A NEW BELLYDANCE BRA FOR PREENA

Preena, a dancer with the Belly Button Dance Studio, owned by my dear friend Gwen, was the winner of the lucky draw voucher for a handbeaded bellydance bra made by ME!

She chose plum/aubergine and gold and this is the bra I created for her:



If you would like to order a bra or see my other bellydance costume creations, please visit my website.

luv n huggz
Jen

PATTIE'S CREATIONS DESIGN CHALLENGE #21:

Welcome to Challenge #21, where the theme is to make a creation for a Child with a Child's Name on it! JUST REMEMBER, if you use an image from Pattie's Creations, you will get an extra entry to win! Stop over at her Etsy Store and browse around. There are FREEBIES too!
The challenge starts now and ends Thursday, May19th at 1PM CST (Central Standard Time).

My card for this challenge features Pattie's Noah's Ark image, which I coloured using Copics, and cut out. I found a child's poem and printed it over a rainbow image.

My card is made freehand, as I couldn't find my saved tutorial for the pop-up card on my computer, so I just had to 'wing" it. But hey, it worked!



Here are some useful links for you :


To enter This challenge ... click HERE
To go to Pattie's Store .... click HERE
To join the Pattie's Creations group on CDAC ... click HERE

I look forward to seeing your entry for this challenge!

luv n huggz
Jen

A DAY FOR DAISIES ... A PERFECT FAIRY TALE

On Friday, Tammy, the talented owner/artist of A Day for Daisies released another stunning set of images :






And my personal favourite :



This is what I made with the image :



I coloured with my new Copics and chose very pale shades and added a May calendar too, so that I can prop it up on my desk in its pretty little wooden frame. My signature sewn on beads and sequins and a pale blue ribbon are the only embellishments.

Here are some useful links :

Click here to join A day for Daisies on CDAC
Click here to join A Day for Daisies on PCP
Click here to join A Day for Daisies on SSC
Click HERE for The Outlawz challenges

Have a great (what's left of) Mother's Day
luv n huggz
Jen

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY CHALLENGE : "IT'S A CELEBRATION"

The last thing I feel like to today is celebrating anything - I have a bad dose of flu and bronchitis on top of that, so today's post will be short one.

The new challenge at DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY has just started and for this one you need to make a creation for "It's a Celebration " ... more of an anything goes, I suppose, for a celebration like a birthday, wedding engagement, etc..



For my DT card I printed the sentiment, available in the DS4J store, on a piece of pattern scrapbooking paper, and then coloured some of the white areas in the pattern using my coloured pencils and OMS. A few beads and sequins were sewn onto the card, and a pretty little ribbon bow and there you have it!

I love the simplicity of the design which makes the beautiful colours really pop!

Would you like to win some of the fabulous images in the Digistamps store, yes? ... then enter the challenge, and you could be a winner too!

Here are some handy links for you:

Here are some handy links for you ..

The DS4J challenge blog ... click HERE
The DS4J image store where you will find tutorials and lots more : click HERE
The DS4J group on CDAC ... click HERE

I'll be off now, back to bed for another few hours ...
luv n huggz
Jen

MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE #102

 I want to thank everyone involved with making the Midnight Madness Sketch challenges such a success over the last 2 years. It is always a joy to work with and visit not only our sponsors, players and Designers, but to be able to gain inspiration from all of them. We are celebrating with a huge Cricut Candy Giveaway this Month. You never know what we are up to here at the MMSC blog and we may have a few more surprises in store for you in the near future, so be sure to display out MM badge and play our challenges this month!! **hint hint** ;)
This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC102 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is...

http://priscillastyles-store.blogspot.com/ 
The MMSC102 Weekly Bonus winner will win a 
$10 Gift Voucher redeemable for any digi images in the "priscillastyles" Store
Stop by and check out all the new images!!

 Be sure to enter the 2 year Blogaversary Give-a-way too!!  

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**Our May Monthly sponsor is....

http://dudetimedoodles.com/
 Bonibleaux Designs carries all of your crazy "Dude" image needs. We bring you guy images and ideas for those hard to make cards for the "Dude" in your life. Guys aren't about flower and fluff. Guys are our heroes, our fighters, our beer chuggers and bug squashers.
Bonibleaux Designs bring you Manly Man images for your cards and gift ideas. We are all about the "Dudes" here.

The Month end Prize package includes:
Close To My Heart - Key to My Heart 
Martha Stewart Heart & Flower 
Martha Stewart Leaf & Branch
Crop-A-Dile case and set 
Maya Road Chipboard Keychain, alphabet, hearts, & Rubons
Pebble blue Ribbon
Jolie Stickers
Loose rubber from SweetPea Stamps
GStudio clear stamp
Total prize package is well OVER $100 WORTH!!!

WOW!!!Thank you so much Boni for this months fabulous grand prize!!

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And this is the card I made using the "fancy" sketch as my inspiration :



The Priscillastyles image was printed on printed scrapbooking paper that had the vintage images on it so because I didn't want to cover them, I used MS Word to add shapes to follow the sketch. The negative spaces (outside the shapes) were shaded using coloured pencils and OMS, and the flowers on the image were embellished using beads and sequins that were sewn onto the card. The two postage stamps were from the same scrapbooking paper and also coloured using pencils and OMS. The ribbon and two photo corner come from my stash.

This is really an easy sketch to follow and so you should have no problem in entering a creation for a chance to win one of those FABULOUS prizes!

Here are some useful links for you ...

To link to the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge ... click HERE

To join the Crafters Digital Art Centre ... click HERE

Have a creative crafting week!
luv n huggz
Jen
Durban, South Africa

PEKINESE : Shelly's Images

I'd love to tell you about this new card I made with an image from Shelly's Images. Isn't that just the cutest little face? All the Pekinese I have seen have been pampered little pooches, so I decided to call my card "Spoilt Rotten". I coloured the image with coloured pencils and OMS. I used a Nellie's Choice die cut and sewed on some sequins and beads. Then I created a little blinged collar chain with a diamante pendant. Of course I had to add the sentiment "SPOILT ROTTEN". The gorgeous black and silver paper is from a bag of offcuts I bought recently.

Here are some links you may find useful:

To check out this cute Pekinese and many other fabulous images in Shelly's store, click HERE
To join Shelly's group on CDAC, click HERE
To visit Shelly's blog where you can find lots of new techniques, and view the fabulous inspiration of my fellow D-Teamies, click HERE

I'll be back with another post, and another card, tomorrow!

ROYALTY WEEK

There seems to be a flood of royalty and wedding inspired digital images this week, following the ROYAL WEDDING.



One fabulous image, royal but not wedding, is the fabulous crown image designed by Priscillastyles, which I have coloured using my trusty coloured pencils and OMS, and embellished with my signature beads and sequins, sewn onto the card with invisible thread. The purple floral background paper is "Bohemian Spring" from FabScraps, a South African company that has just recently started selling its fabulous products in the US.

I would like to enter this card into the Challenge 1 at THROUGH THE CRAFT ROOM DOOR, Where there is an 'anything goes' challenge that has just started.

I will be back tomorrow with another fabulous royal image used on one of my creations.

luv n huggz from a glorious day in Sunny SOUTH AFRICA
jen