Craft u Crazy

treat box

2010-11-05T09:33:00.001+02:00

treat boxes

2010-11-04T06:07:00.003+02:00

Just for you my dear friend Ruth. I especially put a yellow one on the blog because I know you said you didn't think you wanted yellow. Don't stress I haven't put any in your order but if you change your mind i do have some and will gladly swop some for another colour...

Xmas workshop

2010-10-24T18:25:00.002+02:00

Fill this box with yummy treats and

hang it on a door knob.... A nice little surprise

on Xmas morning...

Fill these cups with treats.. Makes a nice gift for

males and females....

Mini Album

2010-07-19T11:45:00.001+02:00

Use all your scrap bits of paper, ribbon and lace to make stunning mini album.

Wine Bottle Cards

2010-07-19T11:33:00.003+02:00

These are 2 wine bottles that I have turned into birthday cards.

Simple, Quick and the recipients really loved them.

I'm Back

2010-07-13T20:49:00.002+02:00

Its been such a long time since I have been on my blog and would like to apologize to all my followers for that. I have had some personal issues that needed my attention. But I'm back in the swing of things and hope you all enjoy what I have done in my July class.

Candy Girls Can Class

2010-07-13T19:56:00.003+02:00

This is my July class called "THE CANDY GIRLS CAN"

its all about pink and candy and what lovely gifts you can make to give to your friends and loved ones.

Another Christmas Gift

2009-10-21T12:44:00.005+02:00

Here are some more gifts that I'm making for Christmas.

I love these little pegs ( I think they so cute)

I like to give people personalised gift and with these little
tags I am able to do that.

Christmas Treat Gift

2009-10-16T19:39:00.003+02:00

I'm making some of these gift boxes to give to some family friends for Christmas.
I like the idea of giving a family a gift to share rather than giving individual gifts to each member. I will be filling the boxes with different types of treats (Nuts, Chocolate ect,)

I will also be teaching this in my next workshop (To be held in November)

A card for boss day

2009-10-13T07:48:00.005+02:00

A friend of mine asked me to make a card for her to give to her boss on 'BOSS DAY' !!! I never even knew that we had one of those but apparently we do, it is on Friday, 16 October. - the BOSS is the headmistress of one of our local schools..... hope she likes it.

An Award for me.......

2009-10-11T14:47:00.003+02:00

What a privilege to receive this award. I am so surprised (YAY YAY YIPPEE YAY)

I've been told that I have to share 7 things about myself before passing this award on to 7 other crafting blogger buddies. So here goes.

1. Im very thankful for being blessed with creative talent

2. Cancer, although I do not have cancer it has affected my life so badly. I lost my mother to cancer when I was very young and more recently my best friend who was only 39 years old. The Cancer Association Of South Africa is a charity very close to my heart.

3. I am a diabetic (not a very good one) and I pray that I have more self control and discipline when making food choices.. Any advise in this regard is welcome.

4. I am blessed and very fortunate in that I have always been a stay at home mom. Although I do teach crafts and do workshops, I do not consider that work.

5. I have been blessed with 2 wonderful sons that bring me more joy than any other single thing on earth. Dylan (22 yrs old) has a full time job Mon to Fri and on weekend he work as a voluntary life guard on our beautiful local beaches. Kye (19 yrs old) is currently studying to be a high school educator, he also does voluntary life guarding duties on weekends.

6. I am an animal LOVER... But my favourite furry friends are most defiantly my 5 (yes 5) cats. I absolutely adore them and they run the household.

7. last but not least I am so very very blessed with the most amazing friends in the world.... Each and every one of them I cherish.

Now I will be surfing the web going to visit all my blog friends and deciding who it is that I would like to pass this award on to ........... THE PRESSURE ....

Christmas Booklet Card

2009-10-05T14:06:00.003+02:00

Front of the card booklet

Inside of the card booklet.

I made these to give to all my friends a few weeks
before Christmas so that they can actually use the booklet.

Christmas Gift Tags

2009-10-03T00:24:00.004+02:00

These are just a few Christmas tag cards that I made this morning.
They are very quick to make, about 10 minutes each.

New scrapbooking page

2009-09-28T18:47:00.003+02:00

Ill start this week off by sharing a new layout with you.
Ive used the moth eaten technique and lots of ink on this page.

Ive also used a variety of ribbons and lace.
I have used little green reign stones to create circles on my page.

Love, Peace & Joy Christmas card

2009-09-23T06:37:00.000+02:00

A Special Wedding Invitation

2009-09-21T10:17:00.010+02:00

A good friend of mine is getting married next year and has asked me to design her invitations. She is getting married at a wild life game reserve. She wants to keep the colours of the wedding natural so I decided to make the sample invites in different shades of green. I made two samples, the first is a large 750ml bottle of locally produced red wine and the second is a small 175ml bottle of red wine also produced here in South Africa. Each invitation will be in a little wooden box lined with straw and hand delivered.

