Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Use a Digi

Time for another favourite challenge at One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi. So easy to enter - just use a digital product (be it a stamp, digi papers, a digi embellishment you've printed and cut out, a sentiment you've created and printed with your computer... you get the gist!) somewhere on your creation. :)
 
This week I've worked with Beary Dust Stamps' adorable Alice digi stamp:
 
 
I coloured her with my Promarkers and cut her out:
 
 
I then made a tentfold card blank and prettied it up with a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page border punch around the edges:
 
 
I added some pretty floral paper, a die-cut flourish in the corner and, the crowning glory, a bunch of pretty flowers hand-made by myself using a rather awesome new Sizzix Thinlits die set from the Susan's Garden range:
 
 
Am really rather pleased with these flowers and think they work perfectly on this card. :) I attached the Alice image using foam pads and, in my head, this is Alice after she's shrunk, surrounded by giant flowers in the garden! The hookah-smoking caterpillar is lurking just out of view, I'm sure... :D
 
The challenge runs for a week and you don't have to use a Stitchy Bear product to win, but if you do you'll be in with a chance of winning our main prize. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear product will be entered into a draw to win a $3 gift voucher to the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.
 
I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
 
 
 
 

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Mother's Day

I'm being organised here and getting my Mother's Day card made nice and early... cos mum will be coming over for a few days next week so I want to be able to give her the card to take home with her. :)

April's issue of Craft Stamper magazine has a great article on making patterned papers by pressing petals and leaves using a BigShot and I was dying to have a go at this technique so when we went for a walk at the weekend, I was scouring the hedgerows for soft leaves and flowers! :lol: I decided to use watercolour paper for this technique as I thought it would absorb the pigment nicely.

I thought the resulting paper would be perfect for a Mother's Day card:


I cut an A5 card blank in half horizontally to make a tentfold card blank. I then matted the pressed petals paper onto purple SU cardstock and wrapped purple and green Making Memories ribbon around it before attaching to the card blank. I wanted to keep with a floral theme so I chose this yummy hyacinth stamp that I picked up recently on eBay and coloured it with my Promarkers and cut it out. I attached it to the card with foam pads and stamped a greeting onto the card using purple ink. To finish I added some tiny purple gems.

I really liked this technique and am planning to try it again... in fact, I must admit that I actually went and bought a bunch of flowers the other day, with the intention of harvesting some petals to make paper! :lol: Talk about an addicted crafter! :lol: :lol:

I'm entering this card into this week's Passion for Promarkers challenge, where the theme is "For mum/female relative".

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