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









Wednesday, January 20, 2016

BUGABOO STAMPS :: BIRTHDAY BASH :: DAY FIVE

It's Day 5 of our week-long event over at Bugaboo Stamps and today's challenge is to make a funny birthday card.

My card features the image Hammock Bear.
I merged the image with clip art images of coconut palms, a birthday cake, and a party hat. 

Click here to link to the challenge.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

BUGABOO STAMPS :: BIRTHDAY BASH :: DAY FOUR

Today's challenge is Tic Tac Toe:

 

My card features a new image, released today, and I coloured it using alcohol markers .

Click HERE to link to the challenge.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

Monday, January 18, 2016

BUGABOO'S BIRTHDAY BASH :: DAY THREE


We have a colour chalenge for you today:


and this is my inspiration for you:
The image on my tag is the snake from the Mini Set - Tall Jungle Blocks and it's coloured using alcohol markers.

Click HERE to link to the challenge.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

Sunday, January 17, 2016

BUGABOO BIRTHDAY BASH :: DAY TWO


Welcome to Day 2 of our week-long birthday celebration event at Bugaboo's "Catch the Bug" Challenge blog. 
 
 Today's challenge is a sketch challenge:

 
My card features the Bugaboo image called Lion Love 
and I used alcohol markers to colour it.


I used self adhesive fabric tape for the stripes, a wooden polka dot heart, 
as well as a digital sentiment.

Click HERE to link to the challenge.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

Saturday, January 16, 2016

BUGABOO BIRTHDAY BASH : DAY ONE

Today is day one of our 6th Annual Bugaboo Birthday Bash!   
It will be a week full of fun challenges,  and  some wonderful prizes to boot!

Our theme this year is Zoo/Jungle.  
This is a big event so there are some big prizes up for grabs, I hope you have time to join us for the week! 

 The rules are simple, please create a Birthday project fitting each theme of the day and add it to the inlinkz per day.   You can enter once or you can enter each day to increase your chances.
 A Bugaboo image is not required however we would love to see hat image you dust of to show your support!
Today's challenge is
WILD THING, YOU MAKE MY HEART SING! 

and my card features the zebra image from the Mini Set - Tall Jungle Blocks


I also used the following for my card

white cs base
zebra stripe bg paper
digital sentiment
own made raffia and paper bead embellishment
Click HERE to link to the challenge blog.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
Durban
SOUTH AFRICA


Friday, January 15, 2016

A NEW CHALLENGE AT A DAY FOR DAISIES - ALL STITCHED UP CHALLENGE


 A new challenge has started over at the A Day for Daisies Challenge blog today:

Stitch it UP!

My card, featuring the image "Nest in the Cherry Tree" as added to a black and white background of cherry blossoms, and both were coloured using alcohol markers.
 I cut out some of the cherry blossoms and added them as embellishments

Click here to link to the challenge.

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to enter these challenges: 



FEELING SKETCHY G#137


Today sees the start of another sketch challenge over at the Feeling Sketchy challenge blog, and this is my DT card to inspire you to join us.

This is the sketch to follow:

 
My card features the hat image from the generous sponsor of our challenge:

  

I merged some digital elements together with the hat image and used alcohol markers for the colouring 


I also used:

brown cs for the card base
offcut of vintage lace
flowers
sewn on sequins and beads
peel off sentiment recoloured with an alcohol marker
How would you interpret this sketch?

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN