Oh Dahlia

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.

Challenge #170

Theme ' Anything Goes'

The sponsor this week is StitchyBears Digi Outlet with the digi images that the DT team used in challenge #168. So that's $20 + worth of images. To win our main prize you MUST use an image that's available in StitchyBear Digi Outlet by any of our creators. Remember to pur # after your name if you use an item from our store. You can still enter with a none StitchyBear Digi Outlet image but will be entered into a separate draw to win $3 to spend in our store.  We are also having a DT call so why not get in touch and join one of the friendliest teams around :)

This week I had to choose a digi from Floppy Latte Designs for my teamie Ali and I to use.  Fancying something to go with a CAS card I chose 'Oh Dahlia' which is available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  

As I am in the process of creating my craft shopping list (this has been written long before the post <g>) for my return to the UK on repat I discovered something I bought last year to try out. Always on the look out for interesting items after not seeing a proper craft shop for a year is great fun and what I found was Silver Metallic Film which can be used in an inkjet printer or coloured with alcohol ink - oooo those Promarks.  As usual, when I got back to Saudi  and eventually unpacked and put things in piles so items could be put in there correct locations.  Tea bags and crumpets for the kitchen, new clothes for the wardrobe and craft items for the craft room.  This pack was hidden under some other rather nice papers I had purchased and totally forgotten about for a year :) :) :) Anyway, I first coloured the image digitally and so as not to waste a whole sheet of this lovely product also included the non coloured digi, then printed.  WOW, it looked awesome.  I used pale yellow and pale pink for matting and outlined with black self adhesive line stickers. The metallic film with the printed digi and sentiment on were adhered to the card with double sided tape.  Next,as I had the second copy of the digi ready I decided to try colouring with my Promarkers which also worked fabulously, actually I think the colouring with alcohol inks is more successful than printing with the inkjet, much brighter.  I fussy cut the the dalia I had hand coloured and attached it to the card using foam tape.  

Recipe:-

• Digi -  ''Oh Dahlia' by Floppy Latte Designs,
• White Linen card and pink paper from Craft Creations
• Silver Metallic Film from either The Range or Hobby Craft, can't remember which
• Image coloured with ProMarkers - Cerise, Rose Pink, Magenta, Cardinal Red and Yellow
• Foam tape etc from my stash

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

• Crafty Catz - Challenge 189..Say it with Flowers (July 5)
• Digi Haven - Flowers (July 4)
• Left of Center - Sentiment on front (July 11)
• Happy Campers - Bling (July 24)
• Crafting for all Seasons - Make it Girly (July 9)
• Creative Moments - Flowers (July 10)

Dancing in the Rain!!!

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.

Challenge #169

Theme ' Not Square'

The sponsor this week is CCW with 3x Pro Markers.

 A wonderful prize I think as we can never have to many ProMarkers amongst our supplies :) You can still enter without using a StitchyBear digi and the prize for the winner is $3 to spend in the store.

OSAAT is also having a DT call.  We are a team of mixed ability crafters who love what we do. We are very easy to get along with and are such a caring group. We receive email reminders to keep us up to date with our challenges, have ways of keeping in touch with all our teamies and we are always there for one another when needed.. Yes we are like a little family... A little family who is looking to adopt a few new crafters to our group. Please contact Choccy - Choccy.oona@gmail.com telling her a little about yourself and remembering to send a link to your blog. Our DT call will stay open until Sunday 7th July

This week I had to choose a digi from our awesome 'BBKakes', sounds easy but if pop on over to the store you will see how hard it was to choose, so many wonderful pieces of artwork :). In the end I opted for 'Rainy Days' available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  Such a fun image and as this challenge is 'Not Square' I felt would work perfectly with the curve of a rainbow as the basis for the card shape.

Recipe:-

• Digi -  'Rainy Days'  by BBKakes available from the  StitchyBear Digital Outlet and attached to card with foam tape.  Just to be a little wacky I could not resist colouring one glove purple and the other pink!!!
• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Rainbow background by me
• Umberella with sentiment printed on acetate and adhered to card with glue dots which are hidden by the brad and wee bow.  I thought the sentiment was just perfect :)
• Gems representing the rain drops from my stash

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

• My Time To Craft - Spots & Stripes  (June 28)
• Bastel-Traum - Water (July 4)
• Crafty Bloggers - Bright and Breezy (June 30)
• Sweet Pea Stampers - For The Children (June 28)
• Lady Anne - The Great Outdoors (June 30)

Alice

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 me 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 #168

Theme ' Use A Digi'

The prize this week for the winner who uses a StitchyBear product is all the DT images used in challenge 166.  Runner up who does not use a StitchyBear product will win $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digitlal Outlet.  Don't forget, if you spend $3 or more then you also get the free weekly digi, what a brilliant offer.

