I have been Spotlighted!!!

CRAFTER'S DIGITAL ART CENTRE spotlighted my card for their Embellishment Challenge #3on the main page of the site, and I earned my first "badge" Thanks, Priscilla, I really appreciate the recognition and feel humbled in the company of such other accomplished artists and crafters! Please follow the link by clicking on the beautiful purple butterfly on the right, and you will be able to view all the other beautiful creations....

A little bit more of the bellydancing

Last Sunday, the Belly Button bellyrinas danced at The Stables Lifestyle Market in Durban for the Women's Day promotion. For those of you not familiar with Durban's wonderful weather, this was taken at midday, in MIDWINTER!!!! Note the bright sunshine, and although there was a cold front on the way and the wind was blowing, Durban is a wonderful place to spend the winter months, as the (un)dress of the dancers shows!

I love my bellydancing, and creating and beading the costumes, and if you'd like to visit my website, www.jencraft.co.za, you'll be able to see a lot more.

Things that Fly - Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge

I just love Mo's images and used this one for my entry into her latest challenge, "Things that Fly". Maybe I will give this card to Blayne and Kellan to use for Nicholas' 21 birthday on Wednesday. I can hardly believe that our oldest son, Nic, will be turning 21 YEARS OLD - so in this case ... something that does fly is ............... TIME!

MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE #65

The Michelle Perkett Studio is sponsoring the prize of the MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE #65, and this is my contirubition for the cheallenge, which I have never entered before. I just love this digistamp Leilani, if my memory serves me correctly, and I used hot, summer colours to go with the Hawaiian theme. The digistamp was designed by Michelle Perkett.

NANA VIC'S DIGITALS : Weekend Challenge Card

Over on CDAC, in the Nana Vic's Digitals group, I entered a challenge using one of Nana Vic's oh so cute digistamps, and this is my creation. It's a little bit of watercolour pencil colopuring, gel pen colouring, paper piecing, and 3D work, all on one card. I just love that quotation by Isadora Duncan.

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge #4

Oh wow - what beautiful images - I finished mine for this "On the Dark Side" theme Challenge, and you can see it here. I had great fun doing this one, I hope you like it too!

ABC - you've seen the A and B - so here's the "B" part ...

Belly dancing is my other passion - I just all the aspects of oriental dance - the music, the passion, the styles of dance, AND ESPECIALLY the costumes. Besides dabbling a little bit in belly dancing and the tribal dancing styles, I just love to design, sew and create the beadwork for the dancers' costumes. In the past few years I have made countless costumes and even more bra's have been beaded, each to the dancer's own colour specifications. This is one of the more recent bra's I beaded for Preena, and I think the colour combination is stunning - royal blue and turquise has always been one of my fave colour combos to work with. Preena dances with style and loves her flamboyant costumes and nothing is too OTT to her. She loves this costume - I hope you do too ...