ABC CRAFTS UPDATE

Sorry I have been a bit scarce in the blogosphere, life has interfered with my crafting and blogging. Well, time has just ran away with me the last couple of month, and the winter weather with all the colds and coughs has not be good in our household either.

Hoping and praying, that things will go better as winter slowly moves on, and that with the snow, hail and cold.
If you browse on the left side, you will see I have placed a new gadget, so that you could follow with email and not miss any blogging or news up date :-))

I have also just got the latest gadget sitting on my craft table and that is the Grand Caliber...yippeee

This machine cuts up to an A4 paper or card stock and has bigger Spellbinder Go and look at these stunning card as made by the design team member Julie Overby

Transparency Window Card

by Julie Overby

Post Type: Card

Everyone loves a handmade card.  Shaped cards like the Beautiful Day Card one that Holly created are fun to give away because they are so unique.  I also like to use my Spellbinders™ die templates to cut windows in my cards and add transparency to make them unlike the average card.  Transparencies are also great to use because you can stamp on them add glitter to give your image a suspended appearance.

Now isn't this a super card, this to me is what inspirations are made of..... so me better be off to a crafting week and let me see what I can come up with.

DISCOUNT COUPON

We have thought of a wonderful idea and this is to bring to our online user a special discount on card stock.
Click on DISCOUNT COUPON which will take you to HOTFROG. Under ABC CRAFTS you will see tabs, click on COUPONS and then on WINTER MADNESS print out your discount coupon for nice saving on all out card stock.Yip that's right a nice saving means more cash in you pocket to buy much needed craft supplies this winter !!!!

ABC CRAFTS WEBSITE

Hello to all my followers. Sorry for being so quiet, had a stunt in hospital and nearly got operated, but had a message that the gallstones have to wait awhile longer. Since then have been getting new stock in and busy updating the website.... so... please do go and have a look and please do leave me a comment as I would love to hear from all of you. Will soon place some new creative works on blog, packing stock is reaching the end yahooo!!!

CARD MAKING

Wow can you believe it how time flies?? My apologies for taking so long to blog more about card making.
I have been learning to make bar code label, and yes will soon be learning Pastel Accounting. Yip, one never gets to old to learn new things. How does the saying go… learn every day something that scares you… the unknown does scare me lol

Well, this card was made by colouring the flowers with crayons and then putting some Royal Coat Dimensional Magic Plaid glue on the flowers. The pearls was placed with a template from Forever Memories. And believe it or not….. this card was made by Gerhard, thanks my dear, so much appreciate it when you craft with me :-)

MOEDERS DAG

AAN ALLE MOEDERS

‘n Ma se hart is baie maal gebreek, stukkend van bekommernis, pyn, skuld gevoelens, verwyte & moegheid. Ma’s is die wonderwesens.
Sy lag tussen deur haar eie seer. Lank nadat almal gaan slaap het ruim sy nog op & bid vir elkeen voordat sy weg sluimer.
‘n Ma  maak altyd reg wat stukkend is, selfs ‘n gebreekte hart soms. Sy hou die gesin bymekaar met liefde en vergifnis. Ja, jare ndat haar kinders uit die huis is, refrein ha “lessies” steeds. Vader, gee asb al die moeders van dag ‘n spesiale drukkie
Gelukkige moedersdag !!!

PAMPOENFEES

My friend Marika sent me this photo of her 2 children at the Pampoenfees 2011. This gaint pumkin is a whole 140kg and planted by her dad on the farm. Pieter and Chloe had to pose for this gorgeous photo, what do you all think mmm

ABC QUICK CARD

My daughter was sitting and scrapping while I had to cut some page kits on the cricut, and it dawned on me that I long last visited blog.

Well, this is what I come up in a dash ! I cut the pasley with the cricut, added gems and used some beautiful rose reflection paper as backing.

EASY CARDS

Nice to know one is always trying to make life easier, but when buying new computer software and having to learn all news things again, the other tasks gets less time.
So it happened that I made some easy cards this week.
BLUE BIRTHDAY EASY CARD  Made with embossed cardstock and a spellbinder circle die cut. On top of that was placed a inchie card from Tim Holtz Idea-Ology paper stack, with a heart punched from doubleside tape. Clear gems was placed in the centre and then glitter was added on top.The happy birthday is from a confetti range.
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YELLOW BIRTHDAY EASY CARD  Made with a dollie and clear gems added to cirlce. The centre flowers was attached with a silver brad. Happy birthday was printed on vellum and attached with silver brads to cardstock.

I feel cards doesn’t always has to be a long process, and easy cards is also called clean and simple cards.Cards that one can put together in a jiffy !!

BLOG GROWING

WOW, I am so glad to announce that our blog is growing in pages and more ideas. Not forgetting more news on some new stash for our creativity!!!

HOME PAGE -  Will be for all the news and cards

SOMETHING NEW PAGE.  Will be for new products as they arrive in stock, which will be on sale in our BOB store in due course.

SCRAPBOOK PAGE – Will be for ideas and tips on scrapbooking

Please do leave us a comment as we always love to hear from you and miss you when we don’t hear form you.

FLOWER PUNCHES

Wow, I can’t believe that time has flown so fast. Sorry for being so quiet lately, but my reason is, we have been on holiday and also I have discovered this new hobby.

Making paper flowers with the most amazing punches that has arrived in South Africa the last month. Can you believe that one can make these beautiful flowers in a jiffy once you have punched out your card stock……..

These 3D flowers are so versatile, use them on cards, in your scrap pages and even frames.

           The flowers where made with the punches showing next to them

.Creativity never stop, as there are always new thing to learn and make !! I’ll  have to get myself in gear and take some of the photo’s of my flower creations to share with you…..