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Sunday, 16 December 2012

OSAAT #144 Blog Hop


There's an extra special challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is

Use a Digi

We are also having our very own Blog hop this week and there are lots of opportunities to win prizes along the way.


the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy Bear Store image is all of the images that the DT are using this week.

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win one of the images from the blog hop.

If you take part in the bloghop you have lots of extra chances to win images from each of our talented Design Team.
The rules are as follows:-

·         Bloghop runs from 16th December through to January 5th

·         You must leave a message on each of the DT blogs. Collect a special letter from each of us. On Completion of the blog hop you will find the instructions of where to email these letters to.

·         The prize for the overall winner will be the full set of all the images used by the Design Team. All hoppers who successfully complete the hop will get a gorgeous free image, Christmas Pixie by Ike

·         All Winners will be announced at 11am on 6th January

·         Our next challenge #145 will be from 12 noon on the 6th January

·         The full order for the blog hop is as follows. My letter can be found below my card details.

Choccy - DT Coordinator

Jill

Josephine

Ali

Nataliya

Vicky

Nikki

Susan

Hazel

Trisha – You Should Have Come from Here

 Mandy – You Are Here

CraftyGirl – Your Next Stop

 Tracey

Cg

Karen

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Claire from Hope Jacare has created a very special image for this blog hop and named her Oona Owl in honour of our intrepid DT Co-ordinator Choccy. I am especially priviledged to have been the first person to work with this beautiful image and hope I have done it justice.

I used a colour swatch from Outlawz as inspiration for the colours using green, dark brown and grey as my main colours and adding lots of shading to add depth. I of course used my favourite Promarkers and Flexmarkers and adding some subtle glitter accenst with a Sakura clear glitter pen. I used a Nerstabilities die to cut the image and a mat in dark brown card.

Using a sketch from Try Stamping on Tuesday for the layout I covered the card blank with co-ordinating strips of paper from First Editions paper pad, using brown grosgrain ribbon to cover the joins.

For embellishment I used some lovely swirls cut from a Sizzlits die and rubber stamp combo, added some glitter pen faux stitches. The pretty flowers are Primas and the button centre completes the card.

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Now to continue on your merry way you need to collect the letter ‘O’ from me and pop along to your next stop which is

Crafty Girl

I hope you have enjoyed our little bit of fun and would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Wonderful Christmas and lots of Love, Luck and Happiness for 2013

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card Size – A5
Image – Oona Owl  by Hope Jacare Doodles
Paper – Daydream First Edition pads by Dovecraft
Embellishments – Prima Flowers, Boofle button by Papermania, ribbon
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Sizzlits swirl die, Nestabilities labels, Sakura clear glitter pen, small ink pad for distressing
Techniques – Diecutting, Distressing

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



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Sunday, 19 February 2012

OSAAT #101 Digi or Don't



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

Digi or Don’t - Either use a digi or don’t use an image

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and they are offering the winner a £10 gift voucher for the store.




Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store 
to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers




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




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This week I am using a fab image from Floppy Latte Designs called Clown Doll. Now I have to admit that proper clowns really freak me out. I honestly don’t know where it comes from but I have always felt they were quite menacing and would rather not have anything to do with them thank you very much. However, this little cutie I really rather like J I love the cute expression on the face and the outfit inspired me to make a colourful card suitable for a child’s birthday card.

I have coloured the image with my beloved Promarkers & Flexmarkers and used bright fun colours to suit his patchwork costume. I cut the image out as I wanted to place him sitting on the edge of my nestabilities mat. I cut one in white and embossed it with a Papermania folder which has birthday words and images on it. I then cut a larger one in blue to provide a contrast to the bright papers which are from HOTP and a magazine freebie. The colours are such a good match it is amazing that they are not from the same range! I used a scrap of blue to cover the join and this has been punched with a Fiskars edge punch.

I used my Sizzlits die to cut a balloon and added some gold string. This is anchored under his hand and the whole clown is raised on 3d foam. The sentiment has been recycled from an old greetings card.

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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 – A5
Image – Clown Doll by Floppy Latte Designs
Paper – Top paper HOTP and the bottom one is a magazine freebie
Sentiment – recycled from a greetings card
Embellishments – gold string
Tools –3d foam, scissors, Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars punch, Nestabilities die, Sizzlits balloon die, Papermania Embossing Folder
Techniques – Punching, Die cutting, embossing

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


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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Rub a Dub Dub #2


First of all Happy Mother's Day to all my friends not in the UK. Goodness only knows why we can't have it all on the same day all over the world though, doesn't make any sense to me.....

This card is a variation of one I made in March for my MIL for Mother's Day. A house guest of ours saw it as I was blogging it and asked if I would make a card for his Mum. He is from South Africa and would be sending it to her by the postal system so I said I would adapt the design to make it less prone to get damaged in transit.

The fabulous image is called Rub-a-Dub-Dub and is designed by Stitchy Bear. You can purchase it in the Stitchy Bear store here

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and I have added some stickles glitter and Papermania glitter dots to highlight some of the bubbles and added some to look like there were bubbles that had spilled out of the side.

The blue paper is from a big QVC Colorbok pack and I have added ink to the edges of this and the paper too. I made the banner from scraps of card and added rub on lettering. I have strung the flags onto white wool and 'pinned' it up using Craftwork Cards Candi.

The Mother sentiment is a Sizzlits die I bought in the sale last year. I think it cost me just 49p and I knew it would come in handy. I cut it in blue 1st and then layered a white one on top adding some little black dots and a gem on the butterfly. The rest of the sentiment was made up using the rub ons.

Our friend Jean was delighted with it. We are not sure if it has arrived yet so keeping our fingers crossed. By all accounts things go missing in the post all the time in S.A. so hoping that this gets through to her okay :)

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

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Sunday, 24 April 2011

OSAAT #59 Digis With Attitude Spot





Over at OSAAT this week one of our sponsors is Digis With Attitude and I am very fortunate to have been given one of their designs to work with.


The image is from the Tween's With Attitude range and is called Gift Giving Tween.

I have used a sketch from Midnight Madness for the layout of the card, opting to go for the more simple of the 2 options. The DP is a double sided paper from Papermania Woodland friend pad. I had already coloured the image beforehand with Promarkers and added a couple of layers on the bow of the package with 3D foam squares. I love the combination of purples and magenta so knew matching papers would not be a problem.

I backed the image with mirri card and used this to cut the architectural corners which are a Sizzlit die. Foe the ribbon I have layered 2 metallic ones over one another and then added a sentiment from my stash. For a finishing touch I have added a bit of bling and a couple of the waste pieces of the die to the corners of the image.

Please pop over to our challenge blog at One Stitch At A Time where the current challenge is a Father's Day or Sports theme. What better excuse to get your Father's Day card made early eh?

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

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Sunday, 27 March 2011

OSAAT Guest DT Mother's Day



A few weeks ago I was contacted by Marjo at One Stitch at a Time after entering a challenge and saying I would be interested in a Guest Designer spot. Today is the day that I go 'Live' with a challenge of Mother's Day.

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps each month have a huge collaboration pack from different members of the store. For the month of April you will get a Mother's Day/Babies set and it has loads of images in it as you can see below. The best things id it is ABSOLUTELY FREE if you spend only $10 in the store. Fabulous value!!


There are 2 sponsors for this challenge, One Stop Card Crafts are offering a $10 voucher


And Digi's With Attitude are also offering a prize, more details are on the challenge post.


I was able to choose my own image and picked this gorgeous little duck in the bath. It is called Rub-a-Dub-Dub and is designed by Stitchy Bear. You can purchase it in the store here

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and I have added some stickles glitter and dewdrops to highlight some of the bubbles. I have also used artistic license and added bubbles spilling out of the bath. I added Crystal effects to the big red hearts, eye and beak of the little duckie.

The blue paper is from a big QVC Colorbok pack and I have added ink to the edges of this and the paper too. I wanted to do a relax theme to the card for Mother's day and used a sketch from Waltzing Mouse stamps for the banner idea. the lettering is rub ons and I have strung the flags onto a thin cord and 'pinned' it up using Craftwork Cards Candi.

The Mother sentiment is a Sizzlits die I bought in the sale last year. I think it cost me just 49p and I knew it would come in handy. I cut it in blue 1st and then layered a white one on top adding some little black dots and a gem on the butterfly. The rest of the sentiment was made up using the rub ons.

So that's my MIL's card done now, she will love the cute image. I hope you will hop on over to One Stitch at a Time and take a look at the DT's cards and maybe even enter the challenge yourself.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-


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Monday, 23 August 2010

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge # 28


It's another new challenge at Crafty Cardmakers and for this one we have been given a Lady Ga Ga video for the song Bad Romance to use as inspiration.

There are so many different scenes with colour choices but what particularly stuck out for me were the bold red with the stark contrast of white.

I attended the wedding on Saturday of Melissa & Mike Hine and wanted to make a wedding card, fortunately for me their wedding colours were the same so it was a perfect match for the challenge too.

I started off with a base of a marbled red A4 card with a layer of white card which has been embossed with a hearts embossing folder from Crafts Too.

The stamped image is a freebie from a recent magazine which I stamped out 4 times and cut different layers from it. I mounted them onto 3d foam to decoupage and added glitter and colour with Promarkers accordingly. I added personalised colour for the recipients to make it more personal. I used my Nestabilities to cut layers for matting and added lots of stickles glue and gems to bling it up, again inspired by the video.

The spotty red ribbon with the white lace is one from my collecton, I thought it would look a bit like a garter and then I made a lace rose which I am really pleased with how that turned it, it added so much texture to it and I will definitely have a go at using it more.

Finally I added so die cut lettering from the Sizzlits Curlie Gurlie alphabet to represent the names of the Bride and Groom.

We've got a great sponsor for this challenge of Susie Sugar and she is offering a selection of die cuts to the winner of the challenge so it would be great to see lots of Haus of Ga Ga inspired cards and i look forward to seeing them if you enter our challenge this fortnight.

