OSAAT #168 Use A Digi

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time 

Use A Digi

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet and there is a fabulous prize of all the images used by the DT on Challenge #166 for the lucky winner who uses a Store image

Please head on over to the NEW LOOK  & REBRANDED Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers. There is also a weekly free image with a purchase of over $3.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can sign up to the newsletter & become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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This week it was my turn to choose an image for myself and teamie Choccie to use. I needed to make another wedding card so am using the cute image Wedding Bears by Reece’s Scrap Pieces. In the pack you get the image in colour for quick cards and black and white if you like to colour as I do. I used Promarkers and Flexmarkers to colour the image in, cut  it out and mounted onto 3d foam pads.

The base of the card is a sheet of patterned cardstock from Hunky Dory. It is the 1^st time I have used their cardstock and I have to say I am impressed with how sturdy it is.  I have added some ‘ribbon’ which is actually a shoe lace from a pack of patterned ones in different lengths that came from the local pound shop some time ago. It is amazing what you can pick up from places that you can utilize in your crafting if you just look at it a different way.

The background paper is a wrapping paper which has holographic elements to it. I used a Crafter’s Companion die to cut it out, added some scrap cardstock on the back to strengthen it and mounted on foam squares for added dimension.

The ‘Just Married’ plaque is an embellishment I have had in my stash for at least 4 years. I’d had it so long that the sticky stuff on the back was no longer sticky (I am sure we all have embellishments that has happened to!) The top was looking a bit bare so I used my Martha Stewart Heart Lattice punch on a scrap of pink card and mounted it onto some really shiny silver paper (which looks white in the photo but I promise you it isn’t!)

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Image – Wedding Bears from Reece’s Scrap Pieces

Paper – Base card by Hunky Dory, patterned paper is wrapping paper

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Die cut from Crafters Companion, Martha Stewart Heart Lattice punch, loads of 3d foam

Embellishments – patterned shoe lace and 3d lace & felt sticker from Poundland,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

Happy Father's Day

Today is Father’s Day and I made this card for my Father in Law who is a golfing fanatic. The image is actually a combination of 3 different digis. The Golf Background is from Digital Designs by Louby Lou and I thought it was perfect, you see many images that are golf themed but not often do you get a background image so I had to buy it. The character is AKV Golf Bag from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and I have decoupaged many of the elements. Eventhough this is an A5 card let me tell you those golf clubs are still tiny!

I used the golf ball from a larger image Golf Ball & Pole by DigiDarla Designs. The papers are from the Woodland Friends paper pack from Docrafts. I used the Fiskars border punch on the edges and the sentiment is a freebie from Hanelie at Desert Diva. If you have never visited her you seriously need to become a follower as she does the most amazing freebie sentiments and makes lovely cards too. Thankyou Hanelie for your generosity J

We are taking Dad out for a curry to our favourite Indian Restaurant tonight so that is tea sorted too!

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Images – Golf Background from Digital Designs by Louby Lou, AKV Golf Bag from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and Golfball & Pole from DigiDarla Designs

Paper – Woodland Friends from Docrafts

Sentiment – Father’s Day Freebie from Desert Diva

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars Treading Water border punch, 3d foam

