Spring Morning

Good Afternoon

In the Northern Hemisphere life is slowly starting to come out of its winter sleep. Here in the southern heimisphere the leaves turns into all the warm colours and are falling. We are preparing for our winter. I just love flowers, doesn't really matter what season it is.
This is the second card I made yesterday. It is Isabelle from Sara Kay, distributed by Stampavie. She surely fits into a lovely spring morning with her new puppy love and bare feet on the fresh green grass. This can be very tipical of a four year old ladie in our country. I've coloured her with aquarelles. I used a kraft cardstock base with some tissues orange paper and the pink embossed paper I had for ages now, finishing it off with 3 flower brads. A bit clean and simple, but I wanted to make the paper and image more of the focal point.

Challenges I'm joining:
Shelly's images TTT22/3 - Colour challenge with a twist - Kraft, Orange & Pink with embossing
Fetch a Sketch #20 - Sketch
Crafty Catz weekly challenge # 125 - Spring is in the air
Prairie Fairy Fridays #75 - Spring fling
Cute Card Thursday #209 - Anything goes
Sweet Stampin # 24/3 - Anything goes
Dutch Dare #157 - Cute and cuddly
Raise the bar # 97 - In the garden

Hope you have the smell of spring or autumn where ever you are.
Olga

Toadily Happy Birthday

Good Morning

As I have mentioned in one of my previous post, there are some beautiful digis in round 12 of the Crafter's digital art centre progressive challenge. This one is from Fred she Said. Mom of only boys and frogs being part of my history, though I do not like the real stuff whatsoever. We stayed in France for a while (in the frogleg production area) and the French are known for eating froglegs, from there my love for frogs. I just had to use this digi. I have finally decided to use the Trio Tuesday sketch 106 and the colour combo of The Craft Pad - Red, Blue & green. All papers is from my scrapbook stash and I had this frog button for quite a while now and it is from Dress it up and it is called boyz rule. The sentiment is from Penny Black.
Challenges I'm joining:
The Craft Pad #158 - Red, Blue, Green
CDAC round 12 - cdacpc12, fss
Aud Sentiment #48 - Happy
Craft Catz #120 - Favourite thing - Green, Boys and frogs
Glitter Geeks week 7 - Boys & Girls
Tuesday Trio #106 - Sketch

Thank you for your visit!
Olga

Heart mouse

Good Morning



With Valentine's day around the corner, I thought I will quickly share you this card. I've used a freebie from Meljen's design called "Art Mouse" and I used the Outlawz Sketch. All the cardstock is from my stash. I've added a bit of beads to the charm to give it a bit of dangling. This whole card was mainly inspired by Anything Goes's bingo challenge. Though the closed card is a square, I've cut away a half of each page, as can be seen on the second photo. The top stamps are from Nitwit and sentiment from Adam Pescott.

Challenges I'm joining:
Anything Goes #60 - Eyes down, Bingo Board - Distress, Charms, Animals, Shaped Card or My choice - 2 different stamps

Prairiy Fairy Fun Fridays # 72 - Let me call you sweetheart
Crafty Catz #119 - Valentine's

Glitter Geeks #week 6 - To the one I love

Dutch Dare Card #151 - White & Pink, Red



Hope you have a lovely valentine's day.



Olga

Bags of fun

Good Monday Morning
This is one of those cards that I have been working on the whole weekend. I've been kind of busy with all kinds of things last week and finally I had time to craft I had a lack of mojo. So, I've only finished it off this morning. Though I used a lot of challenges as guide, I'm too late, but I still wanted to share it with you.
This is one of the CDAC's 6th round digi called 3shop till she drop" provided by Inked Treasures. I've used it for a birthday card for a young 6year old lady. It is much part of this time of year where most people prepare for christmas. I've used my marianne's design templates for the swirl and flower, added brads as the centre for the flowers and used a tag for the sentiment peel-off. The emboss border is made with my cuttlebug emboss template. All the papers is from my stash and for a change I used a scrapbookpaper with flocking on as base.
The challenges I'm entering:
Crafter's Digital Art Centre, round 6 - cdacpc6, inkedtreasures
Stamp with fun #136 - sketch
Crafty Catz #108 - Use a digi
Paper Crafting Journey #23 - embossing
CCEE #1145 - 3 different shapes - Square, rectangular, round(flowers)

