If you join the site, you get a freebie every week.
So log onto http://www.brokenboxstock.com/"><img src="http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m17/brokenboxdesigns/BROKEN%20BOX%20STOCK/bbstock_125x125.gif" and see for yourself.

Have a wonderful creative week.
Hugs
Hayley

Challenges Entered

I entered this tag into a few other challenges. The challenges were on

http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

The image is a digistamp from ww.Digistamps4joy.co.za and is also on the

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY - CHALLIENGE #43 : 'ANYTHING BUT A CARD FOR A WEDDING' site.

If you want to visit the DS4J store, go to www.digistamps4joy.co.za
and the stunning images  by our very talented artists.
If you want to see what the other DT members have come up with then go to
http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com/ and have a look at the DS4J blog.

It's also on the http://priscillastyles.ning.com/group/cdacdigiclubsignup

 

DT Member

I am now a DigiStamps4Joy Design team member - yay for me!! And I get to play with their lovely digital images. This weeks challenge was a wedding theme but it had to be anything but a card. I made this vintage style tag that would be attached to guests party favour. I used JenLee's fabulous image of the freckle faced bridal couple. Its so cute!

I hope you like it.
Thats it for today....
Hugs
Hayley
If you want to visit the DS4J store, go to www.digistamps4joy.co.za
and the stunning images  by our very talented artists.
If you want to see what the other DT members have come up with then go to
http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com/ and have a look at the DS4J blog.

Design Team Challenge

I am now a DigiStamps4Joy Design team member - yay for me!! And I get to play with their lovely digital images. This weeks challenge was a wedding theme but it had to be anything but a card. I made this vintage style tag that would be attached to guests party favour. I used JenLee's fabulous image of the freckle faced bridal couple. Its so cute!

I hope you like it.
Thats it for today....
Hugs
Hayley

Inspired

I'm back after a very long absence. I've had a bit of a mojo meltdown recently, hence no posts for ages, but I have been busy with some creative group challenges and swaps. I was inspired by a friend of mine, Jen, who has been very busy creating digi images and cards... and I decided I had to post some of the cards I made this weekend in a burst of creativity...

This was a gift bag that i made for a friend, Nishi. It was her birthday last week and we had High Teas at the Oyster Box Hotel yesterday afternoon. I made this gift box using a Beeno's box as a base. She loved it I'm happy to say.

This is a card I made using a digi image I downloaded free off the web. I loved the backgrouns paper and just had to make something with it.

This is my first attempt as using my sewing machine to stitch on a card. I've always liked the look of stitching on cards, but I have absolutely zero sewing skills and the family tend to duck and run when the old sewing machine comes out of hiding. It was quite hard to sew in a straight line with my temperamental old machine but the end result wasn't too bad.

I just love this little hippie girl digistamp and I combined it with a lattice background that I cut out using my Wishblade. It came out quite nicely in the end - good old 'Blue (my Wishblade).

I just love Tilda images... she's so cute - even with no mouth! I made this card to keep in a stash for emergencies - hence no sentiment on the front.

I'm planning to post these cards on CDAC and Paper Craft Planet as well.

Thats it from me today... I hope it won't be too long before I can scan and upload some more of the projects I've been working on.

Until next time,
Hugs
Hayley