Daisy Doodles #55 Tie It Up

At Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

Tie It Up

We would like to see you use ribbon or cords

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For my card the image I have used is Snake Rattle & Roll and the heart backing paper is from the Hearts Paper Pack. The image is only $2 and the papers is in a pack of 7 12” square that is only $3.  Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check these out and all the other great digi’s that are available !

I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and used a Nestabilites die to cut the image out and a mat. The scalloped card blank has the heart paper on it distressed with a black ink pad. Using the sketch at Digital Tuesday I have added some red card in a diamond shape and overlaid 2 ribbons, one being my spotty lace edged ribbon and the black one has been recycled from a Hotel Chocolat gift from last Christmas. The image has been mounted on 3d foam.

                                                                                               

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 Tie It Up challenge.

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image – Snake Rattle & Roll by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – Hearts Paper Pack by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Tools - Scissors, 3d Foam pads, Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities Die

Embellishments – Ribbons from stash and recycled

Techniques – Diecutting & distressing

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

• Catered Crop – Ribbon
• Crafter’s Café Challenge #2 – Ribbon and/or lace
• Creative Monday’s #3 – Anything Goes
• Digital Tuesday #150 – Sketch for Layout
• Fairy Fun Fridays #74 – Distress It
• Make It Monday #80 – Link Up Party
• Paper Makeup Stamps #27 – Critters
• Simon Says Stamp & Show – Anything Goes
• Sunday’s With Crissy #27 – Animals

OSAAT #104 Use a Digi

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

Use a Digi

We have 2 fabulous prizes this week for the lucky winners. Cropstop have a £10 voucher for their store 

and Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps is donating the new mini collab to one lucky winner. 

The DT are all using products from the new Mini Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every 2 weeks. The Mini Collab is free with a purchase from the store of only $7

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

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From this challenge we are changing 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

For this challenge Choccy chose this lovely image Spring Is In The Air by Stitchy Stamps.

I have coloured my image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and was inspired by a post my blog buddy Janey had posted about spring bursting into colour in the gardens. I wanted to make it quite bright and have given her a nice tan as she is working outdoors and gets a lot of sun (living in the UK one can only hope….)

I cut a strip away from the edge of my card front and used punch I have had since November for the 1^st time to create a pretty border. The patchwork paper is from a new Papermania Boofle pack. The green paper inside the card if a magazine freebie from Creative Cardmaking and I have added some gold Papermania flower stickers to the edge. The flowers are an assortment from my stash and the sentiment is from Paper Garden Projects.

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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 – Spring Is In The Air by Stitchy Stamps

Paper – Boofle pack by Papermania & Magazine freebie

Sentiment – Paper Garden Projects

Embellishments – Papermania stickers & Assorted flowers

Tools – Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart punch

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

• Craft Your Passion #100 – Anything Goes
• Crafter’s Companion #22 – Spring
• Creative Monday’s #3 – Anything Goes
• Gingerloft #35 – Spring
• Incy Wincy Designs #136 – Something old (flowers & green Paper) & Something new (patterned dp & Image)
• Kaboodle Doodles #109 – Flowers
• Order of the Opus Gluei #126 – Trees & Nature
• Outlawz GC30512 – I spy something green
• Paper Creations Ink #20 – Spring Is In the Air
• Pink Elephant #138 – At least 3 Layers
• Pollycraft #130 – Spring Has Sprung
• Sentimental Sunday #93 – Go Green
• Stampavie & More #164 – Spring/Easter
• Totally Stampalicious – Spring is In The Air

Daisy’s Image Inspirations

Over at 

 our challenges run fortnightly so on the off Wednesday the Designers will be creating with a specially selected digi from the Daisy Doodles Store.

The image we are working with today is Easter Egg and it is available from the store at the very special price of only $0.50

I have made an egg shaped card which has been paper pieced. I started with a lovely floral paper in soft pastel shades, enlarged the image and printed it out 8” high straight onto the patterned paper. The quality of the store images are really crisp and the lines are really smooth even when you increase the image to the larger sizes. I coloured the flowers in with a Promarker and it covered the floral paper perfectly.

I printed 3 layers of the ribbons onto plain white card and coloured them in with colours picked from the main paper. These have been layered with 3D foam. I added the egg to plain cardstock and cut around the shape with my trusty Fiskars scissors. They are small blades and cut right to the end of the tip and I would be lost without them J

The sentiment is a freebie from TLC Creations and I made a little tag and used one of my Queen & Co mini brads. Last but not least I used tons and tonnes of Stickles glitter glue and some Paperchase gems to bling it up. I loved working with this image and it has made a lovely fun card which I may have great difficulty giving away…….

I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there and please remember that you have until Sunday night to get your entries in for our Colour Your World challenge.

