Some of my older belly dance costume makes

SHANNON'S SENTIMENTS SATURDAY CHALLENGE #27 : BIRTHDAYS

The Challenge this week on Shannon's SentIments is BIRTHDAYS!

Create a project using a "birthday" theme, this can be anything from cards to layouts, banners to gift packaging, or how about party favors! Let your imagination run wild and share those birthday projects with us for a chance to win!

To play along, just add your post link to the Mr. Linky widget on the sidebar for the May challenges. Mr. Linky will close for the month on Friday, June 3rd at 11:59pm EST. Please don't include your link in just the comments....for fear it will get lost along the way and not counted toward the monthly prizes.

For your inspiration, I have made a Birthday card for a special friend whose birthday is coming up in a week or two, and used a sentiment from Shannon's store, where you will find this and many many other fabulous s4ntiments and images.

I look forward to seeing what you create!

luv n huggz
Jen

FRIDAYS mean .... A DAY FOR DAISIES NEW RELEASES!!!!

This week I have another set of fairy tale images to share with you......

CINDERELLA and the tiny glass slipper:



I made a waterfall card, with each of the three images in the CAS technique.
The first image is of Cinderella losing her shoe while running down the stairs at the stroke of midnight. The image is coloured in Copics, coloured pencils and OMS, with crystal Stickles highlights.



The second image is of the glass slipper, which is 3D decoupage. The top layer of the slipper is double heat embossed, first with crystal clear embossing powder, and then with clear UTEE, to which I added some crystal powdered glitter. A crystal acrylic rhinestone is the embellishment on this one.


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The third image is of the Prince discovering that the tiny glass slipper fits! The image is coloured using Copics, coloured pencils and OMS. I added a teeny tiny rhinestone (nail art gem) as a button on the Prince's sleeve, and accentuated the tiny glass slipper with some crystal Stickles. Did you notice those little mice down in the corner under Cinderella's chair - aren't they just too cute?

The backing paper I used is from a Docrafts Papermania pack called "Birdsong" - a selection of 25 sheets of the most beautiful designs. The ribbons on the pull-down tag were various bits found in my stash.

These three beautiful images are not the only ones in the set - there are LOADS more! Click HERE to see them all.

PATTIES CREATIONS DESIGN CHALLENGE # 22 : NO, NO, NO CARDS !!!

Welcome to Challenge #22, where our theme is ANYTHING BUT A CARD!



For my 'no card' I made a teabag holder using the image Mother and Child from Pattie's Etsy Store. I chose to keep the colours soft and muted, so they would echo the name of the brand of tea, the fictitious "Pattie's Comfort Tea" - which new mother wouldn't love to sit down and have a comforting cup of tea in such a beautiful Royal Albert teacup? (The cup is one of a set of two which my very sweet (late) mum-in-law gave me last year.)

Now it's YOUR turn ... what NO CARD can you create for this challenge?

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, June 2nd at 1PM CST (Central Standard Time).

Here are some useful links :


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

luv n huggz
Jen

BLOG CANDY FROM PAOLA'S PAPER HAVEN

A VERY talented fellow South African Crafter, Paola, is celebrating reaching 500 followers on her blog, PAOLA'S PAPER HAVEN - WOW ! isn't that an achievement! - by offering this fablous blog candy to one lucky randomly drawn winner!

Hop on over to her blog HERE, and feast your eyes on some of her creations - you will be amazed! And while you're there, become a follower and check out the candy! Isn't it fabulous?



Here's a list of what's up for grabs:

$10 voucher from Mo's fabulous new store: Kindly sponsored by Mo

The following items sponsored by Paola herself!

1 chipboard word book to alter ( FRIENDS)
Box of glimmer chips from Tattered Angels
Tim Holtz clear mosaicz
Tree house printed chipboard junior
Making memories simmer flourish chipboard
Martha Stewart floral pigment ink stack
2x pill boxes filled with various size and color flat backed pearls
Bazzill Basics flowers and flourishes template: ( to used with your rhinestones and pearls)
Pack of adhesive crystals
Basic Grey designer half pearls
Fancy pants acetate overlay
Victoria and Albert clear stamp
Inkadinkadoo clear stamp
Snag em stamp: carriage
Snag em stamp: castle
Stampies set of clear stamps: Mothers
Stampies set of clear stamps: Fathers
Bottle of stickles star dust
3 copic ciao: skin tones: E00, E21, R20
Zig 2 way glue

Isn't that an awesome list?

Well done Paola - May the next 500 come VERY soon! You are quite a legend!

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY DESIGN TEAM CALL

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY, the company I design images for, (I am also the DT Co-ordinator) is having a Design Team call.

Our Challenge blog is HERE

Our Digistamps 4 Joy store is HERE


We are looking for crafters who love working with a diverse range of images and would like to be a part of our new Design Team.

We have challenges every fortnight and don't expect more than a DT project for each of these challenges, commenting on challenge entries, and posting your DT challenge card on your blog. The term is for three months, starting on 1 July 2011.

To apply, email the following information to jen@jencraft(dot)co(dot)za

Your name
Your blog link
A brief description about yourself
Links to three examples of your best work
Your preferred medium

We'd love to hear from you!

luv n huggz
Jen

DIGISTAMPS 4 J0Y CHALLENGE #19 AND SOME NEW IMAGES

I created a number of new images for the Digistamps 4 Joy store, and most of them are just perfect for the new challenge BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!

Three of the new images are my entries into the CDAC Drawing Challenge, where we were asked to draw masculine images :

There are some more boy images that are also being released today:




And then we couldn't leave out the girls:












The image I'd like to showcase today is SUPER HERO :



The image was coloured using Copics and coloured pencils and OMS, and matted onto various offcuts of coloured cardstock. I sewed on some brightly coloured stars as embellishments. The sentiment is printed onto the card using MS Word.

Head on over to the challenge blog by clicking HERE to see the other fabulous creations by the Digistamps 4 Joy Design Team, and for more information on the challenge.

You stand the chance of winning images just by entering your project suitable for a boy or a man. With Father's Day around the corner these images will probably be just what you are looking for! If so, click HERE to go to the DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY STORE to do your shopping (there may even be a freebie there for you to snag!)

I look forward to seeing what you create!

luv n huggz
Jen