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Sunday 28 July 2013

OSAAT #174 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 #172 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


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 my turn to choose this week and we are using an image from Floppy Latte Designs called Simple Framed Flowers. It is such a very elegant design and great for any occasion. In this instance I chose to make a Thank You card for a friend’s Mother in South Africa as she will be playing host to us all for 2 weeks.

As this post goes live I will be in Johannesburg having spent 5 nights at the Kruger National Park in South Africa (as long as I haven’t been eaten by a lion or something!). I found out what Hester’s favourite colours are and have coloured this up using them.

I created a second layer of just the flowers on their own and these are mounted with 3d foam and have glossy accents on them. The image has been matted on Kraft paper and then added to glittery paper from a First Edition pad. The trim is metallic with small sequins on it and is the perfect match to the colours. I used a glittery fabric butterfly sticker and added it to some scrap red card. I trimmed around it adding some gems to the body and mounted on 3d foam.

The sentiment is rub on’s from K & Co that I have had in my stash for at least 8 years. I am really trying to use things that I haven’t even see for a good many years as you tend to use what you can see more easily don’t you?

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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
Paper – Blank Canvas First Edition Pad
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam pads
Embellishments – Glossy Accents, gems from Dovecraft, Fabric butterfly sticker Hobbycraft, K & Co Rub-ons, sequin braid

Monday 22 July 2013

Imagine That Skipper's Pocket


It’s Flashback time at Imagine That! and today I bring you a card made using an older design from the store.

I have used the image Skipper’s Pocket. You get both the outline image and the coloured version in the same pack.


I also used the matching digi papers Frog In My Pocket


And a sentiment from Hedgie Friends 


I used the 2 digi papers to crate my base element and then added the plain jeans pocket over the papers. This was then printed onto glossy photo paper and it really has excellent print quality.

I used the pocket with flowers and printed onto my normal digi paper, I wanted it to create a layered effect, almost like a patch pocket that Skipper would be peeking out from. I coloured with Promarkers, cut it out and mounted with 3d foam.

I added embellishments in the form of gems and pearls and then the sentiment has faux stitches on it to emulate the stitching on the jeans.

Please pop along to the blog to see the other projects my team mates have done. They really are very talented and Kris’ amazing designs makes it so easy to be creative.


Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card size – A6
Image – Skipper’s Pocket from Imagine That!
Sentiment – Hedgie Friends from Imagine That!
Embellishments – assorted gems and pearls

Sunday 21 July 2013

OSAAT #173 Favourite Things

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

Favourite Things


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.


Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can sign up to the newsletter & 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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This week we are creating using the theme of Favourite Things. I used this gorgeous image of Winter Robin from IkeSart. My favourite things are pretty papers, flowers, twinkly things and Christmas so this little robin red breast was perfect. We are very lucky that we get robins visiting our garden quite regularly and they are very inquisitive little birds that come right up to me sometimes if I stay still. I love animals and nature and it is always a complete honour to see such things especially living in a big city. Sometimes you just need to stop for a while, stay still and watch all the wonderful things that happen around you.

My little robin is coloured with Promarkers and then cut out with an Oval Fiskars shape template. I then cut some matting layers from gold and green cardstock and added foam squares to lift off the paper.

The papers are from a magazine supplement that came free with a magazine. I really liked the shaped of the green patterned panel that was part of a multi patterned sheet so layered this on a plainer polka dot and grid pattern paper. The sentiment is from the same pack mounted onto green card and used a corner rounder punch to trim.

Finally I actually USED some of my favouritest Prima flowers that are twinkly fabric poinsettias with a holly leaf and an American Crafts gem brad to hold it all together.

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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 – Winter Robin by IkeSart
Paper & Sentiment – Magazine Freebie
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam pads
Embellishments – Prima flowers, American Crafts Gem Brad




Friday 19 July 2013

Imagine That Winner


Thankyou to the people who visited my blog and comments on my post using this fab image Beach Boy from Imagine That! Digi's by Kris
The lucky winner of this set is Jerusha Borden with this comment:-

Blogger Jerusha Borden said...
That is sooooo cute! I really like this set. So fun! Your card is fabulous! I find it challenging to follow a sketch at times, but you've done a fantastic job! Great card!
15 July 2013 13:08
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Jerusha, watch out for happy mail from Kris and congratulations on your win.

Monday 15 July 2013

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 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
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



Sunday 14 July 2013

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

 
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


Sunday 7 July 2013

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



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
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):-