Thank You Card – For A Male

Hi everyone hope you’re doing well.

Today I would like to show you a thank-you card that CJ asked me to make for a friend of his.

When CJ turned 16 on the 24th of August, a friend gave him a one year subscription for the magazine, “Popular Mechanics”!

CJ’s friend, uncle Wiaan also loves horses and rides on the same farm as CJ. He always helps CJ. So CJ asked me to make him a Thank You Card.

Here is my card

I made photos corners out of red paper and stuck it in the card’s corners.

I also put a strip of ribbon behind the stamp.

I used one of my Whiff Of Joy Stamps called “Henry Mouse with large teacup” since he is just so cute!

My mother helped me to stamp this stamp so that you don’t see the Christmas leaves on the teacup.

Here is how:

1. Inked the stamp

2. Then cut double sided tape to fit over the leaves and stuck it onto the stamp over the leaves;

3. Stamp the stamp on your paper and that should do the trick!

I coloured it with the following Promarkers:

Sandston – for little Henry’s body

Blush and Dusky Pink – for his tummy, ears and tail

Henna – for the chair Henry is standing on and the Hot chocolate
Rose Pink – For the marshmallows

Berry Red – for the teacup

Cool Gray 1 – for the steam coming out of the teacup and the shadow around the stamp

I wrote a sentiment, “Sweet Thanks”, since the mouse throws marshmallows into the hot chocolate.

I stuck it on pop-ups and placed it in the bottom, right hand corner.

I stuck photo turners in the corners of the square.

I also took part in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz -  Hot, Hot, Hot

Lily Of The Valley - go dotty with circles

Cooking It Up With Katie - Make it for a Boy (or something boyish) Add some Checks/Gingham/Plaid

Finish with a touch or two of Brown

Creative Belli - round and metal (brads, metal rimmed tags, etc)

Crafty Little Place - food

Rosie D's - one for the boys

Shabby Tea Room - a little bit of metal

My Partner in Crafting Crime – food and drinks

Aly's Sunday Challenge - get dotty Sun

One Stitch At A Time - say it with shapes

Stamp Something - use something digi

Have a blessed week

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Gift Bag for CJ’s birthday

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well!

Today I want to show you a gift bag I made for my brother for his 16th birthday on Tuesday the 17th of August.

This week Stampin For the Weekend’s theme is Anything goes!

Isn’t that easy!

We’re being sponsored by Sir Stampalot

I decided to make a gift bag for CJ.

I found the tutorial here.

And the back, with a pocket and a tag with a note in.

I used a stamp called Giddy Up, one of my Sugar Nellie stamps.

I coloured it with the following Promarkers:

Sandstone – for the hat, horse and pants

Dusk Pink – for the skin

Sky blue – for the top

Gold – for the patches

Berry red – for the hat band, buckle and flowers on the ground

Henna – for the hair, shoes, rope and gloves

Forrest green – for the grass

Yellow – for the flowers

Cool grey 1 – for a shadow around the stamp

Here I made a knot with the two ribbons, red and blue.

I coloured three identical stamps.

The first I stuck at the front of the card, from the second stamp I cut out the top of the boy with my circle colossal and from the third stamp I cut out the horse with my circle colossal.

The little boy I put on pop ups and stuck on the back pocket, with a sentiment: “Happy Birthday, CJ”.

I also repeated the red and blue ribbon, with a knot, on the pocket.

The horse I stuck on the tag.

Please hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and take a look at my stunning DT friend’s cards/creations!

I also took part in the following challenges with the gift bag:

ABC Challenge - Blue

Gingersnap Creations - go dimensional (boxes, bags, etc)

Simon Says Stamp -make a gift

Wild Flower Patch - polka dots

Creative Belli - round and metal (brads, metal rimmed tags, etc)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - vintage (distress it, tear it, etc.)

Kaboodle Doodles - add a little metal

Ooh La La Creations - spots and dots

Stamps R Us - all male theme

Aly's Sunday Challenge - get dotty

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - bold and bright

Just Us Girls - wild wild west theme

I Did It Creations - anything goes

Our Daily Bread Designs Blog - Stamp it more than once

We had such a fun day on CJ’s Birthday.

I baked CJ a Strawberry Bavarian Cake from my Baking book.

Me and CJ

It was delicious!

My mother and CJ

CJ loves horses. He has been doing horse riding for 5 years and is now riding a very special horse for the owner of a Riding School. CJ does not ride the school horses at the farm, since CJ is now too experienced.

The horse he is riding is a merry called ‘Something About Mary’.

She is a beautiful white horse and he loves riding and training her!

But CJ also loves his brothers!

CJ playing with David and Daniel.

I also baked CJ Croissants for breakfast on his birthday.

It was a pile of Croissants! Remember, we are a large family of ten!

By the end of last year, CJ won 3 small rockets as a price for answering 12 out of 12 Science questions correctly, read more here.

So in the afternoon we went to CJ’s horse riding school and launched two rockets.

CJ exploded the third engine while making it!

