Calendar 2011 and holiday countdown

Our last page of the 2011 calendar is a real cutie. LOTV stamps are my favourite at the moment and thanks to Amanda we are able to use all the LOTV stamps at her monthly get together. Sharon Keanly made this beautiful page for us. Our 2012 calendar is ready and is better than ever, I will share it with you over the coming year.

Today is the start of the Tent Two Studios 6th Annual Original Printables Holiday Countdown. Each day between the first of December and Christmas Day, she posts a new set of printable images. Here is the link

Have a wonderful day! I am looking forward to the end of our school year and the start of the children's summer school holidays tomorrow after a very hectic term. Sasha is going to High School next year, which is hard to believe!

Calendar 2011

I can't believe that we have almost completed 2011, where did the year go to? This lovely page was made by Shamela Hendricks.

I hope November is a fun and satisfying month for you.

Calendar 2011

It is World Card Making Day, I hope you are planning to celebrate like I am.  It is traditionally a day set aside for friends to get together and make a start on Christmas cards.  As South Africa is such a rainbow nation and we have people of different faiths in our stamping group we don't focus on Christmas cards.  Instead we present creative ideas in the form of short workshops throughout the day.  Each participant gets a turn and I will share the ideas with you in later posts.

This beautiful calendar page was made by Benice Basson.

Enjoy your day and all that you do!

Calendar 2011

 

Happy Spring Day!  The day usually comes far too early in Cape Town as we always seem to be having our wet, cold winter weather still.

Penny Goument made this lovely 'springy' page for our calendar this year.

Wishing you a wonderful day with bunches of flowers, I traditionally pick jasmine for my desk on the first of September, what a wonderful Spring scent.

Calendar 2011

 

This month's calendar page was made by Michelle Anders.  I can't believe that we are busy with the 2012 calendar already, I don't know where this year went!  Have a great day!

Calendar 2011

My birthday month has arrived, this month we also celebrate my hubby, Neil's birthday and Sasha's thirteenth birthday's, so it is a busy month of celebrating for our family.

Kim Brackenridge made this lovely July page for us this year.

Have a great day!

Calendar 2011

 

I can't believe that we are in June already.  This month our page was made by Amanda and shows a lady enjoying a lovely warm bath, just what we need to keep warm around here.  Have a great day!

Calendar 2011

Happy Worker's Day! 

This month's calendar page is made by the very talented Jowilna Nolte.  You will find the link to her blog under South African Papercrafters in the right hand column if you want to see more of her work.

Have a great Sunday!

Calendar 2011

Another month of 2011 done and dusted.  I hope you didn't get too badly caught by April fool's day.  Hayley McLennan made our April calendar page, very pretty and feminine and my favourite pastel colours.

Have a great day and weekend!

Calendar pages

I've just realised that I haven't loaded our March calendar page.  This month's cheerful page was made by Magda Lombard and it is certainly brightening up the corner of my desk.

Welcome to my new followers, it is lovely to have you join us!
Have a wonderful day, I can't believe that it is almost weekend again.

Calendar 2011

Our beautiful February calendar page was made by Claudene Pienaar.

Hope you have a great week!

Calendar 2011

I am apologising again for my lack of posts, life is a tad hectic at the moment and I am not getting to make cards or blog at all.  I have not yet shared our calendar pages for 2011 and we are already in February.  Today I am sharing Sandra's January page, as you may notice, she put 2010 on her page in error and the February page will go up in the next couple of days.

I am looking forward to some "me-time" tomorrow when a few of us will gather at Amanda for a creative morning!  Have a wonderful day and if you are in Cape Town keep cool, we have really hot humid weather at the moment with no wind to cool us down.

Calendar pages

Wow, it's December already!  Jowilna Nolte made our December calendar page.  Have a great Wednesday!  Thank you for popping in!

Calendar pages & Advent swap

Hello again!  I am so looking forward to a weekend free of studying for exams!  Just need to catch up on a lot of things that have been neglected over the last few weeks, like some serious stamping!!  I've been working like a trojan today to try and clear the decks quickly so that I can spend Sunday doing what I want to do and when I picked up my son today he broke the news that he has a cricket match tomorrow.  Needless to say I am not impressed but have allocated that job to Neil and will just pop in to watch for a short while, if I get a chance.

Today I am sharing the cover that I made for our 2011 A4 calendar.  I host this swap every year and as we only make 12 or 13 pages it is by invitation.  I so enjoyed making the pages, in my favourite colour of course!  The flourishes are clear stamps from Autumn Leaves and the cupcake is my new favourite rubber stamp from Impression Obsession, both were purchased from Frantic stamper.  I coloured the cookie with Promarkers and Uniball silver and the flourishes are stamped with Memories soft rose.  The oval die is from Nellie Snellen and the flourish from Marianne's Design both purchased from Joan's Country Crafts.  The flowers are ones that I sell.

Annually I host an advent swap, this year we had 30 participants so we started opening our crafty gifts today.  Thank you Adri for this super little trunk with round hologram and green circular bling.  I can see that my powers of description are going to be challenged this month!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Calendar pages

Happy November!  I am still wondering where 2010 went to! 

I am sharing Hayley McLennan's page of our calendar with you today.  The 2011 calendar is finished and bound and it is fabulous!  You will see more of that one soon.  Have a great Monday!

Calendar pages

I've had such a busy time lately that I forgot to load Benice's calendar page at the beginning of the month. They say better late than never!

Have a wonderful day, it is a cool wet one in Cape Town.

Calendar 2010

Claudene Pienaar made this stunning A4 September calendar page for us.

Thank you for popping in!  Have a beautiful day, looks like it will be a gorgeous one in Cape Town.

Calendar 2010

Wow, it is August already and a friend said this morning 20 weeks to Christmas, before we know it, it will be here.

Sorry I have been missing for a few days, life got in the way of my crafting and blogging. My hubby, daughter and myself all have birthdays within 2 weeks of each other in July and as we entertained for all 3 this year and I bake, cook etc myself there was not much time for blogging when scheduled blogging went on the blink. My 12 year old daughter wanted a bedroom makeover for her birthday so I was painting walls etc too. I will post pics soon.

Today I am sharing the August page for our A4 2010 calendar made by Michelle Anders.

I won a free digital image from Shelly's images for joining her mailing list in July, I bought my first digital stamps from Sassy Studio Design over the weekend and ordered Promarkers this morning, so it looks like the digi bug has bitten me!! Thank you Sharon for sending me some images and inspiring me!

I have also found some new South African card makers and our first South African Digistamp on-line store are linked under SA artists.

Have a wonderful week, thanks for visiting my blog!

Calendar page July 2010

July and we are in full swing with the Soccer World Cup. It is a busy month for our family as 3 of us celebrate birthdays. Hope your July is a great warm one. I am counting the days until summer!

Our July calendar page was made by Kim Brackenridge.

Calendar page June 2010

I don't know what happened to May, I just blinked and it was gone! Just a few days until the kick off of the World Cup soccer tournament being hosted by South Africa.

Another beautiful A4 calendar page made by Penny Goument a lady with immense talent.