Bingo!!

That's the new challenge theme at One Stitch at a Time this week. You need to choose a line from the bingo card (it must pass through the centre "Digi" square) and include those elements in your creation - or heck, go mad and try and use 'em all and get the full house! :)

 

For my card I chose the middle horizontal line, giving me Sticker and Bling, along with the use a Digi requirement. D'you think I managed to get in enough bling....? ;)

 

 

 

Be honest now! :lol:

 

By the way, I know I'm usually complaining about photographing cards etc in the gloom that we call daylight in this part of the world but on this occasion I am gonna say that sparkly, glittery cards + bright sunlight = bl**dy hard to get a decent photo! :lol:

 

I chose this gorgeous silhouetted image by Floppy Latte Designs called Flight of Fantasy. As soon as I saw this image I knew I wanted to print it onto acetate and put something pretty and sparkly behind it. So that's what I did. I printed in reverse onto printable acetate and then played around with glue and lots and lots and lots of pretty glitter! :)

 

The papers used are from DCWV's gorgeous Once Upon a Time stack and the foiled flower and butterfly stickers are some (I think, DoCrafts) ones that I've had sitting in a drawer for aaaaages.

 

You don't need to use a Stitchy Bear image to join in the fun at OSAAT though obviously we'd like to see your projects using Stitchy Bear digi stamps and doing so puts you in with a chance of winning a prize from our sponsor. If you enter without using a Stitchy Bear product you still have a chance to win a $3 gift voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear store.

 

As the saying goes, you gotta be in it to win it! :)

 

Am entering this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Things With Wings

Challenge Up Your Life - Fantasy

Heck of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Away with the Fairies

Unique Crafters - Anything Goes

Avadares - Make It Sparkle

 

Scrap Map!

The new monthly scrap map challenge goes live today at the Creative Craft World challenge blog.

It's easy-peasy to enter - just create a page using the sketch provided as inspiration - and you could win yourself one of Creative Craft World's fabulous kits... and a Design Team spot to boot! :)

Here's my page inspired by this month's sketch:

I wanted to use this scrummy acetate overlay from Fancy Pants and I kept the page simple so as not to overpower it. I added some stamping with a Tim Holtz stamp and sepia Archival ink and added some butteflies and flowers stamped in white Staz-On onto acetate (leftovers from a recent make). The title is a die-cut from K&Co. :)

Hop on over to the CCW blog to see the sketch that inspired this LO and maybe have a go yourself! :)

ProMarkers on acetate?

I've been experimenting again... this time using ProMarkers on acetate. The challenge here of course is that to stamp on acetate you need to use StazOn... but you can't using ProMarkers with StazOn as they're both alcohol-based so the ProMarkers make the StazOn bleed. So... the solution is... stamp the image with StazOn on the front of the acetate... and then use ProMarkers to colour in the image on the reverse side of  the acetate, so the colours show through the stamped design but don't actually come into contact with the StazOn ink. :) ProMarkers on acetate give an interesting effect but I find bright/intense colours best to work with as the paler colours really don't show very well on the acetate.

Here's the card I made:

Now, the downside to making an acetate card is that it has proven incredibly difficult to photograph well! :lol: So please take my word for it that this looks a lot better in real life than in these photos! ;)

The image used here is a Caron Vinson design from Sweet Pea Stamps - isn't she funky? (And I'm a Scorpio, as it happens, which makes me like her all the more.) To make this I cut and folded a piece of acetate to make my card blank then stamped the image in StazOn onto the front of the front side of the card and coloured her in with ProMarkers on the reverse of the front side of the card. I then added some Rock Candy clear Stickles over the wings on the front side of the acetate to give a bit of shimmer.

For the inside of the card I cut a piece of white shimmery cardstock and inked the edges with Milled Lavender and Dusty Conchord Distress Inks before attaching to the inside of the card. I then smooshed glossy card through alcohol inks and cut a small panel and stamped a Tim Holtz sentiment stamp onto it using Archival ink and layered this slightly over the larger panel inside the card. To finish off, I added layered fabric flowers to the front of the card, attached with a decorative brad, and added a few gemstones, placing them so that they sit evenly over the bottom of the alcohol-inked panel when the card is closed.

I'm entering this card for the current challenge at Sweet Pea Stampers (theme is "Fly Me Away") and also for the Passion for ProMarkers Week 114 challenge (theme is "no patterned papers").

Acetate Easel Card

Wednesday is DH's auntie's birthday. She lives in France and has done for long enough to have "gone native" so naturally a birthday card for her would have to be both stylish and elegant... ;)

So I decided to have a go at an idea I've been toying with for a while.... an acetate easel card.

I've had this idea in my head for a while and my original thought was to use a piece of patterned paper with a swirl/flourish on and hand-cut out the top part of the flourish. As it happened though, I had this yummy paper from Basic Grey's Sugared collection out on my desk following a previous project and it seemed to lend itself to the concept so I amended my idea to hand-cutting out the top part of the floral design.

I made the base for the easel card out of white pearlescent shimmer card but then made the top layer from (nice thick, not bendy) project acetate. I measured the patterned paper to fit, making sure that the bottom section would come up high enough to hide where the acetate was attached to the card base, and hand-cut out the top part of the floral design before glueing the paper onto the acetate. I used some of the die-cut border and element stickers from the Sugared collection to decorate the card and the create the necessary ridge to hold the card open then I added a row of pink Papermania gemstones across the acetate just above the patterned paper.