Beary Angel

Good Day!

Another mother's day card, this time with a bugaboo digi called a cloud sitter, but with the sentiment from Desert Diva, I've decided it will just do for a nice mother's day card. It is the next round at the Crafter's Digital Art Centre with the theme of It's all about bears and they have some beautiful bear digis this round. I've used some perfect pearl dust on the wings and some yellow glitter on the hallow and stars and the daisy paper is also bit bling but it is not quite visible on the photo. The striped paper is from New Leaf and the avocado colour is from DCWV. All the other stuff is from my stash.

Challenge I'm joining and have been guided by:

CDAC round 15 - cdacpc15, bug

The Outlawz SC040412 - Sketch

Play Date Cafe #PDC126 - Colour combo - Avocado, Blue Mist, Grey Wool

Tuesday Throwdown # 92 - Pastels

Creative Belli #CBC140 - 3 Shapes - Oval, square, rectangular

Simon Say Stamp - Favourite tool - Cuttlebug with diecuts

Fashionista #1 - Anything goes for girls

CCEE stampers #CCEE1214 - Embossing folders - Beaded ovals

Digistamp 4 Joy # 40 - Celebrating bling and glitter

Sparkles Forum Challenge #30 - Mother's day / Easter

Thank you for your visit. I'm off on a few days of bushveld wandering. Hope you have a blessed Easter.

Olga

In my sewing box.....

Good day!

Seasons are changing rapidly, here, down under. Last week when we spoke, it was still summer and this week it is about 10 degrees less. Not that I have a big problem with the cooler weather, but I don't like to have cold feet.

Today's inspiration was triggered by the Cupcake Craft Challenge #186 - Sewing box. In a few weeks time it will be mother's day in South Africa and my mother in law has a passion for sewing and as I went through all the challenges at Feline Playful, pink and cream and pastels came out. All colours to suite my mother in law. The digi is from Digi my World, called mannequindress. The corners and embossing is done with my cuttlebug. I've added lace, wool thread, metal thread in faux needle and buttons to it. The other embellies is left overs from a previous project and just added some xtra flair to the card. The sentiment is taken from Desert Diva. She's very sweet and can make any sentiment on request. Sure something to keep in mind. All papers is from my stash.

Other challenges I'm joining:

Quirky Craft Challenge #7 - Sketch
Sketchy Colours # 111 - Pink and Cream
Fashionista Challenge #1 - Anything goes for girls
Anything Goes #7 - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown #92 - Pastels

Hope you have a lovely day and thank you for your visit.

Olga

Op die rug van my ysterperd

Photo of the closed card.

Photo of the opened card.

Good Morning

My second easel card. Starting to enjoy making them. The digi is from Di's Digis and are called Biker Bear. This digi has been on my table for a while now, since I was not quite sure on what to do with it. Luckily, I still had time for this birthday card, that has to go all the way to France, soon.

The Outlawz colour challenge, finally gave this digi life. I've found the leather look ribbon at our local haberdashery shop and used a Upikit border punch. The sentiment was embossed with a Fiskar emboss and I used some heat emboss in silver. The sentiment - handwritten- "Speed is fun, but it is the journey that counts" and as from this morning a Afrikaans song turned in my head called " Hoeka-toeka " all about being on my iron horse(motorbike) with the wind in my hair. Something we miss a bit, since my husband had to sell his motorbike when we moved back to South Africa.
Challenges I'm joining:

Everybody Art Challenge #184 - Easel Card

Craft Your Passion #101 - Easel Card

The Outlawz CC031312- Black, white and winter sky blue, with fuzzy friend

Tuesday Throwdown #89 - Clip it up

Stella says sketch # 106 - Sketch

Cute Card Thursday 208 - Happy Birthday (they are celebrating there 4th birthday)

Aud Sentiment #50 - Song Title ( on my card: Happy Birthday and songtitle - Leader of the pack)

Thank you and have a lovely day!

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