Day 1 Catch the bug Christmas in July

Good Day

Saturday was the start of the 3rd annual Christmas in July and blog hop at Catch the Bug. Last year I have won the Tropical Santa collection, so it is a great way to start of this year's week long challenge. This lovely inspirational photo with a relaxing Santa, will hopefully inspire you to join us. With Saturday's challenge they want some Santa's on the projects. I've used Tropical Santa drink on my project. Found some peel-offs in my scrapbook stash.

Challenges I'm joining:
Catch the Bug - Week long Christmas in July
My Craft Spot #104 - Christmas in July
Eureka Stamps #48 - Christmas in July
C....is for Challenges #2 - Summer
Sketch Saturday Week #267 - Sketch

Thank you and have a lovely day!
Olga

Something blue

Bide and groom freebie digi from Beccy's place 

The Outlawz Tuesday colour Challenge with the twist of wedding

Sketch

 Tic Tac Toe - Lace, pearls, die cut

The Shabby Tearoom inspirational photo

Good day

It is Tuesday and it is time for another colour challenge over at the Outlawz Tuesday group. They came up with the most beautiful wedding cards with these colours. Please take time and pop in and share some love. They are a bunch of great girls.
My digi is a freebie from Beccy's place and I've coloured it with Aquarelle pencils. The DP is from Capsule Collection from Papermanie, Docraft. I've used a oval Sizzix die cut and added a Marianne's design LR0241, underneath on the top and bottom side. A fiskar border punch was used on top in two different colours and I added lace, ribbon and pearls to it. I tried to used the tangerine as an accent colour. Flowers, heart pin, ribbon and lace are from my stash.

Challenges I'm joining:
Created with love #50 - Anything goes
Card Mania CMC#25 - Pearls & / gems
A Die For a Sketch #14 - sketch
Cards and Scrap #58 - Ribbon and lace
A Little bit Crafting - Die-ing for it
Digi Makeover #97 - Tic Tac Toe
The Shabby Tearoom #175 - Romantic Photo inspiration

Thank you and have a fantastic day
Olga

Ready for a Christmas party

 My project

Sketch from Incy Wincy

Good Day

Officially it is the last day of our winter school holidays. Today I was inspired by the Christmas in July challenges. I wanted to do something with snowflakes(since it is a rear commodity in my country), but not the normal thing, so I'm joining in with the ruby red from Die Cuttin' Divas. A bit of contrast. I saw some great ideas in blogland that I wanted to try out. Though It is not so visible on my photo. I used heat glitter embossing on my snowflake corners and then added some glitter all around the edge of the red designer paper from the mistletoe collection, from BoBunny. The border emboss & punch is from Fiskar. I also used a frosted paper for my frame, made with die cut - Fleur de Lis Rectangles from Spellbinder. The digi is Ballroom Sassy from Sassy Studio Designs and she looks ready for a Christmas party. I'll also use the opportunity to join Patrice at her Old Back Porch for some more exposure. Hope you'll join too.

Challenges I'm joining:
Sassy Studio Designs Dare to be Sassy #185 - Christmas in July
Incy Wincy Design - Sketch
LEJ Designs #61 - Christmas in July
Die Cuttin Divas #123 - Ruby Red (second entry)
Inky Impressions #116 - Christmas in July
Fab 'n Funky #179 - Christmas in July
365 Cards Day191 - Glamour (second entry)
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas in July

Thank you and have a fabulous weekend.
Olga

Rock Star Tracey

 Good Day

I am celebrating with Tuesday Morning Sketches. They became one of my favorite sketch challenge blogs. They are celebrating 4 years and I sure wish them well for their future! I used the right top sketch for my project. My digi is from Kenny K and is called Tracey Chapman, a freebie a while ago. Not that I know whether today's teenagers know who she is. My designer paper is from Teresa Collins. I added some star glitter on the background.

Challenges I'm joining:
Southern Girls #73 - No Spoolin
365 Cards Day 191 - Glamour
Kenny K's Krafty Krew #150 - Teenz Rock
Sisterhood of Crafters - Black, whire and ons Accent colour
Tuesday Morning Sketches #206 - TMS is 4 years old

Thank you and happy celebrations!
Olga

Ladybugs in my strawberry field

Good Day

It has been quite awhile since I played with Stella says sketch over at Catch the bug blog. This time I used the ladybug stack, but I combined it with another challenge about strawberry farms. I had to improvised and be very creative. In the end, I think it came out ok. I did not had any strawberries, but I had some material hearts. I used a flower die-cut, I have cut it in two for the top of the strawberries and added some 3D paint for the dots. The chevron paper is from the Mistletoe collection from BoBunny and the dotted paper from Simple Stories' Sn@p color vibe. I turned the sketch a bit and you almost get a strawberry feeling with the papers.

Challenges I joining:
Stella says Sketch #139 - Sketch
Party Time Tuesday #128 - Wing it
Can you digi it #39 - Summer smiles
Creative Card Crew #40 - Great outdoors
Shopping our Stash #109 - Summer theme or colours
Die Cuttin' Divas #123 - Ruby Red
City Crafter Challenge #167 - Strawberry Farms

Thank you and have a great day!
Olga

Bouquet of tulips

 My project as GDT for The Outlawz Colour Challenge July 9

The Deconstructed sketch

613 Avenue Create your own challenge 

Colour combo for the Outlawz Colour challenge July 9

Good Day

It is Tuesday and it means another colour challenge at the Outlawz, this time Laurian added the twist of using leaves. It is my second card for this month as a GDT. At first I had something different in mind, but ended up using a digi from Digistamp4Joy. My designer paper is from Garden Party - Dovecraft. I used some glitter on the confetti butterflies and the brad. I saw a tutorial of how to make different bows, last week on blogland and thought I'll give it a try. This is a double loop bow.

I used the following challenges as inspiration for my card:
613 Avenue Create - Image, Patterned Paper, sentiment, any sketch, stickles, bling, ribbon
Deconstructed sketch #108 - Sketch
Sweet Stampin - Butterflies and bows
Love to create #73 - Ribbon & bling
Paper Makeup Stamps #96 - Anything goes using a digi
Craft-Dee Bowz: July Challenge - Make a handmade bow
Artistic Inspirations #49 - Bling

Thank you and have yourself a fantastic day!
Olga

Caring sharing person inside

Good Morning

I'm on a mojo wave, so I want to get the most out of it, before it disappear. This time I'm playing with a a digi from Saturared Canary. The sentiment is from the Path of positive challenge, paper from First Edition's J'adore.
This time I'm celebrating the friends I have in my life. They are my biggest treasures and keep me going in the toughest of times. Most of all they are my spiritual support, when I am at my lowest. Thank you to them all!

Challenges I'm joining:
Saturated Canary Challenge #47 - Celebration!
Charisma Cardz #6 - Lace
Divas by Design - Cute
Path of Positive Challenge #4 -Caring
A.R.T Challenge #4 - Colour combo
Creative Moments #20 - Flowers
Crafting with dragonflies #5 - Vintage with layers and lace
Crafting for all seasons #55 - Make it Girly
Cards en Scrap #174 - Sketch

Hope you have a lovely Sunday!
Olga