Viva Italia

Hallo

I've made this card for a friend whom celebrate her birthday soon. She loves red and green. Amazingly how you sometimes do not have the one thing like broad green ribbon. In the end I've done two rows of ribbon. The red corners is peel-off from my stash. The digi is from Joanna Sheen's Pamela West series. I've used a fineliner in green and red for the border line and the frame is done with spellbinders's beaded oval with textured paper. The sentiment: Happy Birthday is also a peel-off.

Challenges I'm joining:
Craft Your Passion #126 - Floral image
ATC's and cards with an attitude 7/9 - Anything goes with buttons and bows
Digistamp4Joy #50 - Colours of spring

Thank you and have a beautiful day!
Olga

Dancing Diva

 CR84FN62

Wednesday Sketch Challenge at the Outlawz

Good Afternoon
Thought it is still chilly, the rain has stopped. But now you can hear how everything is growing. I'm very thankful for this early spring rain. This is a freebie from Saturated Canary. I've used CR84FN's colour combo and the peach ribbon which I had in mind for a previous project. The paper and roses are from my stash;

Challenges I'm joining:
The Outlawz Wednesday Challenge SC090512 - Sketch
CR84FN #62 - Colour combo
Shelly's Images TTT5/9 - Anything goes

Thank you and have a beautiful day!
Olga

Dance of life

Good Day

We have such cold and wet weather, almost like on the under left photo, that I used the time to catch up on crafting. The colour combo from Play Date Café reminded me of a piece of voile ribbon in my stash, though it ended up not been used. The light is very poor, so included 2 photos to show the detail. The paper is from First Edition Daydream collection. The digi is from Whoopsi Daisy and is called dance 5. Such a cutie. The sentiment I've found on Facebook and if I translate it, it says: "When you  open yourself to receive with joy, you become part of the dance of life."

Challenges I'm joining:
The Play Date Café #148 - Colour Combo
Addicted to Stamps #2 - Sketch
Inky Impressions - Anything goes

Thank you
Olga

Stop a moment

Bugaboo digi: JJwrench

Good Morning

At the Outlawz Colour Challenge this week they had this very striking inspirational photo of Johnny Depp with some lovely manly colours with the challenge to make a male card. Though the DT have some great maritime cards I thought I want to do something different. Something more for a handy man. I had this digi now for quite a while and just did not had time to play with it. I used a bit of brown chalk for the distressing to give it a bit of dirty look. In my stash I had this pliers charm and though it will do for the finishing touch.

Challenges I'm joining:
The Outlawz Tuesday Colour Challenge
Dude Time Doodles DtD - Use two shade of blue
Tuesday Alchemy #30 - Anything goes
Hooked on Crafts #24 - Cards for men

Thank you for your visit and comment.
Have a lovely day!
Olga

It is your birthday soon

Good Morning

Our first spring rain has arrived, though our temperatures also dropped with about 10° C. This morning it was a challenge to take a proper photo since the light is very poor. Yesterday I just had this mojo to make this maritime card with Edwin Hangin from the Magnolia series. I've found these very nice scrapbook papers and I had the embellishments in my stash. I've used Sweet Sketch Wednesday's sketch to put all the elements together.

Challenges I'm joining:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday # 170 - Sketch
Cards und More #64 - Maritime
Papelito's Stamp #10 - Anything goes
Crafty sentiment 4/9 - Male Card
Creative Craft Challenge 4/9 - One for the boys
A Gem of a Challenge #54 - a Boy thing

Thank you and have a nice day.
Olga

Burn the Candles!

 My project

 A close-up.

Stella Says Sketch #SSS118

Good day
This is a digi from Bugaboo and somehow when I saw the sketch two weeks ago I thought this will do in black and white. Though my black and white papers are very limited and has big detail on it and this time I looked for something more elegant. I played with different white papers, which can be seen on the close-up. I used a cuttlebug swiss dots on the lower white and then I added pearl paint on the embossed dots. I've tried to stamp swirls from Inkadinkado on the top part with some clear glitter heat embossing and I used a Fiskar border punch on the corners with some swirls. I've coloured the image with H2O pencils and then I've added some glitter on the star and triangle. The sentiment is from Facebook and somehow it is true....Celebrate everyday, since everyday is special.

Challenges I'll be joining:
Stella Says Sketch SSS118 - Sketch
The Craft Place Challenge  - Black and white
Catch The Bug - September Anything Goes
The Ribbon Blog Girls - Ribbon and Pearls
Avadares #3 - Make it Sparkle

Thank you and burn those candles today!
Olga

A new adventure awaits....

Kenny K freebie for September

Sketch by Jackson's Digital Challenge

Good Day

In a previous post I have mentioned that our school year starts in January, but nothing prevent me to get a head start on it. So, I thought I'll join in the fun with few challenges with this September freebie from Kenny K and I had a friend of mine's daughter in mind when I created this. She starts her school career next year, from there my sentiment: A new adventure awaits you. The papers are from the grade school stack with glitter and foil from DCWV, ribbon from my stash as well as the foil crayon sticker.

Challenges I'm joining:
Jackson's digital Challenge #20- Anything goes with the option of sketch
Kenny K Krafty Krew #109 - Back to School
Incy Wincy Design 3/9 - Back to school
One Stitch at a Time #129 - Use a digi
Digi haven September challenge - Anything goes

Thank you
Olga