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

Welkom - Bienvenue

The black rhinoceros stamp from Ollyfant Storybook stamps.

A nearby view of the stamp done on handmade paper made from animal dung, coloured with promarkers.

A near peek on the embellishments.

My card.

Good Morning

With a bit of excitement I want to share this card with you. My first african card in quite a while, but when I saw the challenge of your favourite zoo animal I just had to join in the fun.

South Africa does not have that much zoos, but we have lots of game reserves. We also host 93% of the white rhino population of the world. Currently we also have a war on poachers that hunt the rhinos for their horns for the Eastern markets. They make sex stimulants out of the horns, but the latest reason they give: it is used for a cure for cancer, which nobody believes and it still does not give them the right of hunting Rhinos illegal. The prizes are very high for Rhino horns. It makes me very angry, because it is amazing how sick the world became in their attempt of getting rich, because there are even veterinaries involved, so it is not limited to poor uneducated people.

Back to my card. This is a black rhino, because of its sharp lip to eat leaves on trees. A first for me, stamping on handmade paper. Gives you a rock art effect. The back craft paper has different animal scene done in brown. I added the hinch of green. The borders is done with a border punch and selotape with the skin patterns, which I had for ages now. Finished it of with a dried leave, coloured guineafowl feather and porcupine pins. Sentiment is computer generated with an owl bead as final touch.

This is a card I made for our first French visitors this year. I'm a bit excited to see them again and to show them a bit of my country.

Challenges I was inspired by:

Dutch Dare #153 - Sketch

CCEE1208 - Your Favourite zoo animal

One Stop Craft Challenge #171 - Colour on Craft

Tuesday Throwdown # 87 - Paper tearing

Thank you for your visit!

Olga

Music Kitten

Good Monday Morning

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
Today's post is a card for a teenage lady. Music is more or less a neutrale theme for all teenagers, but I know she loves cats. The digi is from Sliekje and I used the Colour Create colour combo for this week. I've used a cuttlebug music emboss template for the background, did some distressing with chalk, added twine which I had to colour with ink, to fit in the colour combo, founded some music charms in my stash and finished it of with a peel-off sentiment in French saying happy birthday.
Challenges I'm joining:
Colour Create # 90 - Lilac, Blue, White and craft
One Stop Craft Challenge #170 - Create your own background
The Outlawz SCO215 - Wednesday Sketch 15 February 2012
Shelly's Images TTT2-16 - Anything goes

Thank you for your visit!
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

Tweet Birthday

Hallo

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and for all of you whom had to go back to work today, good luck. Mine was quiet with some lovely summer thunderstorms.
With today's card I've used some white paper with a bit of crackle background, unfortunately not visible on the photo, with the swiss dots emboss template, cuttlebug, as background. The flowers is a sissix template and a marianne's design template was used with the vellum top level. The birdies clear stamp is from Pink Petticoat and the sentiment from Ladybug crafts ink, done in white perfect pearl. The forever friend bear is from chipboard, part of a christmas card kit I bought before christmas. Finished off with some rhinestones and a white feather.

Challenges I' m joining in the fun:

JUGS #118 - Sketch

Forever Friends fortnightly 9 Jan - 22 Jan - White on white

One Stop Craft Challenge #164 - Bingo - Embossing, Diecuts, Flowers

A Gem of a Challenge #37 - Photo inspiration - Feather and flowers

Sweet Stampin - Dots & Spots - swiss dots embossing

Thank you for your visit and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Olga

High on Life

Good afternoon

Firstly, I would like to tell you of Elaine's great candy gift away over at her blog Craft my Life . She's also chosen as part of a new DT at a new challenge blog, Joanna Sheen, that start soon. You can just click on the photo in my blog's sidebar and it will take you directly to her blog.

With the weather a bit cooler and grey, it kick started my mojo for crafting. This time a birthday card for a teenage boy or maybe older, getting a bit out of the groove of christmas cards. These days, if there is something electronic on the card it will do for a teenager since they are hip on it and that makes it a bit easier for us crafters. I used Cling Changito at home from stampendous, still in his pajamas, but with his laptop on his lap. Just love this little caracter. The "high on life" sentiment is from TLC and the birthday sentiment is from Hannelie, my sister in law, that does some great creative digital stuff lately. Very proud of her. She is also chosen to be part of a new DT at I did it creations challenge blog. The embossing was done with my cuttlebug emboss folders and I used a fiskar border punch for the circle border on the top left. I love to use border punches on both sides of a small strip of paper, since you can have a whole different effect than normal. Then I added some rhinestones for the final touches. All goodies is from my stash.

Challenges I'm joining.
Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #131(MMSC131) - Sketch

One Stop Craft Challenge #158 - Colour Challenge: Blue

Cupcake Craft Challenge #169 - Teenage boys

Top Tip Tuesday #61 - More than one fold

Cards for men #24 - Fancy folds, must be for men

Get Hippity with Ippity# 10 - Embossing

Creaticve Card Crew 22/11 - Monochromatic

Thank you

Olga

If life boils your kettle......

Good evening from a cold South Africa
It have been snowing a bit the last couple of days in our central mountain areas and I really hoped for some in our town as well, but I doubt.
But none the less, I have used the time to craft a bit. It is my mother-in-law's birthday next week and she loves tea. So, when I saw this freebie over at Sandi samples, I had a thought of her. She is a crafter in her own way. She can do magic with a piece of material. So I've used embellishments and paper that resembles her craft. She also loves pink. The paper is mainly from my scrapbook stash. The flowerpaper is from the "All about girls stack" from DCWV. I've also used some lace.
I am entering the following challenges:
There she goes clear stamps TSG 117 - Sketch
Use it Tuesday Challenge 12 Two fer - the buttons, paper and fastner I've bought some years ago to be used someday....that happened today.
Aud Sentiment Challenge 33 a sentiment to make some one smile thinking of them. This sentiment comes from one of my placemats, and I do find some encourgement from it whenever I read it.
Charisma Cardz Challenge 29 sunshine colours.....I saw a photo of a watermelon, a summer fruit, and used then colours scheme for this card.
One Stop Craft Challenge Week 14 - Recipe challenge - 1 ribbon, 2 patterned papers and 3 buttons.

Hope you have a joyful day.

Olga

Whale lot of fun!

Hallo

This is Scuba Changito. One of my favourite caracters stamps. I dipped him out of the cupboard because there are a few challenge blocks that inspired me with this card. I made an aperture card, to make it look as if you are looking through a window into the sea, where Changito is swimming, with a whale in the distance. The papers is bits and pieces from my stash and I used crazy clay for my seastar embellishment as well as my cuttlebug diecuts for the fishes, crab and whale. The shell is real, from my stash. The sentiment I printed with a computer.
I have used the following challenges to enter, as my guidance for the card.
One Stop Craft Challenge 139 - sketch
Colorlab colours Challenge 49 : Island Indigo, Baja Breeze and Rich Razzleberry
Happileigh Scrappin Challenge 31- Make your own embellishments
Glitter Geeks Week 6- Under the sea
Crafty Calender July Challenge - Under the sea
Sweet Stampin - One for the boys
Fairy Fun Fridays Challenge 57 - Holidays

Hope you had some form of holiday lately.

Thank you
Olga