Ribbons and Lace

Welcome! 

It is time for a new challenge at Crafting by Designs.

I am the host and the theme is Ribbons and Lace.

The challenge is to use ribbon and/or lace in our creation.

Our fabulous sponsor is Lacy Sunshine, another favourite of mine!

 

I could play with the sweet Swan Enchantress

 

Come and join our challenge!

AND

We also have a Design Team Call here if you would like to join our team!

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Rene

You are Beautiful!

Welcome!

It is time for a new challenge at Crafting by Designs.

I am the host and the theme is 'You are Beautiful'.

The challenge is to make something for yourself, a card, a gift, a treat.

Our fabulous sponsor is Lunagirl.

I covered a little box with a lovely sea-green paper

 then decorated it, 

adding one of the images from the Daydreams Collage Sheet.

This is the top view. 

I still need to decorate the box some more. 

It is now my dream box and I will fill it with good wishes and dreams, 

and whatever pleases me. 

I hope you like my little box.

Please come and join our challenge!
You have until April 12th.

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Rene

Add a Button!

Welcome!

Time for a new challenge over at Crafting by Designs!

We were asked to button up.

Our fabulous sponsor Beccy's Place supplied the pretty Petite Paris image.

I coloured with my pencils, added 2 layers and a button. It looks a bit like the moon, doesn't it?

Come and join the challenge and stand a chance to win images from Beccy's Place!

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Rene

Sparkling Bride

Welcome!

There is a new challenge at Crafting By Designs with the theme: Winter, Glitter, Sparkles

Our generous sponsor is Sami Stamps.

I used Lily Bride to create my sparkly card. (I just love all those pretty brides!)
It is summer in South Africa, and quite hot at the moment, so I just went for the sparkle!
Brides always sparkle, come winter or summer!

The bride was coloured with pencils, cut and layered on sparkle card and fixed to the card. I then used some glue to add lines for the ultra fine Crystal glitter.

I'm adding my card to the Sami Stamps Challenge #33 - Add a little Sparkle


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Rene

Get Ready!

Welcome!

It's a new challenge at Crafting By Designs!

Our theme: Get Ready For Christmas.

My card using the beautiful Elaine Cox Christmas bird from Sweet Pea Stamps:

I used pencils to colour the image and added some glitter with a gelly roll.

Sadly, Sweet Pea Stamps closed, so in a way this is a great way to say thanks for all the pretty images through the years!

Come and join the challenge!

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Rene

CBD Blog Hop!

Welcome!

 

It's Blog Hop Time!

 

I'm so glad you came to visit and join the hop.
My blog is the second last stop, so if you started here, I would hate for you to miss out on all the fabulous creations of my fellow DT sisters.
The Hop started here.

Our generous sponsors:

 

 

 

The Theme: Our favourite holiday.

We decided to all make cards according to our favourite holiday. 

I just love Christmas time!
Here in the Southern Hemisphere it is summer at Christmas time, but that never stops us to have many of the traditional Christmas fare.
Fruitcake and fruit mince pies are some of the things I really like.
The tree, the decorations and the gift wrapping are some of my favourite activities around that time.
But, the special message of Christmas, of a Child born unto us is what makes Christmas my real favourite time of the year.

My cards:

 

Mini Bethlehem from The Doodle Pantry

I used the pre-coloured images from the set as well as the paper.

Glitter glue makes the card sparkle!

 

 

Pointy Pointsettia Flowers Digi and Cutfile Set
from Fred She Said

 A little extra cutting and some piercing was needed to make the flower.
Glitter glue added a final touch!

 

The Line Up:

 

Maureen - Handmade by Maureen

Lisa - Paper Craft Bliss

Sharon - Scrap Happy

Doris - Mom's Been Scrappin

Leeann - Paper Doll's Creations

Rene - Life In the Craft Lane (<--- you are here)

Julia - Paper and Scraps Creations By Julia

 

Double check if you visited every stop!

 

Make sure to leave a comment & your email address, you might be one of the lucky winners!

 

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Rene

Giving Thanks

Welcome!

The challenge at Crafting by Designs was published on Wednesday 14 May 2014.
Our theme this week is: Thank You.

We have the fabulous Rick St Dennis as our generous sponsor. We received a beautiful image to play with. I decided, after much deliberation, to use the French Flower Cart.