I thought it would be nice to add a note in the wooden box asking people that were attending to bring their bottle of wine to drink at the receptions and to ask those people that could not attend to drink their wine on the evening of the wedding.

Pewter art

2009-09-18T20:39:00.006+02:00

I hand embossed some pewter and put it on a
bottle of red wine. This makes a lovely gift
for special birthdays, weddings, engagements
and Christmas.

Cards

2009-09-16T18:21:00.010+02:00

These are just two cards I had lying around in my craft room.
Decided to put them on my blog.

A little bit of pink

2009-09-16T16:19:00.003+02:00

Two quick and simple cards that could be used for any occasion.

Mini Acetate Album

2009-09-14T20:29:00.010+02:00

This is a few pages of a little mini album I have made for my sons girlfriend to take to her host family in America where she will be spending the next year. The photos are of their little girl Madeleine.

Heart Strings

2009-09-13T17:31:00.013+02:00

Just a quick layout I created using a large piece of acetate.

I have not put a photo on this layout yet as I don't
have one that would complement this page.

Free Photo-shop or Digital photography course

2009-09-10T06:33:00.004+02:00

Hello everyone, I just found a place on the web to do a free Photo-shop or digital photography course. If you interested just go here. I have just signed up (This could be a disaster for me as I am SO no computer literate) but hey, I'll try and see what happens.

New posts coming soon & the biggest surprise for me.

2009-09-09T07:54:00.009+02:00

Hi everyone, Sorry that I have been neglecting my blog lately but I have been so busy preparing for my Christmas workshop that I have had little time for anything else. But I promise that by next week everything should be back to normal.

I was so excited on Monday morning when I opened my email and to my surprise there was an email from Tim Holtz (yes, THE Tim Holtz!). He had been to look at my bolg, then emailed me and this is what he said.

wonderful work adele, thanks for the link

-tim

I was running around the house screaming like a kid on Christmas morning. Thank you Tim Holtz, you made my year so special.

Large Christmas tag.

2009-08-26T07:38:00.005+02:00

I have such fun making these Christmas tags, my kids think I'm mad making Christmas stuff so early in the year. BUT I don't think its so early. I decided that this year I want to be really organised when Christmas comes. I want to do as much now so that I can relax and enjoy the holidays.
Ink all your paper with black including the flower. add some reign stones to your project to give it that festive look.
Add lots of ribbons and embroidery cotton or string to these Christmas tags it just gives them such a rich look and don't foget to add a bell or two.

Christmas card

2009-08-26T07:07:00.006+02:00

I love using black ink, it really makes your stuff look distressed and old. Punch lots of holes all around the pattern paper.

Christmas Tags

2009-08-23T15:50:00.003+02:00

Make some Christmas Tags using some red and green card stock.
Use ink and paint to distress the edges

Punch some holes in the card stock to get a moth eaten distress look.
Add some flowers , brads and reign stones to decorate your tag. Christmas will be here sooner than you think, so get started now and save yourself the rush.

For Old Time Sake Card

2009-08-18T08:00:00.000+02:00

On this card I have torn an acrylic clock in half and then used a lighter around the edges of the clock which has caused it to warp. I applied the same technique to the piece of acetate undre the flower and clock, the acetate was first stamped using acrylic paint and a decorative stamp. The edges of the clock were distressed with a pair of scissors and then inked. the oversized flower was inked and stamped with a postage stamp
Hope you enjoy making this card. It also looks fabulous in deep red.

Adore You Card

2009-08-17T21:23:00.000+02:00

Try using many different types of textures and techniques on one card. Stamp, ink, paint and sew on your card. Use flowers, brads, acrylic and rope to give your card depth and a unique look. I had so much fun making this card.

Butterfly Card

2009-08-17T20:50:00.000+02:00

Use a scalloped edge, some lace a butterfly, flowers and some reign stones to make a beautiful card.

Flower Tag Cards

2009-08-17T20:32:00.000+02:00

Try making some of these little flower gift tags. Use all your left over bits of paper, flowers, brads and ribbon. They are very quick and easy to make and will make your gift even more special.

Time Card

2009-08-17T20:08:00.000+02:00

Glue some micro beads onto flowers and tags and don't be afraid to ink your flowers.
Put some inked rope though your tags to add some texture to your project.
Try tearing, inking and adding some bling to your work. Some people say LESS is MORE.... Personally I love my work to be distressed and full. I hate leaving open spaces.

