Imagine That Beach Boy

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

We have Beach Boy and Beach Girl by Kris and now all the image packs come with both outline & colour included representing excellent value for money. 

We also have Butterfly Teeka, Kathy’s Butterfly & Lil’ Train Conductor

   

We also have 2 amazing set of beach themed papers At The Beach from Bella’s Beauties and Beachscapes from Daydream Designs

For a kit that is amazing value for money see the KD-KIT At The Beach which has $15 worth of items in it for only $6.50

Please pop over to the store to see the New Releases. 

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   For this challenge card I have used Beach Boy with papers from both the paper packs. All the elements have been printed off onto lightweight cardstock and assembled following a sketch layout from I {Heart} Card Sketches. I added some brown card for layering and distressed the edges with scissors. The spotty paper is inside a digital bracket shape frames that I downloaded from The Scrappin Cop. 

For the image layer I played about with the position of the sunburst so that I could make it look like sun rays. I just love playing with digi images to produce something different. Kris’ sets are so much fun and make it very easy to create fabulous projects and the co-ordinating paper packs make it come together so well.

How would you like to win a Prize?? 

I am giving away the Beach Boy digi image pack that I have used for this challenge to one lucky reader who leaves a comment on this post. Please leave a comment before 12 noon GMT and one commenter will be selected at random to win this cute little boy playing in the sand.

For more chances to win please pop along to the blogs of my Team mates and comment on their fabulous projects too.

Jenn 
Kathy 
Sharyn 
Tania 

And of course our intrepid leader and very talented designer Kris Breach is offering a prize too!

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Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Square

Image – Beach Boy by Imagine That Digi’s by Kris

Papers – At The Beach digi papers from Bella’s Beauties & Beachscapes digi papers from Daydream Designs

Tools – 3d foam pads, scissors for paper distressing

Techniques – Distressing

OSAAT #172 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 #170 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.

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 was Choccy’s turn to choose an image this week and we are using a great paper and image combo pack from Coosty Creations called Starship. You get 4 coloured digi papers and an image to colour in for only $3. This is the same cost as most stamps on their own so basically you get the papers free! How sweet is that?

My Brother in law is a Sci-Fi geek and I just knew this would make a fabulous birthday card for him. Obviously the spaceship makes you think of Star Trek straight away so I wanted to find a free font that was similar. I even found a dingbat font which had the insignia on it. The links are below and they are personal use only fonts All of these elements I positioned onto the background paper and printed it out onto glossy photo paper. The colours really are amazing and very crisp. I mounted this onto some silver paper form my stash and then onto a sheet of A4 card for the base layer.

The digi was printed out on my normal paper and coloured in with Promarkers in various shades of grey. This was fussy cut and mounted onto 3d foam pads.

It’s not Chris’ birthday until December so look at me being so organised already…. Of course I probably won’t be able to find it when I need it though LOL

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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 & papers – Starship pack from Coosty Creations

Free Fonts – He’s Dead Jim from Dafont.com  & Trekbats from Fontspace

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers,

OSAAT #171 Fold It

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

Fold It

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet and there is a fabulous prize of a $10 Store Gift voucher 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.

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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Mrs Christmas (me!) decided that a multi-fold challenge just screamed make a concertina card using all the images from the 12 Days of Christmas pack by Stitchy Stamps. I have loved this series of images, they are so fun and perfect for my bright style of cardmaking. Now this is alright in principle but I massively underestimated how long this was going to take to do. I am just about to go on holiday and am being pulled away from my crafting for various reasons at the moment. Having said that I am so pleased with how this has turned out. I get so much pleasure when an idea that I have formed in the back of my mind actually turns out the way I wanted.

I started by creating 12 circles in my graphics programme and popped the digis inside these so they were all going to be the same finished panel size. I coloured them in with Flexmarkers and Promarkers keeping to the dominant colours of red, green and gold throughout. I used the same colours on all the images to create continuity throughout the project.

I’d worked out a mock folded card using scraps and knew I needed 7 double sides to allow for a sentiment front and the panel to write a personal message on. I cut 14 pieces of white card 5.5” square and then used the strips I had left from the A4 sheet to create hinges. I did a double width score line in the middle of these strips to allow for the bulk of the card when you fold the concertina. I made a project in the past where I didn’t do that and it was big regret as it never sat neatly when it was closed, nor did it allow for extra bulk with die cuts and layers. That was a very valuable lesson that has paid dividends with this card. You can see all the images below starting with the front of the card/book which has a freebie that is still available here from Tracey Brossart’s blog

I bet you couldn’t look at those pictures without singing the song J

I used the same die cut tree and snowflakes throughout adding flowers from Craftwork Cards with gold outline stickers and Santa themed epoxy resin stickers.

Altogether, this project took

23 snowflake shapes,

14 patterned papers,

12 digi images,

10 die cut flowers,

10 Santa Stickers

8 die cut trees,

4 rolls of red line sticky tape,

1 Digi Sentiment

And it has a Partridge in a Pear Tree J (sorry couldn’t resist!)

