My Granny Squares Cushion in the making!

Ok so this post is especially for my friend Jude who desperately wants to see my colour choices of cotton.
I started this little project towards the end of 2011, but alas it has been lying in my work basket in my lounge ever since (which btw is bigger than the one pictured!). The idea was to stitch the squares onto a cream cushion cover for Samantha's bedroom, hopefully with winter around the corner, I'll be pulling out all my wooly supplies and playing hooky again :)

I used the hand dyed Vinnis Colours for the squares, definately the best selection of colours for us here in SA.

All the squares stitched together and a crocheted border around the outer edge.

Close-up detail (excuse all the threads I haven't cleaned up yet!

March Add On Kit

March Kit Paper Previews

Available next week Thursday 7th March

Crate Paper 

Kaiser Craft - Southern Land

Kaiser Craft Tiny Woods

UNBELIEVEABLE VALENTINE PRICE SPECIALS

Love is in the air and we’ve decided we’re going to give you some 

{scrapping loving} this month in light of Valentine’s Day!

[ 14% off  ]
all individual layouts valid from Tues 14^th – Fri 17^th February (whilst stocks last.)

The average price per layout is between R86 and R103 – this includes all your materials, comprehensive instructions, a colour picture and online links to view layout details. 

* THIS IS AN OFFER YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS OUT ON *

Listed below are the layouts that we currently have in stock. 

Email: beryl@scrapkits.co.za to get yours now!

2011 A YEAR IN REVIEW - R150 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R129

BIRTHDAY PARTY - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

I HEART MOMENTS LIKE THIS - R130 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R111.80

ONCE UPON A SPRINGTIME - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

PASTELS AND PEARLS - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

SA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME - R130 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R111.80

TRAVEL - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

YOU ARE - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

ALL CREATURES - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

AS CUTE AS A BUTTON - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

DISCOVER AFRICA - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

HAPPY CAMPERS - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

SO/SEW SWEET - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

SUMMER FUN - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

TIME FOR FUN - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

CHRISTMAS DAY - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

ETERNAL SUMMER - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

MOM - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

BLUEPRINT FOR ROMANCE - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

EXPLORE - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

USHAKA SEA WORLD - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

{comes with alpha sticker sheet to create your own title}

WONDERS OF NATURE - R80 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R68.80

ABC I LOVE SCHOOL - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

ONCE UPON A SPRINGTIME - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

FOREVER - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

DREAMS - R100 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R86

WEEKEND TRIP - R120 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R103.20

CODY - R50 4 DAYS ONLY > NOW R43

Valentine Project

Every year I try and do something small for family members/teachers etc on Valentines day, so imagine my delight when I found this image on a google search - so sweet and really simple to do!

So if you have nothing planned as of yet, haul out your camera this weekend, this is a quickie that anyone can do. Get someone to stand in front of you with their arm outstretched towards you as if holding something. Send the photo off for developing and then make 2 little slits on the top and bottom of the hand and insert a lollipop through the holes - oulik!!

http://24-7-365.blogspot.com/2009/02/lavish-me-with-praise.html

http://brassyapple.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentine-quickie.html

With the school holidays just around the corner, I came across this tutorial from Oh my handmade goodness. Looks like it could be fun to try and a relatively inexpensive recipe for the kids to make.

Check it out here.

Christmas Cup Cake Decorating Class

Maybe about a month and a half ago, my friend Vanessa asked me if I wanted to join her for a cupcake workshop, she'd previously done one and had a blast and was now hosting one at her home with Christmas as the theme. It sounded like fun, so I paid my money and diarised the class. At the moment I'm so busy with work and preparing kits in advance for our annual shutdown that as the date for the class drew nearer, the more I was thinking "seriously, why did I decide to do this?"
Well this morning I cleared my schedule and off I went and I'm so glad I did. We had such fun and our teacher Nicky was super organised and it was fantastic learning about new tools and how they work.
We were each given 6 pre-baked cupcakes and we worked in pairs (thanks Laurie, I'll team up with you anytime gf :) The hardest part now, is deciding on whether or not to let my family eat them :)

All the ladies, hard at work

My final 6 cupcakes that I brought home

INTRODUCING - Our Monthly Kit Co-ordinated Xtras

Our November kit sees the start of our monthly co-ordinated xtras. I've chosen these products as add on's to the monthly kits. Their contents and price will vary monthly and each month the xtras will contain products that you can use to upsize your layouts. Because of the ever increasing costs of products and in order to keep our kits at the same monthly price, it limits what we can include. But seriously some of the products are so nice to play with we want to make them available to those who like to play. The xtras will be based on a first come first served basis to those who want to use them. 

None of the products in the xtras kit are used in the monthly designs.
Below are the November Co-ordinated xtras

This month I've included a Perfect Pearls Mist spray. (Mint Green) These sprays add a beautiful sheen to your work and are limited only by your creativity. 

Also included are also 2 full sheets of Pink Paislee Mistables. These papers have a pattern printed onto them which resists any ink/paint. So what happens is as you paint / ink or in this case use your Perfect Pearls Spray it only adheres to the paper background, leaving the pattern exposed. Very cool and lots of fun to play with, so haul out your stash and experiment with different colouring methods - a great way to customise the look of your paper to match your photos!

If you have no idea what Perfect Pearl Mist Spray is all about, then follow these links and you'll get a good idea how Tim Holtz has used these products to take his embellishments to another level. There is also a tutorial on the Pink Paislee website showing how the Mistables paper works aswell.

http://www.rangerink.com/tips/tips_PerfectPearlsMistsTag.htm

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/11/12-tags-of-christmasday-1.html

http://www.pinkpaislee.com/2011/10/member-mania-scraplift-it/

http://www.pinkpaislee.com/2011/09/mist-mania-mix-your-mists/

Free Smurf Party Printables

Hi Friends,
With the all the hype about the new revival of Smurfs, my 9 year old daughter Samantha wanted to have a Smurfday Party. I set about looking for ideas and must say I didn't find too many, so I decided that I'd share with you some of the things we did.
It was relatively easy to find things in turquoise blue and red to use as decor, and possibly the greatest hit of the day was the Smurf Juice (Plain old lemonade with a couple of drops of food colouring!) I made 2 beer box cakes and added red food colouring to one, and blue to the other. For the Toadstool, and put some cake mixture into a small glass mixing bowl and bake it in the oven. I had to cut a bit of it off to create the top of the toadstool and balanced it on a cupcake. It was a bit top heavy, so I used a kebab stick to keep it in place and stuck a marshmallow on the top.
I've included the printables I made for the cupcake toppers for free download. I also created little Smores bags header cards which were stapled onto a bag containing Maries and Marshmallows. We did Boerie rolls so the kids could make their own smores around the braai.
We had the party at Springside Nature Reserve and the kids had a blast playing in the stream and the weather was glorious!