Masculine Tag

2009-08-16T18:18:00.000+02:00

Make this masculine tag by using scraps of pattern paper and cardstock. embelish with scrap ribbons and some buttons. I used the spots and dots embossing folder in his project.Don't forget to ink, ink, ink..... Have fun

Embossed Heart Card

2009-08-16T18:00:00.000+02:00

I've had such fun making this little embossed heart tag. It is so quick and easy to make. I just love the fact that you can use up all your scrap paper and ribbon and then still end up with a lovely card that will make any gift a little more special.
Hope you have as much fun making these as I did

Green & Red embossed card

2009-08-16T17:38:00.000+02:00

I've used the cuttlebug embossing machine to create this card.

After you have embossed the card use distressing ink to highlight the embossing. You can also ink you flowers and ribbon to give it more detail.

Purses, cards & bags.

2009-07-13T16:52:00.000+02:00

If you want templates and instructions for some of these stunning projects, jus email me on craftucarzy@yahoo.com and i will send them to you a.s.a.p

acetate card

2009-04-19T09:53:00.001+02:00

This is a one of the acetate cards that Ive designed. here are the steps.

Cut a piece of acetate (transparency) 15cm x 21cm, fold in half to create the base of the card.
Cut out 2 pieces of card stock 11cm x 7cm and ink them.
Using double sided tape stick 1 piece of card stock on the top of the card (in the middle) and the other piece of card stock on the inside of the card (be sure to line the bottom card stock up with the top card stock).
Now decorate the top of the card by first sicking down a piece of lace on the top.
Place a large flower on the left and some smaller flowers along the bottom. add a butterfly and some gemstones to finish it off. hope you enjoy.

18th birthday wish card.

2009-04-17T20:13:00.000+02:00

This is a birthday card I created for Kye's girlfriend. here are the steps.

Cut a card 15cm x 30cm out of red card stock, fold in half. Ink with black.
Cut out a piece of black card stock 14cm x 14cm.
Cut out a piece of red pattern paper 13cm x 13cm and distress the corners by punching loads of holes with your hand held punch - it will give it a moth eaten look. Ink with black
Cut out an 18 out of black card stock and use a clear liner around the edges, sick on bottom right of card.
Paste a butterfly onto a black medium size flower. Paste the black flower onto a large red flower and stick onto top right of card.
Use some ruby red gemstones to make some doodles on the card to finish it off. hope you had fun.

Cherish page

2009-04-08T13:16:00.000+02:00

This is a page that I created for a class that i did some time back.

Step 1
Use a plain or very simple pattern paper for the background. Ink it very heavily with black ink.

Step 2
Cut a large circle out of a pattern paper. Distress it by tearing small slits in a few places around the circle. Ink it heavily. Use a large C chipboard letter or cut one out yourself. Ink it and stamp the word CHERISH on it, tie a ribbon and a charm to it. Punch some holes on the left side of the circle, put some eyelets in and thread some ribbon through each hole.

step 3
cut out 8 tags. Ink them and stamp words on them.Stick tags under pattern paper so that all he words are still visible. Then stick circle to background.
Cut out 2 complementary colours of cardstock to mat your photo. Stick it down. Add flowers to decorate.

Hope yopu enjoy...

TIME CARD

2009-04-05T21:13:00.000+02:00

Here are the steps to making this card.

Step 1
Cut a piece of brown cardsock to make a 15cm x 11cm card & ink with black ink.

Step 2
Cut out a lighter brown piece of cardstock 14cm x 10cm, ink with black ink.

Step 3
Cut a piece of acetate 13cm x 9cm and burn the edges using a heat gun or lighter (just be careful, this takes some practice). Randomly stamp some flower on it using a solvent ink. when the ink is dry, attach a large flower. stamp a postage stamp on it and add a button to the centre of the flower. Cut out a medium size flower from cardstock, use a small flower in the centre and place acetate clock on top. attach this to the burnt piece of acetate.

Step 4
Attach the burnt acetate to the light brown cardsock using brads in the corners. Wrap a piece of ribbon around the right side of the acetate.

Step 5
Using double sided tape stick the light brown cardstock onto the card.

Acetate Card

2009-04-05T15:13:00.000+02:00

This is an acetate card that i have created.
I will give you all the steps on how to create this fun project.

Step 1
Cut out two flowers the first 1 from a good quality cardstock and the second out of acetate. (if you want a template just email me on craftucrazy@yahoo.com and I'll send you one).

Step 2
Ink the cardstock flower quite heavily, place acetate flower on top and attach with a brad.

Step 3
Cut out different size flowers in coordinating colours, ink and distress them. Stick flowers down with some double sided tape on the acetate. use a button in the centre of the biggest flower. Cut out a butterfly and run through an embossing machine (I use the cuttlebug), place butterfly in the middle of the flowers.

Step 4
On the cardstock flower place a round tag for writing your message on.
Use some gems and brads to decorate.