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

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

Learn & Grow

Hallo Everyone


I'm so excited, the ladies at JUGS is celebrating their 100th blog challenge and they have a lot of blog candy give-aways. So join in the fun with the sketch provided, actually their very first one. Hope they have a few hundreds to come in the years to follow.


Now, for my card, I used paper from Simply Cards & papercrafts The Botanical collection as backing paper, got the idea from Elise over at JUGS, hope she don't mind. The digi is from Linda Tieu from CDAC. The other papers, ribbon and stickers is from my stash.

It is the second round on the Crafters Digital Art Centre Progressive Freebie Challenges with digis provided and theme of "Back to School". We have till the 14/9 to make a project, before the next round come up. They have some nice digis for the back to school theme.

This is actually an easel card. My first attemp on one. This is in celebration of Top Tip Tuesday, whom celebrate their first year and the have some great artwork on display! They, also have some great prizes in celebration. Wishing them all good luck for the years to come.

Have a great day!

Olga

Time for Tea

Good Morning
It is a lovely spring Monday down here, with sunshine, although still a bit of chill in the air for the moment, but the temperature will rise definitely.

The ladies at Top Tip Tuesday tried to define "Shabby Chic" this week. Finally I came to the conclusion that it is an old time romantic feeling. This is where my card started to get form. Though I did not use a lot of broken white, I could not resist this faded olive green paper from TOGA, which I matched with a faded pink, lace and pearls. The diecuts(circle, flowers and stem) is creatables from Marianne's design and the corners from Cuttlebug. The digi is from Digi my World and the sentiment from Bird's cards. I've coloured the image with aquarelles and distressed it with chalk.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Top Tip Tuesday #49 - What is Shabby Chic?

Digi my World #1 - Anything goes

Paper Crafting Journey # 18 - Sketch

Craft your Passion # 74 - Anything goes if a flower is added

Crafty Creations #134 - Use at least 3 diecuts or punches

Charizma Cardz # 35 - Anything goes

Wish you all a piece of sunshine today!

Thank you for your visit.

Olga

Do you want to go shopping?

Good morning
Time for a girly teenager card. Not often I can do this, since I only have boys. But I do enjoy making a girly card from time to time and I have all this nice things to use and I think for a teenager, fashion is an important subject.
The image is a Mo Maning clear stamp from Stampavie. The image was coloured with aquarelles and I added the purple pigment ink. I applied it with a dry wet wipe from the outside in, which I find the best medium to apply this with, since it give you a fluent effect. The dotted and printed paper is from "All about girls stack" from DCWV and the rest of the paper is from my scrapbook stash. For my embellishments I used some rub-ons and peel-offs, that I glued to flower diecuts.
I am entering the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge #26 - Sketch - the sketch is presented in the most beautiful ice cream colours and I could not resist.

Sweet Stampin - Fashion

Top Tip Tuesday #44 - Girly

Cupcake Craft Challenge #152 - Shabby Sparkle

Thank you for the visit and have a nice day!

Olga

Wanna cupcake?

Good Morning

I have found this image from Sliekje Digi Stamp and decided that I have to do something with this. Although some time did pass since then. I have coloured the image with aquarelles and used some heat embossing on the cupcakes. I have used paper from one of my papercraft magazines and the ribbon is from my stash. I also used some foil on the sentiment.
I am entering the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon with their challenge pink, lime and white.
Top Tip Tuesday challenge 42 - sketch
Shelly's Images: Terific Thrilling Thursday Challenge: What's cooking.

Thank you for your visit and have a splendid weekend.

Olga

Congratulations!

Hallo

I've had some internet problems almost the whole week-end, but I did some crafting, so finally the internet is working again.
This is a Magnolia stamp, Edwin celebrating and I think we will have something to celebrate soon. I have used the following challenges to direct me on making this card:

Tip Top Tuesday : T is for.....? Teal colour and toast to....
Just Magnolia : Anything goes with optional shabby chic
Sweet Sketch Wednesday : Sketch SSW108, I've just turned it a bit.
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog : Challenge 31 - Food or drink....think Champagne will do for this one.
Cards 365 : Day 120 - Beautiful Blue Ribbon.....

Thank you for visiting and have a gorgeous day!

Olga