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5 Shaped

Image – Easter Egg by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – Spring Drop First Editions pad by Dovecraft

Sentiment – Freebie from TLC Creations

Tools – Fiskars Scissors, Promarkers

Embellishments – Queen & Co Brad, Stickles glitter glue, Paperchase gems

Techniques – Shaped card, paper piecing

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

• ABC DT Challenge – Springtime
• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude #8 – Anything Goes
• Clearly Inspired #47 – Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion #100 – Anything Goes
• Crafter’s Companion #22 – Spring
• Crafts 4 Eternity R#61 – Digital Delights
• Crafty Boots Challenge – Glitter
• Creations by Gill M #3 – Shaped Cards
• Creative Craft World – Spring
• Creative Monday’s #3 – Anything Goes
• Delightful Challenges – Spring Colours
• Fairytale Challenge #36 – Paper Piecing
• Gingerloft #35 – Spring
• Incy Wincy Designs #136 – Something old (brad, bling) & Something new (patterned dp & Image)
• Inspire Me Fridays #48 – Link Up Party
• Joanna Sheen – Spring is In the Air
• Kaboodle Doodles #109 – Flowers
• Paper Crafting Journey # 4 – Anything With Paper
• Paper Creations Ink #20 – Spring Is In the Air
• PaperPlay #9 – Something Old (brad, bling) & New (digi image & paper)
• Pile It On #10 – Spots or Stripes
• Pink Elephant #138 – At least 3 Layers
• Pollycraft #130 – Spring Has Sprung
• Stamp & Create – Paper Piecing
• Stampavie & More #164 – Spring/Easter
• Stamp Man Challenge – Colours of Spring or Easter
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity #89 – One Bow
• Totally Stampalicious – Spring is In The Air
• Truly Madly Crafty – Pastel Colours
• Wags n Whiskers #74 – Spring

OSAAT #103 - Re-use or Recycle

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

Re-use or Recycle

We want you to include a reused or Recycled item on your project

Our sponsor this week is Creative Craft World and they are offering the winner 3 Promarkers of their choice.

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

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This week I am using a fabulous image from Ike’s Art called Angel.  I very rarely use images like this but felt very drawn to the serenity of this figure. I kept the colour palette very simple in shades of gold as I knew I wanted to use the ribbon which came from a box of Thornton chocolates that I had as a gift a few years ago.

The image is coloured with Promarkers and I added some stickles glitter glue to the wings and then used a Nestabilities label die to cut it out.

The base card has been covered with the remainder of a sheet of Kanban embossed metallic paper. It has a gorgeous irridescent sheen and the positioning of the scrolls framed the image very well. The sentiment is a fab freebie, details as below and had been cut out using 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 card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Angel by Ike’s Art

Paper – Kanban

Sentiment – Freebie from Vibygor Krafts

Embellishments – Ribbon Recycled from a box of chocolates

Tools –Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities die, Quickutz Cookie Cutter die, Stickles Glitter Glue

Techniques – Die cutting,

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

• A Gem of a Challenge #41 – Pastel Colours
• Allsorts #144 – Spread Your Wings
• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude #8 – Anything Goes
• Cards & More #48 – Glitter & Sparkle
• Catch the Bug – Anything Goes
• Catered Crop - Ribbon
• Cheerful Stamp Pad #37 – Land of Fantasy
• Clearly Inspired #47 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Spring Clean (old paper & Ribbon)
• Crazy Challenge #108 – Anything Goes
• Delicious Doodles #14 – Inspired by Song Angel by Robbie Williams
• Do You Stack Up #61 – Things With Wings
• Everybody Art #182 – Monochrome
• Flutterby Wednesday #192 – Open
• Guylou’s Inimitability – Things With Wings
• Inspire Me Fridays #48 – Link Up Party
• Mema’s Crafts – Only 2 Colours (yellow and a bit of brown)
• Pan Pastel UK #8 – Stamped or digi image
• Paper Crafting Journey # 4 – Anything With Paper
• PaperPlay #9 – Something Old (paper & Ribbon) & New (digi image)
• Partytime Tuesday #57 – Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers #138 – Use Pastels
• Pixie Cottage #110 – Anything Goes
• Ribbon Carousel Challenge #42 – Anything Goes
• Ruby’s Rainbow #23 – White plus one other colour (yellow)
• Scrap It Girl – Recycled Ribbon from a box of choccies
• Sentimental Sunday #92 – Words of Encouragement
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Speedy Fox & Friends #97 – Recycle (ribbon from box of choccies)
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity #88 – Non-Cute
• Stamp n Doodle – Embossing
• Stamp Scrap & Doodle – Use Your Stash (old paper & ribbon)
• Stamping Sisters in Christ #129 – Things With Wings
• Stamptacular Sunday #14 – Text Me

Daisy Doodles Challenge #54

 At Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

Colour Your World

We would like to see lots of colour with no black or brown

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For my card I have used the image from the Ryan The Footballer pack. You get the fab image and four digi papers for only $3.  Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check out this and all the other great digi’s that are available !