Thank you
Olga

Adjust your sails

Good Morning
It is Monday! A new week ahead....but also this year is speeding out.
I've made this card on Friday, but was not around to post it before now. This is a digi and sentiment from Carmen. I've used some chalk for the distressing, coloured it with aquarrelles. The papers is form my stash as well as all the embellisments. The compass is a stamp from scrappy cat and I used a spellbinder diecut.
Challenges I've used as guides:
Midnight Madness #128 MMSC128 - Sketch
Colour Create #83 - Turquois, Deep Pink, Ivory
Meljen's design #83 - Use Brads
CCEE stampers CCEE1144 - 4 different embellishments - rhinestones, charms, brads, twine
Crafty Catz #107 - Anything goes
Papercrafting Journey PCJ22- Use a digi

Hope you have a wonderful crafting week and thank you for your much appreciated visit.
Olga

Sunflower time

Hallo
This is my third project for the Crafter's Digital Art Centre Progressive challenge, part 3, with the theme of autumn. The image is from Just Inklined, provided by CDAC. I've coloured it with aquarelles and used some perfect pearl on the wings of the butterfly. I also did some 3D with the butterfly, to give some dimension to the card. I've used some brazzille card stock and some glitter daisy paper and added some peel-off corners.
I am also entering:
A Gem of a Challenge #30 - Sketch
Craft Catz #101 - Autumn
CDAC cdacpc3 - digital image

For everybody in the northern hemisphere, I wish you a colourful autumn and I'm sending you all a bunch of sunfilled sunflowers to cherish throughout the cold dull winter months.

Thank you for visiting.

Olga

The sky is the limit....

Hallo Everyone
Just to share some good news. After 18 months in blogworld I finally won my first challenge over at Digi my World. Thank you Annie. It took me by surprise, I must confess. So, for more to win for everybody they are sharing some blogcandy every week, $5 store credits at their shop - Digi my World and they have some nice digital stamps available and new releases on Fridays.

Now for my post,

Spring is in the air with all the birds, bees and butterflies in my garden, although we had a cooler day yesterday and the wind has been blowing the whole week. The wind is not the thing that bothers me the most, it's the dust that goes with it....especially since we stay in the heart of the coal mine industry in South Africa.

Well, enough complaining.

The ladies at Charisma Cards Challenge # 37 have a theme of "Sky" and the Digi my World challenge #2 is "School Spirit" Somehow I wanted to join the two challenges, since I believe you can learn so much of life's lessons in nature. I've used the sketch from Crafty Catz challenge #100 and at Glitter Geeks Week #15 the theme is "In the Garden". So I ended up using the adorable butterfly digi from Digi my World and added some rhinestones on my fiskar border punch. The swallow birds's paper I've found in my stash and I used a cuttlebug flower border emboss template on the green. The sentiment is my own.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Thank you

Olga

Mountain Biker

Another hallo for today, hope you are well and relaxing before another week starts.
Lately I had a lot of boy cards to make and today another one to add to my collection. Though I've found the colour challenge for red, white and blue quite helpful with this card. In a sense it gives you a festive feeling and it suites a card for a boy. With this card I played a bit with texture and even added some fluff on my sentiment, and yes this card will go all the way to France as the sentiment says: "Happy Birthday"
I am entering in the following challenges:
Meljen's design challenge 65 - Sketch
Glitter Geeks challenge 4 - Speed, I belief you can get some sort of speed from a mountain bike....
Crafty Catz challenge 89 - Colours of summer
Cards 365 day 122 - Feeling Fuzzy
Wags 'n Whiskers Summer Creations
Stamp, Scrap & Doodles Stars and stripes
Blogger Challenge Colour Challenge - Red, white and blue

Thank you

Olga