i havent really given my Marvellous Maggies blog as much love and attention as i would like to, so i think that would make a good new years resolution once the new year comes around.
I decided to make this magic box that i first saw on my friend Barb's blog, boy i was awe struck, then she told me she had first seen it on Cabio's blog, sure you can figure that very few things are "ours" to claim we invented, this blogging bit is all about sharing knowledge and know how.

this box on a scale of 1>10 was about a 3, so dont be intimidated, try it.  The only thing that took me an age was coloring all the images and deciding what i was gonna put into it.

this is gonna be a present for an elderly friend of mine Jean, i am gonna fill it with flowers and flat backed pearls since i have an over abundance of both, she also crafts and celebrates Christmas so i am sure will appreciate the work and thought that went into this aswell as the little crafty treats i fill it with.
stamps:  Tilda with fir tree, Tilda with snowheart, winter Tilda dn something for you, star Tilda, Angel Tilda, sitting with glitter, vintage Tilda

punches and ie cuts:  nesties, ek success punch and a few miscellaneous flourishes
Other: lots of stickles, liquid applique, flower soft, flat backed pearls and garlands
Paper: MME and basil basics, cryogen white
have a great week
smiles
Paola

Mo's dp 2 challenge dt

not much new here my friends, here i am late again for our challenge on Mo's digital pencil challenge blog, this week i have a really good excuse "Its my birthday"
so i have been at the hairdressers most of the day and clean forgot to do my post before i set out for my appointment today.

Ok now our fabulous challenge this week is "the fabric of our lives"  Boy was this a chllenge for me, expecially as my mojo has taken a bit of a knock being out of crafting for soooo long and only now getting back into the swing of things.  Well despair not!  i found this fabulous sheer crinolene whch i thought would make great flowers.

They wouldnt punch out and i nearly broke the punch trying, so i cut them with a few nestie dies, pierced a hole into the centre with my piercing tool and heated them with the heat gun, they curled beautifully once the heat hit them and then i just popped a pearl brad in the centre.  Then i decided to add some dry brushed puff paint to the flowers which really did it for me.

the image used is a newish one from Mo, snow day available here, colored with my trusty copics and added lots of stickles to highlight the snow.  the paper is old from MME, but a fab Christmas paper and its nearly finished.
thats it for me today, i am off to have dinner with my family, and have my cake and eat it! lol
smiles
Paola

Mo's dp 2 challenge dt

running behind schedule so it must mean that i am back to crafting full time, lol.  My kids broke school yesterday for the end of the year and summer vacation so it just means i have a lot of distractions.

for my card this week i am using Angel with puppy (c) available in Mo's store, i got this image last year from Mo's and i just loved using it, cant get enough of Mo's artwork and my cards using her images are always so well recieved.  I colored my Angel with copics and gave her wings a good going over with stickles start dust.  This paper is from Joy crafts, but we also have a local company in SA who call themselves Upikit using the same papers, go figure?  Our challenge on Mo's challenge blog is tags and banners, well i dont have a die for banners so i just cut my own.  I stitched around the edges of my papers for added interest, added some rhinestones to the corners.

No card of mine feels complete without a few flowers, so i added them to the corners, these flowers are available from WOC, but locally in SA i supply them too, cant bear the price of postage from Uk so for me it just makes sense to have something of equal value locally.  The ribbon slider is one of those cheap and nasty plastic ones, but i do think it looks quite classy with the ribbon strung acorss my card.

Do go and check out the inspiration the rest of the team have for you on the challenge blog.
smiles
Paola

Paper shelter birthday blog hop!!

Good Morning fellow crafters and welcome to The Paper Shelter Blog Hop. Our hop is a very exciting one for all of us at it is in celebration of our 1st Birthday!!!! If you have landed here from Carol's blog then you're heading in the right direction - if not then you'll want to head on back to The paper shelter to start again, as you'll not want to miss out on this one! Our Design Team have worked very hard and are showcasing the gorgeous images available from The paper shelter Website and each blog on the hop is offering one lucky commenter a digi of their choice as well as the main prize, details of which are on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot.

 for my card today i am using the Winter Princess available Here from The Paper Shelter, colored her with a variety of different blue copic combos.   i added loads of puff paint for her trim on the cloak and clothing and loads of glittah! a girls gotta have sparkle and then i punched out the snowflakes using various punches and added a few rhinestones for additional bling.  Lastly a ribbon acorss my card with a snowflake charm that i bought at the NEC a couple of years back.

From here you will need to hop on over to Kim's blog.   Don't forget to leave your comment for a chance of winning your choice of one of the fab digis available in store.

Hop! Hop! Hop!

Good luck and hope you're enjoying it so far.

blonde moment but I'M BACK!!!

Yes i am naturally blonde, but i dont suppose that could be an excuse.  I promised that i would have a card for Mo's challenge this week, and i did, only problem is that i didnt load it to the dt group, duh!
so first off i want to share the first card i have made in almost two months and encourage you to join the challenge on Mo's challenge blog with the theme being "outdoors" this week, Mo has the best images out there and these talented girls have loads of inspiration to share.  So this is my contribution that i forgot to load.

This is where i see your eyes glaze over in boredom, so if you dont like browsing around other people's homes this is where you want to leave my blog.
As you've heard me going on and on about my great move to our new house i thought i would share a few pics since we are kinda settling in.

