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Monday 26 November 2012

Cyber Monday Sale



Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps is having a Cyber Monday sale for one day only with a

MASSIVE 

50% discount.

We have so many fantastic artists with lots of lovely designs. Now is the BEST time to stock up on your wishlist of amazing digis.

The discount is on until 5am UK time on Tuesday 27th


Sunday 25 November 2012

OSAAT #141 - Fabric Ribbon or Lace


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

Fabric, Ribbon or Lace

Our sponsor this week is Creative Craft World with a fabulous prize of 3 Promarkers for the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy Bear 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


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 A Gift From Santa from Reece’s Scrap Pieces.   
I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers using browns for the bear and blues for the accessories. I love making Christmas cards using blue, white and silver as you can have so much fun with metallic and glitter. Can you tell I love making Christmas cards the best J

I added some googly eyes and matted the image onto a scrap of dark blue card. The card has been covered with my favourite snowflake paper which is actually a wrapping paper from Paperchase. It was a leftover piece from another project which was on my desk and waiting to be used up.
I have used this fabulous white and silver ribbon which came from Poundland. It is wired and quite wide. I have wrapped it round a piece of white scrap card to give it stability and stop the darker paper coming through the white ribbon.

The snowflakes are a mixture. The silver ones are fabric hologram ones from Ebay, about 3 years old and the white and silver is the last one off a sheet I had in a goody back from the NEC a good few years ago. I have hadded large blue gems from Paperchase to bling them up. The sentiment is from my stash.

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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
Paper – Paperchase
Embellishments – Paperchase gems, ribbon, fabric snowflakes, diecut snowflake, googly eyes

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

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Daisy Doodles #72


 

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

Thanksgiving

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For my project I have used the beautiful Daisy… Daisy which you get in 3 formats for only $2. I have also used one of the lovely Skeleton Leaf papers as the background. You get 5 colours again for only $2. They are both amazing value and would be useful for many projects.

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

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I chose the green skeleton paper for the background, I printed it out at A4 size and have some more to use or another project.

I use my Promarkers and Flexmarkers to colour the image, adding shading to the centre of the flower petals. I used a Nestabilities die to cut it out and added it to a scrap of dark green for contrast.

The gorgeous ribbon is from Prima, the sentiment is Kanban and the glittery butterfly is from Hobbycraft.

I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there from my DT Team mate Emma and we look forward to seeing your entries in for our Challenge.

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Embellishments – Prima Ribbon, Kanban sentiment & Hobbycraft butterfly
Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities Die,
Techniques – Die Cutting

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




Sunday 18 November 2012

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.


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


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:-
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):-