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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 – 5.5” Concertina Card

Images – 12 Days of Christmas from Stitchy Stamps

Sentiment – Freebie from Bross Artful Designs

Paper – Assorted from DCWV Christmas Stacks

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Marianne Creatable Tree die, Nestabilities Small circle scallop die, Shapeabilites Create a Flake 3

Embellishments – peel off stickers, Epoxy resin stickers, Die cut flowers from Craftwork Cards

Techniques - Diecutting

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

Crafty Hazelnut’s Monthly Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Guest Designer

Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet is sponsoring the new challenge at Crafty Friends and as I am the Sponsorship Co-ordinator for SBDO I have been asked to be a Guest Designer. 

There is a Prize of 3 images upto $10 from Stitchy Stamps, Floppy Latte & Lil Diva up for grabs so head on over there if you want a chance to win this fab prize.

The challenge this week is a Photo Inspiration. Take a look at the fabulous picture we have been given

The card I submitted has appeared on my blog before for the September Mega Collaboration challenge at One Stitch At  A Time and I using this fabulous image from Hope Jacare Doodles called Sandcastle. I thought it would be perfect to go with this photo as it screams of seaside J

For More Details please pop to this post when it originally appeared on my blog.

Imagine That #10 Hedgehog Friends

  

It’s the 1st of the month and time for Challenge #10 at Imagine That! Digis by Kris and if you took part in the last challenge you will have received the Hedgehog Friends outline pack which has 4 images with 3 different sentiments.

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

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If you saw the last card I made using the Hedgehog Greetings pack you will know that I have a friend who runs a hedgehog sanctuary from her home. At the moment she is looking after 9 babies and between them they need 53 feeds per day. She asked me to make some thankyou cards for the people who make donations to her and I have used these images to make another couple for her. I do plan to make a lot more for her as my way of donating to her. I may also have asked if I can cuddle a baby hedgehog or two J

As I will be mass producing them I have used the colour images of the Hedgie Boy and Hedgie Girl and printed them onto matte photo paper. They have a slight sheen to them and the colours have printed out so well. I flipped the little boy around so they are both facing the same way. These are matted onto scraps of cardstock from my ‘go to here first’ scraps box. There are no embellishments to keep bulk and postage costs down. As much as much as I love adding bling etc it is not cost effective for a non profit organisation that is run on donations.

The cards have been made using the same background paper. I was very lucky to have recently won 5 sheets of this in 12” x 12” size so they will make quite a few cards. I have used up scraps of papers from the Woodland Friends paper pack by Docrafts. I made the girl hedgie more feminine with a punched border. To finish off I have added one of the sentiments from the digi pack.

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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. They are very inspiring and you won’t be disappointed J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image & Sentiment – Hedgehog Friends from Imagine That 

Paper – Woodland Friends by Docrafts

Tools – Fiskars Treading Water punch

Techniques – Punching

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

OSAAT #170 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 #168 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.

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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Our new Teamie Tanya chose this fabulous image Ivy Fairy from Delicious Doodles to work with and of course she had to be green didn’t she? She is coloured I Promarkers and Flexmarkers in only a few colours as I wanted to keep it mainly green and Kraft throughout.

I chose the sketch by I {Heart} Card Sketches to work with for the layout as I wanted to use a new die for the frame which I thought would look very pretty with it. The image was cut into an oval but some areas protruded and were fussy cut, I think this is the out of the frame technique? I call it make the image fit the frame J

Anyhoo the papers are from First Edition, the Kraft is from my stash and the green trim on the edge is a self adhesive paper trim from Papermania. I added some Prima flowers and gem centres and a couple of glittery butterfly stickers. The sentiment is from COLORink Digital Stamps

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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 – Ivy Fairy from Delicious Doodles

Sentiment – COLORink Digital Stamps

Paper – Green from Isabelle, Floral from Daydream First Edition Pads

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities D Lites Die Labels 1

Embellishments – Prima Flowers, K & Co Gems, Self adhesive Papermania paper trim

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

I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 024

Sea Turtle Kiss

Over at Delightful Inspiration {From the Heart} the progressive freebie image this month is a fabulous set Sea Turtle Beach which has 3 images and 3 sentiments, what an amazing gift! Thank you so much Faith.

I love the image of the 2 turtles kissing and opted to use this. I made a turtle sentiment to go with it and printed that on the image which I then cut out with a pretty nestabilities die.

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I matted it onto a scrap of blue card and then both patterned papers are by DCWV and have been previously cut into. Other than the card base all the papers are offcuts

If you would like this sentiment I have added it below in PNG and JPG. I would ask that you credit me and link back if you use it and please do not claim it as your own

     

I look forward to seeing next month’s image from Faith. Thank you so much for running these progressive challenges, they are so much fun.

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image – Sea Turtle Beach by From The Heart

Sentiment – Freebie from Made By Mandy (Me!)

Paper – DCWV QVC drawer kit

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities die romantic Rectangles

Techniques – Diecutting

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

Delightful Inspiration – June Free Stamp of The Month