Ha-ha!!

Some fun pictures of the afternoon:

We all went out to the field on a Quad Bike.

Andrew and David were very exited!

The rockets

And up it went and with a huge speed came down to the ground!

The parachute failed!

It is a tradition in our home, when you are older than 7, to go out for dinner with our parents, on our birthdays.

Josua’s birthday is on the 24th of August, so my parents took them for dinner together.

CJ

Josua

I just love these pictures!

Take a look at the amazing milkshake they had for dessert!!

Although CJ teases me a lot and makes me mad……….I love him as my brother!!

Have a blessed weekend

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I Received the Cherry On Top Award!

Hi everyone, just a quick post to share a very exiting think that happened to me!

I received the Cherry on Top Award!

 It was such a big, unexpected surprise to receive a comment from a follower, informing me she’d given me this award.

Those individuals receiving this award, are asked to do 5 things:

 

1. Thank the person who gave you this award

Dear Jeanette, thank you so much for picking me as one of your 5 award winners.

It was such a pleasant surprise!

I only recently found your blog and your cards are fab!

It’s so nice to know someone who also uses their crafting talent for God’s glory!

2. Copy the award and put it on your blog

3. List three things which you love about yourself

Well I love the talents that God gave me!

I love being a good friend and sister, who care for my friends and family.

I love the way I can just fit paper, finding the right ribbons and flowers to cards.

4. Post a picture you love

I love this picture!

It’s me reading to my little brothers and sister!

This picture was taken a few weeks ago. Dinner was almost ready, they were hungry and grumpy, had low blood sugar and while the food was being put on the table I kept them calm with a story.

5. Tag 5 people you'd like to give this award to

Unfortunately I can only pick 5. Here they are:

Tanja from: Stampin'Piper

I just love your blog Tanja.

I love your style and your blog is such pretty colours!

I sometimes e-mail Tanja for advice or a name of some kind of card, so I can research about it and Tanja always answer me almost immediately. I appreciate you a lot!

Thank you for being a blog friend, Tanja!

Marcy from: Maiden of Mercy

It’s so good to read about the life of another Christian girl.

Your blog inspire and encourage me and I’m always eagerly waiting for a new posting.

Thank you for writing Mercy!

Karen from: Feline Playful

I recently found your blog and think it’s a stunning blog. Karen, posts a list of challenges and their challenge every day.

So I don’t need to go through a list of challenges and find one I like, I just check Karen’s blog!

So if you like challenges check it out.

Thank you for taking time to check all the challenges Karen!

Kate from: Kate’s Makes

Kate is one of my fellow DT members at Stampin For The Weekend

Kate you have a great blog.

I love the way you make your cards with all the embellishments, flowers and ribbons!

I feel very privileged to be in a team with you!

Thank you for your inspiration Kate

And last of all………………….

My Mother!!

I love your blog mom! With all the pictures, your style is my style, your blog background fit perfect with your blog name.

Going back to being in a Mother like in Ancient Times.

It’s because of you that I received a blog award, you helped me to get my blog started, and showing me how!

Thank you so much!!

Now you have a blog award too - Here you go!!!!!!!!

Have a blessed week everyone!

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A GDT Easel, Friendship Card

Hi everyone, today I made a GDT card for Corrosive Challenge Blog.

You can read more about me becoming a GDT on Corrosive Challenge Blog here.

I decided to make an easel card! This week Corrosive Challenge has a sketch and I had this beautiful paper.

I love it!

Just a reminder that every time you play along this month your name will be in the drawing for:

$20 GC to Paper Makeup Stamps for rubber or digi stamps

A set of PMS Halloween stamps

Some chipboard and flowers

AND The coveted Guest DT spot for October!

I used one of my new Whiff Of Joy stamps and coloured it with the following Promarkers:

Sandston – for her hair

Dusky Pink – for her skin

Carmine – for her dress

Apple – for her top and shoes

Yellow – for the pattern one her top and book and

Cool Grey – for a shadow all around the s

With the help of my mother, I drew patterns on the scallop.

I absolutely love these flowers!

I bought them at a Scrapbook shop some time ago and it fit this card perfectly.

I wrote “Thank You For Your Friendship” in the top right hand corner.

Here is the inside and bottom strip of the easel card.

I wrote “You Read Me Like A Book”, at the bottom so the two sentences together read: “Thank You For Your Friendship, You Read Me Like A Book”

I still don’t know to whom I’m going to give this card.

But I’ll know when I know!

Please hop over to Corrosive Challenge Blog and take a look at the DT members beautiful crafting.

I also took part in the following challenges with this card:

Alphabet Challenge blog - O for Ovals

Bunny Zoe’s – summer Days

Insy Winsy Dicin – Summer Fun
One shop craft - Summer Fun

Penny paper - ANYTHING GOES!

Sweet Stampin – Pretty In Pink

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Anything Goes

Greative Card Crew - Cute and Girly

Have a blessed weekend

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Back To School Card

Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing well.

I’m doing fine, it’s been very busy here lately.

