Welcome to my blog and thanks soso much for spending a little while peeping into my world

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









Tuesday, December 2, 2014

BLACK AND WHITE AT THE OUTLAWZ

Monday's challenge at the Outlawz is to create a greeting card using only black and white, so I made a money holder card...


I used digital paper, and added a round (punched) sentiment, a diecut butterfly and punched flowers


The inside of the card is also decorated _ I used another sentiment, the same image, and circle punch


I added concertina gussets and  the same image on the back of the card


Thanks for visiting today

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA

Monday, December 1, 2014

SKIP TO MY LOU WITH US AT SQUIGGLEFLY

A new Challenge has started at Squigglefly, and you are asked to 'skip' the traditional Christmas colours of 

RED and GREEN

Here is my DT card to inspire you to join us:


This gorgeous image is from artist Cheryl Alger and will be available at the store starting Saturday Dec 6th.  This image is called Love is having open arms.  So keep an eye out! 

Here's a better look at this cute image:


To create my card, I used blue and bronze
and
white cs base
brown shimmer cs mat and diecuts
digital snowflake paper


lots of Stickles
snowflake and holly diecuts
pearls

Click HERE to link to the challenge, to enter your creation, and while you're there, check out my fellow DT's beauties!

Thanks for visiting today.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA





Sunday, November 30, 2014

A CAS THANK YOU CARD FOR CHARITY


I made this quick and easy, clean and simple thank you card today.

two difference dp's
offcut of braid (to hide the join)
metal 'thank you charm
cord double bow


Thanks for visiting today

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to add my card to these challenges:






DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY :: NEW RELEASE :: PARTY SHOES


Today, another five of my drawings have been released as digistamps at Digistamps 4 Joy, and the one featured on my card above is called

PARTY SHOES

I coloured the image using alcohol markers and fussy cut it :



To create my card I used the following:

white cs base
turquoise c background
diecut tag
purple flower
sewn on beads as a 'bracelet' embellishment



This digital image (300 dpi) comes in a ZIP file, with both a JPEG (white background) and a PNG (transparent background) file format, as well as a pre-coloured image (that I have used on my card)

Party shoes  Party shoes (coloured)

Thanks for visiting today.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY :: NEW RELEASE :: TOUSLED TAM


DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY :: NEW RELEASE :: RIBBON BORDER


Today, another five of my drawings have been released as digistamps at Digistamps 4 Joy, and the one featured on my card above is called

RIBBON BORDER

I coloured the image using alcohol markers :


To create my card I used the following:

white cs base
free background download and sentiment

I used two pearl hearts as embellishments 

This digital image (300 dpi) comes in a ZIP file, with both a JPEG (white background) and a PNG (transparent background) file format, as well as a pre-coloured image (that I have used on my card)

Ribbon borderRibbon border (coloured)
Thanks for visiting today.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA

Saturday, November 29, 2014

A NEW CHALLENGE WITH BUGABOO STAMPS ... STUFFED!

Today is the start of  new challenge at Bugaboo Stamps:

STUFFED

Use ONLY paper scraps left over from another project, and this is what I made to inspire you to join the challenge


The image featured on my card is from the Bugaboo store and is called Kidlet - Fireman and is coloured using alcohol markers:



For my background, I used strips of blue and red dp left over from another project, and cut it into strips and wove them together.  The woven background was then embossed using a Swiss  Dots folder (inspiration = Lego)

I also used the following for this card:

a white dp diecut, yellow dp mat, and a white CS base.

Here is the link to the challenge.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
Durban, South Africa