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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









Monday, September 30, 2013

THE OUTLAWZ GREETINGS CARD CHALLENGE :: 30 SEPTEMBER

There is an "ANYTHING GOES" theme at The Outlawz today, and one of the DT inspiration cards, made by BarbaraThompson, is really beautiful.  

This is Barb's card: 

 

I received permission to CASE it, and this is what I created using stuff I have in my stash:


The main image of my card is from Graphic 45 papers, and I used a variety of other DPs too.
 orange and red DP mats
also:
flat back pearls
glass pebble
extra flowers with flatback pearl centres
organza ribbon
 string of pearly orange beads
bunting flags (own made)
baker's twin
peel off sentiment

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I would lie to add my card to the followinng challenges:
 

 




Sunday, September 29, 2013

THE OUTLAWZ CAS CHALLENGE

Today's CAS challenge theme at The Outlawz is "for a Baby" and this is my card - I play for fun, but don't enter the challenge as I am on the DT over there:

I think the CAS style is perfectly suited to baby cards!
My card can almost be cnsidered an 'instant' card, as it took about 5 minutes to make:

turquoise CS card base
self adhesive gingham border
white gel pen stripes above and below the border
three flat back pearls
silver bear peel off - blue Copics shading
silver sentiment peel off
scrap of white CS
turquoise  CS mat

that's it! - easy peasy!

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to enter my card in the followinng challenges:














DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY :: NEW RELEASE :: MISTERI - DINER DARLING



I have drawn some more Misteri images, and they are now available in the Digistamps 4 Joy store.


This one is called

MISTERI -DINER DARLING

and you can choose from the version you colour yourself, or the precoloured version.  I have coloured it up for you and this is what you will get (just the coloured image, not the card)




The colouring is with Copic markers and Graphi’It markers, and I used a white gel pen and some Glossy Accents (on the icecream sundae she is holding):




My card is made using my hoarded stash:

white  CS card base
pink CS card mat
floral striped DP
offcuts of 2 other DP's
striped lime green ribbon and bow
gems
butterfly stickers
peel off 'Happy Birthday' sentiment


luv’n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY :: NEW RELEASE :: MISTERI - IS IT RAINING?



I have drawn some more Misteri images, and they are now available in the Digistamps 4 Joy store.


This one is called

MISTERI - IS IT RAINING?

and you can choose from the version you colour yourself, or the precoloured version.  I have coloured it up for you and this is what you will get (just the coloured image, not the card)




The colouring is with Copic markers and Graphi’It markers, and I used a white gel pen and some Glossy Accents:



My card is made using my hoarded stash:

white  CS card base
scarlet CS card mats
floral DP
spray of roses and leaves
olive green organza ribbon
tag
punched paper lace border
flatback pearls


luv’n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN