Happy, happy week-end!!

I had a huge chunk of free time yesterday, and hopefully today as well, to play around with my toys!!
Here is my June 2012 tag of the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2012!
I'm also busy with some Confirmation invites. My friends son is being confirmed next month, so she asked me to make the invitations. That's like giving me license to create - as if I need any LOL!!
Have a great Sunday all!!

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2012 (May 2012)

Hi all
I had such an awesome afternoon making this tag, that I ended up making 3 of them!!
Ingrediets:

• Stampers Anonymous Haberdashery CMS105 stamp set
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Walnut Stain, Brushed Corduroy & Barn Door)
• Ink Blending Tool
• Tim Holtz Sizzors
• Ranger Mini Mister
• Fiskars Trimmer
• Stazon Jet Black
• Acrylic block
• Paper Distresser
• Prima Glass flowers

Check out the Tim Holtz blog for instructions and other examples from very creative stampers.
 Hope you are all having a great weekend.
Much love!

SA Scrapbook Convention May 2012

What an awesome 1 day Convention at Spier this week-end.  We were so honoured to have the Graphic 45 Mon and daughters team.  Their project R-O-C-K-E-D!!!  We didn't get any of the projects done in the classes, so I have a ton of projects to finish, but thats a GOOD PROBLEM to have!!  Here am I with Diane, Amy and Charee.  Hugs all

Tiffany's school took full house at the SANESA School Equestrian Event over the week-end.  Her other two team mates came 1st and 2nd and she came 3rd in the 50 cm 2 phase.  We're so proud of her.  I must admit its a lot of work having to look after your child and a horse on event day!! whew!!  I needed today just to rest.

Hugs

SANESA Qualifier

Tiffany came first today in her Equitation class and second in the 40 cm jumping.  I'm so proud of my girl.  These are lovely scrappy photos, yeah!!!

Have a blessed week everyone.

Hugs

Natalie

Valentine's Day

Tomorrow will be Valentine's Day and I've been making a whole lot of cards.  Here is an example of one of the cards I made.
I hope everybody will have an awesome Valetnine's!!

My Project Life has arrived!!!!

Hi all
I'm so happy because when I came from home today, my Project Life box was in my kitchen!!  I didn't even cook supper, I immediately had to open the box and start playing.  This is going to be lots of fun!  Hope you are having fun too?

Hugs

Hello everyone!

I hope to be less MIA this year and craft more!  I was browsing the internet and came across a new site called Scrap Africa.  Its a challenge blog that will post a new sketch every two weeks and you have three weeks in which to submit your project.  Isn't this great 'Local is Lekker'.  I love it and hope to participate as often as I can.

Check them out, the design team came out with awesome LOs.  

Hugs

Happy 2012

My wish to all my friends is that 2012 will be our best year ever!!  With health and prosperity on every level.  To be blessed in order to be a blessing to others.

Happy 2012 all.

Hugs

Give-Away

Hi friends

I've been seriously MIA.  Its just crazy at work at the moment, so blogging had to take a back seat.

I've come across the blog of Scraperlicious a while back and I'm a huge fan.  To celebrate a million hits on her blog she's offering a serious prize to be won, some Bo Bunny products as well as products of other companies she's working for.  All you have to do to win is post about this on your blog and link it back to her comments page.  Easy!!  Who doesn't like a freeby!

Have a cool week further, it ALMOST week-end.  The week-end will also mean the end of the exams!  Phew, writing Grade 4 exams with my DD is not easy!

Hugs

Natalie

Bangs

Hi there!
Just a quick uploading today of a LO we did (again) at the April 2011 SA Scrapbook event with Margie Romney-Aslett.  This was a really easy LO to make and I used a photo of  my daughter which was taken last month.  She wanted her hair cut in a fringe (bangs) and after long negotiations I agreed.  This was the outcome!  

Our Sunshine

Today was Freedom Day in South Africa.  We're celebrating seventeen years of freedom after the release of Nelson Mandela and being able to vote in the national elections as black South Africans.  May we never forget where we come from and how many have sacrificed to give us this freedom that we enjoy today.  If you're interested in the history of our liberation struggle then Long Walk to Freedom will make a good read and education.

Below I'm posting a LO I did as part of the SA Scrapbook Convention (Sept 2010).












