Blue Peacock

Good Day

It seems winter has arrived. There is a crispness in the air that makes your nose running. Not that my family is as excited about it, as I am.
With the cooler weather my mojo was ignited. I really struggled these last few days, didn't even want to be in my craft room, but I believe all of us do struggle with it, from time to time. To celebrate, I did something out of my comfort zone. I am not very fond of making white cards. I tend to fill the empty spaces. Maybe it is too clinical for me. My digi is from Meljen's design and I used a Fiskar leave border punch and added some baker's twine with a leave brad.
Challenges I was inspired by: 
CAS-ual Friday CFC52 - Bird(s)
CR84FN #54 - Colours - Mint, blue & white
Simon Says Stamp 16 May - Clean & Simple
Paper Sundaes #120 - Things with wings


Thank you
Olga

Opposites atrack

A quick hello again!

While we had some power failures this morning I created this card. I was tickled by CAS-friday's Opposites attrack challenge CFC48 and immidiately thought about yellow and purple. Yesterday when I looked for the crochet flower for my previous project I bought these 3 as well, since I had a peek on 365 Cards day 47 's sketch and this morning opening blogger I saw Crafty Creation's challenge #166 for yellow and one colour of your choice. The sentiment is a rubberstamp saying get well soon in Afrikaans. I used brads and yellow confetti flowers for the inside of the crochet flowers. I used a big spellbinder for the shape of the card.

Thank you and have a beautiful day!

Olga

Get well soon

Good day

It is Saturday and after a week, where I did not had a moment to even come into my craft room, I used a moment this morning to make two cards. Both of them a bit clean and simple. This one is a Get well card. The sentiment in Afrikaans is a rubberstamp and I used a bit of glitter emboss powder. These plastic confetti flowers were just the right colour to blend in with my cardstock choice and I added some black beads in the centre. The digi is from Patti's Creations called sunflower vase. I used a Nellie Snellen diecut and did some distressing with chalk.
Challenges I'm guided by are:
CAS-fridays #CFC 45 - Bold and beautiful - Pastel(saffron) & black
One Stop Craft Challenge #175 - Clean & Simple
The Outlawz SC032112 - Sketch
Sweet Stampin Challenge 23/3 - Anything goes

Thank you and have a beautiful weekend!
Olga

Shamrock Blessings

Close - up on the faux embossing. A new technique at JUGS.

Sentimùent from Meljen's design: May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow.

Good Afternoon

The green and gold challenge at Shelly's image was the inspiration for this card. Since it is St. Patrick's day soon and the Irish have such a beautiful way of saying things, I thought I'll join them this week. The background was done with a faux technique. Instead of embossing you use diecuts or punches in the same colour as your cardstock and glue the cutouts on the cardstock. Very nice technique of creating your own background. Unfortunately I don't have any shamrock dies or punches. I've used my marianne's design diecuts. I've used 3 different ribbons and the only gold buckle I could find, which I had to modify by taking out the middle pen. The sentiment is from Meljen's design and the diecut is from cuttlebug and the CAS team require sentiment as focus point.

Challenges I'm joining:

Shelly images TTT 08/03/12 - Green & Gold

JUGS #127 - Faux embossing

CAS-friday CFC43 - For sentimental reasons

Charisma Cardz #9 - Ribbons

Thank you and may YOUR blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow.
Olga

Hang in there

Hallo

This digi and sentiment is from Happileigh Scrappin, also one of round 12 digis from Crafter's Digital Art Centre. Since we stayed in France for a few years and they are known to eat froglegs I have a very soft spot for frogs. Not that I do like the real stuff, but all other forms of frogs gives me a awh feeling. This morning when I opened my blog I saw CAS-friday's new challenge for ribbons, I just had to create this card. Thought I'll stay with this hanging feeling. Cardstock is brazzille paper and ribbon is from my stash.
Challenges I'm joining:
CAS-Fridays # CFC40 - Tie one on
CDAC round 12 - cdacpc12, HSD
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop Februarie # 7 - Anything goes
Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge #21 - Anything goes

Have a beautiful weekend.
Olga

Go for a six!

