return to the stronghold (of security and prosperity), you prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that i will restore double your former prosperity to you. if you are today, at this moment, hopeless, I want to encourage you again to start hoping. Hoping for God to show up in your present circumstances. Have hope . Become a prisoner of hope. Because when we start believing that He is strong and mighty to save, hope starts longing and expecting Him. and God loves when we look out for Him, when we depend on Him and start humbling ourselves before Him to show Himself strong. He will rescue you (ME)- because He is a rescuer.

Zech 9:12

this is was the first time i took part in the annual Christmas Chunky book swap hosted by Angella from our stamping group. The theme was a vintage Christmas so only muted and toned down colours. I liked it!

This is my front page. the base paper was printed from a printable CD and then stamped onto with my Artistic Outpost Santa in brown Versafine. The star is a coloured tag using my distress inks and also stamped with Artistic Outpost and then punched. The ribbon down the side reads...made especially for you.

well after a few days of a new Virus Protection (and for my own safety) i will not reveal which one.....i can now actually work on my computer again....

a virus has taken over total control...then i couldn't go on the net or my blog as it was the virus..LOL

anyhow....i got this award from Debbie! Thanks! and herewith my answers to the questions...

Your cell phone? Samsung

Your hair? Black with grey….grrr

Your mother? Thinks she is still 25

Your father? Deceased and missed

Your favourite food ? Salad and pizza

Your dream last night? Bits ans pieces

Your favorite drink? Water…no more coke

Your dream/goal? Health and wealth

What room are you in? Craftroom/lounge

Your hobby? Anything with paper and photos

Your fear? Fear itself

Where do you want to be in 6 years? Somewhere peaceful and secure

Where were you last night? Home

Something that you aren't? Financially secure

Muffins? No thanks

Wish list item? Exceedingly abundantly above all I can dream or ask…

Where did you grow up? Henley on klip, Hartbeespoort

Last thing you did? Fixed my computer

What are you wearing? T-shirt and tracksuit pants and socks

Your TV? Small and unimportant

Your Pets? Black and Jack aka Pumba and Timone a jack Russell and fox terrier – two brothers ha!

Friends? A few precious real friends

Your life? Unsure

Your mood? Tired and irritated with the virus on my computer

Missing someone? Dad….

Vehicle? Black Golf and a Black Hummer in my dreams

Something you're not wearing? Shoes

Your favorite store? Scrapbooking shops and Camera shops

Your favorite color? Blue / red

When was the last time you laughed? Last night

Last time you cried? When a friend died a while ago

Your best friend? J

One place that you go to over and over? My craftroom

Facebook? Can’t seem to get into it….

Favorite place to eat? Home

Tag #12

If only I had some grunge paper…oh Santa where are you? Well I wanted to make some of these paper rosettes so thought it may look cute on the tag as well. I used my mixture of colour wash and perfect pearls to spray the book paper rosette. I love how the spray nestled in between the folds and left a sparkly blue strip in between. The background stamp is a PSX Christmas script. The vintage Santa ornament I got from my sister and he was the perfect centre piece.

Tag #11

For this tag I changed it almost totally…well sorry tim I just don’t like your reindeer stamp and well don’t have any other reindeer stamps, so opted for this one from Stamp City – a real classic. I used the Prima flowers like tim did and because I don’t have the I-top brad maker (not sure how much you would use it to be honest) I made my own epoxy brad. Took a chipboard button and covered it in music paper, then added about 5 layers of glossy accents – the trick is to leave each layer to totally dry before adding the next one. I do like how it turned out though.

Xmas tag #10

Right up my alley! I love this tag Tim!! Now if only I can get my hands on some of those vintage baubles he collects. As we don’t have any big metal sheets with sticky backs…I used my Nashua tape and simply divided my tag into 3 parts to that my tape would cover the widths perfectly. I also don’t have the refillable alcohol ink pens so I simply used the bottle – nothing wrong with that – it worked fine and I could even do the straight lines where the tape meets up with each other. I added my faux stitches using my tiny attacher and then added 3 metal star studs.

And here’s a tip….if by any chance you don’t have a black archival ink pad around to remove some of the colour off the top of your letters….use black STAZON! It worked just as well. I simply rubbed my ink pad across the raised parts and then took a baby wipe and rubbed.


Xmas tag #9

For this tag I replaced Tim’s film strip ribbon with some negative strips. I added some photos from his doo-dads instead of the smaller printable ones he offered. For the bigger picture I did use his photo although not crazy about the screaming child – I can just hear these kids crying and screaming and throwing tantrums in the shopping malls….
I managed to dig out some of the old EK success letters that almost look like typewriter keys with some imagination. The rest is pretty straight forward – needless to say I loved making this tag.