Prize approx £10 worth of die cuts, photo shows a selection of them



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Sunday, 24 January 2010

Truly Scrumptious #24

Another valentines card and this one is a bit bright and features me using green again!!!! The layout of the card is a sketch from Truly Scrumptious which I chose fr the starting point to fit this sentiment panel into. All the papers are from Creative cardmaking magazines and the sentiment is a vellum one from this mag which I ran through the Xyron and stuck to white card.

I have used the heart blocks embossing folder from Cuttlebug and distressed with a little black ink pad. I have used a Sizzix die to cut the file tab and added a small sentiment from the paper pack. The paper heart is from the pack anf the small red 3d one is a Paperchase sticker. Last but not least I have layered Prima flowers with some bead caps courtesy of Ebay and a couple of Papermania brads. Vix from Crafty Cardmakers uses beadcaps a lot on her cards so I had a mooch on Ebay and bought some, they do look really effective and add a lot of dimension to the flowers.

This card incorporates the following challenges :-
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Monday, 24 August 2009

Crafty Cardmakers 2nd Challenge

It's Challenge time again at Crafty Cardmakers and this is the second DT card I have made. This week we have a colour wheel challenge. There is a great tutorial on there which Vix has done which gives some background on different colour schemes and we were asked to make a card using colours at the opposite end of the colour wheel.

I chose purple and yellow which are individually 2 of my favourite colours, but I have to admit I would have NEVER mixed them together in this way. This is why it's called a challenge ain't it?

First things first I decided to use a sketch for the layout from Di Hickman. This is the 2nd July sketch. She does 1 a week and they were the 1st sketches I was ever introduced to and thus the addiction began...... Di uses lots of bright papers like HOTP and DCWV and I love her style. She is definitely one of my biggest cardmaking heroes.

The base card is an A4 sheet of card folded over. The yellow dotty paper is HOTP from a Citrus pad from QVC. The rest of the papers are handmade textured ones, you know the ones you buy because you think they are a good idea at the time but actually you haven't really used them???? Go on, admit it, you've got them in your stash haven't you?

Anyone who knows me, knows I love butterflies and I have them everywhere, even tattooed on my shoulder! Sizzix brought out a range of Sizzlit 'Build a Butterfly' dies and I had to have both designs, but you know I have never used them before now. I knews I wanted to use them for this design as I felt the layering of the colours would work perfectly. Afterall, when you see butterflies they are every colour of the rainbow and they work perfectly together don't they?

Using the different dies in the pack I cut out the pieces from the relevant papers and ran them through my Xyron sticker maker. I love those for intricate die cuts as otherwise it would have been very difficult to glue them together. I raised the upper wings on 3D foam for dimension. The flowers are Primas, the gems are from Poundland and the sentiment is a rub on from a Let's Make Cards pack. The Cadbury's purple ribbon was from a grab bag from Ebay some time ago, I just love the richness of the colour.

As a keen participant at 365 Challenges I have entered this into an older challenge for Day 26 which was to use your least favourite colours on a card. Definitely not my least favourite colours but not a colour scheme I would have used and can't see me using it again. Mind you, it reminds me of a pansy so it definitely works as a colourscheme...... maybe I should go for more subtle hues..... but maybe I won't, subtle? that just wouldn't be me LOL

It would be lovely to see your creations if you participate in this challenge at Crafty Cardmakers. I have enjoyed seeing the cards for the 1st challenge and it was fabulous to see so many people join in especially the newbies to blogs and card challenges. I hope you come back and join in the fun :)

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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

365 Cards Day 106, TPE, Double Dutch, Pile It On, Stamp Simply, OCC & Crafty Creations

Paul's sister Jill is getting married on August to her fiance Steve, they have been together for about 3 years and both have children from previous relationships. They are tying the knot in Freeport in the Bahamas, having their honeymoon and then on the 30th August they will be having a blessing at a posh hotel. We have just received our formal invitation so I have made a formal acceptance.

The style of their invitation is very simple, just 2 lilac hearts entwined with the words 'Two Become One'. I decided to make my card along the same theme but of course just a tad more embellished as any handmade card should be :)

I have incorporated the following 7 challenges into this card :-
I used an A4 sheet of card for the base in a darker shade of purple. The slightly patterned paper on top is form the HOTP Amethyst Cardmakers pack, the glitter paper embossed with the Heart Blocks Cuttlebug folder is a wrapping paper from Paperchase. I have used the largest of my Nestability dies to cut the shape. The darker paper edge with my Martha Stewart doily punch is a textured one from my stash from the Papermill, the upper layer of shimmer paper is from the HOTP pad and textured with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder. The self adhesive spotty ribbon is from Docrafts.

The die cut hearts are Sizzlits dies. The solid heart has been embossed with the Cuttlebug Textile folder and is on 1mm foam pads. The holey heart is raised on 5mm and has a small ribbon tied through into a bow.

The sentiment is Docrafts peeloff which were originally silver. I have coloured them purple with a permanent marker.
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