Good Morning

A quick post this morning. My boys are invited for a birthday party this afternoon, so mom has to produce a quick birthday card. Thanks to the CAS-friday sketch, this was a quick production. The image is from a online colouring book. I just could not resist, when Frances posted the challenge on CCEE stampers for Aussie day celebrations. Since South Africa is a big rival of Aussie sport and we are both cricket playing countries. Our colours are also the same, though Australia is yellow with green and South Africa is Green with yellow/gold. The colour scheme just fitted in well. The sentiment says congratulations and we use it as a birthday wish too.

Challenges I'm joining:
CAS- fridays CFC37 - Sketch
CCEE stampers #1204 - Aussi day celebrations
Cards for men #2 - Boys and their toys
Shelly Image TTT - Text it - use any text infront.

Thank you and have a lovely weekend!
Olga

Thinking of you....

Good Monday Morning

It started to rain yesterday afternoon and it rained on and off since then. An unusual sign in South Africa, where we are more known for our severe thunderstorms. I used the time to dig in my stash and I came upon this elegance brass template from Marianne's design, that I haven't used for ages. With still the black and white theme from CAS-fridays in my mind, I started this card. The sentiment is done with one of my oldest rubber stamps, saying thinking of you, and I used white heat embossing. Though with this sentiment I'll be thinking of my friend that has to go for some medical test, soon and we hope that the results will be good. Finishing it off with some pearls.

Joining in the fun:
CAS-fridays CFC#36 - penguin suite
Charisma Cardz #2 - Clean and simple
One Stop Craft Challenge # 166 - Under the weather/getting well soon

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful day!
Olga

Penguin Slide

Good Morning

With a nice cup of earl grey tea in one hand I want to share this card with you. As I have mentioned before, I have to make a few male cards. I had these penguin stamps almost a year now. They are from the Ollyfant Storybook stamps, distributed by Kars. I have been playing with this idea now, for a week and with the girls at CAS-friday's challenge - penguin suite, it finally came to paper. I've used some black paper with a leatherly look with a bit of bling in the right corner and with the sentiment:" wishing you no unexpected downfall" I've used plain black paper as backing piece - though it does not look black. Just used a plain fineliner and a white gelroller for the borderlines.
I'm join in the fun at:
CAS-Fridays CFC 36 - Penguin suite - only black and white allowed
Charisma Cards #2 - Clean and simple
I did it creations #90 - Animals
Glitter Gleeks week 3 - Two images

Hope you can enjoy a nice cup of tea, too.

Thank you
Olga

A Golfer's Day

Good Morning

A change in style, a bit more CAS this time. This, the first of a few male cards that I have to make. I've used a diecut on the back of the circle to give it the same uneveness of a golfball. The striped papers is from DCWV - All about boys. The golfer is from an online colouringbook, that I adjusted a bit. The golf charms is from my stash. I've used a Fiskar border punch for the scallops on the green.

Challenges I'm joining:
CAS Fridays CFC35 -Highs and lows
CCEE stampers CCEE1202 - Sketch
Charizma Cards #1 - Happy Birthday
Dutch Dare #DDCC147 - For the boys

Thank you and have a lovely weekend.

Olga

Merry Christmas

A quick hello again

This is really a Clean And Simple card, but I just could not resist CAS-Friday's sketch CFC29. I used one of my Crafts Christmas stamps in red and green, as requested by JUGS #111. I'ved tried some glitter wet embossing, but it is not quite visible on the photo. Made the border with some silver string, added peel-off sentiment in afrikaans(merry christmas) and final touch of rhinestones.

Hope you have a nice day.

Thank you.

Olga

God's blessing

My project

A view from the back

A 20cm diameter circle folded in a triangle.

Good Morning

This is a special card for a friend whom celebrate her 60th birthday, this coming week-end. Though all birthdays are special I thought something different will do for this achievement.

So I combined a few challenges and used handmade paper as base. I 've cut a 20cm diameter and then folded in a triangle. I used my Marianne design's diecuts for the top flower and grab the freebie sentiment from Netty's cards. When I saw the digi is from Sliekje and she called it Just Cute and you can interepret it as rain or snow, I stopped searching, since I know my friend has 3 granddaughters in England. The sentiment is my own in Afrikaans and read: "May God's blessing rain upon you, so that you can grow and keep on be a blessing to all." I've added the ribbon to fasten it a the back, though it is not prominent on the front. I didn't want to add to much embellishments since I wanted to make the paper more the focale point.

