OSAAT #131 - Autumn

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is

Autumn

Our sponsor this week is Crimson Cloud and the prize is a selection of diecuts for the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy  store image

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Don’t forget that we have changed the prize structure. 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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For this challenge I chose this gorgeous image Blue Tit on Rowan from Ike’s Art. It is so realistic looking. We are lucky to have blue tits coming in our garden, I love the little flash of colour as they hop about in the huge Bramley apple tree we have in our garden. I often just stand and watch them and feel very fortunate that even though I am living in the huge city of Birmingham I get these little happy snatches of nature in my own garden.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers being very careful to pick colours that they are in nature, adding shading to create depth to the feathers. I know there are many much more talented colourers than me out there in blogland but I am very happy with my shading on this one and feel I have been true the nature and hope I have done justice to this lovely image J I added some lines to the branch to create a bark effect, some white pen to the berries to create a highlight and lots of glitter to the snow and frost on the berries.

The papers are from a Papermania pack called Songbird. I wanted to pick out the yellowy green shade from the image and many of these papers are in lovely Autumn shades. The button is from a lovely Paprmania ‘Boofle’ bag which has oodles and oodles of buttons in browns, creams and peaches. I have oodles of buttons already but one can never have enough LOL

Well as the weather has definiteoly taken a much colder turn in the UK over the last week I am sure many of you will be easily inspired to make an Autumn themed project. What better excuse when it is cold than to huddle up in the warm and do some crafting?

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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" Square

Image – Blue Tit on Rowan by Ike’s Art

Paper – Songbird by Papermania

Embellishments – Papermania Boofle Button & Bakers Twine

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3D foam, Stickles Glitter Glue, White gel pen

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

• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Bearly Mine #52 – Anything Goes
• Clearly Inspired #59 – Leaves
• Craft Your Passion #127 – blast from the past (116 Things With Wings)
• Crafty Ann’s #74 – Autumn Colours
• Crafty Sentiments – Leaves
• Creative Card Crew #19 – Tree
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #125 – Anything Goes
• Fairytale Challenge #50 – Autumn
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Inspire Me Fridays #76 – Anything Goes
• Jackson’s Digital Expressions #22 – CAS /Anything Goes
• Love To Create #32 – Ribbon Or Twine
• Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 Different Shapes (Heart, square, rectangle)
• My Heart Pieces – Anything Goes
• Our Craft Lounge #134 – Twine
• Our Daily Bread #112 – Birds
• Raise The Bar #111 – Anything With Wings
• Tammy’s Scrapin Corner #27 – Fall Inspiration
• There’s Magic in The Air – Things With Wings
• Through The Craftroom Door #35 – Anything Goes