Good luck

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One of my husband's colleagues are moving on to greener pastures and they bought him a gist voucher. I was asked to make a little box to fit the voucher. Since he is a big golfer I picked this cute digi from Bugaboo called Buggolfguy. I used corrugated paper for the box and incorporated it with the sketch. I used the colours from the inspirational photo from Catch the bug.

Challenges I took my inspiration from:
Catch the Bug October Photo challenge
Stella says sketch #517
Digistamp4Joy November challenge - For a male
Crafting by designs - November Anything goes
Crafting with attitude #33 - Anything goes

Thank you and have a great weekend.
Hugs from Africa!
Olga

A chill in the air has arrived

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Kit and Clowder on Facebook often have some lovely freebies from top designers. I do not often have time to play with them immediately, but this one is called Winter Peggy from Sasayaki Glitter is my latest one. Though not quite a fall image, but I have heard the weather is already as cold as winter in the North with first snow falls already received. The designer paper is from my J'adore stack from First Edition.

Challenges I'm joining:
C.R.A.F.T #439 - Distress and ribbon (2nd entry)
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #124
Cute Card Thursday #501 - Vintage/Distress
The Sisterhood of Crafters - I see spots
Crafty Catz #390 - Girls just wanna have fun
The Outlawz Tuesday Colour challenge 24 October with twist of fall.

Thank you and have a lovely day!
Hugs from Africa!
Olga

Tie a yellow ribbon

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Well I have been occupied with everyday life lately and did not get time to even visit Blogland. Today is just an odd day from a lovely 30°C on Thursday to a 12°C today. Although I do not mind the colder weather. I took the day off and spend it in my craft room.

This is an image from Margy and is this month's Facebook progressive challenge image from Digistamp4Joy. In the very early hours of this morning I came up with the song of "tie a ribbon around the old oak tree" and then I decided this is how this card will end up. I used Tim Holtz Ranger distress paper. After I used a emboss plate I sanded it slightly to give it the tree effect.

Challenges I'm joining:
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge - Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T Challenge #439 - Ribbon and distress
Digistamp4Joy October - Happy Birthday
Tuesday Morning Sketches #426
Sunny Day Craft #58 - Q for quick and easy

Thank you and keep warm.
Hugs from Africa!
Olga

Autumn Dreamer

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Finally a very hectic week is done and dusted, schools are closed for a week and we can slow the year end pace a bit. This is Autumn Dreamer from Lacy Sunshine. Heather has a Autumn/Halloween challenge on at Lacy Sunshine's facebook page that ends on the 17yh of October. Though we are entering spring I still do love the autumn colours. I decided I'll make this one for my friend and she loves coffee, from there the sentiment - Anytime is coffee time. I used my Aquarelles to colour and papers from my New Leaf, from First Edition. I opted for a bit of shabby chic look with the ruffed edges.

Challenges I took my inspiration from:
Sweet Stampin - Autumn
Crazy 4 Challenges #405 - Cake and/or coral, aqua/mint, gold and white/ivory (I opted for the colours)
Colur Crazy Challenge WK39 - Anything goes
Craft for the Craic September challenge - Autumn
The Outlawz Twisted Challenge 28 September - Anything goes
Fussy and Fancy #197 - Shabby chic

Thank you and have a great day!
Hugs from Africa!
Olga

Outside

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With the warmer weather and everything turning green or spreading sweet smell all around of new blooms you just have an urge to go outside. With the colour challenge's twist I could not resist to play with this digi called Cat from Anne Fenton. It is this month's freebie at the Outlawz progressive challenge.The designer paper is from a stack, Scrap booking paper, that I bought at our local cheep store. It just fitted the theme so well. I used a sizzix square die and a Marianne's design Creatables' for the butterflies.

Challenges I took my inspiration from:
Cheerful Sketches - September
Penny's Paper-Crafty #346 - Anything goes
Shopping our stash #320 - Emboss like a boss
The Outlawz Colour challenge 12 September with twist of Outside
The Outlawz Progressive challenge - September

Thank you and hope you have a fine day!
Hugs from Africa!
Olga

Feeling of autumn

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It is always difficult when you stay at the other end of the world and the seasons is a bit different. We are experiencing summer with lovely temperatures of 30° Celsius, though we are still waiting for our first summer rain.
Well this is Digistamp4Joy's digi for this month's progressive challenge on Facebook. And I have finally had time to finish it, though I intended to finish it before the WE, but was pulled down with a terrible headache. The paper is from Colorbök's Splendor pattern pack. I used a Fiskar leave border punch and a die from Sizzix. For the final touch I used a brad and ribbon and peel off sentiment.

Challenges I used as inspiration:
Use your Stuff #279 - Fall is in the air
Crafty Friends#66 - Dies/punches
Digistamp4Joy #140 - Warm colours
The Crafty Addicts #40 - Brad or button
The Outlawz Colour challenge 5 September 2017 - Twist fall
Aud Sentiment #188 - Anything goes with sentiment

Thank you and have a lovely week!
Hugs from Africa!
Olga

Spring morning

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Spring is in the air and it is surely an uplifting for my soul. Not that our winters is that long, but it has been very dry and I had a cold now for 3 weeks. Although I started to train again this morning. Hopefully I can continue now without any further hick ups.

With the spring feeling I had to play with some of my favourtie challenges and most definitely my favourite color combo. Though it is sometimes more of a challenge to make the white on white a wow factor. All the papers are from my stash and I used Spellbinder's butterfly circle, Nellie Snellen's Shape dies and Couture Creation's magical butterfly.

Challenges I'm joining:
Tuesday Morning Sketches #418
Double D - It's all white
Tic Tac Toe challenge #13 - Circle, Flower, Lace
Deep Ocean Challenge #162 - Favourite colour combo

Thank you and Carpe Diem!!

Olga