OSAAT #133 - Butterfly or Buttons

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

Butterfly or Buttons

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.

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

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

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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Well for this challenge I just had to use butterflies didn’t I? I used this gorgeous image called Flowerlicious by Stitchy Stamps adding a second layer for the flutterby soit’s wings could flap of course J  I coloured the image with Promarkers & Flexmarkers adding some glossy accents and a gem to the poppy centre and lots of stickles glitter glue to the butterfly. I die cut the image with a Nestabilities die and distressed the edges with an inkpad.

The backing paper is from DCWV Mariposa stack. I adore black and red and this is one of the prettiest papers with the swirls on it. The gorgeous lace trim has roses woven in it and is by Prima.

The sentiment is a freebie from Vibgyor Krafts and has been die cut with a Quickutz Cookie Cutter Die.

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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 – Flowerlicious by Stitchy Stamps

Sentiment – Freebie by Vibgyor Krafts

Paper – Mariposa Stack by DCWV

Embellishments – Rose lace by Prima, black gem Paperchase

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3D foam, Stickles Glitter Glue, Rangers Glossy Accents, Nestabilities & Qucikutz Cookie Cutter Dies

Techniques - Diecutting, Distressing, Decoupage

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

• Challenges 4 Everybody #4 – Anything Goes
• Hybrid Chick Card Caravan #28 – 7 Things (DP, image, sentiment, lace, glitter, gem, glossy accents)
• Joanna Sheen – Down In The Garden
• My Heart Pieces – Use Black

Daisy Doodles #68 - One For The Boys

Over at Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

One For The Boys

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For my card I have used the train from the Travel Bugs set. This great value set has 4 images which comes in 3 formats for only $3.

Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check these out and all the other great digi’s that are available !

I coloured my image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers in bright primary colours. I have use papers from Papermania with a Brit feel as I thought it lent itself well to a travel theme and the colours are bright and bold. The train has been cut out and mounted onto 3d foam.

I have only added a few buttons with twin tied through them and a sentiment from HunkyDory. Perfect card for a man, young or old J

I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there from the rest of the DT and we look forward to seeing your entries in for our One For The Boys Challenge

I'll see you again next time with another lovely Daisy Doodles design.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image –Travel Bug by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Papers – Papermania Portobello Road

Sentimeny – Hunky Dory

Embellishments – Papermania buttons, twine

Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, small ink pad, 3d Foam

Techniques - Distressing

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

• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar #8 – Anything Goes
• Catered Crop – Knot
• Challenges 4 Everybody #3 – Anything Goes
• Craftymess #18 – Distressed or Aged
• Creative Craft Challenge – Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #125 – Anything Goes
• Diva’s By Design #53 – At Least 4 Layers
• Dream Valley Challenge #41 – celebrations
• Dude Time Doodles – Male & Sentiment
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Fussy & Fancy  #72 – Travel Around The World (UK, London)
• Here Come the Boys #36 – Recipe
• Inspire Me Fridays #77 – Anything Goes
• Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 Different Shapes (Circle, square, rectangle)
• My Heart Pieces – Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey – Use a Sentiment
• Pattie’s Creations #53 – Anything Goes
• Perfect Sentiment #50 – Masculine Birthday
• Scrapper’s Delight # 23 – Distress It
• Secret Crafter #204 – Distressing
• Simply Create #3 – Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too #22 – Anything Goes
• Stamp n Doodle – Anything Goes
• The Squirrel & the Fox #27 – Celebrate The Occasion
• Through The Craftroom Door #36 – Anything Goes
• Whimsy Inspirations #51 – Anything Goes

OSAAT #132 - Bingo

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme is

Bingo

Select 3 in a line, must go through the centre ‘digi’ option

 We are sponsored this week by  Creative Craft World  who are offering the lucky winner 3 Promarkers of their choice if they use a Stitchy Bear Store Digi

The DT are all using products from the new Mini Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every Fortnight for 1 week only. The Mini Collab is free with a purchase from the store of only $7

Don't forget for the month of September we have the Mega Collaboration available free with a purchase of $12. You get all these lovely designs for FREE!!

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are always 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 become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

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 lovely image Birds in a Tree by Hope Jacare Doodles for both myself and Choccy to work with. I loved all the swirls in the tree trunk and I could see that the leaves could easily be gemstones and of course the little tweety birds peeking out from the branches are very cute J

I coloured the image with Promarkers & Flexmarkers and although this is a big card and the image is big it needed the fine tip on the Promarkers to keep inside the intricate lines of this design. I used a new X Cut die set to cut the image and I was lucky as it was only just big enough. I distressed the edges to soften it a little. I added lots of gems to the leaves and some Glossy Accents to the birdies.

The large 8” card is covered with papers from my favourite Autumn collection, Woodland Friends by Papermania. The sentiment was a freebie some time ago from Raindrop Echo Designs which has been coloured, cut with a Nestabilities die and distressed with a small ink pad.

To cover the join in the paper I used a fab ‘ribbon’ that I got from a haberdashery stall in a local market. It has four rows of faux gemstones and you can cut the webbing to make it as thin or thick as you like. I just love perusing these little stalls as you can find some wonderful bits and pieces for your cards J

To finish off I added some more buttons from my Boofle bag, some embossed stickers from Papermania and some small red gems which have been recycled from an old T shirt.