I didn't have the appropriate photos at the time and when I printed the photos of diva junior taken on Good Friday, I knew I had the right LO waiting to be completed.  This is a LO Nic Howard did with us and it is STUNNING!  Its even more stunning with that lovely ray of sunshine that we call Tiffany in it.

The paper and embelishments are all Prima-liscious.  Thanks for looking!

Hugs

Natalie

Graphic 45 card

Hi friends
I just wanted to show you a card I finished today.  It was probably one of the quickest cards I made because working with such gorgeous paper is just fabulous!  This is from the Curtain Call range from G45.  Did I say awesome paper?

Have a fabulous rest of Easter Monday, oeps just realised its already 12:15am.  Suppose its time for bed!

Hugs

Natalie

BFS Prompt 5

Does your mail also get 'babies' overnight it seems? I have a continuous struggle with mail. Actually I don't EVER open mail. If you want to correspond with me, you'll have to send me a sms, e-mail or connect with me on Facebook. I do not do snail mail. I've requested e-statements to all the companies who have this service so that I can deal with less mail in the postbox. For those who do not have this service I want to say GET WITH THE PROGRAMME. Lets save a few forest/trees. So this MAIL caddy was born because the space in my kitchen where the mail goes is so untidy!! I made this last night. I havn't had much time to play in my craft room and when this goes on for too long I start feeling 'sick'!

So this morning I got up and admired my handy work and it made me SMILE! The paper is from Kaizercraft and this was also the range that was selected for the charity scrap as part of the 2010 SA Scrapbook Convention. So I made this project with some of the left over paper - and I even have more of that paper left over.

Lets hope that with the caddy comes better organisation.

Have a blessed Good Friday everyone!

Natalie

SA Scrapbook Convention April 2011

Hi friends
Just to show you a few pics (with Tim Holtz of course) of our most recent SA Scrapbook Convention in Cape Town (Spier).  It was an awesome event and of course you have to get a shot in with Tim and Margie.  Had the good fortune to meet up with old friends from last year and we sat at the same table again this year.  FUN.  FUN.  FUN.

I'll post more on the projects we did with Margie and Tim once I get good daylight!
Off to Hermanus for the week-end.
Keep well all
Hugs
Natalie

BFS - Prompt Four

Hi there everybody
I've been somewhat MIA as I've had a hectic work week.  I led a 2 day conference this week, attended a 1-day Intermediate Excel 2007, have an inbox thats grown to 600+ mails - and am completely wiped out!
This week-end I require some serious ME-time.  DH is taking diva junior to her horse riding lessons tomorrow am, so that I can attend a stamping and inking demonstration at my favourite scrapbook store, yeah me!
Schools are also on break from today and goes back to school on 11 April.  My daughter brought home a stunning report card and we are so proud of her.  DH then took her to Exclusive Books for a little treat, and these are the books she selected as she is an avid reader .  She gets her love of reading from both of us, but I must say its been a long time since I've lost myself in a good read.

Enlarge Image  Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection By P L Travers  On Sale: 1/12/2010  Formats:     Trade paperback Single-Click Shopping: See More Retailers Book Description When their new nanny, Mary Poppins, arrives on a gust of the East Wind, greets their mother, and slides up the banister, Jane and Michael′s lives are turned magically upside down. Familiar to anyone who has seen the film or the West End adaptation, you can now read all six of these wonderfully original tales about Jane and Michael′s adventures with the magical Mary Poppins. In each book Mary takes the children on the most extraordinary outings: to a fun fair inside a pavement picture; to visit Uncle Andrew who floats up to the ceiling when he laughs; on a spectacular trip to see the Man-in-the-Moon! With her strict but fair, no-nonsense attitude, combined with amazing magical powers, things are never straightforward with Mary Poppins! But she has only promised to stay until the wind changes... Titles include: Mary Poppins Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane Mary Poppins and the House Next Door Mary Poppins Opens the Door Mary Poppins in the Park Mary Poppins Comes Back Age 12+    There's no escape When everyone is watching you. Emerson Watts was pretty sure there couldn't be anything worse than being a  straight A student whose brain had been transplanted into the body of a teenage  supermodel. But it turned out she was wrong. Because that supermodel could turn out to have a mother who's mysteriously gone  missing, a brother who's shown up on her doorstep demanding answers, ex-boyfriends  crawling out of the woodwork who want more than just a photo op, and a British  heartthrob who's written a song about her that's topping the charts. How can Em balance all that with school, lingerie runway shows, and weekend jaunts  to St. John—especially when she's got final exams; a sister who is headed to the high  school cheerleading championships; a former best friend, Christopher, who's intent  on destroying Stark Enterprises to avenge the death of his lost love; and a company  she represents that seems to be turning to the dark side... But then, nobody said it was going to be easy, being Nikki. Wings Aprilynne Pike's #1 New York Times best-selling debut, Wings,  is the first of four books about a seemingly ordinary girl named Laurel. Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful--too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings. Laurel discovers she is a faerie, sent among humans  to protect the gateway to Avalon.  Thrust into the midst of a centuries-old battle between  faeries and trolls, she's torn between  a human and a faerie love, as well as her loyalties to  each world. In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue,  romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever. Have a great week-end, and hopefully I will get big chunks of time to just CREATE! Hugs Natalie

