New Digital Paper pack-Joie de Vie.

Hello!

Every once in a while, something amazing happens, like me creating a digital paper pack! I stopped "officially" designing quite a while ago now, but I still dabble from time to time in digital designs. Mostly custom orders for blog graphics, business cards, Etsy shop sets, labels and so on.

However, I made this paper pack (the first in about two years!). Designing like this again, for this brief moment, reminded me why I stopped in the first place! As much as I enjoy it, it is really time consuming. I much prefer to just design something when the mood strikes me, as well as not follow any trends as I am really not a trend-follower. I like to move at my own pace and I guess my heart lives in the country somewhere, surrounded by wild flowers, berry bushes and little earthy paths that wonder off between the trees. Barefoot and wearing a floating, breezy dress that billows out behind me as I walk along with my little basket, laden with a book, my crochet and a few snacks. And skipping happily beside me, my two kids and just for general good measure, our cat following behind us all....

*back to reality*

So yes, I have designed a paper pack. It is called "Joie de Vie" (Joy of Life)and is inspired by spring, my love of nature and blossoms and a little bit of french flair thrown in for old times sake! All papers are, of course, 12 x 12 pixels and are 300dpi.

I am also giving away a free paper for 6 days that you can add to this kit. The free papers are made using some images that are free, but not for commercial use (hence I cannot sell them). I will you will enjoy them and be sure to come back each day until you have all 6 papers.

Download here

If you want the kit, it is available here in my Etsy shop.
I also accept EFT payment for those of you here in South Africa. Cost of the kit is R30. (Just email me and I will send you my banking details.)

Anniversary Gift and Free Printable tickets for you

It's friends of ours anniversary coming up on Saturday and I made some little tickets to go with a jar of goodies I put together for them.

So here is the card

Then I recovered two little matchbox's with paper. I used a alphabet for each of their First names.

Then printed out the tickets I designed and cut them up, tied a ribbon around them and put them into the box's.

Each box gets the same tickets. The idea is that, at any given time, one of them can "redeem" their tickets with each other, for whatever the tickets says on it.



Download the FREE printable by clicking opening the image below in a new window.



Also in the Jar are 9 Tags,
Felt brooch I made for her
and the matchbox's .
I then Decoupaged a jar lid,

Popped everything into the bottle,

put some ribbon around the jar, a paper doily and an organza flower I made.

Wrapped it up in brown paper and tied it up with ribbons and tags and now, it's ready!

Inspire me Monday- Blogs

From time to time I stumble upon a real find in the blogging world.
A blog I want to spend all day viewing, reading and absorbing.
It might be for the brilliant way it's written, or for it's beautiful photographs, it might just be because I enjoy the content.

So let me share with you my recent finds....

Michelle Alynn Clement -
A fun blog about all craft things.

JmpGirl- Jamie {on Today}.
I love her ideas, she creates beautiful things and also like me, loves vintage things.

Trisha Brink
Love her soft, vintage photography


I still have some more Vintage postcards to share from my trip to Paris....here is another one for you! Enjoy!

PS I am aware that my label cloud has expanded to gigantic proportions! I am trying to fix it :)

Creative things

Hey, Hey, It's Friday! *whew*.
So this is how I am dressed today...Sort of a mustard girl today, all knitted out and cozy.



I am off to see a good friend of mine, to drink coffee, catch up on things and admire her new stylish craft room. I go bearing gifts for her *cos that's how I roll*.

Some crochet bunting for her new studio aka craft room...



Three bunting pieces which is adding to some she and her mom have made....



I have to just mention that my dear sweet hubby came home with a gift I have been hinting at for ages!! He bought me a white Orchid!!! A real one!! I LOVE them....It has two beautiful blooms on and two more waiting to open! I was so happy! I will have to post a photo of it soon!

Have a GREAT weekend, whatever you do, do it with heart and soul and find time to do something creative, it's good for the soul!!!

Another Vintage image for you...(see previous posts for more).

{right click and save as, for personal use}

Etsy shop update: packery set for Friendship

Last night I stayed up waaaaay longer than I should have, but I got so engrossed with a Gift I am busy with for a friend of mine, that I decided to make some goodies based on what I was doing for my Etsy shop.