This week it was Ali's turn to pick a digi for us to use and she chose 'Alice' by Sue of Beary Dust.  I must admit, it is great fun to use a digi picked by somebody else, a great way to get out of ones comfort zone or try something new.

With a digi like Alice, it was a toss up as to going down a girly card route or follow an Alice in Wonderland theme, as you can see I chose the latter.  I thought I would try something a little different this time and try a sort of distressed look.  I don't possess any distressing inks (maybe I should put them on my shopping list <g>) but I do love paper tearing and have not done any in ages.  For this card I created the background paper with quotes from Alice in Wonderland which I printed.  The base paper is pineapple fiber paper and, although blue was not dark enough so I sprayed the edges with Promarker Midnight Blue.  I drew a rough shape on the back of the printed paper and soaked it with water so I could tear away then pushed the rough edges outward.  These I then coloured with a gold paint pen.  I then used Mulberry paper to create a second rough edge, again wetting the paper then pulling away what I did not want.  Next I used an photograph which I played with digitally to created the background behind Alice then placed the digi on top so she could then be coloured, avoiding any fussy cutting.  A gold paint pen was used to create a sort of distressed look around the main edge of the paper and the digi image placed behind the frame space.  I added gold bead chain loosely round the left side.  Using another digi, this time one of Stitchy's called Hands of Time I added Happy Birthday then coloured it, finally I used gold and clear embossing powders  to give a sort of enameled appearance.  The watch was attached to the card also using gold bead chain.

Did I find this card challenging, and easy answer to that is yes and I love how the window technique turned out, a nice change from to many straight edges.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
•  Digi - 'Alice' by Sue of Beary Dust available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet
• Digi - 'Hands of Time' by Stichy
• Backing paper by me
• Pinapple fiber paper, mulberry paper, gold pen, embossing powders, gold bead chain from my stash

StitchyBear Digital Outlet

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

• Squirrel and the Fox - Use Something Metal (June 27)
• Send a Smile 4 Kids - For the Girls (July 5)
• The Cupboard Trilogy - Birthday (June 30)
• Creative Corner - Girly Girl - (June 20)
• Simply Steampunk - Clocks and Timepieces (July 4)
• Cute Card Thursday   Once Upon A Time (June 19)
• Divas by Design - Birthday (June 19)
• Fab n Funky - Birthday (June 19)
• Creative Card Crew - Use Metal (June 23)

Racing Fever

Just a quick post today with a 'manly' card for a change.  For this card I used the image  Racing Logo by Digi Darla.  I designed a background paper following the checkered flag theme and to balance all the black, grey and white I used red.  The digi was coloured and cut three times, all layers fussy cut and attached with foam tape for added dimension.  The decoupaging of the digi worked really well with this digi I think.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Digi -  Racing Logo by Digi Darla
• Backing paper designed by me

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

• Crafts 4 Eternity - #127 - For The Boys (June 13)
• Kitty Bee Designs - - Father's Day/Mascuuline (June 21)
• Simply Create Too -  #39 - Fathers Day/or For A Male (June 20)
• MilkCoffee Challenge - Father's day or male inspired (June 20)
• Paper Crafting Journey Masculine cards (June 12)
• Simon Says Stamp - Masculine/Father's Day (June 12)
• Stamp n Doodle - Father's Day/For a man (June 13)
• The Stamping Chef - 2W - Father's Day/For a man (June 19)
• Crafty Sentiments - Black White & One Other or Something Fishy (June 11)
• Creative Craft Challenges - #11 For The Fellas (June 11)

Oh Beautiful Dancer!!

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.

Challenge #167

Theme ' Pretty it up'

The sponsor this week Craft World with a prize of 3 ProMarkers.

 A wonderful prize I think as we can never have to many ProMarkers amongst our supplies :) You can still enter without using a StitchyBear digi and the prize for the winner is $3 to spend in the store.