The challenges I've combined:

Just us Girls #109 - Sketch - won't you tri(angle) it.
CASual Fridays CFC 27 - Over the edge

Charisma Cardz #44 - Cutesy

Glitter Geeks #22 - Snuggle up

Thank you and have a splendid day!

I'm off going to bake pancakes.

Olga

Peekaboo!

Top: My card outside

Bottom: My card inside

Hallo

This is a kitty digi from lovely Annie from Digi my World. I've had this idea quite a while now, so finally I've put it to paper.

The cardstock is double coloured, brown and bronze, and from my stash. So used the bronze colour for the outside. This sentiment, computer produced, says "Peeking in to say..." is in Afrikaans. Since the theme is fall at Digi my World #5, I've done a lot of distressing in different colours, since fall can be a bit distressing in the changing of weather, and used my fiskar leave border punch. At first I hought I'll use some perfect pearl accent on the leave brads, but in the end decided it compliments the eyes of kitty, as it is. I used, once again, the sketch at CAS-ual Fridays CFC26 and I'm also entering PaperCrafting journey's #22 challenge: to use a Digi.

Thank you for your visit.

Olga

Bonnes Fêtes

Hallo
This morning when I opened my blogger dashboard I saw CAS-ual Fridays(CFC26) new sketch challenge for the week coming and just had to make another christmas card, since I still have a few to make. Most of my cards will end up in France, from there my french peel-off sentiment.
I've used turquoise brazzille cardstock, the rest is from my stash. I also did some sewing on the edge as requested by Raise the Bar challenge#81: Sew What

Hope you have a splendid creative weekend.

Olga

Boo!

Just a quick hallo again!
This is one of that quick cards that comes up from time to time, especially when you have boys that are very popular at parties. So my oldest came home with a haunted house invitations for Saturday night. Luckily there are a few challenges that helped me with this one.
I found the digi at GTC's Craft Corner. I used some Brazzille paper in purple and did some distressing in black. I used a fiskar brick texture plate for the background in frame and a nestie for the frame. I resized the ghost and used some perfect pearl on it. To set the perfect pearl I use some hairspray. Finished it off with a spider charm. I printed a second ghost with sentiment and made a pop-up inside. I also used some perfect pearl on it. The corners is punched with a Bugs fiskar corner punch. I know a lot of people print the right size paper for a card but there is always some corner that falls off, that I recycle, so I have a drawer full of bits and pieces of paper, that I normally use for punching or in this case for the back of the frame.

The challenges I used as guidelines:
CAS-ual Friday CFC20 - Mini cards - my card measure 4x4 inch (10x10cm)
Cupcake Craft Challenge #160 The darkside - only purple and black - hopefully the white ghost inside does not count.
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #51 - One for kids

Thank you and have a nice day!

Olga

Thinking of you

Another quick Hallo


This time the ladies at CAS-ual Fridays had a challenge (nr10) on Shaped Cards and the DT had some nice inspirational cards and I decides I to try one as well. I also had some inspiration from my garden infront of my craftroom, that is filled with pansies in full bloom. So I made a flowerpot with some 3D pansies. The ladies at Aud sentiment challenge 32 asked for 2 or more words sentiment, so the sentiment in Afrikaans says:"Thinking of you". It is a rubberstamp I've used and I did some heat embossing with it. The Rubber Cafe TRCC25 also has a challenge for a shaped card.

Hope you have a good day and thank you for visiting.

Olga

A new adventure awaits

Hallo

Today, I've played with 3 challenges:
365 Cards day 118 for the sketch
Scrap Affair aperture card
CAS-ual Fridays Challenge CFC 8 getting edgy,
 I've used my Leeré Aldrich clear stamp for the image, which I've cut out. Then I've used 2 different Fiskar punches and a Nellie Snellen diecut for the aperture. The sentiment is my own and says: "A new adventure awaits you". The flowers is from my stash and it is more to brighten-up the card, to give it an exciting feeling.

Have a nice day!
Olga