OSAAT #175 Summer

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time 

Summer

Our sponsor this week has a fabulous prize for the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy Bears Store image

Please head on over to the NEW LOOK  & REBRANDED Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet 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 sign up to the newsletter & become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

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

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For my card this week I am using quite a racy image called Hot Pants from Barbara Jensen. There is quite a lot flesh on show and I opted to colour the bra and pants rather than make them fishnet see through stylee, I wasn’t quite brave enough to do that……

I coloured her using Promarkers and Flexmarkers then used a due from X-Cut  to shape the image and matting layer. The card is covered with beach paper from a summer themed drawer set by DCWV that I had from QVC years ago. Both the sentiments are cardstock stickers from the same set. I have used 3d foam squares on the image layer and then on the hot sticker which I thought was particularly appropriate for the image.

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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 Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image – Hot Pants by Barbara Jensen

Paper – DCWV

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam pads, X-Cut die

Embellishments – Cardstock sentiment stickers DCWV

OSAAT #162 Anything Goes

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time 

Anything Goes

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet and there is a fabulous prize of all the images used by the DT on Challenge #160 for the lucky winner who uses a Store image

Please head on over to the NEW LOOK  & REBRANDED Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet 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. There is also a weekly free image with a purchase of over $3.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can sign up to the newsletter & become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

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

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It was my turn to choose an image for myself and teamie Choccie to use and I opted for this rather wistful image Butter Blue by Barbara Jensen. I was drawn to the expression on the face and of course I loves butterflies J

I wanted to use the peacock colours of blues and turquoises, I just felt the image lent itself to those colours and went for a completely different approach (for me) of colouring the hair a bright blue. I fussy cut the image out including the frame which was quite awkward with the scroll bits. I mounted it with 3d foam onto some blue cardstock and added the butterfly charm and brad underneath.

The card blank is covered with a pretty paper from the New Bloom First Edition pad. I added some lace and ribbon from my stash and mounted the image so it projected off the card. I used some scraps of card to create a punched heart embellishment and the sentiment has been cut with 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 Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image – Butter Blue by Barbara Jensen

Paper – New Bloom First Edition Pad

Sentiment – Digi Freebie, not sure of designer

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Marth Stewart hert lattice punch, Quickutz Cookie Cutter die

Embellishments – Ribbon, lace, Butterfly charm and brad

Techniques – Diecutting, punching

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

• Alphabet Challenge – F is for Fantasy
• Artistic Inspirations – #39 Lots of Layers
• As You Like It - #1 Favourite Punch (or die) Love my Martha Stewart Heart Punch
• Bearly Mine - #84 Anything Goes
• Bloggers Challenge – A feminine Touch
• CDAC Inspiration Challenge – Colour Swatch
• Crafty Boots – Stamped Character
• Cutie Pie Challenges – #43 Lots of layers
• DL Art Thankful Thursday – May Anything Goes Linky Party
• Emerald Faeries - #43 Ribbons
• Forever Friends Monthly – Anything Goes
• Happy Campers - #16 Lace
• Inspire Me Fridays - #101 Anything Goes
• Jellypark Friends – Girly Girl
• Love To Create – #63 Punches and/or dies
• Mema’s Crafts – Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #9 Things With Wings
• No Matter Which - #9 Things With Wings
• Outlawz Monday Card – GCC0429 Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
• Party Time Tuesdays  – #118 Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers - #196 Dies and / or punches
• Sister Act Card Challenges - #5 Anything Goes
• Southern Girls - #68 Sentiments
• Tammy Scrapin’ Corner - #60 Lots of Layers
• Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

OSAAT #155 All White or No DP

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is a bit more challenging

All White or No Designer Paper

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and there is a fabulous prize $9 to spend in the store for the lucky winner who uses a Store image

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.

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps store was 3 on 15th March.

To celebrate Stitchy is giving a massive discount of 

33%

off ALL PRODUCTS!!

from 15th to 22nd March

This would be the ideal time for you to gather together a wishlist of the fabulous images and papers you have wanted and to make a purchase with a 

mahoosive discount.

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

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

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

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I have only ever made one all white card before and really was not happy with my results so I challenged myself to make an all white card AND not use any pretty papers!!

I chose this cute image Licky Tiggy Tiger by Barbara Jensen.  I know white tigers are rare but they do exist and I knew that I could add the black colour to the stripes and the palest pink to the fleshy parts like nose, pads on the paws and ears. I added some glossy accents to the nose and paws and cut the image out suing a Nestabilities die.

The main backing paper is a Boofles embossing folder on it’s first outing since I bought it months and months ago. It is like a patchwork effect so has quite a few different textures on it. I also used a second layer with a cuttlebug folder which has a bark effect, I thought it would emulate the stripes on the tiger. I used scissors to distress and roughen up the edges and attached a lacy edged ribbon to it following a sketch from A Die For A Sketch.

Finally I used a sentiment which was a freebie from TLC Creations and die cut it with a Nestabilities die. Both the image and sentiment have been mounted on 3D foam and this whole card is full of texture.

