OSAAT #140 Use a Digi

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

Use A Digi

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and the prize is a £10 voucher for the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy  store image

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store 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.

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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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My Teamie Choccy chose this lovely image Snowy Postbox from Delicious Doodles to work with and I thought it would make a lovely traditional Christmas card.

I coloured the image using Promarkers & Flexmarkers using greys for the paths and sky, a vibrant red for the postbox and front door and muted shades of other colours so they went more into the background. The image has been matted onto a scrap of very dark green card. I added lots and lots of twinkle using Stickles glitter glue and even used got to use some puffy applique glue for snow. I totally love how that puffs up with a heat gun J

The main background paper is from Creative Cardmaking magazine. They have a lovely selection of Christmas papers by Kanban. I really do like this magazine and the papers in this issue have been my most used yet. I used a Fiskars punch on the green layer.

The gold sparkly trim was from a haberdashery stall in a market. It is faceted in such a way that it looks like a diamante trim but is actually plastic. It comes 4 rows across and you can trim the fabric mesh backing to make it as wide or narrow as you wish. To finish off I added a couple of gems, a die cut poinsettia and sentiment both from Docrafts.

My Teamie Choccy and I have been paired together for a long time working with the same image every fortnight. We have chattered many times on email and Facebook and she is a really lovely person and a good friend and confidante.

She has recently started to work at a stationery shop that sells crafty stuff and yesterday she was doing her very first craft demonstration. I thought it would be the ideal time to pop along and meet her and give her some moral support. Here is a photo of us both

We had a cup of tea, a natter and played with some craft stuff. Time went so quickly but it was wonderful to meet up at last and we shall definitely be doing it again J

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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:-

Image – Snowy Postbox by Delicious Doodles

Sentiment – Docrafts

Paper – Kanban freebie from Creative Cardmaking Magazine

Embellishments – flower die cuts Docrafts, gems, sparkle trim, Woodware applique puffy paint, Stickles glitter glue

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars border punch

Techniques - Punching

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

• Addicted To Stamps #44 - Tags
• Allways Something Creative #42 – Weather
• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes/Autumn or Winter
• Avadares Challenge #5 – Christmas
• Bunny Zoe #30 – Winter
• Catch The Bug – Bingo (Brown, Tree, Die Cut Sentiment)
• Challenges 4 Everybody #7 – Anything Goes
• Craft Room Challenge – Punches & Die Cuts
• Crafter’s Companion  – Favourite Colour Combo (Red & Green for Christmas)
• Crafty Blogger’s Network #5 – Anything Christmas
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #99 – Use Something 6 Months old (puffy applique)
• Crafty Pad #197 – Christmas
• Creatalicious #40 – Winter
• Creative Stamp Friends #64 – Favourite Colours (red & Green for Christmas)
• Desert Island Crafters #42 – 1, 2, 6, 10
• Dream Valley Challenge #45 – Anything Goes
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes/Autumn or Winter
• Forever Friends Monthly – Anything Goes
• Glitter & Sparkle #7 – Lots of Layers
• Great Impressions Stamps – Celebrate The Season
• Hiding In My Craftroom #72 – Glitz & Glam
• I Brake For Challenges - Christmas
• Just Keep On Creating – Christmas Cards
• Lady Anne's Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
• Little Claire Designs #27 – Christmas
• My Graphico #140 – Anything Goes
• One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes
• Oozak Challenge #8 – Winter Vibes
• Order of the Opus Gluei #144 – 3D / More Than 1 Layer
• Paper Issues – Holiday Happy
• Pan Pastel UK #45 – Red & green
• Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
• Paper Creators Crafts #1 – All About Christmas
• Scrap It Girl – Trees
• SJ Crafts #11 – Christmas
• Songbird Challenge #8 – Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
• Speedy Fox & Friends #134 – Pop It Up
• The Squirrel & the Fox #31 – Anything Goes