Pink Paint

Wow. Where has the time gone. A few more weeks then it's our long summer break, and i am still busy redecorating the girls rooms. Well here is the hot pink dresser/desk. This was my first big painting project. Loved it and learned alot with this cute little piece. I used Plascon Cashmere, Fuschia Fizz and added my Friend from "prettier painted" homemade chalk paint and Whola!!! Easy to use chalk paint in any colour i like. Still want to give Annie Slaon a try, now that it's available in SA.

My Husband is a bit OCD, so still wanted to give the old dresser a quick sand.

We just oiled the top.

Thanks For Stopping by.

Bedroom Make-over

Well now, scrapbooking has taken a back seat, as i have a new found hobby. Thanks to my friend Belinda. 

("Chalk Paint" Shall i say more.) 

My first make-over was my girls bedroom, that i'll be sharing with you.

Where shall i start. 

The wonderful vintage Merlin headboards I purchased from my friend Belinda at http://prettierpainted.com/

Oops.
Forgot to take a before photo. This before is from the prettier painted website.
Top left is the  before.

The After...
They were painted in dulux White

The tops were sanded and given a coat of wax. Oiling made the wood too dark.

Then to give it some old vintage charm, i distressed it.

I am still deciding what to put as the backing of the shelves. Mirror, Wall paper... 

the choices are endless. 

Till next time with a funky and fun hot pink desk.

Date night Valentine

The idea for this date night jar came from pintrest, and i made it with what i had in my craft room. I did this for our 10th Anniversary. All you need is a mason jar, some painted tongue depressors and off you go.You paint the tongue depressors in 3  or 4 colours, colour coding your dates to the cost of a date. From stay at home dates, to relativly inexpensive and expensive. Then i added blank ones for my nusband to choose himself. All the others i wrote things on we would like to do. This is a fun and exciting way for date night, as you dont know what you will be doing until you draw a stick. It's all right there in a jar. No excuses anymore.

Hope you all have a lovely Valentines Day.

Ready Set Paint...

I recently completed a "chalk paint "workshop at a friend of mine Belinda, from 

"Prettier Painted" 

I just love the look of the chalk paint. 

After finishing my first project, i have been shopping for anything pretty to paint. 

I think every piece of furniture in my house will be painted soon :) 

Here is my first finished project.

Before

After

I have just stocked up on every possible colour of paint i would like to use, and now i'm set to paint,paint,paint.      

To be inspired, visit Belinda's "Prettier Painted " website.

www.prettierpainted.com

Happy Crafting and Thank you for stopping by.

Eco-friendly 2013

Well now. Let's see if i can keep up with my blog this year. 

So let's talk laundry. 

Friends of mine started making their own eco-friendly washing detergent as their children have excema. So today i did my first load with the "Laundry Lasses"
150ml of detergent and off we go. As simple as that. No powder or softner needed. My kind of one step washing. So if your children suffer from excema or you just want to "save the world one load at a time." Then the "Laundry Lasses" are for you.
Visit their website: www.laundrylasses.wordpress.com

Thanks Sam and Belinda for giving us the chance to use your wonderful detergent.

Computer Gremlins

Wow. Can't believe it's been a month since i posted. My computer needed a service and the internet crashed. While that was being sorted, we got the house ready for the coming Festive Season. I so love the Christmas Season. Christmas Tree's are up-Check. Mantle decorated-Check. Front door decorated-Check. This weekend our outdoor christmas tree and reindeer sliegh will go up:) I'm also busy getting the childrens holiday class projects finalised. Lots of fun crafting to be had by all. My friend Belinda from Prettier Painted is having a paint technique workshop on the 24th. So i have been thrift shopping for something that needs a make-over. This can only get messy. YEAH! Pop over to her site to see what lovely things she can create with a lick of paint. www.prettierpainted.co.za

Crafty Kids

The holiday has come and gone, and now we just have 8 more weeks of school until our long Summer vacation. The kids got some crafting done. It always amazes me how  you do a class with the same products and how different and unique everyones page looks. The girls just loved doing this canvas.

                             

This was my sample for the girls.

And this is their wonderful creative handy work.

Well done girls.

Soon we'll be making Christmas crafts.

Ready to Scrap

Well... I had all my papers out to scrap a page for a challenge and to add to my 2nd daughters very "thin" scrapbook album. But once again i got side tracked, with a 21st Birthday cake for a friends daughter, and making chalkboard party favours for a 1st birthday.

It was the first time i iced a cake with rose patterns.
Not too bad for a first time.