If you visit his online store, you will find out exactly why it is so difficult to pick an image. There are so many beauties! This is what I came up with:

The image was coloured with my pencils (ordinary & aquarelles). The background of the image and card was created with my favourite pastels. I used fine liners to create a frame of  'thank yous'.

There are so many things to give thanks for daily: Good health, family, friends, sunshine, rain, food, a roof over our heads, a friendly smile…this list can go on.

Come and join us with your thankful creation before the 21^st of May!

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Rene

 

Catch-up Post

Welcome!

 

I've been quiet here in blog land, had some problems with my laptop, but I've been making some cards for all the challenges over at Crafting By Designs.

 

First up is the Anything Goes Monthly Challenge with 3 sponsors!

 

The first card was made with an image from one of my favourite companies A Day for Daisies:

 

 

The second is a set of small cards I made with the image from The Doodle Garden

 

 

 

 

The third card is for the latest weekly themed challenge sponsored by Sami Stamps

 

 

 

 



I'm in the process of doing separate posts for each card, so I hope you will visit again!

 

 

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Rene

Birthday Box.

Welcome!

 

When I received the Birthday cards with Children Digital Collage Sheet I couldn't decide

which 1 of the 8 sweet images to use.

Then I saw this fabulous tutorial for an exploding box!

 I could use all 8 images on 1 project!

 

 

 

This is my project for the Anything Goes with a Lunagirl Twist Challenge at Crafting by Designs.

(I'll add more photos shortly)

 

Lunagirl is our fabulous sponsor and her DT has joined us for the challenge.

Visit the Crafting by Designs to see all the fabulous projects!

An join the fun challenge!

 

 

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Rene

Victorian Wishes!

 

Welcome!

 

Wednesday is Challenge Day at Crafting By Designs!

 

We have a fabulous sponsor, Lunagirl Moonbeams this week!

 

And we have a Twist in our Anything Goes Challenge: Birthdays!

But that is not all, the DT from Lunagirl joined us! 

The result is a mixture of fabulous creations!

 

My first project is a Birthday card using Victorian Birthday Greetings Collage Set:

 

 

The collage sheet was printed on glossy photo paper.

I cut out 1 of the images, layered it on orange cardstock & crumpled gold paper.

This was added to a purple card.

  

Pop over to join us!

 

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Rene

Some More Purple and Orange

Welcome!

I would like to share another purple and orange card using Nicolosia Venice City City Girl from the fabulous Lacy Sunshine range of digital stamps:

As you can see I kept it simple. The embossed panel was turned over and some ribbon was added.
The image was coloured with my pencils and I added glitter in the form of Sprinkles in various colours.


There is still time to add your creation to the Crafting by Designs challenge.

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Rene

All Goes Orange and Purple!

Welcome!

 

It's a new challenge over at Crafting By Designs and I'm hosting!

 

It's a colour combo challenge : Orange and purple!

 

 

Now you know why my blog looks a bit...ummmh, different! (hope you like it, I do!)

 

 

Lacy Sunshine is our fabulous sponsor!

 

 

 And here is my first card using Nicolosia Venice City...City Girl:

 

 

 

 

Do pop over to come and view the awesome creations by the fabulous DT.

 

 

Watch this space for more creations using Nicolosia! I'm on a roll!

 

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Rene

Glittering and Sassy!

Welcome!

The Anything Goes with Sassy Studio Designs challenge is on a roll over at Crafting by Designs.
I'm a big fan of Sassy Studio Designs, so I always enjoy working with Lindsay's images.

This time around I used Jessica Rabbit Sassy that was kindly provided by the sponsors, Sassy Studio Designs.

Oh my, she is just so sexy! I played with glitter that I've had for ages. After colouring and cutting out the image, I used clear glue to colour her glove and then sprinkled the silver glitter. This dried first, before I did the same with her dress and shoes and gorgeous red glitter.

While the dress was drying I made the background. I used the negative of a tag and backed it with black textured card from my stash. The card was covered with red shiny paper. A ruby red rhinestone add some extra sparkle. Jessica was added with dimension tape.

Isn't she just fabulous! That dress does it for her, don't you agree!

There is still time to enter the challenge! It is an Anything Goes challenge, so you can enter any of your current projects, or even 2 or 5 of them. Won't you love to win 4 SSD images!

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Rene

I'm linking my card to the following challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge #27 : Anything Goes

Proudly SA

Welcome!

It's Wednesday and time for a new challenge at Crafting By Designs!

We are showing our country's colours!

