Kobie's Crafty Corner: March 2011

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Second Post of the Day!

Evening All,

Well as Promised I have got another couple of things to bring you this evening, but decided to get them posted tonight as tomorrow will be a hectic day and I will definitely not get time to do it and then I will miss the cut o

f time for some challenges!

So let me get on with it:

Me and my LO wanted to make something for her "Scottish Granny" for Mothers Day which is on Sunday. Well I'll just quickly tell you she has three Grans, but because two live in South Africa as we were originally from there, she has now got an adopted Scottish Granny, which is a very lovely lady which was our neighbour for 6 years but we had to move a year a go, but she still goes to see her very often and she calls her Granny Pam.

So this is what we made her:

Materials Needed:
Large Daisy Punch/Die
Small flower punch for centre
1 inch circle punch
Some coloured glitter card or glitter foam
Skewer sticks
1 empty toilet roll
patterned paper
Tacky Glue
ink/promarkers
Embellishment to decorate to taste

Punch your flower shapes and circles from different colours of card and assemble to taste. You can even buy finished flowers if you don't have all the punches needed to do this.

I assembled all my flowers, then I coloured my skewer sticks with using a promarker and tied the thread around. I just pasted double sided tape across the sticks as I found this was quicker but you can use glue as well, but this will take much longer to dry.

Lastly I made the Flower pot to sit them in.

I just covered my toilet roll using some patterned paper and added the mesh and the bow and one of the extra flowers I made. I cut a circle from matching card little bit bigger than the toilet roll for a base which I glued on with some glue and then I added all the pearls around to make it look pretty.

Well, I hope you like this. Hopefully I'll get some time later to make a full tutorial!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs - Sparkles & Shine
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Flowers for Mum
Allsorts Challenge - For a Special Lady
CES - Die Cuts
Gingerloft - Die Cuts & punches
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes with Handmade Flowers
Paperplay Challenge - Mum
Charisma Cardz - Sparkles & Bling
Cooking Up with Katie - Recipe
Craft Your Days Away - For Mum
ECP Challenge - For Mum
Fairy Tale Challenge Blog - Use Pink & Green

Thank You for everyone who took time to stop by my blog.

Hope you all found it inspirational. Thank you for everyone who takes time to leave me a comment, just know it is very much appreciated.

Another Mothers Day Card!

Good Afternoon Fellow Bloggers,

Hope you all had a lovely week so far, can't believe it's already Friday tomorrow, where has this week gone?

Well I was quite busy last night, made a couple of cards and a Mothers Day gift seeing it is Mothers day on Sunday! I'll do them in separate posts though.

So here's my first Card:

Image Close Up

Hand Made Flowers Close Up

This is the Lovely Fairy Laila from Wags 'n Whiskers I bought four lovely fairies from them last week sometime but was waiting to find the inspiration before I used them, so I started with the lovely fairy. I coloured using my Promarkers, and adding some diamond stickles to the wings.

For my background I again used the Cut-up technique (please scroll down a couple of posts as there is a link to a video for this technique). I really enjoy this technique . The rest of the card was designed using the sketch over on the Sketch Saturday blog. I made this card for the Party Time Tuesday challenge which was Handmade flowers. The flowers I made by cutting several sizes of paper from a template I have, and layering them on top of one another. I added some ink on the edges, stickles and the yellow beads to give them some dimension.

Well I hope you like it!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - For a Special Person

Crafty Pad - Mum

Dream Valley Challenge - Mum

One Stitch at a Time - Mum

Incy Wincy - Sparkle & Shine

Paperplay Challenge - Mum

Charisma Cardz - Bling & Sparkle

Creative Inspirations - Mum

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Craft Your Days Away - For Mum

Delightful Challenges - Flowers

Thank You for everyone who took time to visit my blog. Know that all your comments is very much appreciated.

Monday, 28 March 2011

Second Card of the Day!

Afternoon Everyone,

Second Card for today, Please Scroll down for earlier post.

I would like to remind you all as well that there is still time to enter my Blog Candy.

Please go here.

The following card I am going to show you today was designed using the sketch over on the CMLI Forum where they have a New sketch challenge set every Saturday!

So Here's my Second Card.

Materials used:

Patterned Papers from Pink Petticoat - Vintage Rose stack

Plain Pink & Blue Card for Layering

Die Cut Machine & Dies, Punches & Scissors

Brads, Gems, Pearls & Stickles

Ribbon, Promarkers & Glue

I decided to make a second Mothers day Card as there is quite a few challenges going on at the minute seeing it will be Mothers day on Sunday.

Challenges I am entering:

A Spoonful of Sugar - Ribbon & Pearls
Allsorts Challenge - For a Special Lady
CES - Die Cuts
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Pearls & Swirls
Cupcake Craft Challenge - For Mum
Dream Valley Challenges - Mothers day
Do You Stack Up - Bling Bling
Fairytale Challenge Blog - Pink & Green
Gingerloft - Punches/Dies
I Love Promarkers - Go Dotty
Incy Wincy Designs - Shine & Sparkle
Little Claires Designs - Pink & Green
One Stitch at a Time - Mothers day
Paper Cutz - 3 Patterned Papers
Paper Play Time - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Mothers Day
Simon Says Stamp - Mothers day
Stampin' for the weekend - For Mum
The Crafty Pad - Mum
The Pixie Cottage - Sparkle
Craft Your Days Away - For MUM

Thank You for everyone who took time to visit my blog. All comments are welcome & very much appreciated. Please remember to enter my Blog Candy.

