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:

Passion for Promarkers - Inspired by a Fairytale

A&T Emeral Fairies - Dies/Punches

Country View Crafts Challenge - Die-cuts

Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Fantasy

Scrap It Girl - Use Your Dies

Tok Bobok - Anything Goes

Visible Image Monthly Challenge - Visible Image Has Character

Creative Corner - Girly Girl

Daring Cardmakers - Flower Festival

Digi Haven - Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

A few more cards

Here's another couple of cards I made while playing around with my Stampin' Up! stash! :)

The first card is one I started making at my local craft group over a week ago... I hadn't had time to get organised and plan anything to work on to take with me so I just grabbed a couple of sets of SU stamps and some coordinating inkpads and card etc on the way out the door. At the craft club, inbetween chatting and drinking tea, I played around with my stash and started making this:

The impetus for this card was wanting to try out the SU rub-ons that I've had sitting around for a few months and I added some stamped images from the Vintage Vogue stamp set and used a Martha Stewart edge punch too. This card has sat around, half-finished, on my craft desk since the craft group so I decided to clear the space it was taking up by finishing it! :lol:

The second card is one that I made to send along with a little gift to an online friend: 

I used the Circle Circus stamp set and the greeting is from the Punch Bunch stamp set and I used the coordinating punches to cut out all the circles and the scalloped circle. Having punches that match the stamps is great - so quick and easy to create the elements to put together into a card! These stamps and the punches all came in the big order that I received this week and I had lots of fun playing with them. :)

Edit: And I can now reveal the card that I made using the inchie from my previous post, as my neice has now received it. :) I sent her some of the Sweet Pea stamp images to play with as she's into Manga and I think a lot of the designs have a Manga-style feel to them. As she's into Manga and wants to learn Japanese, I went with a Japanese design for the card:

The stamps used are Hero Arts clear stamps.