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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 card are as follows:-

Card Size – 8” Square

Image – Birds In a Tree by Hope Jacare Doodles

Paper – Autumn Friends by Papermania

Sentiment – Autumn Abundance by Raindrop Echo Designs

Embellishments – Papermania Boofle Buttons, Papemania embossed stickers, Assorted Gems, Glossy Accents, faux gemstone ribbon

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities & X Cut dies, small ink pad

Techniques – Die cutting, distressing

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

• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Avadares Challenge #3 – Make It Sparkle
• Bearly Mine #53 – Fall Colours
• Broken Box Stock #10 – Fall Foliage Colours
• Brown Sugar #8 – Anything Goes
• Clearly Inspired #60 – Fall
• Crafting For All Seasons #36 – Things With Wings
• Craftymess #18 – Distressed or Aged
• Crafty Catz #151 – Buttons
• Creative Belli Challenge #152 - Autumn
• Creative Craft Challenge – Anything Goes
• Creative Stamp Friends #60 – New Stamps
• Dare to be Sassy #143 – Fall Colours
• Deep Ocean Challenge #34  –  Goodbye Summer
• Delightful Challenges – Distressed
• Digital Tuesday #178 – Things With Wings
• Digistamps 4 Joy #51 – Autumn Leaves
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #125 – Anything Goes
• Elke Kart Een Feestje #133 – Fall is on the way
• Eureka Stamps #6 – Autumn Colours
• Fairytale Challenge #50 – Autumn
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Fun With Shapes & More #117 – Include an Animal (birdies)
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Embossing (embossed stickers)
• Inspire Me Fridays #77 – Anything Goes
• LEJ Designs #21 – Sparkle & Shine
• Lollipop Crafts #90 – 2 Different Dies or Punches
• Love To Create #33 – Things With Wings
• Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 Different Shapes (square, rectangle,circle)
• My Graphico #137 – Fall
• My Heart Pieces – Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey – Use a Sentiment
• Paper Makeup Digi Makeover #54 – Welcome Autumn
• Paperminutes #235 – Autumn
• Papertake Weekly  – Autumn Colours
• Paper Pretties PPMC57 – Use Ribbon
• Pattie’s Creations #53 – Anything Goes
• Pixie Dust Studio – Inspired by Fall
• QKR Stampede #6 – Fall Fun
• Ribbon Carousel Challenge #71 – Fall
• Sassy Cheryl’s #133 – Use a Die Cut
• Simply Create #3 – Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too #22 – Anything Goes
• Stampavie & More #177 – Glitter & Sparkle
• Stampin’ For The Weekend #18  – Feeling Floral
• Stamping With The Dragon  – Fall Colours
• Stamp n Doodle – Anything Goes
• Stempelsonne Challenge #72 - Leaves
• Tammy’s Scrapin Corner #28 – Anything Goes
• Through The Craftroom Door #36 – Anything Goes
• Top Tip Tuesday #85 – Recycle It (red gems from a T shirt)
• Twisted Tuesday #24 – Something that flies & 3 diff bellies
• Use Your Stuff #52 – Fall Colours

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

 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.

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

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

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

Daisy Doodles Challenge #67

Over at Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

In The Garden

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Jules would like to see you use a Daisy Doodles image for this challenge. There is a 50% discount in the store for one week only, what a great chance to purchase some of your faves with this brilliant saving.  See the challenge post here for details of the discount code.

For my card I have used Wheelbarrow which comes in 3 formats for only $2.

Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check these out and all the other great digi’s that are available !

I coloured my image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers, adding lots of stickles glitter glue to the butterflies and pretty flowers.

I have used some glittered papers from Artoz which are brightly coloured and butterfly themed. The big glittery butterfly has been cut from one of the papers and I folded it’s wings and mounted the body with 3d foam.

The stick pin was made using a pearly headed pin, some butterfly shaped beads and assorted ones from my stash. The metallic butterflies were cut from a wonderful trim I bought a few months ago and the sentiment is from my stash.

I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there from the rest of the DT and we look forward to seeing your entries in for our Garden Challenge

I'll see you again next time with another lovely Daisy Doodles design.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Wheelbarrow by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Papers – Butterflies by Artoz

Embellishments – Beads, butterfly trim

Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, small ink pad

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

• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion #127 – blast from the past (116 Things With Wings)
• Crafts and Me #100 – Add A Flower
• Diva’s By Design #51 – Friendship
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Inky Impressions – Anything Goes
• Kaboodle Doodles – Flowers
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Show us What You Got
• My Heart Pieces – Lots of Layers
• My Mum's Craft Shop #73 – Anything Goes
• Paperminutes #233 – Old (sentiment & beads) new (digi, paper, metallic butterflies)
• Papertake Weekly  – Anything Goes
• Perfect Sentiment #48 – All Creatures Great & Small
• Pile It On #37 – Patterned paper
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Show us What You Got
• My Heart Pieces – Lots of Layers
• The Squirrel & the Fox #26 – Anything Goes
• There’s Magic in The Air – Things With Wings
• Through The Craftroom Door #34 – Anything Goes
• Use Your Stuff #51 – Stripes
• Whimsy Inspirations #50 – Lots of layers
• Word Art Wednesday #44 – Uplifting Sentiment