Birthday card

Another card made with the Alfred's birds embossing folder and Marianne's Design birdhouse and bird.

Have a great week!

Rubberstamped Birthday card

My darling 11 year old daughter has recently started showing an interest in my favourite pastime - carding. She had a friend around during the holidays and they disappeared into my office to make cards. She produced this beautiful card with absolutely no input from me, which makes me very proud!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Birthday Card

Happy Monday everyone! Well winter has arrived in a big way. It was beautiful and warm one day and the next day we were plunged into winter rain, cold and storms which we have had for a week now.

I am sharing a romance themed card with you today in one of my favourite colour combo's - black, white and red.

Have a great week! I hope you get lots of stamping done in the colder weather! I have lots of plans to stamp, just hope I manage to get some done before my children's exams start, because then my time is not my own.

Birthday card

Corinna celebrated her 50th birthday on Saturday and we had a stunning tea in her parent's gorgeous home. This is the card that I made for her. The image is a Stampendous clear stamp and the cuttlebug flowers are from the asian set of embossing folders. The border punch used is from the Martha Stewart range.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend, it was an awesome, sunny, autumn one in Cape Town!

Birthday card

Yipee, it's almost weekend!

I am sharing another birthday card with you today. The main image, in the circle, is a wood mounted rubber stamp from Just for Fun, it is stamped in black and sponged lightly and mounted onto another circle of red card and then onto a black scalloped circle, all cut out using Nestabilities. The oval Nestabilities were used for the birthday wording and that stamp is from our local company Best Rubber stamps. The matted images were mounted onto red card that has been stamped with the gorgeous Basic Grey flourish edges set. The red is matted onto white and then black folded cardstock. The card is completed with dotty organza ribbon and paper flowers.

Birthday card

I am so looking forward to a quieter weekend as I've had a stressful week.

This is a birthday card I made for Sandra in December. I had fun playing with my Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Die, lots of flat backed pearls and a new Crafty Individuals stamp.

Isoprophyl Alcohol technique on acetate

Butterflies are a favourite of mine and I have a big collection of butterfly stamps. This stamp is a Tin Can Mail one and is coloured with Radiant pearls and the acetate with Penguin office inks and Isoprophyl Alcohol. The metal butterflies are painted with Alchol Ink.

Have a happy day!

Black pearl technique

This card shows the Black Pearl technique. You take a piece of roller towel and split the layers. Put the thin layer onto a styrofoam veggie/meat punnet and gently sponge it with craft paints including a metallic colour. Allow it to dry and then peal it off to reveal a gorgeous background paper. If it is too uneven then flatten it with a book. The butterfly collage image is a Tin Can Mail stamp from Inkadinkado and has been sponged with radiant pearls, the vertical Happy Birthday is from Stamp n stuff.

Photo stamp elegance

I made this card a while ago and took the photo at night, hence the flash over her face. The photo art stamp is coloured with shoe polish. The background paper is scrapbooking paper and the envelope is punched with a McGill punch. The corner scroll is a stamp from Great Impressions.

Red butterflies

Another butterfly card today using one of my favourite colour combos of black, white and red. The set of clear stamps is from Impression Obsession. Unfortunately the photo is not great.

Serviette technique

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and managing to get loads of stamping done.

I love this stamp from a local company Stamp 'n Stuff, they have an on-line store http://www.stampnstuff.co.za/ and a good selection of stamps. She is stamped in black and sponged with pink. The pink patterned background is a gorgeous serviette. I apply Power Pritt stick to card and then lay the very thin, outer patterned layer of the serviette over the card and then brayer lightly to smooth it out. Allow it to dry and then cut off the scruffy edges.

Birthday cards

After an absolutely perfect day in Cape Town yesterday we have a cooler one today. This is a short post as I have loads of stamping to get done for a number of swaps that I have joined as well as birthday cards to make.

The stamp on this card is from an Inque See-D's set and I have used Nestabilities and a Cuttlebug embossing folder. Have a happy day! It is hard to believe that Janaury is almost over!

Credit card technique

Happy Monday everyone! I am so grateful for the comments that you leave on my blog. I often try and leave comments on blogs but find it very frustrating as they don't always appear or they take forever to load. But I really enjoy reading your blogs and getting to know you better.

