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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









Sunday, December 20, 2015

THREE CHRISTMAS CANDLES


To create my card, I merged a colouring book image with a brick wall background and a digital sentiment.

Once printed, I coloured the image using alcohol markers and added gems and sewn on sequins

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS

My card was created for the Monday challenge at The Outlawz that called for music to be used on your card.

My image is contained in a digital frame and coloured using alcohol markers, a white gel pen and Stickles

I added a digital sentiment, silver ribbon, as well as a diecut leaves and bead embellishment, which was sewn onto the card

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

A CUTE NATIVITY SCENE CARD


My card was created in MS Word, using digital elements:
wooden frame
nativity scene
stars
3 different borders for the background 

according to this sketch at The Outlawz (that I rotated):

 

I then printed it and coloured the top row of angels to match the angel in the nativity scene image.

The embellishments are the sewn on stars on the four corners, and a red ribbon bow.


luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas


The featured image on my card is from the A Day for Daisies store and is coloured using alcohol markers and Stickles.

I used the following to create my card:

white cs base card
red cs mat
digital holly border
digital sentiment
satin ribbon bow
gems

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

HAPPY RETIREMENT

 My card was made according the the colour palette given over at The Outlawz Coloring Challenge this week:

 

I used a coloring book page for my image and merged it with a digital background, and then used alcohol markers to colour.

Also used to create this card are

white cs base
brown cs mat
gems
digital sentiment

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

LIFE IS SHORT - BUY THE SHOES!


I must admit, I do love shoes, but this much?  No, I don't think so! :^D

I purposely used this photograph to show that the window area of my image is laminated, but not the shoes.  The image of the shoes were merged with the lady at the window, then coloured, then I had the not so clever idea of laminating the window.  I traced the area of the laminating sheet that I wanted to remove, cut it away and then laminated the image.

I added some gems to the shoes, as well as Stickles.

The sentiment is digital.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

Friday, December 18, 2015

A NEW CHALLENGE :: A DAY FOR DAISIES

The challenge theme over at the A DAY FOR DAISIES challenge blog is "Add Pearls" and my card to inspire you to join us features the image Rose Angel


I coloured the image using alcohol markers and a white gel pen, and Stickles. 

The background is digital, as is the sentiment, and I added a few flat back pearls to the base.

Click HERE to link to the challenge blog.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA