A Mother is

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is an awesome digi pack containing several images and a paper pack too - how cool is that.

Challenge #232

Theme 'Women' 

For my creation this week I thought I would make a Mother's Day card for my Mum, she loves lace and delicate cards so hopefully she will enjoy receiving this one :)  The sentiment digi I used is by CraftyGirl Creations and called 'A Mother is 1', isn't it just beautiful, fab words and gorgeous floral decorations too.  The image is available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet

I wanted to do a monochromatic card so the many textures would show but remain delicate and the sentiment would hold the position of centre stage.  I printed the digi twice, one of the copies I changed the line colour to a light brown the other is the original (just in case the one with the line colour change did not look so good coloured I would have the other one to use instead).

 Next I coloured the sentiment flowers with a Faber-Castell - Polychromos pencil and blended with baby oil - an experiment for me lol.  I have read that baby oil can be used as the blending solution but really didn't believe it would work as well as it did (what a saving on the purse strings too lol)

 I then layered my card up with white lace, cream lace and a couple of die cuts from Tattered Lace.  The sentiment topper was mounted 4 time using alternate mats of cream and white.  I wanted to add some quilled flowers as I have not done any quilling for ages so set about making them.  However, when it came to putting them on the card it was just to much so they are now tucked away safely for another creation in the future.

 To finish off the card I added a cream satin bow with a white organza bow and some pearls.  More pearls sprays were added to the lower edge of the card.

Ingredients:-

• Image - 'A Mother is 1' by CraftyGirl Creations
• Colouring medium - Faber-Castell - Polychromos and baby oil
• Dies - Tattered Lace, die was from a magazine and I don't know the name of it
• From my Stash - lace, pearls, ribbon

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Clear It Out W, 3E, Must use stash item - Challenge Theme: Anything Goes  Stash: Anything Goes (background lace is about 20 years old, my Mum was a avid needlewoman and collected all sorts of lace etc which she gave to me a few years ago)
• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #9  Mum's the Word
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - W, E4, Must Be Square or Rectangular #73 Anything Goes with a twist: Add a Ribbon
• Just Inspirational Challenges W, 3E – Mother's Day
• Papertake Weekly W -  Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs - W,F, 3E - March Anything Goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #97 Girly Girls (Week 1 of 2 )
• Inspiration Destination - W, F- #23 Always Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - W,3E -  #217 One for the Girls/Female Cards
• Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Special Lady/Girly
• Whimsy Inspiration -Monthly 3rd Wed posting, 3E, SIO  - #80 Use A Sentiment
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes 
• Outlawz Twisted Thursday - W - Anything Goes  Option- Add Texture
• Sassy Studio Designs - W, SIO: #271 To Die For
• Scrap & Craft Challenge -2W (1st & 3rd) 3E, (W1 of 2) - Mothers Day
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - March - Bingo* (FLOWERS, RIBBON, DIE CUTS)
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.134 - (W1 of 2) - Ribbons & Lace
• Really Reasonable Ribbon - 2W, 4E, SIR Ribbon (1st & 3rd Friday) - No.113 - (W1 of 2) Flowers & Ribbon
• Sister Act Card Challenge - W, Cards. - No. 96  - Anything Goes
• The Stamping Boutique - 2W, (2nd & 4th Friday) SIO - No.53 -  (W2 of 2) More than one layer
• That Craft Place - 2W, 1E - Anything Goes/Mother's Day

Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

SPS - Peacock Fairy

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I decided to work with the image Peacock Fairy by Meredith Dillman.

I have had this image for ages and have been longing to colour her but wanted to wait until I had some real peacock feathers to work with for the card too :)

To begin with I created the card base.  When I was designing this card I created a very swirly cut out design for the front windows.  That was fun to do but thinking about it I wondered if I would be able to cut it successfully first time.  My die cutter is more than capable but I have learnt over the years a new mat and needle are imperative for something like this along with the type of card being worked with, something with a tight composition, bone dry and preferably white is the best I have found for cutting.  Being a bit pushed for time and not wanting to trash a new mat I wondered if it would work to cut the design using cream vinyl and then applying that to a clear plastic sheet - worth a go.

Here is the cutting done

Next I used some cheap lightweight vinyl to transfer the cut shape and apply it to the clear plastic sheet.  Next I cut around the outside of the shape, scored the fold lines and done.  Yep, this, I think was a great success.

Now, for some reason, I don't seem to have taken any more photos.  Think that is because I am tying to get lots of blog post done before I go on holiday and some things are just slipping from my memory lol.  Anyway, I printed the image with a 60% opacity to prepare it for the no-line colouring technique the proceeded to colour using Promarkers.  As there is nowhere to write inside this card I used a Spellbinder die and the same dp as I used to cover the inside of the card.  To finish off the back I used a few of the longs strands found on peacock feathers and a tiny wee bright blue bow.  The front of the card has the same embellishment and a birthday tag.  To finish off the front, Liquid Pearls were placed on the swirl ends of the cut out design.