BFS - Prompt Three

Good Saturday morning to all
I have had a beautiful slow morning as my DH and diva junior went to go watch big brother play hockey this morning, so I had a lay-in, relaxing cup of coffee and some surfing time.  I'm also playing catch-up, so here goes for prompt three:  my 10 favorite things as recorded and scrapped in 2009, but never blogged.  I did this as part of a Book about Me, which is still a work in progress.
I hid the 10 favorites in a tag at the time, not sure why I did that, but here is my list and it is still true now in 2011.

1.  Diva Junior - she's the best part of me and amazing to have conversations with.

2.  Movies - all time favorite "Pretty Woman" - not very deep lol

3.  Music - especially jazz

4.  Food - sushi at the moment (salmon roses) yummy!

5.  Scrapbooking (no random order)

6.  The Beach - living in CT is such a blessing

7.  A day at the Spa - reflexology, Indian head message mmmmhh

8.  Experimenting with my hair (it still hasn't fallen out from all the chemicals I nail it with)

9.  Seduko (this has taken a back-seat of late in favor of craft magazines)

10.Travelling (domestic and international), planning a trip to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe for Easter break.

I'll hopefully have time to post promp four later today.  Its diva juniors birthday tomorrow, she'll be 10 years old and we are having the family over for lunch.  I still have to go hit the shops for groceries and a gift.  She's into Wii at the moment, she's had it for two years, but I think she's only now really getting into it.  So I'll buy some Wii paraphanalia and additional games and stuff.

Have a great Saturday all and thanks for all the lovely comments you gorgeous ladies are leaving.  My cup runneth over!

Hugs

Natalie

BFS - Prompt Two

So yes, I'm a bit late with prompt two, but I still really want to do it.  This is my take on thinking back to a time when I was really happy and scrapbook something about it?  And you might think this weird, but I've been reflecting a lot lately on my late father.  He's birthday was on February 26th and he's been gone for almost 20 years now.  I am at a place now where I have really happy thoughts about him, instead of feeling sadness.  Before his birthday I was really missing having him around, and for some reason I looked around old photo's as we sometimes do when we get nostalgic.  I then came across my Mom and Dad's wedding photos.  I knew immediately that I had to scrap them as vintage is very in at the moment lol.  
Regrettably, in 1962 (the year my parents got married) they didn't have digital photo's where the photographer could take hundreds of pictures and you could take your pick.  It was mostly a few selected studio pictures, a few in church and a few in the gardens.
I looked around on the internet, as I normally do for some inspiration.  And came across the tutorial by Cathy Files  (scroll right to the bottom of her blog post) of Paper Phenomenon, of a wedding mini she's made of her own wedding.  Coincidentally I had the exact same paper line she used and so this mini album was born which is a testimony to the love and commitment my parents made to each other, so that my two brothers and I could have the lives that we have today.  So this post is NOT sad, its HAPPY.  I'm in a good place, my Dad is in a good place, we are all in a good place.  Here is celebrating HAPPINESS.
This is the cover of the mini album "Always and Forever", inspired by Paper Phenomenon.
 
 I used vinyl for the cover, Tim Holtz buttons for fasteners, bling and a bride and groom.

Here you get a glimpse of the bride and groom pages.  Its a gate-fold album.

 Brides pages ...

Bridal bouquet ...

 The wedding cake ...

 The grooms pages ...

 The ring bearer pillow ...

Love and happiness to you all ...

Natalie