Our family has been sick for the past two weeks, except me and my older brother CJ.

My mother is still busy with our ballet costumes. She does not have much spare time for sewing, between all the little ones.

 Anyway, Stampin For The Weekend has a new challenge this week and the theme is: Back To School.

Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring our challenge this week.

 I’m not in school (we’re all Home schooled) so I thought it will be really challenging to make this card. To my surprise I found it very easy to make!

It’s because I’m home schooled that I have the time to make cards!

We don’t have to do homework like other children after school! We do our subjects till its finished or until our time set for a subject is over.

It’s so much fun to be home schooled! We can work at our own pace, learn about things that interest us and never have a boring moment!

You can read more about our home school journey on my brother, CJ’s website.

 Our parents encourage us to discover and develop the gifts, talents and passions God gave us.

Every card I make is made with someone special in mind and I just love to bless him/her with my God-given talent!

So on with the card:

While I was brainstorming the Back To School card, I kept thinking of red and blue.

So here is my red and blue card!

I used a Sugar Nellie stamp, and coloured it with Promarkers.

My mother helped me write ABC on the piece of wood, with a black gel pen and shadow it with a white gel pen.
I used the following colour Promarkers:

Berry Red – for the hat and bow tie.

Yellow – for the little pieces on the strip of the hat and for the patch on his pants

Sandstone – for the little boy’s hair and the piece of wood

Dusky Pink – for the boy’s skin

Sky blue and Cyan - for the boy’s overall

Apple – for the green on the hat, pants (apples) and the boy’s top.

Bright Orange – for the patches on the pants

Cool grey 1 – for the shadow around the stamps

I just love working with my Promarkers!

I cut out stars with my Silhouette digital craft cutter, glazed them and glittered them with golden glitter.

Please hop over to my DT friends and take a look at their stunning creations!

I also took part in the following challenges:

 Stars and Stamps (no glitter) - use patterned paper

KAH-Wink-E-Dink - kids cards in primary colors

Dutch Dare  - anything goes

 Crafty Ho's - back to school

Paper Take Weekly - White and Bright
Flourishes boutique - NO Embellishments
Shirley2Girls - back to school and use the color red

Have a blessed week

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An “All About Babies” Card

Hello everyone this week I made two cards!

My first one was an easel card, and then a baby card.

A few weeks ago I made a Christmas card and to my surprise, I won The Corrosive Challenges Blog, and this is what I won:

3 digis from Phindy's place

2 packs of stickers

A pack of brads

AND

A Guest Designer spot on the DT for August.

Yeah!! I’m thrilled to be GDT for a month.

The theme for this weeks challenge is “All About Babies”.

This was so easy, since we have so many babies in our house!

Some time ago I won a $20 voucher at Sew Many cards and digital stamps, but that was quite some time ago. I never had pencils to colour Digi stamps so I never used the voucher.

(now I have Promarkers)

A few weeks ago I ordered some rubber stamps from Whiff of Joy and was hoping it would be here in time for this weeks baby’s challenge!

Unfortunately they haven’t arrived yet! I was very disappointed but my mother reminded me about my Sew Many Cards voucher. I could buy seven Digi stamps and “Tayla Stork” is one of them.

I struggled a bit not to let the ink run with my Promarkers but after a few attempts, one turned out okay. I also heat it with my mom’s hair dryer, before I coloured it!

If you have a secret to keep digit stamps from running when coloured with Promarkers or Copics, PLEASE share it with me!

I used the flowing Promarkers for this stamp:

Dusky Pink – for the body of the duck and mouth of the little animal

Apple, Rose Pink and yellow – for the Duck’s hat

Yellow - for the ribbon on the duck neck, Welcome baby tag and duck’s Bick

Prussian – for one of the patches on the duck

Gold – for the feet of the duck and the baby in the parcel

Sky blue – for the baby bag and a patch on the duck

Cool Grey 1 – for a shadow around the stamp.

Here I wrote Bundle of Joy.

I though it will fit the card well!

I cut out little circles of images with names and stuck them all over the card, which gave the card a real “All About Babies”-feeling!!

It was very easy to make a bundle of joy card since we already had 8 bundles of joy in our house!

Here is a picture of our newest bundle of joy.

Michael is really growing up so fast!

He is 6 months and is so sweet.

When ever you smile at him, he smiles back at you.

Michael is also now starting to play with toys - so cute!!

Three of the other Bundles of Joy in our house.

David (3 1/2 years), Andrew (5 years) and Little Daniel who turned two today!

So as I said, it is so easy to make a baby card, with babies all over the house.

I used the Friday Sketchers Challenges sketch for this card:

This beautiful sketch is by Tanja from Germany and I just love it!

I also took part in the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers Challenges – Sketch

Digi Doodles Shop Best – Punch of Cute Me

Totally Gorjuss – Baby-Baby
Simon Says Challegnes - Going Dotty

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Cow Girl Sunday - Animals and Bugs

And now I’m off to celebrate my brother’s birthday!

Have a blessed week

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