Techniques – Decoupage & Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

2 Sisters Challenge - #148 Just for Dad

365 Cards - Day 163 Father

A Gem of A Challenge - #84 Father’s Day

Anything Goes - #94 Father’s Day

Art Impressions Stamps – #112 Masculine Cards

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

City Crafter  - #163 All About Him

Craft Your Passion - #166 Father’s Day

Crafting By Designs – Anything Goes with a Male Twist

Crafting Café – Here Come The Boys

Crafting For All Seasons - #54 For The Guys

Crafty Sentiments – Project for a Male

Creative Craft Challenge – #12 We Love You Dad

Cuttin & Stampin - #23 Father’s Day

Digistamps 4Joy - #69 For the men in our lives

DL Art Thankful Thursday – #111 Father’s Day

Eureka Stamps  – #43 Father’s Day

Get Inky - #6 For Boys or Men

Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Father’s Day

Inky Impressions - #112 Fathers Day

Jellypark Friends – Masculine

Ladybug Crafts – For the men in your life

LEJ Designs - #57 For Men or Boys

Lexi’s Creations - #92 Father’s Day

Little Claire Designs - #34 Male Theme

Loves Rubber Stamps - #56 Masculine

Milk Coffee Challenge – Father’s Day

Our Daily Bread - #158 Masculine or Father’s Day

Papertake Weekly  – Hello Boys

Pattie’s Creations – #69 Father’s Day

Perfect Sentiment – #83 For the Boys

QKR Stampede – #43 For Dad

Simply Create Too - #39 Father’s Day

Sisterhood of Crafters - card for a Man or Boy

Stamping With The Dragon  – One for Dad

Tammy Scrapin’ Corner - #66 Father’s Day

The Crafter’s Café - #17 Father’s Day or for a male

The Pink Elephant  - #203 Father’s Day

The Stamping Chef – For dad

Top Tip Tuesday - #103 Masculine

Totally Gorjuss  – #188 For Dad

Twisted Tuesday - #2TC52 Masculine with clothes on

Word Art Wednesday - #84  Anything Goes

Imagine That #9 Lily's Flowers

It’s time for Challenge #9 at Imagine That! Digis by Kris and if you took part in the last challenge you will have received the Lily’s Flowers pack which has this really cute image of the Lily watering her flowers with 2 different sentiments.

Pop over to the store to see this image and all the other amazing sets. This set is available as a coloured option too.

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I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and I used a sketch from I {Heart} Card Sketches for the layout.

The paper has encapsulated glitter on the background and is from the First Edition Boho Chic pad, the colours are warm and summery and matched the theme of the image. I used a Martha Stewart trellis punch behind the image and added some sequin flowers and self adhesive gem centres.

The sentiment is a digi and is one that I‘d had printed out for a awhile but not got round to using. I added a small amount of Stickles glitter glue to the hearts on Lily’s top and sneakers and called it complete.

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I do hope you will join in with our challenge. Progressive freebies are so much fun and a great way up building up your digi collection too. Pop over to our blog and see what the rest of the DT have made for our first proper outing. They are very inspiring and you won’t be disappointed J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image – Lily’s Flowers from Imagine That 

Paper – Boho Chic by First Edition

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam, Martha Stewart Trellis punch

Embellishments – sequin flowers & self adhesive gems, Stickles glitter glue icicle

Techniques – Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 022

OSAAT #167 Pretty It Up

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time 

Pretty It Up

Use embellishments, bling, butterflies etc

Our sponsor this week is CREATIVE CRAFT WORLD and there is a fabulous prize of 3 Promarkers of their choice for the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy Bears Store image

 

Please head on over to the NEW LOOK  & REBRANDED Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers. There is also a weekly free image with a purchase of over $3.

  

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can sign up to the newsletter & become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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It’s wedding season and I have 2 wedding receptions to go to shortly so what a fabulous excuse to make wedding cards. I’m a romantic little devil and few things make me happier than seeing people I love and care about getting married to one another. This card is for a very dear friend of ours Martin who we have known for 20 years and his good lady Seona. We have met her only once but she is lovely and they are happy together.

I have used this pretty image Lovely Flowers WeddingHorseshoe from Hope Jacare Doodles and coloured it with purples and lilacs which were the colours on the invite. I have cut the image out and matted it onto some purple cardstock for contrast.

I have made a circle shaped side step card from a tutorial by Beccy Muir at Beccy’s Place. This is the first card like this I have made but Beccy’s instructions were very clear and easy to follow.

I covered the front and card steps with paper from a wedding pack by Dovecraft that I have had for years and years.

The image was mounted on thin foam pads and then I added embellishments to the other side to even the weight distribution. The pearl spray is from some  wedding embellishments I have had for about 9 years. The heart punch is one of my faves and I have wrapped the stem of a flower around a kebabs stick and looped through it. 2 more flowers have been added on the steps. I use a punch to create some pretty butterflies and added some gems to finish off.

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Circle Stepper card

Image – Lovelyflowers Wedding Horseshoe by HopeJacare Doodles

Paper – Designer Wedding Stack by Dovecraft

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart butterfly punch and Lattic Heart Pucn, 3d foam pads

Embellishments – self adhesive gems, pearl spray, mulberry paper flowers

Techniques – Punching & Multifold shaped card

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

Imagine That Bees n Sunflowers

It is New Release day at Imagine That! Digis by Kris and there are loads of new goodies to choose from.