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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 Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Square

Image – Licky Tiggy Tiger by Barbara Jensen

Sentiment – TLC Creations

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, embossing folders by

Papermania & Cuttlebug

Embellishments – lacy trim ribbon, Glossy Accents

Techniques – Diecutting, Embossing, Distressing

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

• 365 Cards - Day 71 Textured Base
• 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes
• A Blog Named Hero - #22 Free Style
• A Die For A Sketch - #10 Sketch for layout plus one Die
• Anything Goes - #88 Seeing Double (2 dies, 2 embossing folders)
• CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft
• Challenges 4 Everybody  – #16 Anything Goes
• Crafts and Me - #124 Ribbons & Lace
• Deep Ocean Challenge - #47 Cute & Cuddly
• Desert Island Crafters – #50  6, 8, 10,
• Go Fish - #37 Ribbon
• Inklings & Yarns - #7 Anything Goes
• Mayzyart Challenge – #13 Anything goes twist Animal print
• Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #7 Use a Die Cut
• One Stop Crafts - #220 Anything Goes
• Outlawz Saturday Paper A La Mode – PAM03162013 Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly  – 123, 1 ribbon, 2 dies, 3 colours (white, pink, black)
• Penny’s Challenge - #118 Ribbons & Diecut
• Sentimental Sundays - #146 Anything Goes
• Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
• Tuesday Alchemy - #52 Anything Goes
• Use It Tuesday - #52 Diecuts (Base embossing folder had for about 9 months and 1^st time I have used it)
• Word Art Wednesday - #71 Anything Goes

OSAAT #137 Make 1 For Christmas

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is

Make 1 For Christmas

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

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

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For this challenge I chose Fluff from Barbara Jensen Designs. Although it isn’t a Chrismas image I thought if I used traditional colours it would work and that’s my Cristmas card for my hubby done early too J

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers keeping to just red and green colours. The image was cut out using a Nestabilities die and I used a small inkpad to distress the edges of the shape.

I had some Hobbycraft vouchers for my birthday and bought the current copy f Creative Cardmaking magazine which had some smashing papers and card by Kanban with it. I used the traditional green holly to cover the base of my card and the gold and red card has had some Stickles glitter glue added as ‘berries’. The swirly die cuts are a new acquisition from Sizzlits. There are 2 swirl dies and shadows and stamps to go with it. The poinsettia flowers are flocked velvet and add some gorgeous texture to it.

The stripy sentiment panel is by Craftwork Cards which I layered onto a scrap of white card. The sentiment was ‘Made By Mandy’, cut using a Nestabilities die and I added a couple of green gems to finish off.

I had added the sentiments below, in both JPG & PNG format. You are more than welcome to download them. Please do not add them to you blog or claim them as you own and if you do use them I would love to see your projects 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 Project are as follows:-

Image – Fluff  by Barbara Jensen Designs

Sentiment – Made By Mandy J

Paper – Kanban Freebie from Creative Cardmaking Magazine

Embellishments – Paperchase Gems, Stickles Glitter Glue, fur and fuzzy felt flower stickers, Craftwork Cards sentiment panel

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, Sizzlits die

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

• Crafty Ribbons #31 – Christmas
• Lady Anne’s Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes

OSAAT #124 Use a Digi

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

Use a Digi

We are sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

The DT are all using products from the new Mini Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every Fortnight for 1 week only. 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 always 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

Don’t forget that we have changed 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

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It was my turn to choose an image from Barbara Jensen and I have this cutie Lolly Poppy, isn’t she a little darling?

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers in bright summery colours as I felt it matched the fun image. I have added some Sakura clear glitter pen on the lipstick, earrings and shoe laces and some glossy accents to the big wide eyes.

I used a large card blank and the patterned papers are from a lovely butterfly themed pad from Crea Motions by Artoz. It has lots of bright coloured papers in it, definitely made for me J I have used scraps of red and orange cardstock for the layering. The yellow ribbon and fabulous butterfly trim are a recent purchase from West Bromwich whilst I was waiting for my car to be MOT’d last week. I used paper and fabric flowers from my stash adding some vellum leaves I have had forever…..

The lolly has been made by forming Bakers Twin in a spiral on a glue dot. I would love to claim it was my idea but I was inspired by a fabulous Sun card by Alissa in our Sun themed challenge #121. Thanks for the inspiration 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 – 8” Square

Image – Lolly Poppy by Barbara Jensen

Paper – CM Design Pad Butterflies by Artoz

Sentiment – Craftwork Cards

Embellishments – Butterfly trim, satin ribbon, vellum leaves, Flora doodle fabric flowers, Dovecraft paper flower, flower gem, bakers twine, glossy accents, Sakura glitter pen

Tools – Promarkers, Flexmarkers,

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

Allways Something Creative #34 – Bright and colourful

ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes

Cards & Scrap #35 – Things With Wings

Crafts and Me #94 – Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity R#82 – Brilliant Birthdays

Crazy Amigo Challenge – Open theme

Diva’s By Design #45 – Happy Birthday

Fashionista Challenge #5 – Baby or Birthday

Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes

Great Impressions Stamps – Stay In The Lines Colouring

Inspire Me Fridays #69 – Anything Goes

Jackson’s Digital Expressions #15 – Anything Goes

LEJ Designs #13 – Bling Bling

My Mum's Craft Shop #67 – Birthday Girls

Oldie But Goodie – Bright colours from photo (vellum leaves are years old)

Paper Pretties PWC 216 – Birthday Cards

Passion For Promarkers #59 – Feeling Fruity (colours)

Pattie’s Creations #49 – Animals/Insects

Poodles Parlour – Anything Goes

Really Reasonable Ribbon #52 – Sizzling Summer Colours

Simon Says Stamp – Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp & Show – Hey Girl

Stamp Man – Anything Goes/Celebrations

Stampavie & More #173 – Birthday

Tammy’s Scrapin Corner #20 – BINGO (Ribbon, Free, Flowers)

Top Tip Tuesday #81 – Circles

Totally Stampalicious – Texture

Use It Tuesday #36 – Uncut paper (that in itself is hoarded, also vellum leaves that I have had for years)

Waste Not Wednesdays #27 – Vellum leaves I have had FOREVER!