Birdy Birdy!!

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.  Before I go any further I would just like to say a big thank you to all the new followers who have joined my over the past few weeks, I hope you are enjoying the creations that find their way from my craft room to my blog <g>.  Without further ado, onto this weeks challenge:-

Challenge #165

Theme ' Make it Stitchy'

This weeks challenge is a bit different.  To participate you MUST use an item from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet, it may be a digi, design paper or a die cut.   Now this weeks sponsors ... Are us. Us being the Design Team. We have collected items for creating cards/ scrapbooks. Some have been hand made by our DT members too :O) We had a theme to follow which was April showers bring May flowers ;O) Next month we will have another mega prize challenge so the DT girls that aren't featured in this months prize will pop up next month ;O) Random org will pick all the winners.. So you could win 1 or more of these gooorgeous prizes.Don't forget, if you spend $3 or more then you also get the free weekly digi, what a brilliant offer.

For this weeks challenge I had to choose a digi by the awesome designer Claire of Hope Jacare and I just could not resist the beautiful 'Cockatoo', a digi I fell in love with some time ago.  This was a great fun card to make and one of those that, when completed was just like the image in my head right at the start.  I used a photo of a cockatoo which I took on a trip to Australia as the inspiration for the colour and decided to layer it with silver.  Pink and sliver Stickles were also used to decorate the cockatoo.  My sister, who so lovingly comments every week is going to hate this card - sorry Ingrid, please don't look :) :) :) - she hates feathers and birds follow a close behind.  I love birds so this is one area where we will never talk the same language.  I have a feeling it was this packet of pink and white feathers I picked up on a shopping trip with my sister which I opened in her house and a whole load fluttered out!!!!

Recipe:-

• White Linen card and pale pink shimmer card from Craft Creations
• Silver paper from the Paper Box
• DIgi -  'Cockatoo' by Hope Jacare
• Lattice card topper, digi mount, sentiment and sentiment mount - designed by me and cut on my Black Cat.  This was mounted to the base card with foam tape
• Feathers and gems from my stash

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:-

• Crafting when we can - Punches and/or die cuts (June 9)
• Dream Valley - Challenge 57 - Animals (June 2)
• Gingerloft - Birthday (June 2)
• Glitter n Sparkle - BIrthday (June 2)
• Joanna Sheen - Girls Girls Girls (May 31)
• No Matter Which - THINGS WITH WINGS (May 31)
• Pile It On - Put a Bird on It (June 2)
• Allsorts - ********Happy Birthday******** (May 31)
• Crazy 4 Challenges - NO patterned paper (June 2)
• Digi Designs - WINGED THINGS CHALLENGE (June 9)
• One Stop Craft - Furry Friends (hope I can class feathers as a type of 'furry' :) )(June 1)