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Sunday, 2 December 2012

OSAAT #142 - Use A Digi


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

Anything Goes

We have a new sponsor this week. Rick St Dennis has a fabulous prize 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


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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Goodness me, this is my 900th post! That's a lot of cardmaking and waffle, thankfully though for you my dear readers most of it has been cardmaking......

 It was my turn to pick an image for me and teamie Choccy to work with and as I am still frantically trying to get my Christmas cards done I chose this Christmas Candle image from Kaz Kraftz. You get 2 different files, one which is the candle image in 2 different sizes and the other which is the candle and a topper of the floral section for decoupage. It is this one I chose to work with for my card.

I coloured the image using Promarkers & Flexmarkers and kept to the traditional red and green Christmas colours. I used some Woodware applique paint for the wax on the candle so it is raised and shiny, just like dripping wax would be. I also used some glossy accents to add shine to the candle flame and the pool of wax on the top of the candle. Unfortunately the photo doesn’t show the shine as much as it should. It is so dark and dismal in the UK and this was lit with 2 lamps. After several attempts I had to admit defeat L  I added some Stickles glitter glue and gold and red to the poinsettia and a few accents using a gold gel pen.

The card blank was distressed around the edges with a small blank ink pad. The main backing paper is from a Dovecrafts pad, Back to Basic Christmas. I used a Nestabilities die to cut a mat from a scrap of green card. The oval of text paper is from Papermania and then the candle image is laid onto this.

The glittery spotty ribbon is from Dovecraft, the Papermania sentiment has been matted onto some more green card and the added gems are from a DCWV Christmas kit.
I was lucky enough to be asked to make a project using an image from our Sponsor Rick St Dennis which is coming up on the next post.

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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 – Christmas Candle by Kaz Krafts
Sentiment – Docrafts/Papermania
Paper – Kanban freebie from Creative Cardmaking Magazine & Back to Basics Christmas by Dovecraft
Embellishments –Woodware applique puffy paint, Stickles glitter glue, Glossy Accents, Gems by DCWV, Ribbon by Dovecraft
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities die, small inkpad
Techniques – Distressing, Decoupage, Die cutting

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



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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
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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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:-
Image – Snowy Postbox by Delicious Doodles
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):-







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Sunday, 4 November 2012

OSAAT #138 - Anything Goes


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

Anything Goes

Our sponsor this week is Crimson Cloud and the prize is a pack of die cuts 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


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 for us to use and we have this fabulous image Alice from Beary Dust Stamps. She is such a sweet image and lovely to work with.

I coloured the image using Promarkers & Flexmarkers and kept to a palette of blue & white with colouring for hair and skin only. I used a Nestabilities die to cut the image out and the darker blue mat to layer it on.

The main background paper is from Creative Cardmaking magazine. They have a lovely selection of Christmas papers by Kanban and I thought it looked lovely with this image and not at all Cristmassy. Just goes to show just because it is part of a Christmas collection doesn’t necessarily dictate how it HAS to be used……

I used a scrap of wedgewood blue card to layer the image on and it looked so plain, it was already stick down so I was limited with my options until I spied some white rub ons that I had won as a challenge prize. I am pleased with the effect and I think it has made it a much prettier card. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.

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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 – Alice by Beary Dust Stamps
Sentiment – Craftwork Cards
Paper – Kanban freebie from Creative Cardmaking Magazine
Embellishments – White rub-ons (possibly Stampin’ Up?)
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities die, Versamark small ink pad
Techniques – Die cutting, distressing

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


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Sunday, 28 October 2012

OSAAT #137 Make 1 For Christmas


There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is
Make 1 For Christmas

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



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 Fluff from Barbara Jensen Designs. Although it isn’t a Chrismas image I thought if I used traditional colours it would work and that’s my Cristmas card for my hubby done early too J

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers keeping to just red and green colours. The image was cut out using a Nestabilities die and I used a small inkpad to distress the edges of the shape.

I had some Hobbycraft vouchers for my birthday and bought the current copy f Creative Cardmaking magazine which had some smashing papers and card by Kanban with it. I used the traditional green holly to cover the base of my card and the gold and red card has had some Stickles glitter glue added as ‘berries’. The swirly die cuts are a new acquisition from Sizzlits. There are 2 swirl dies and shadows and stamps to go with it. The poinsettia flowers are flocked velvet and add some gorgeous texture to it.

The stripy sentiment panel is by Craftwork Cards which I layered onto a scrap of white card. The sentiment was ‘Made By Mandy’, cut using a Nestabilities die and I added a couple of green gems to finish off.

I had added the sentiments below, in both JPG & PNG format. You are more than welcome to download them. Please do not add them to you blog or claim them as you own and if you do use them I would love to see your projects 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:-
Image – Fluff  by Barbara Jensen Designs
Sentiment – Made By Mandy J
Paper – Kanban Freebie from Creative Cardmaking Magazine
Embellishments – Paperchase Gems, Stickles Glitter Glue, fur and fuzzy felt flower stickers, Craftwork Cards sentiment panel
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, Sizzlits die

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

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