For Mum

Good Morning Bloggers & Followers.

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! On the weather front it hasn't been to bad here and I think Spring is now well & truly on its way.

Okay I made a couple of cards yesterday! There will be an Easter Fair at the Church of Scotland in East Calder on the weekend and they will be selling home made goods for charity, so I made a few cards to donate.

My First one: Flowers for Mum

The image is a digital stamp which I coloured using my Promarkers, I think they supposed to be Poppies, but I colored them after seeing this picture from the Paper Sundaes Challenge which started yesterday and its a photo inspiration challenge:

So I am entering this into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - In the Garden
Papertake Weekly - Mum
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Flowers for Mum
Creative Card Crew - No Stamps
Cardmad Fairy Digi Days - Back to Nature
Paperplay - Distress
Allsorts Challenge - Special Lady
The Crafty pad - For Mum
Dream Valley Challenges - Mum
One Stitch At at Time - Mum

Thank You for taking time to stop by my blog. Please know that all comments are very much appreciated!

Monday, 21 March 2011

One Stop Craft Challenge Design Team!

Morning Everyone,

Well this post is a bit late as I was away all weekend!

I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed as part of the Design Team over on One Stop Craft Challenge.

This is the NEW design Team!

I am so excited about this news and looking forward at working with my New Design Team Members and to get to know them a little better!

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Candy Offering!

Morning Bloggers,

Just wanted to let you know Angela is offering Lovely Candy over here.

And it's Floral Fantasies Blogvaversity.

and a little reminder for those of you that haven't entered yet my very own candy offering is still open. Check it out.

Monday, 14 March 2011

One Stop Craft Challenge Guest Designer Card!

Morning Everyone,

Well this post is quite late!

I was suppose to post it on Saturday, but we had a 60th Birthday Party and Hubby and LO was keeping me quite busy yesterday....

Anyway here it goes:

Theme on the One Stop Craft Challenge Blog for this week is Clean & Simple.

I went for this simple design using a plain scalloped white square card and attached a black & white dotty background to it which I rounded with my corner punch.

After that I used two stamps from the Martha Stewart Cr eatables range which I stamped on plain white card.

I stamped my first flowers, which I then masked and then stamped on the second flower.

Added the sentiment rub-ons and the three small black brads. Easy & Simple but still I find it eye catching.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up - Layers

Paper Sundaes - Keep it Simple

Sunday, 13 March 2011

Welcome to my New Followers & Candy Reminder!

Morning Everyone,

This was just a quick post to say Welcome to my New Followers! I would also like them to enter my Candy draw which is available until 12th of April so there is still plenty time! Click Here to go to post.

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Yay Another Blog Award!

Good Afternoon Everyone,

What a nice surprise I just had when checking out Jacki's blog. I received the lovely blog Award from the lovely Jacki.

So I have been told, when receiving this award you have to tell 7 facts about yourself (7????) and then you can pass it onto 15 other fellow bloggers.

So 7 facts? Hate this part, because I never know what to write?

I hate cold weather, and secretly dreaming of moving to a warmer country.
I was born Prematuraly at 8 months, in a small hospital in South Africa, Mafeking.
In my younger days a represented the Botswana Junior Edurance Riding team at the Championships in South Africa. (Hope to own my own horse again one day)
My biggest Passion is Photography (well apart from my husband & my daughter) and hoping to one day set up my own Wedding Photography business.
My favourite drink is Coca Cola and I drink way tooooo much of it.
I hated school and the day I finished school was the best day of my life.
I am not a morning person at all....lol I am really just wished they came a bit later in the day.

So there you have it seven things you never knew about me....

So 15 fellow bloggers...........mmmm let me think

Monday, 7 March 2011

My 1 Year Blog Anniversary & Candy Giveaway!

Good Afternoon Fellow Bloggers!

Well My blog will be One year old on the 13 th of April! Wow....I can't believe it! And if I check back now to some of my very first posts, I can just smile!

My card making skills has grown so much over the past year! And I have only all you

fellow bloggers to thank for that!

As there is so many tips and tutorials out there to learn us new things all the time! As well as all the fab challenges out there, that challenges us to try new things all the time! But I want to take time to especially thank all my friends over on the CMLI craft group on Craftbubble. They are all very special with loads of talent, and they always have advice or tips at hand.

So I thought I will offer some candy.....mmmmmm don't we all just love candy!

Blog Candy:

Dovecraft Jewel Brads
Xcut Mini Xmas tree punch
Papermania A6 Cards & Envelopes
36 Pre-cut ATC backgrounds
4 Packs of 2"x 12" Papermania Borders
Dovecraft Chipboard Stickers
Papermania Naughty & Nice 6" x 6" Paper pad
Craft for Occasions Christmas Fibres

Become a follower if you not already one
Post my candy on your sidebar and spread the word
Add your name to the Blue Froggy

As easy as 1,2,3

And leave me some lovely comment if you would like to.

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Patricia's Blog Candy!

Morning All,

Just wanted to share this lovely Candy from Patricia's Blog with You! She has lovely Green Candy until the end of today and Hangler Stanglar Blog Candy Open till the 21st of March! Please pop over to Patricia's blog to check it out.