Back of card

 Front of card

Ingredients

• Image -  Peacock Fairy by Meredith Dillman available in rubber or as a digi
• Promarkers
• Dies - C Art Decorative Oval Frames, Spellbinders Adorning Squares-7 and Spellbinders Classic Scallop Squares
• Vinyl, Liquid Pearls, plastic sheet, peacock feather, bow etc. from my stash

Challenges entered

• Card Mania - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Use a Digi
• Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 2W, 2E, SIO - (Week 2) Add a Sentiment
• Ooh La La Creations - 2W, SIO - (Week 2) More than 1 Fold
• Monday Mood Board- M, first Monday of the month - (November) Photo Inspiration*
• Crafting When We Can - 2W, 2E, C5 - Challenge #82 Use Your Markers

SPS - Holly Bow

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  Today I am sharing with you my DT creation using the digi Holly Bow by Karen Middleton.

To begin with I cut two holly leaves with my Merry Christmas sentiment and daughter/SIL names.

Next I fancied something plush so used some sticky back red velvet I bought from some strange back street <g>.

After printing the digi I coloured with Promarkers.

Promarkers used

I used Spellbinders Adorning Squares as my die and then airbrushed the background with Forest Green Promarker

Now to emboss a mount and then cut with Spellbinders Grand Squares

Time to make the bow to attach the tag sentiments to.

And here we have the finished creation.  You can see I also added some red lace, pearls and a couple of wee holly leaves with berries as well.

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi Holly Bow by Karen Middletonavailable from Sweet Pea Stamps
• Dies - Spellbinders Adorning Squares and Grand Squares
• Promarkers
• Lace, velvet, leaves, ribbon, pearls, line stickers and beads from my stash

Challenges entered

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SPS - Scarlett Holly

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  Today I am sharing with you a Christmas card made using the digi Scarlett Holly by Ching Chou Kuik.  I am trying to get all my Christmas cards done before I return to the UK in June so I can take them with me and leave them with my daughter so she can forward them on at the appropriate time :) :) Last year I got caught out, DHL wanted 50 pounds to send a card from Saudi, where I am, to the UK.  Alas it was for my lovely sister but I refused to pay and the local post is not that reliable so needless to say she did not get a real card, only a photo of it via e-mail.

Anyway, back to today and here is the card.

To make the card I had planned on using my die cutter for the top lacy section but the card I wanted to use is not very tight and after two attempts I gave up and tried an experiment instead.  Using the largest circle from Spellbinders Scalloped Grand Circles I positioned the die to cut just the top off the card.

Next I used a couple of bits of dies, a holly leaf from Lea'bilities Wreath For All Seasons and another leaf from Marianne Design Craftables Flower to create the cut out lacy top.

Next I coloured the digi with Promarkers

Promarkers used

To finish off I used some Ice Stickles on the leaves for a bit of bling and a touch in the eyes too.

While that was drying it was back to the card base.  I used a rectangle of Papermania Christmas vellum and finished off with some red and green organza.

 Using Gold stamping ink I sponged the top area lightly on both the card front and the top of the inside of the card.

Time to play with a new toy.  This week my mini Bowdabra arrived and what a joy to make bows with.  If you are not a great bow maker it is worth trying this piece of equipment.  To finish off I used some gold leaves a friend gave me from a box of chocolates (she ate the chocolates first!!!!!) and then used a couple of the holly leaves cut out from the top of the card and some wee red beads.

Time to put everything together.  I did add the rest of the holly leaves to the card, 4 on the digi and 2 on the inside of the card, it seemed a shame to waste them.

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi 'Scarlett Holly' by Ching Chou Kuik available from Sweet Pea Stamps
• Dies -  Spellbinders Grand Scallop Circles, Lea'bilities Wreath For All Seasons and  Marianne Design Craftables Flower
• Promarkers
• Papermania vellum
• Ribbon, beads, peel off stickers and gold leaves from my stash

Challenges entered

• Di's Digis Designs 3E 2W SIO - (W2 of 2) Ribbons and Bows 
• We Do Doobadoo Challenge-  2W, E2 - (W1 of 2)  #8 Ribbon
• Crafty Catz - W, 3E – No.235 - Use 2 Different Dies
• Jingle Belles - 2W - must be Christmas - (W2 of 2) - Red & Green
• That's Crafty! Challenge Blog - 2W, E3, Must be a UK resident - (W1 of 2) Birds
• C.R.A.F.T. - W, 5E -#263 Christmas
• Crimbo Crackers 2W, Must be Christmas -(W2 of 2) Anything Goes (Christmas)
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