Vintage Tag Swap - Sneak Peek

My online group - RSA - arrange swaps to keep us girls and guy, on our toes and up to speed! I have not participated in any swaps for such a long time and leaped at the chance of making Vintage Tags, as per the specifications laid down by the Hostess. Teaching can seriously hamper your creativeness as you have so many things to consider when you put together a class and most times, you are restricted to the level of expertise the participants have. So, this was like feeling the 'wind beneath my wings'!!
The swap had to be in today, so I'm not breaking any rules giving you a sneak peek....lol!
Will reveal all, with details, when the swap back is received.
Thanks for the visit.

Sad news.....

Last Saturdy my DIL miscarried. My darling children are so distraught and I'm miles away with my arms aching to hold them and my shoulder ready to cry on. I feel helpless and heartbroken. But, then I know, God has His own agenda and in His time, we will all be blessed and once again share the joy of a precious baby coming into our lives. Please spare a prayer for healing of both body and spirit for my children. Bless you all.

60th Birthday Card

My brother-in-law had his 60th birthday on the 31st March and I made him this card for the occasion.
I followed the same layout I used for my Dad's card and chose colors that were bright and cheerful.
I flattened a bottle cap and inserted wooden number that I stained, inside of it.

I use a Darkroom Door set of stamps with the most appropriate sentiment of the occasion. 


My niece, her boyfriend and my nephew organised a surprise luncheon for their Dad and family came from far and wide to celebrate this special birthday.

We always tease each other as we share the same birth year, and just for a few months Rob, you are older than me!  Ha-ha-ha.

It really was a special day!

Guess What...................??

I'm going to be a Granny!!

Getting ready for Cape Town's winter 2013

It is now official, although we have known for over 3 weeks, the happy couple wanted to get through their first official scan and see for themselves!  So now I can broadcast it to the WWW - I'm going to be a Granny and the needles have been busy since the day after they told us. In between prepping for classes, I have managed to finish a jacket for "Squnkey" and the second one is almost there. The wool in the pack is for a lovely blanket. Still have to wait for the sex of Squnkey - Neil and Caro's nick name of their baby! Will be great once I can break out in colour, but for now they are adamant that no boy of theirs will wear pink, so I had better behave myself and stay neutral. God knows when the time is right, so no one is questioning this wondrous happening so early in their marriage. Both being in their 30's, the time is so right for them!
Thank you our darlings for making our dream come true - we will be the best Grandparents we know how!
OOH so excited...............

Wedding Invitations

 I share my card making passion with a group of ladies every month and this Saturday we will be making 'different' invitations. 
One thing I have learnt when you pass on your knowledge to others is that what you like is not always what they like and never more so does this apply, than to greeting cards. With that in mind, and given the ladies who want to learn about invitations, I have to put my own taste aside and design what appeals to others.
So this group will be making the two cards below. The long one is actually a wallet card that has been glitzed up with all things shiny and feathers. I used kraft board for the wallet and the die cuts were made out of hand made paper, using X-Cut dies. The inserts, and there can be lots of them in this wallet, are all kraft board onto black card.
The second card is a four-flap card (my description...lol). This was made using shimmer card and the outer card was embellished with hand made paper with a suede floral pattern. Very sumptuous, as both these cards are. I'm looking forward to feed back from my ladies - I hope I have hit the button on the nose this time and left my own preferences in my pocket!! What do your think??

The Wallet and Four Flap card

The Four Flap card closed at the back
 and open in the front

The Wallet card, closed at the back
and open in the front, showing the inserts.

Robby Bear

Click on the Moz Bearz link above to read all about this sweet bear!

Dad's Birthday Card

Following on from the last posting, I want to share the card I made for Dad.

I used the design supplied by Jo Gorge on our RSA Birthday get-away last month.

It is one of those fancy folded cards and I loved the versatility of it. I was able to use up different off cuts of card stock in my stash. Great card for using scraps. I cut the 80 with PTI's fabulous number dies and the stamps used were designed to go with these dies.

 Inside, I applied a Fab Scraps board cut out on the left inner and the right inner, I used a photo of the four of us taken at Neil's wedding. 

I will certainly use this design again and again. Thanks Jo for sharing!