OSAAT #163

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

Summer Sun

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.

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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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For this challenge I had ben assigned to choose an image from Alipeeps Art. For those that don’t know Ali is one of our DT Members who happens to be very talented at drawing too. I have loved this particular image Butterfly Profile since I first saw it and couldn’t wait to use it.

The sentiment panel is a freebie from Phooka’s blog. I love inspirational  and uplifting quotes but could really see that this image would work so well with the sentiment. I printed the panel and coloured it with a yellow Promarker. Cut it out with my deckled edge paper trimmed and inked the edges with distressing ink.

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I really worked hard to create texture in the hair and coloured all the pretty butterflies in the colours of the rainbow. I fussy cut (OMG, took me ages!!) and mounted onto 3d foam. The green card black has been covered with a lovely swirly paper from the First Edition Spring Feast pad and I added the sentiment and image to it. The image has been rotated slightly so she faces the sun. I added a few more glittery butterfly stickers and called it done J

In a bizarre twist on the day I made this card we met up with our friends who we haven’t seen for a couple of months. My friend Sue has been so amazingly supportive of me and my mental health problems and was remarking about how much different I am now I am out of the darkness. She was talking about how she likes to turn her face to the sun when it is shining on her fence at home and loves the pretty patterns. She then said that she could see that I was so much lighter and brighter as a person and it was now my time to shine. I swear she must have been in my head and I saw her the following day, gave her this card and told her why I was smiling the whole time we were having our conversation the previous evening. Yet another example of everything happening for a reason……

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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 – Butterfly Profile by Alipeeps Art

Paper – Spring Feast First Edition Pad

Sentiment – Digi Freebie from Phooka

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Distress Ink, 3d foam, paper trimmer

Embellishments – butterfly glitter stickers

Techniques – Distressing

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

• 365 Cards - Day 126 Use at least 3 stickers (butterflies)
• Challenges 4 Everybody  – #20 Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge - #174 Sentiment on Front
• Lady Anne’s Stamp Challenge – #8 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #5 Anything Goes
• Nana Vic’s – #4 Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #9 Things With Wings
• Outlawz Sunday CAS – CAS051213 Butterflies
• Path of Positivity -  #2 Positive Quote and story behind it
• Word Art Wednesday - #79  Anything Goes

CDAC PC10 Beary Sweet Winter

It’s Round 10 of the Progressive Challenge at CDAC  and we have some lovely

Bringing In The New Year

 themed images for this round. Team A have the pleasure in bringing you some gorgeous samples for the images for this round. 

My card is using a cute image called Beary Sweet Winter from Digi’s by Phooka.

I have combined 3 digital images together to make this card. I used a previous freebie Fireworks design by Anne Fenton for the background, placed the cute bear in front and used a sentiment stamp from Shannon’s Sentiments adding the 2012 with a font in the graphics programme. I love the flexibility you have with digis and that you can combine images to make something unique for your own cards.

The image is coloured with Promarkers and I have used a clear Sakura glitter pen on the stars, adding lots of star shaped and small gems from Papermania in clear and blue.

I have used a sheet of pearlescent card for the base card, adding a piece of metallic card with embossed silver stars. The image is matted onto some more card and raised on 3d foam. The holographic stars have been in my stash for years and I threaded some metal brads from Papermania through, adding them to the top of the card to look like they are part of the fireworks.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year, I hope that 2012 has started off well for you and will bring you much happiness and good health.

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If you have taken part in the last challenge you will be receiving your images to work with for this part. If however you didn't enter all is not lost. For the paltry sum of only $1 you can buy back into the challenge and you will receive the images.

The deadline to enter your cards is 31st January. For all details on this challenge, the rules and how it works please pop over to this thread at the CDAC

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Image – Beary Sweet Winter by Digi’s by Phooka, Fireworks by Anne Fenton

Sentiment – Shannon’s Sentiments

Paper – Kanban

Embellishments – Gems & Brads by Papermania

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

• Bizzy Becs – Anything Goes
• Card Makin’ Mamas – Happy New Year
• Corrosive Challenge #140 – Ring In The New Year
• Craft Garden – Monochrome
• Crafty Boots Challenge – New Beginnings
• Crafty Creations #152 – Something New (digi)
• Crafty Purple Frog – Anything Goes
• Diva’s By Design #18 – New Beginnings
• Gingerloft #31 – Anything Goes
• I Love Promarkers #99 – Cute & Cuddly
• Fresh Brewed Designs #77 – Something new (digi)
• House of Gilli #24 – Anything Goes
• Kaboodle Doodles #101 – Fireworks/Celebration
• Lexi’s Creations #56 – Anything Goes
• Ooh La La Creations #96 – New Beginnings
• Paper Cutz #120 – New Year
• Pile It On #3 – Fuzzy Friends
• Simply Create Too #4 – More Than 2 Layers
• Some Odd Girl – Bling it Up
• Stampin’ For The Weekend #24 – Out With The Old (had the embossed card for years!)
• The Squirrel & the Fox #9 – Critters
• Truly Madly Crafty – Anything Goes

Christmas Bunny Digis By Phooka

I’ve made another Christmas card from an image I have had coloured in for a while. This cute little Christmas Bunny is from Digis by Phooka. I love Myriams little cuties and this is no exception, they have such adorable faces on them J This image is from Round 5 of the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge.

The image is coloured in with Pro/Flexmarkers and I have added some glossy accents to the eyes. I have used a small card from a Craftworks Cards goody bag for the base. The snowflake paper is by Dovecraft. The snowflakes are confetti sequins and I have added a gem to each one with glossy accents. Finally the sentiment is a peel off. Once the image was coloured the card was quite quick to make and with simple embellishments would be quite inexpensive to mass produce

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 4” square

Image – Christmas Bunny from Digis By Phooka

Paper - Dovecraft

Embellishments – snowflake confetti, gems, glossy accents, peel off sticker

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Pro/Flexmarkers

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

• ABC DT Challenge – Christmas Card
• Christmas Card Challenge #50 – Holly or any Christmas Card
• Christmas Cards All Year Round – Sketch for layout (rotated)
• City Crafter’s Challenge #83 – Four Legged Friend
• Craft Your Passion #84 – Christmas with Snowflakes
• Crafts and Me #61 – Simples
• Crafter’s Companion #18 – Let It Snow
• Creative Craft Challenge – Minimalistic
• Crimbo Crackers #2 – Make It Sparkle
• Cupcake Craftroom – Sweet Christmas
• Dare to be Sassy #98 – Card for or suitable for a child
• Delightful Challenges – Snowflakes
• Floweret Stamplar #8 – Christmas Card
• Forever Friends – Christmas is Coming
• Forever Friends Monthly – Use Something old (snowflakes & peel offs) & new (digi & paper)
• Little Miss Muffet #22 – Simplicity
• Make It Monday #63 – Link Up Party
• My Partner in Crafting Crime #35 – Use a freebie (image)
• Order of the Opus Gluei #117 – What’s On Your Head?
• Paper Shelter #40 – Snowflakes
• Stamping Boutique Monthly - Holiday or winter card
• Wags n Whiskers #67 – Christmas