I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers mostly in shades of blue to match the papers which are from a Papermania pack. I have used scraps of blue card to mat the image and the birthday sentiment banner.

The ball, football shirt and cup are from a little pack of goodies I bought from Poundland. They are supposed to be little clips that you can decorate your flip flops with and there are about 10 embellishments in the pack. I love re-purposing things that are intended for a completely different use and these were ideal for this card.

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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 Colour Your World 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

Sentiment – Ryan the Footballer by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – It’s a Man’s Word pad by Papermania

Tools - Scissors, 3d Foam pads, promarkers & Flexmarkers

Embellishments – rubber shapes from Poundland

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

• 2 Sisters Challenge #80 – Anything Goes
• Aud’s Sentiments – Sentiment with Happy in it
• Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration
• Crafty Catz #121 – Something beginning with B (ball, boy, blue)
• Crazy Challenge #108 – Anything Goes
• Creative Monday’s #2 – Anything Goes
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #181 – Boys & Their Toys
• Dream Valley Challenge #26 – Just For Men
• Go Fish #11 – Text paper
• Hotshot Crafts #4 – One For The Boys
• Inspire Me Fridays #47 – Link Up Party
• Lexi’s Creations #59 – Monochromatic
• Make It Monday #78 – Link Up Party
• Mami Doodles – Use 3 Patterned Papers
• Moving Along With The Times – Lots of Layers
• Paper Shelter #52 – Add a Sentiment
• Penny’s Paper Crafty #73 – Anything Goes
• Robyn’s Fetish #96 – People
• Scrapbookaholic by Abby #3 - Birthday
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Triple something (3 embellishments)
• Simon Says Stamp – 3 Different Papers
• Sisterhood of Crafters – Use a DigiStamp Scrap & Doodle – Manly Card
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – It’s a Man Thing
• That Craft Place – Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown #86 – Use Some Blue
• Unscripted Sketches #147 – Layout of Card
• Wags n Whiskers #73 – Male Birthday
• Whimsy Inspirations #27 – Monochromatic

OSAAT #102 Spring & Easter Mega Collab

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

Spring or Easter

This is in honour of the Mega Collaboration that all the Store Designers have contributed to. One lucky winner of our challenge will receive this as their prize donated by our sponsor 

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

The DT are all using products from the new Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every 2 weeks. This Mega Collaboration is free with a purchase from the store of only $12

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

Stitchy is offering some great time sensitive offers so please make sure you are signed up to the newsletter to be the first to get the gossip!

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I was given this fab image Beetle by Reece’s Scrap Pieces to work with and I decided to make it into a flower doodled car. I had already decided I wanted to use the main colours of green & purple and the card sort of grew from there really. Using the sketch from Mojo Monday I selected 2 papers that I wanted to put together. I really liked the different colours in the floral paper and added the swirled green to link in the car better.

The image was coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I drew the large flowers on first then coloured in around them. I used a fine nib to doodle the smaller flowers and add definition to the larger ones. I then added lots of gems and glitter domes to make it really sparkle.

I mounted the image on a scrap of dark purple card and added the ribbon. The flower is from a strip that I bought when I first started making cards in 2002 so it is proper vintage! The centre of the flower is pale blue so I have covered it with a purple glitter brad and this provided me with a great way of attaching it to the card, win win 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 card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Beetle by Reece’s Scrap Pieces

Paper – Dreamcatcher & Spring Leap First Edition pads by Dovecraft, other card from scrapbox

Sentiment – Card banner from stash

Embellishments – Papermania ribbon, lace embroidered flower from Haberdashery, self adhesive gems K & Co, glitterdomes and glitter brad from Papermania.

Tools – 3 d foam, scissors, Promarkers, Flexmarkers,

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

ABC Challenge – J is for Jazz It Up

Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration

Cards & More #48 – Glitter & Sparkle

Crafter’s Companion #21 – Anything Goes

Crafts and Me #72 – Shades of Spring

Creative Monday’s #2 – Anything Goes

Digital Tuesday #148 – Make It Sparkle

Diva’s By Design #23 – Bling

Mojo Monday #229 – Sketch for Layout

My Graphico #122 – Flowers

Outlawz GC22012 – Recipe, 2 papers, 2 bellies, 1 ribbon

Paper Pretties Monday - Spring

Sew Many Cards #82 – 2 DP’s & 4 Gemstones

Stamping Boutique #26 – Stitching Real or faux

Truly Madly Crafty – Ribbon & Bling