 

our fab new kitchen, if i tell you the last one was the size of a closet so this is just heaven to me, just excuse the husband looking like a gansta in my kitchen with his mouth full, lol

then we have my living room, with one of my tv addict kids on the sofa.

on to my bedroom and en suite bathroom.

the stunning garden that my children are supposed to play in, we didnt have a large enough garden for the kids in the condo we used to live in so this is a real treat, now to figure out how to get them out of the living room.

last but not least, my make shift craftroom as you can see from these pics the new one is in the process of being built, cant wait for them to get finished

wish i had thought of taking before pics, before they started the building and bashing and rebuilding, but sure you gonna love how it is gonna look when i get sorted.
thats it friends, i am so pleased to be back blogging and just had to get a makeshift craftroom sorted so that i wasnt mia for any longer than neccessary, see you all soon
smiles
Paola

taking time out for me

Ok things are really heating up in this house, the move is now inevitable and boxes are appearing all over the place, i am still sanding and renovating a few old pieces of furniture thats gotta look new for the new house and my husband is planning a business trip to China the week of the move.  If you are wondering how he can leave me with a house to move and three kids, imagine a screaming lunatic with more to do than one person can cope with and you get a pretty good picture of why he can decide to escape the move, lol.

So after sanding down a seat for the girls room and not having much joy today as the sander has now decided to give up the ghost so i gotta go get a new one tomorrow, i sat my weary toosh down and decided to make a card with an image that i have had colored for quite a while and enter it into the challenge on Sassy Cheryls blog  where the challenge is to use pink and a die cut.

I have certainly used pink and my die cut is a spellbinder that i used to mat my image.
Have a great week
smiles
Paola
P.S:  As we are all aware it is breast cancer awareness month and there is a new challenge called link up for pink in a breast cancer awareness campaign. so i am using my card to link up to the challenge as for those that know me will know this is a cause very close to my heart, perhaps later today i will be brave enough and share My story on my blog.  

Tomic challenge 19

A nice new easy cahllenge for those Magnolia fans on TOMIC this week, use a doohickey and a seated image on your creation.

I have decided to use Edwin with butterfly from the butterfly dreams collection for my card, i colored hime with copics and just totally enjoyed using an Edwin for a change, the poor dears are so neglected as we all go for girls first, but this time i had to play with this little darling.

My dear friend Barb made cards like this a few weeks ago and i loved the design of the circle folded in half to make a rocker card, so cased this idea from her.  Also those tiles that you see looking very much like scrabble pieces i actually downloaded and you can find out about them HERE
i used the flourish doohickey for my card, added some star brads that i inked to give them a more masculine feel, ribbon from my stash and some gauze from my medicine cabinet.

On the inside of my card i used another of the doohickeys a vintage tag and added some paint around the edges and a couple of butterflies to tie the whole lot together.
have a wonderful week
smiles
Paola

life is HECTIC!!!!

Well as i said my life is hectic right now, we are all gearing up for our Yom Kippur fst on Saturday and i am counting the days till my move into my very OWN house.
Today i tackled our store room, it is amazing the kinda junk we all hang onto in the hope of needing it someday.  I threw out a vacuum cleaner, still working, just outdated and been replaced, a computer monitor, fax, copier and scanner that ran out of ink so was put in the store room about three years ago, when it went into the storeroom my Mr said i may want that one day for my office, YEAH RIGHT! well all the maybe's and may need are now at the Hospice charity shop, gone and forgotten, wait till he finds out!

After slaving like a demon all day i decided to take time out to do some crafting just for fun and made a card for the challenge on the Saturated canary cahllenge blog, what fun this was to color, the lines are so fine and the image was really dainty, love this.

the papers are from the never ending stash and these are Prima, i added loads if flowers and some  punched leaves from a Leone Em punch, and one fo my big ass bows.
Thats it for now friends hopefully i wont be missing for too long
smiles
Paola

Tomic challenge 18

Happy Birthday Magnolia, and we are celebrating with another fab challenge Halloween and since we celebrating we would like to see anything but a card.

Boy did i have a hard time deciding what to do, we dont celebrate halloweeen in SA, and being Jewish we dont do halloween so i was kinda stumped.  I decided to make a pumpkin, and firstly the pumpkin i made when shown to my friend she said, wow! that sure is big, so i binned it and started again to make a smaller pumpkin, well this beauty you see took another four tries before it looked anything like the LARGE original.

I added lots of leaves and i made some twirly pipe cleaners that i dipped into some glittah.

And after deiciding to use the little Tilda with her broom, unfortunately i cant seem to find her name anywhere right now, i thought she kinda looked like little miss muffet so i made a spider using felt and some pipe cleaners, i had forgotten i had them, now i cant stop using them, lol.

And lastly with a led light inside to light the eye and nose features i cut into my pumpkin.
Enjoy the celebrations with us
smiles
Paola

sharing a freebie

scrabble letters can be found by clicking on the link above, i found these by accident, what i have done is i downloaded the freebie, sized it in word, printed it and adhered it to some fun foam and voila! i now have an endless supply of scrabble letters just the size i want for my cards.

I hope you find this useful and enjoy!
smiles
Paola