AmiraInOz

My Dear Readers, I am always amazed how time flies, but nothing brings it home quite like the month of Ramadan. For those of you who don't know me, I am a humble crafter who practises the Muslim Faith. Ramadan is a month in the Islamic calendar where practising Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset for those 30 days. And it starts today! I will be taking June off from my Design Team Adventures but don't you worry for trusty Aunty Vera has a nice surprise for you as always :) To found out more about Ramadan in a nutshell, check out  THIS  2 min video. Ramadan is a special time of the year for me and is really a chance for me to let go of all the balls that I have up in the air and focus on my ultimate purpose in life. What I am doing here on God's earth and where am I going when I die? Tough issues, right? Ramadan is broken down into thirds. The first 10 days are known as the 10 days of Mercy We reflect and pray a lot for...

Dear Reader, I am busy participating in 4 challenges for National Scrapbooking Day 2017. You can find this challenge over at Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft here . Here is my Memory Book for the challenge set for us by the talented Lolly Palooza . You can find out more about her challenge here . The paper collection I used is called "Just be You" by Echo Park. Here is the cover.  I knew I didn't want to use rings as a binding method so I came up with my own design. I used Kraftex to bind the front and back chipboard covers. I decorated the spine with stickers from the collection. Here is the inside of the spine once again decorated with more stickers. The binding on this memory book is a little different from what I usually go to. Do you remember the old medical file fasteners? They used to come in either metal or plastic. I decided to use the plastic here. You can choose to remove the plastic guard and just ben...

Dear Reader, I am so glad to be celebrating another National Scrapbooking Day. This year, I am hosting a challenge on Aunty Vera's Scrap and Craft. My challenge is a mixed media scrapbooking canvas and you can find the process tutorial for how I did this here . This is the AMAZING prize that you could win if you enter my challenge.  PLUS, you go into the draw to win the Fiona Gibson Memorial Prize which is an amazing Graphic 45 bundle . To  find out more about this NSD Challenge and how you can enter, visit Aunty Vera here . Come and be part of our Facebook Group to see what the other creative design team members make and to see what our members are creating. See you there. xxAmira