BAKERS TWINE

Hello to all my followers, sorry have not been blogging for awhile due to health reasons.
Marika is taking a break as she is moving soon into her new home... yippy

In the mean time I have found some beautiful Bakers Twine. Shipment is arriving in the following week and the colours that is coming in, is marked with a cross. You may contact me if you are interested in some

CHRISTMAS DECORATION

Wow, I just have to share with you these stunning Christmas decorations made by Christina. And besides being so beautiful, what caught my eye.... she added Card Candi at the top by the ribbon bows. 

Christina is always my inspiration as she makes the most stunning cards, please go and visit her blog http://flowersribbonsandpearls.blogspot.com/

CARD CANDI - FLOWER

As Card Candi is my favorite as present and they are so easy and fun to use, I thought why not show you a tutorial of how to make flowers with any of the plain colours.

Red, Green and Yellow

Good Afternoon

Marika here.  I am greeting you from a cold Cape Town, the sun was shinning so brightly this morning that I thought that we will have another sunny day, but no such luck. 

I made a card with a lovely freebie stamp that I received with my latest Papercraft Essentials magazine. This is one of the most beautiful little stamps that I have yet to receive with a magazine. I just love this little winged girl. I used some red pearls on the outside of the scalloped circle.

A close-up of the stamp.  The stamp is from the Wee Stamps and was designed exclusive for Papercraft Essential magazine.  I put some Glitzin Glamour over the wings, just for that little bit of bling.

 

That's all from me.  Have a great weekend.

Hugs,
Marika

BIRTHDAY CARD

This card was made with my friend Brenda in mind. I have not seen her for ages, but we stay in contact on a regular basis. I have promised myself that we will go and visit as soon as it gets warmer and I can get around with a reliable vehicle again.

This card was made using Passionate Coutre Texture card stock as backing. On top is metallic card stock that I punched with a corner punch ages ago from a friends stash.

The white card stock is from Cutmates and cut to a oval using a Simply 2 die 4 die 

Now the challenging part:

I have not done much colouring of any sorts, so decided I need to start brushing up sometime. The corset picture printed on a label printer and coloured with a permanent marker. Well, that alone was a challenge on its on :-) as it makes streaks if you don't colour it right as the label paper is a glossy paper and takes long to dry. Ok, so after ditching the 1st picture, tried again and learned a lesson yippy :-)

All stocks used above is availble at  http://www.abccrafts.co.za/

Thanks for popping in, we, me Charlie and Marika would love some comments !!!

CARD CANDI PURPLE

Good Morning

Marika here.  I am so excited, today is my very first Design Team post.  I was so honoured when Charlie asked me to be on her Design Team.  ABC Crafts is my very first time serving on a Design Team and I am sure that I will have lots of fun.  Not only are Charlie and I very good friends but she has also got the best prices when it comes to card stock, craft candy, dies and much more.  I have learned so much from her, she is always ready with some advice

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But on to my card. I used the much loved card candy that I have lots of, the colours that these little handy circles comes in are so yummy you literally want to eat them, no wonder they are called "candy". For the times that you do not have the right colour, I have some white ones and the Copic markers colour them to perfection, a good way to get them to precisely colour coordinate with your layout.  I love the purple papers. 

A close-up of the butterfly.  I used parchment paper to draw the butterfly on and then I used Card Candy and gems to make the butterfly pretty.

Thank you for reading my post, please leave a comment, I would love to hear what you think.

Have a great week.

Hugs,
Marika

DESIGN TEAM

I am delighted to announce that Marika is joining our Design Team.

 And here is the lady of the moment :-).....

Hi, my name is Marika and I am 34 years old. I have been married for 9 years. We have 2 beautiful kids, a boy of 6 and a girl of 4. I have been doing some kind of craft since I can remember. I love paper and all things that is associated with papercrafts. But I also love any other craft where I am able to express my creativety. From cardmaking, beading, scrapbooking to pewter. 


 You can also visit my blog here  http://dingetjies-en-datjies.blogspot.com/

CARD STOCK SPECIAL

On the link below is a special discount for card stock valid till 31 August 2012

http://www.hotfrog.co.za/Companies/ABC-Crafts

CARD CANDI BEAUTIFUL

Hello to all my followers,

I was making a scrap page, and had to see if the "beautiful" was gonna cut out nice on the Cricut machine.  So used a loose page to cut it in another colour first and this cut out ended up being used on this card.    Well as you can see the result was great !!

And here is the inside of the card

I just love using the Card Candi, they are in stunning colours and is so easy to attach. 

CARD CANDI 10g PACKS

10g  CARD CANDI 
IN NEW COLOURS @R34.00 WITH FOAM PADS