I AM BACK!

Yes, I know it really has been a VERY long time since my last update but you know...life got busy! What can I say... So thought what better time while sitting watching the 2010 World Cup soccer (and I can tell you I am NOT a soccer fan at all but I thought best I show my support just in case someone asked "did you see the match between...?")!

So yes, life has been a tad busy with our family "trek" (also know as "move") back from Dubai in March last year, yes, can you believe that! We have been back in Cape Town for over 15 months and it really feels like we haven't left! I started my cardmaking and scrapbooking business up and running again and it has been keeping me really, really busy! So now this blog will be dedicated to all my cardmaking and scrapbooking projects, a little bit about my life and travels (with a few personal updates for the rest of the family) so please feel free to delete yourself from the mailing if you don't want to receive any future blogging blah, blah from me!

So here is a little bit of cardmaking inspiration for you:



This card was made with the Cuttlebug butterfly die cut, scored into 3 sections to create a tier-folded card and finished off with red rhinestones and beads.

So this will be the start of many more bloggings to come to keep you up to date with all kinds of creativity, events, etc.

Have a happy week!

Until later...

For my creative friends...

Okay! I always seem to apologise that it takes me so long to do posts! Why is life so hectic?!

Tomorrow afternoon we are off to experience our first overnight stay in the middle of the desert! We are going on a 4x4 adventure with friends and we are going to camp for the night, so that should be an interesting experience! Will blog the details with what we were up to...

I know it has been a while since I blogged some pictures of the cards I have been making so here are four for you to all get yourselves inspired and your creative juices flowing! I am always envious of all those people who blog each and every day (or second day) with new creative ideas and things that they have been doing creatively! Where do they find the time!!! So here are 3 cards I made recently (the first 2 are just general cards and the last one - pink teddy card was for my niece, Ella-Rose who just recently turned 2):

Bryce is having a sports day so I am off to be the "Mommy support!"

Until later...

Some creative juices flowing...

So for all my creative cardmaking and scrapbooking friends out there...I know...it has been a long while since I put anything creative on the blog so this entry is just for you!

On Friday and Saturday I was at a craft market in Dubai prompting scrapbooking and cardmaking and you cannot believe how many South Africans I met popping past the stall. It was a lot of fun but exhausting. I was there from 12h00 - 19h00 on both days and I taught a class doing a Tag Card Booklet - three people on Friday and two on Saturday. It was a lot of fun and it reminded me of my teaching days back home! When I come back from "summer break" I am hoping to get classes up and running here as there has been a lot of interest.

The tag card booklet consists of the following:

• 2 pieces of chipboard/frameboard for your cover measuring 8 x 12.5 cm. You will then need to cut two pieces of scrapbooking paper or cardstock to cover these pieces that are slightly larger. On one of the pieces attach a ribbon across.
• Cut cardstock to measure 12 cm x 30 cm (the black piece in this picture) and a piece of patterned paper to measure 7.5 cm x 30 cm. Put these two pieces together and measuring at 7.5 cm intervals score a line from top to bottom (on a ruler across this should be at 7.5 cm / 15 cm / 22.5 cm).
• Put a strip of double sided tape along the length of the cardstock measuring 12 cm x 30 cm and strips along the scored lines on the patterned paper. Put the patterned paper onto the black carstock, this will create pockets. Fold the scored lines. Working from the left side fold the cardstock in, the next fold will be behind (creating a valley).A
• Attach the back of the folded pockes (right side of the cardstock) to the ribbon piece of chipboard/frameboard (your covers).
• Carefully attach the front piece by aligning it with the back piece.
• Embellish the front cover and then tie the ribbon.
• The tags were creating by cutting cardstock to measure 5 cm x 9 cm and then cutting off a piece of either side to create the tag. Embellish the tags.

Hope this all make sense! Very quick instructions. All I can say is "good luck!" and if something is not making sense email me! Would love to see your creations so once you have made them please scan and email them to me.

The other creative thing I was up to was making door hangers (the type you find at hotels that say "do not disturb!") for my two nieces, Ella-Rose and Madison Grace for their rooms. The template I just made up and then just embellished them using scrapbooking paper and ribbon.
It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed making them.

Okay I am off to be more creative so watch this space!

4 card ideas with one stamp!

Hello again! Not much to report from the emirate of Dubai! Although tomorrow (24th) is our wedding anniversary - 9 years! Well done babes for putting up with me for so long! We both need a medal of endurance!

We will be off later on Thursday afternoon to visit another emirate called Abu Dhabi about a 140 km drive from Dubai to get my aunt and uncle their visit visa. They will be visiting us for 2 days next weekend.

So, I did more creating and came up with these 4 cards using one stamp keeping with the theme of the same colours but still managing to make 4 different looking cards.

I hope that these cards will inspire you to get creating!

Doing what I do best!

So, I got down to being a bit creative over the last couple of days - have my moments of being inspired as I am so out of routine that I have to get myself motivated to get things done. Let me know what you think...

Still not sure what I am going to be doing with my business. At the moment I am still waiting for my resident visa to be issued (I have been speaking to a few people and it has sometimes taken up to 6 months for their visas to be issued!). Not sure if I am going to survive that long without having a car!
Peter is hoping to go fishing with the boys tomorrow so that will be a lot of fun for them. I will sit on the side, relax and read my book. That is if I can survive the weather. It is getting hotter here - today it supposed to be 33 degrees (feels like 40!) with humidity of 54 %! I heard Cape Town is also having a heat wave! Don't know if I am going to survive the summer! Thank goodness for airconditioning!!

Until later...