I am sharing an a card that I made a few years ago, the background paper is wrapping paper. The image of the lady is a by South African company called Great Impressions, they have a lovely range of wood mounted stamps. The gold paper is made using the credit card technique where you crumple the brown card that comes in the middle of wrapping paper rolls, then spritz it with water and apply acrylic paint smearing it with an old credit card. The card is finished off with a skeleton leaf and paper rose.

Photo stamp

I had a busy week catching up on things after the kids were on a six and a half week summer holiday from school. I also managed to repaint Nic's bedroom whilst he was away on camp, so no stamping took place and I need to complete 24 double-sided pages for a chunky book by tomorrow. So stamping will be my priority today, I enjoyed creating my page, now just have to sit, cut, sponge and assemble it. I will post photo's after the deadline closes on 31 January.

Here is a birthday card made with a photo stamp imagee sponged with brown shoe polish and mounted onto 2 layers of pink card and then onto netting and scapbook paper. The card is finished off with silk flowers and fibres.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Photo stamp

Hard to believe that we are half way through January already! Here is another birthday card with the Autumn Leaves flourish set. I love the combination of brown and turquoise. The vintage image is created with a photo stamp and brown shoe polish that is rubbed over the image with a soft cloth. Allow the image to dry overnight before "polishing" it.

Birthday cards

I would like to welcome two friends to blogland, Tilly (an ex South African living in New Zealand) and Ursula. You will find links to their new blogs under South African stampers. I am thrilled that our talented ladies are joining the blogging world!!! It is such a fantastic way to get to know each other better and oggle others creativity.

I am sharing a birthday card today. The flourishes are from a favourite clear stamp set - Autumn Leaves elegant flourishes and the square floral images are from a clear Impression Obesession set.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Isoprophyl Alcohol technique

I am back on track again, it is amazing how quickly a backlog of things mounts up when you are busy with other activities. But feel like I am catching up quickly now.



I am sharing a birthday card with you today. If I am critical about it, I feel that it is too busy, but I still enjoyed making it. White folded cardstock with very pale lilac cuttlebugged card mounted onto it. The image is from an Impression Obsession clear set and I stamped it in black Memories onto an Isoprophyl Alcohol background, it is mounted onto white, then lilac and then aqua cardstock. The corners are embellished with tiny punched flowers with bling centres. The card is finished off with Cuttlebug die cuts embellished with tiny bling circles in the centres of the flowers.

Isoprophyl Alcohol backgrounds are one of my favourite backgrounds and are really quick and easy to make.

• Lay newspaper on your work surface and wear disposable rubber gloves as the inks stain.


• Use very glossy card like white Chromolux.


• Take a small sponge and wet it with the alcohol and then Penguin office inks.


• Smear the sponge over the card. Do the same with other colours if you want to add depth.


• The inks come in many colours and I usually use 2 co-ordinating ones, here I used turquoise and violet.

Birthday Card

It is frightening how quickly the weeks are flying by at the moment, hope you have a great, productive week!

I made this card for Tilly's birthday that is coming up in about 6 weeks and gave it to her when she was visiting from New Zealand. The image is from a new Inkadinkado clear set that I bought from Frantic stamper and I have used my Nestabilities and Cuttlebug as you can see from the photo. The image was coloured using tombows and Stickles glitter glue and I embellished the lace with bling and pearls to add some more sparkle to the card.

My next post will be my first card made using a digital stamp, so as they say ...... watch this space!

I am very excited as I will be appearing as a Guest Designer on the Digital Two for Tuesday blog in January. More on this in January...

Birthday card

Happy Monday to everyone, another grey day today - spring is sure very slow in coming to Cape Town.

This card is made using an old photographic slide. I removed the negative and painted the frame with metallic craft paint and mounted it onto the background with foam tape. The background is stamped with Great Impressions stamps and sponged, it has been matted onto 4 layers of cardstock. The card is finished off with bronze organza ribbon and a little flower embellishment.

Serviette card

Thank goodness it is Friday, gosh these weeks go fast!

This card is made using a serviette. I take fairly thick card and cover it with Power Pritt and then brayer the thin top layer of the serviette onto the card. Allow the glue to dry and then cut the card with your guillotine. Layer it onto various purple and lilac layers of card that I have matched up to the flowers of the lavender serviette. Complete the card with organza ribbon and a button.