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ARTS, BELLYDANCING, CRAFTS
BELLYDANCING, ARTS, CRAFTS
CRAFTS, BELLYDANCING, ARTS

whichever order I put them in, these are my passion!

... all from my little home studio in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa!

"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Paul McCartney









Wednesday, September 30, 2015

PRINTING AND COLOURING DIGISTAMPS ON PATTERNED PAPER

It's Tutorial Wednesday at Bugaboo Stamps today, and I am sharing with you a fun way to print and colour your digistamps (your rubber and clear stamps will work too).

STEP ONE
Inser your image on pastel patterned paper.  (You can use actual paper for this step)
Alternatively, in MS Word, insert your digital paper, and adjust to the size required for your project.  
(Tip - use the .png version of your image if you're using a digistamp).  
Adjust the size of your image.


STEP TWO
Print your project and colour as desired.


STEP THREE
Complete your card

Here's the before and after, so you can see the difference:

That's it!  Easy peasy, but a lovely finished look.
I have used the Bugaboo image Flower Pocket on my Autumn coloured card, and below is the same image on a Spring coloured card:


I hope you'll give this a try.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA


Tuesday, September 29, 2015

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARD FOR A TEEN


The image used on my card is from The East Wind 
I used a digital background and coloured the image using alcohol markers, a white gel pen and Sickles.
As embellishments, I sewed on sequins and beads, and used a big gem.
The sentiment is a peel off. 
There are four faceted silver gems, one  in each corner.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to enter the following challenges:



EUREKA STAMPS, ANYTHING GOES

BUGABOO STAMPS : NEW RELEASE (DT CARD)


One of today's new releases at Bugaboo Stamps is this cute Chibi Kitty, that I coloured using alcohol markers:


I also used the following for my card:

white cs base
digital background
satin ribbon and bow
gems
own sentiment (MS Word)

Click HERE to see all this month's new releases 

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to enter these challenges:

FANTASTIC TUESDAY,ANYTHING GOES WITH A TWIST, PETS
 

THE OUTLAWZ COLOUR CHALLENGE (GD CARD)

This is my last week as the Guest Designer for The Outlawz Colour challenge; I have throughly enjoyed this month with the talented designers.

The colour inspiration is our colourful South African flag:

 

and the sponsor is


whose image I have used on my card.  (pider web and black spider are not part of the image, but added clipart) The image is coloured using alcohol markers

 A simple black cs mat on a white case base is all I feel that this card needed.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN 
SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to enter these challenges



EUREKA STAMPS, ANYTHING GOES