The inspiration for my card is our national flower, the King Protea, beautifully photographed on this postcard by Bateleur Publishing CC.

 

Here is my card:

 

 

I've used the cute Russia Honey by Sassy Studio Designs. Her fur hat reminded me of the fluffy inside of the protea. I coloured just the edge of her coat in pink to echo the pink of the flower. The distressed edges of the paper simulates the leaves of the plant. I've added some glitter and 3 rhinestones.

I hope that you will join the challenge!

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Rene

Green & Gold!

Welcome!

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting By Designs!

Our theme this week is to create a project using your country's colours or the colours of your flag.
This is my second card.

Our National Team's colours are Green & Gold, and Gold is an important metal in South Africa.

I've used the fabulous Katniss Girl of Fire by Sassy Studio Designs to create my card. I've coloured her twice in 2 colourways - Green & Gold. My 2 Sassy's also represents a bit of the spectrum of people that lives in my country.
They walk on a bright yellow & green background, anchored by 4 gold rhinestones.

I do hope that I've inspired you to join in the challenge!

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Rene

Seasons

Welcome!

A new challenge is up at Crafting by Designs and I am hosting!

The theme is Show your Season!

The wonderful Delicious Doodles is again our sponsor.

I've used the lovely Harbour Scene to create my cards. I'm sharing my cards here, but will post separately on each one:

Memories

 

Misty Morning

 

Autumn Morning

 

I hope that you will come and join the challenge!

 

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Rene

 

 



Autumn Sunrise

Welcome!

The theme at Crafting by Designs is Show your Season.

Delicious Doodles is the sponsor and I used Harbour Scene to create my card.

 

Autumn (fall) is my favourite season! The days are still warm and the crisp nights are bearable. The colours of nature tones down to softer warmer shades and lovely shades of oranges and even reds can be seen. I love leaves, and especially all those shades of orange!

The image was coloured with pastels and a tiny bit of Vintage Photo Distress Stickles was added. I matted the image on orange card and added it to a kraft card. I know it is simple, but I wanted the image to really shine here.

Hope you'll visit again!

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Rene

I'm adding this card to the CDAC Seasonal Fun Challenge

Misty Morning

Welcome!

The theme at Crafting by Designs is Show your Season.

Delicious Doodles is the sponsor and I used Harbour Scene to create my card.

On my way to work, I drive past some trees, long thin trees. The trees are in a low lying area and it is often foggy there, especially when the seasons change from summer to winter. One morning, it was really foggy and the sun was up. Those trees looked so beautiful, almost surreal in the field.

I tried to create a misty morning with the torn vellum overlay. The ribbon & bow just asked to be added and I'm happy with the spot of colour. Oh, some Diamond Stickles adds a final touch!

Here is a side view:

I hope you find this inspiring and will come & join the challenge,

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Rene

I'm adding this card to the CDAC Seasonal Fun Challenge

Memories

Welcome!

The theme at Crafting by Designs is Show your Season.

Delicious Doodles is the sponsor and I used Harbour Scene to create my card.

 

I overlaid the image with printed vellum. The vellum has writing on postcards as design. I added some stamping : a steampunk watch and keys. Mother of pearl buttons echo the seaside, holds it all together on a kraft card.

 

I fell in love with this image the moment I saw it! There is something nostalgic about it, something quaint. In a way it reminded me of places I visited, especially as a child.

 

The watch is a symbol of the times gone by, the keys of doors that were opened and new possibilities.

 

As a teen and young adult, I was an avid letter writer and I had many pen pals and always kept contact with my friends. That was before emails (LOL) and even after. Email has taken over here and I'm trying to keep up. Through the years, I've lost contact with my pen pals and friends, but the past few years, and especially this last year, I made contact with old friends again! It is almost as if the seasons have made a full circle and I'm so grateful to have a chance to build on those friendships again!

 

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Rene

 

 

 

 

Some more Male!

Welcome!

Our challenge at Crafting By Designs for this week has a male theme!

This is my second card using an image from Bugaboo Stamps.

 

The first time I saw this image and sentiment, I thought it was just so funny, actually punny. Gus is such a grumpy old character that can get way saying anything. Gus Tidbits - WTF is perfect for that character that needs a smile! The sentiment is so clever! Go and have a look around at all his other sayings!

I used parts of background images I found to create the workshop. The image was coloured with pencils.

Don't forget to join the challenge and do visit again!

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Rene