A YEAR FULL OF SMILES + Tutorial

 {Wishing you a Year full of  SMILES}

Hope all my bloggy friends are having a wonderful weekend.  Its a cool and overcast Saturday morning here in Johannesburg, perfect weather for staying indoors and being crafty.
I am here today with another Birthday Card using for the first time, a My Besties FLUFFY girl, isn't she does pure fabulosity. You can purchase her here

  The buttons, brad and design papers are from my stash. The layered flower has been created with squares {see tutorial below}. I also used some dry chalks around the image and on the sentiment as well as a bit of glitter glue to add even more sparkle to her fabulosity.
The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC.

Here is the TUTORIAL for the layered flower (I have used 6cm squares for the bottom two layers and a 5cm square for the top layer):

I would love to enter my little card creation into the following challenges:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Optional layers
613 Avenue Create - ATG 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Inspiration Destination - ATG
My Besties Colour It, Create It, Show It Off - ATG

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Wedding

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG + Option Sketch
My Besties UK - ATG 

My Besties 3D and More - ATG
My Besties Aussie Challenge - Handmade Flowers
My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or flowers and birds
Just Keep on Creating - ATG

PDE Linky Party - ATG
Create and Inspire - ATG

My Besties International - ATG + Optional Anything but a Card

Creative Moments - ATG + Black and one other colour

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG

Scrapping4Fun - ATG

Little Red Wagon - Blooming Fun
The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or add a sentiment
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - ATG

Our Crafty Corner - ATG

Crafting with Friends - ATG

Through the Craft Room Door - ATG

A Beautiful Mess - ATG

Hiding in my Craft Room - Feminine
Jades Sparkling Butterflies - ATG
Crafts Galore Encore - ATG (3/3)
Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Love to Scrap - ATG
The Paper Nest Dolls - ATG
Aud Sentiments - ATG with a Sentiment
Crafting with an Attitude - ATG
Cre8tive Hands Friends - ATG (1/1)
Little Miss Muffet - ATG (1/1)
Seize the Birthday - Add Dimension (layered flower)
Crafty Catz - ATG
Creative Fingers - ATG
Fussy and Fancy - Dies and/or Punches (circle and flower punch)
Simply Papercraft - ATG
Melonheadz Friends - Make it Sparkle
City Crafter - Pretty Pink and Pastels

Digi Choosday - Birthday
Crafty Gals Corner - May Flowers
Craft Rocket - Flower Power
DL ART Thankful Thursday - Flowers and/or Graduation
In the Pink - Happy Anything
Brown Sugar - ATG
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Just Us Girls
Morgans Art World - Add Sparkle
2 Creative Chicks - ATG
Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG
Glitter n Sparkle - ATG
A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers
Allsorts - Birthday
Always Playing with Paper - Photo Inspiration


Here is another layout I created with South Africa's best design paper manufacturer, Celebr8.  This range of design papers features Proteas which is South Africa's national flower and also my favourite flower as I spent my childhood years on a beautiful mountainous Protea farm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
The colours in this range of design papers, complements the 2nd Birthday photo shoot I did of little Nina's 2nd Birthday at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens.
I would love to enter this layout over at Lets Scrap Sketches as I used this wonderful sketch created by the very talented Michelle van Wyk.

Sketch 5-15-16

Here is my take on this sketch:

Lasting Memories - How Many Can You Fit
Pink and Main - ATG
Open Minded Crafting Fun - Use Your Favourite Technique (Paper Folding)
The Studio Challenges - Mood Board

Thank you for stopping by and your inspirational love you leave behind.

Crafty Hugs

DANCE {POP Challenge 31 Resilience}

This month our theme for Challenge #31 at Path of Positivity is 

RESILIENCE

I used the following fun and image called THE FAIRIES FROLIC from THE STAMPING BOUTIQUE - you can purchase it here.

The flowers have been created with punches and the crochet button flower centers have been created for me by a very dear friend.  The design papers, brads, jewel stones and spiral clip are from my stash. The sentiment is also from THE STAMPING BOUTIQUE and can be purchased HERE.

The sponsors and prizes for this challenge are:

PRIZES:

• A $10 gift certificate from Ike's Art, one of our guest sponsors this month, for the post or project that the DT deems most inspiring of the bunch.
• 2 images from The Stamping Boutique (3 if you use a TSB image), one of our guest sponsors this month, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all entrants.
• One digital image from Creative Bug Digital SnapShots for each person chosen as a DT Delight.

There will also be:

• One digital designer paper (made to order in a couple different ways) from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles for one lucky person who leaves a comment on posts published during the challenge timeframe.
• One digital sentiment for every single person who enters the challenge.

Links for your post:

• www.ikesart.com
• http://thestampingboutique.com/
• http://www.creativebugdigis.com/
• http://decossesdynamitedoodles.blogspot.ca/ 

Hope you will play along this month, so come on link your RESILIENCE creations to Path of Positivity Challenge No.31. Can't wait to see your creations.  

   
Once again I would love to try my hand at the following challenges with this creation:

Crafting from the Heart - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG

Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

613 Avenue Create - ATG + Optional Twist
Inspiration Destination - ATG
Crafting for all Seasons - Autumnal hues
Crafty Creations - Falling for you
Creative Moments - ATG + Autumn Colours
If you give a Crafter a Cookie - Fall
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Moving Along with the Times - Fairy Enough
Scrap and Craft - Colours of Autumn
Crafty Catz - Fantasy Fairy
Fussy and Fancy - Autumn Colours
Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
QKR Stampede - ATG
Simply Create Too - Autumn Splendour
Clear it Out - Things with Wings - Glitter (The gold Stickles has been in my stash for more than two years)
Crafty Sentiments Designs - ATG (1/1)
Deep Ocean - Fairies and Angels
Papertake Weekly - ATG
Crafting by Designs - All about Autumn
Word Art Wednesday - ATG with uplifting sentiment
Glitter and Sparkle - ATG
Pile it On - 1 of Something (Sentiment, 2 of Something (patterned papers), 3 of Something (flower embellishments.)
Just Keep on Creating - October Link up - ATG
Lets Scrap World Card Day

Then I have also created this new scrapbooking design with pics I took of our neighbour's precious little Paige.  I have used this wonderful sketch (10-1-15) over at Let's Scrap:

In the Pink - 1, 2, 3 (one Large Photo, two different patterned tags, three flower embellishments)
Lasting Memories - Paper/Silk flowers with summer theme

Also don't forget to link-up for my 1,100 Follower Give Away Celebration.  There are some wonderful generous sponsors on board for some lovely prizes you could win. 

Your visits here and the love you leave behind are truly treasured - thanks so much.

Crafty Hugs