It is a Friendship set. The idea is that you have all the packagery (that SHOULD be a word!) you would need to make a little gift for a friend. There is fabric, paper, vintage music paper(one of the best finds!) tags, brown paper bags, trim etc etc. You could make a card, another tag and some pretty fabric embellishments to give to her. Or you could just use all the supplies as the pretty packaging you wrap her gift in. Either way....

One of the already made ideas is a little brown paper bag with a paper doily and butterfly negative sewn onto it, with a ticket stamped with "to and From" slotted into the negative. The sides of the envelope then stitched by machine.
another already done thing are two sweet, tiny tags with butterflies stitched on.
And an already made friendship tag complete with stamped "Cherished Friend", fabric ribbon, and stringed button.

Another idea is simply to use it for card making or scrap booking. There really are a lot of possibilities.

Here I made a tag from the goodies in the set and pasted it onto a card.

The paper is made from the 6x6 paper included in the set, and ribbon trim. I used the fabric to made a little embellishment and paper flower with a button center.By the way did you see my new easy-to-locate pages at the top of my blog? This is to make things a bit easier when searching for my digital kits, craft and tutorials which I will be continuously adding to. Is there a particular stand-alone page you would like to see listed at the top?

Anyhooo....here are two more vintage postcards from you.
You can see more of them here and here.
Isn't this baby so sweet??

Please check back tomorrow and next week, I still have about 9 postcards.

It's Here!!! Winners of Giveaways announced!!

It's the big Ta-Da moment!

The announcement of the giveaways!
This was no easy task people!! I had to get the names of my 94 Followers, plus the 155 subscribers to my newsletter plus all the enterants on the blog. Then it was duplicating the followers and subscribers for each giveaway (cos they each got one free givaway entry without having to do anything!) And then it was putting them into two groups. One group for giveaway 1 and one group for giveaway 2. And then duplicating the blog enteries accordingly, and sorting out of those that only wanted to enter EITHER giveaway one or two....

So plus/minus 270 entrants for EACH giveaway...and lots of cutting later....we have our winners!!

Giveaway One-the hamper pack of luscious embellies (hee hee) goes to.....

sticking all the itty-bitty printed out names in a tin. (blurred it a bit cos there are some email addy's on them and don't want to publicize them!)


The hand goes in...
The hand picks one...

*drum roll*



Congrats to you, if your email address starts with "ttimes33" !!!! (sorry don't know your name!) I will email you to get your postal address!
This person is a newsletter subscriber!
(PS For any reason, should the chosen winner not want the prize, I have chosen a back up for each giveaway!)

Giveaway 2....

Again...cutting out the printed entrants...

mixing it up...
And the winner of Giveaway two goes to.....



*Big drum roll*



*wait for it*.....



Congrats to Terry!! Terry entered on the blog. I will email you Terry!!

Thanks again to everyone that entered!! It was fun!


Before I go, I wanted to show you these lovely vintage finds I found...
A beautiful little side plate...It was a bit worn and faded but I just LOVED the color (matches my kitchen!) and the pretty little edging detail. And some crocheted dollies!! (****squeal!!!!****)
Sigh...so pretty...the rose pattern in the center must of been beautiful "back in its day" when it shone in all its glory!


And of course....now I MUST go and eat a muffin as all that cutting and then trying to take photographs with one hand while mixing papers and trying to focus on such a tiny piece of paper, has made me hungry...




I will leave you with some more of the lovely Vintage postcards I picked up at a flea market in Paris...right click and save as to use in your personal art projects. The first installment in this set is in this post!


Now Excuse me while I go and eat my blueberry muffin!

Vintage Postcards from Paris

When I went to Paris in March I went to the flea market and picked up some lovely vintage postcards. What a find!

I am sharing them with you here. Unfortunately my scanner is broken, so I had to photograph them as straight as I could, but I hope you will be able to use them in your personal projects.
Right click and save as to your PC.


Enjoy!Will be back with more throughout the week.

*Today is the LAST day to enter my giveaway! Winner announced on the 1st June!*

NEW:Digital, freebie and NSD!!!

I made these digital journal cards quite a long time ago, but never got around to putting them up for sale. So Finally I have!

These cards are in JPEG format only, printable 300DPI sheets for your personal use in your scrap booking and other projects.

only $3.89 for two sheets -a total of 17 cards.
You can buy them here or here

And because it's NSD, here is a FREE one for your personal use.

Right click and save to your computer!

Happy NSD!!