25 Chalkboards in the making.
I forgot to take a photo of the finished product.
oops.

We have our mid term break now, so we doing some childrens classes. Had a card class today and Thursday we will be doing an off the page Canvas.
So watch this space.
Thank you for visiting and have a lovely day.

                                 

Get Well Card.

This morning i heard one of my friends has pneumonia. Still having my bits and pieces out from the card i made for a sketch challenge, i thought i'd make her a quick get well  card. I saw this simple, but striking card on twopeasinabucket "Finally Friday" video.

Definately making more of these for my stash.

Happy Scrapping and thank you for visiting.

Pintrest

Let's see if we can get the pin it button loaded to my posts.

Got Crafty.

 Well. After yesterdays reflecting, and feeling sorry for myself. I decided to find a challenge and get crafty. This challenge is from twopeasinabucket. Saturday card sketch challenge. Here is the card sketch and card Kimber Mcgray made. This is so cheerful and summery.

Sketch

Kimber's Card

Here's my take on the sketch. I have been wanting to put my sewing machine to paper, but never get around to it, but luckly this time my sewing machine was on the table and i added my first ever stitching to paper. I was expecting a disaster, but all turned out good. Excuse the inking of my tag. I had sewn it down and then realized i never inked it. I suppose it's the imperfections that make it unique. LOL!!!

Thanks for visiting, and Happy Scrapping!!! 

Why don't YOU visit Saturday Card Sketch Challenge with Kimber 9.1.12 - Two Peas in a Bucket and be challenged to create.

Looking forward to getting Crafty again.

 I really haven't got going on this blog. I should have known this year was going to be hectic, as we started renovations on our home. For those of you that have had renovations done i'm sure you'll know it is chaos no matter what you try. And BUILDERS?!??!!@ Well... lets leave it at that. After 7 months we are done. I thought the day would never come. So now i just need to do the interior of my craft room and hopefully i can get crafty on a regular basis. On top of the building my 8 year old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD, and the last 8 months we have been going from OT(occupational therapy) to Visual training to the pshycologist. Finally that has also all come to an end, and it seems we are returning back to normality. So suffice to say we are are ready for 2013 with a new school year and no builders. YAY!! There are so many talented people out there blogging that have inspired me to get going and share my love for crafts with you. So here's to getting crafty and inspired on this blog.

Bright and Cheery 40th.

I was so inspired by Amy of Living Locurto's 40th colours and decor, i just had to use the wonderful bright colours of orange, pink and purple. pop over to her pintrest boards. Making the very easy, but striking pom-poms. Loads of tutorials on youtube. My Martha Stewart scoreboard came in handy for the big rosettes.

Return of the bad blogger

Boy how time has flown. We've had my daughters 8th birthday, my 40th, with a bit of crafting in between.Here are some images of my daugthers birthday goodies. I had to do the cowgirl cookie mix from bakerella. Pop over to her site www.bakerella.com for the recipe and free printable to go with it. Will be back tomorrow with some 40th bithday crafts i did.

Party Packs

Bakerella Cookies

Horse riding clothes
gift pack

Another Challenge

StampTV had a challenge on making your own designer paper background. I decided to try Gina's bleach technique. I loved it. Pretty cool effect. I will be trying other colour cardstock with this technique. Go on try it. Stamp your image, emboss it and colour in with bleach. you'll be amazed at the end result, and it's so easy. To help the bleach along use your heatgun.
Enjoy.

Blank Canvas.

I just love these vintage book bundles for home decor. 

I could never find the right colour scheme for my home, so along comes my mom and  gives me these blank hardwood books.

 Now i can co-ordinate them with my own colour scheme. Mmm... What to do, Paint ? Cover ? Distress ? The choices are endless. Will keep you posted on my progress.

Cowgirl Fun.

Just when i thought i will be posting everyday, my computer hit a glitch. 

I'm back now with these invites i made for my daughters 8th birthday party.

 Using cuttlebug embossing folders.

Inspirations

Well. I thought a new look blog would get me inspired to get blogging regularly. Let's see if it works. LOL!!! Here are two cards i made for the 2 release party challenges of stamptv. 

1st one was the pink challenge. You had to stamp or colour something that was not usually pink. I went with the frog as i don't have alot of GinaK design stamps yet. 

2nd was a masculine clean and simple card.

Stamp Tv fun....

 

Haven't been scrapping, but got to do some stamptv inspired cards. 

Some great ideas and techcniques. Pop over to www.stamptv.com

Stamp TV arrival

Yeah. Another shipment of  StampTv stamp sets. Can't wait to get stamping. I think a children's card class is in order. They sooo love stamping and colouring. Watch this space.