We have Bee Boy, Bee Girl and a fantastic paper pack Bees n Sunflowers. All the images are available in outline or coloured options so are very versatile for colouring of use in scrapbook pages and printed cards. Please pop over to the store to see the New Releases.

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I had real fun with this card and printed out some of the lovely coloured images and papers for this card. For the from I used the big sunflower from the Bee Girl set, creating lots of texture with 3 layers for the flower. This is layered onto a doily cut with a die from DCWV textured cardstock. I used the Bee Trails paper from the pack for the base mounted onto more brown cardstock and then a white base. The sentiment is from the pack and cut into a banner shape. I have added some bees from the paper which have been enlarged to create an embellishment. Even the bees are decoupaged to create layers to the wings.

I got a bit carried away and ended up decorating the inside too! In my digital program I started with the Hexagons Yellow paper for the base and added the Bee Boy . I have also used the sentiment from the pack and the little bee. This whole ensemble was printed out and mounted onto more of the brown cardstock and stick to the inside of the card. The whole card is very thick with so many layers on the flower but I think you can really see the dimension in the petals and the rounded dome of the centre section. 

I love to colour so admit I would not normally use the coloured images but these were really fab to work with. The papers have such a vibrancy to the colours and the images are just so easy to work with. I love to ‘play’ with digital images and it is great to be able to do all your layering digitally before you print it out.

This will not be the last time I will be using the coloured options that’s for sure J

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Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Square

All Printed digital elements and papers from Bee Boy, Bee Girl & Bees n Sunflowers - Imagine This by Kris

Tools – 3d foam, Nellie Snellen Flower Circles Die

Techniques – Diecutting & Decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

OSAAT #166 Anything Goes

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time 

Anything Goes

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet and there is a fabulous prize of all the images used by the DT on Challenge #164 for the lucky winner who uses a Store image.

Please head on over to the NEW LOOK  & REBRANDED Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers. There is also a weekly free image with a purchase of over $3.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can sign up to the newsletter & become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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This week my teamie Choccy chose this fabulous image to work with called Starry Dreamer from Alipeeps Art

I love the expression on the face, such serenity and calmness. I coloured her with promarkers and flexmarkers adding subtle makeup to her face and curls in her hair. I am very pleased my how she came out. I used a Zig glue pen on the stars and some fine gold glitter. The image has been matted onto some Kraft cardstock that has been recycled from an expanding concertina style A–Z file that I used to use for filing home documents. I have lots of pieces of this card now added to my stash J

The card is covered with a subtle coloured paper from the Boho Chic First Edition pad. The sentiment is a freebie from Elegant Word Art by Bethany and is mounted onto a scrap of gold card. Finally I added a gold fabric glitter butterfly sticker from Hobbycraft.

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image – Starry Dreamer by Alipeeps Art

Paper – Boho Chic First Edition pad by Dovecraft

Sentiment – Digi Freebie from Elegant Wordart by Bethany

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers,

Embellishments – Fabric Glitter butterfly sticker from Hobbycraft

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

Get Inky - #5 Glitter

Paper Makeup Stamps Digi Makeover – #90 Anything Goes

Ladybug Friends Digital Card

It’s time for Challenge #8 at Imagine That! Digis by Kris and if you took part in the last challenge you will have received the Ladybug Friends pack.

My previous post showcase a card I made with the outline images but when I saw the coloured version and the pretty papers I was immediately inspired to have a play and made a digital card.

  

I use a graphics programme called Xara and started with a black square. I them layered the Red and Black polka dots paper onto it. I used the Ladybugs on Green on a matted black layer. The image is inside a digi frame and the sentiment is matter on a black rectangle. It was really quick to create and just such fun to do. I left it as a digital file as I was only having a play but it would be so easy to create your card on screen with so many layers but then print it out and you have made yourself a multi-layered card in just one layer of printing.

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Square DIGICARD

Image – Ladybug Friends Colour Digi from Imagine That 

Paper – Blossoms n Bugs Digi Paper Pack from Bella’s Boutique

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-