This week I had to choose a digi from our awesome 'Stitchy', sounds easy but if pop on over to the store you will see how hard it was to choose, so many wonderful pieces of artwork :). In the end I opted for 'The Rehearsal' which is a silhouette pack ' available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  

Recipe:-

• Digi -  'The Rehearsal' by Stitchy Stamps, 
• White Linen card and black paper from Craft Creations
• Gold paper is wrapping paper I picked up somewhere.  I am so pleased with the way it handled the ink from the printer and love how the  slight embossed texture of the paper shows through the dress area
• Butterflies made using Gold Mirror card and Spellbinders die  - Les Papillions 2
• Gold border stickers, studs, black Stickles and diamante chain from my stash.

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

• Totally Papercraft - #170 dies or punches (June 15)
• Happy Campers -  # No.17 - Use Metal (June 12)
• Crafting With Dragonflies -  # 3 : One for the girls (June 11)
• Bearly Mine - #89 Dies and/or Punches (June 11)
• Creative Crew - 37 Punches/Dies (June 10)

Iris on Velvet

I have not used velvet on a card for ages and it is something I love, oooooooooo that wonderful feel of the card as you hold it, totally scrumptious.  For this card I used dark blue velvet which was attached to the card with adhesive spray.  The digi is from Delicious Doodles called Iris and Butterfly Frame.   I wanted a smooth texture behind the flower but not plain paper.  After a bit of playing around I printed the background and then put a layer of acetate (well it is an overhead projection sheet really) over it and then put the digi which I had fussy cut on top. I fussy cut a second layer of two parts of the digi, the butterfly and the font iris and bud and added a layer of Ice Stickles.  It does not really show in the photo but has given just that little bit of sparkle which looks great.  Both layers were attached with foam tape.  To add a bit more texture to the card I added some pearls and blue tulle type material I picked up in out local ( 75km away <g>) craft store.  The sentiment is short and sweet but says everything I think - 'A garden is a friend you can visit anytime'.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Digi - Iris and Butterfly by Delicious Doodles
• Velvet, tulle, Ice Stickles and overhead projection sheet from my stash

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

• Delicious Doodles - #39 - Flower Frames (June 14)
• Creative Moments - Lots of Layers (June 11)
• Nutcrafters - Challenge #44...Mono (June 12)
• Ooh-la-la - Inspired by Nature (June 9)
• Smudgy Antics - USE TEXTURE (June 14)
• Allsorts - In the Garden (June 14)

Beary Birthday 2

I have just made this card in teal and white and while checking out challenges I found one that used teal grey and magenta - an interesting combination.  So back to the craft room and make the card a second time but this time I substituted the white lace and white circle embellishments for magenta ones.  I rather like the outcome, hope you do too.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Digi - Bearing Gifts from Digi Darla
• Digi papers made by me
• White doily and lace from my stash

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

• The Play Date Cafe - Gorgeous Great Impressions

Beary Birthday

It is not often I sit down to make a card with a couple of challenges in mind but today I took time and and did just that.  Just Inspirational is having a colour challenge and Delightful Inspiration a sketch challenge. Here is my entry.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Digi from Digi Darla called Bearing Gifts
• Backing papers made by me
• Dies - Spellbinders-exquisite circles, I used the smallest inner circle
• Gems coloured with Promarkers to get the colour I wanted
• Paper lace doily, lace and the gems from my stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

• Just Inspirational - June 4 - Colour Inspiration

• Delightful Inspirations - i {heart} card sketches no. 21
  

Leather and Lace

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 me 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 #166

Theme ' Anything Goes'

The prize this week for the winner who uses a StitchyBear product is all the DT images used in challenge 164.  Runner up who does not use a StitchyBear product will win $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digitlal Outlet.  Don't forget, if you spend $3 or more then you also get the free weekly digi, what a brilliant offer.

This week I had to choose a digi  for Ali and I to use from Delicious Doodles and I had my eye on this digi before hand and was over the moon to find out I did not have long before I got to create with it.  The digi is called 'Leather and Lace' by Teri of Delicious Doodles.  Isn't it awesome :)

In keeping with the name of the digi I designed a background paper to resemble rough leather, added black lace and gold netting and finally cut up some leather I had into strips to make the border on the left hand side.  The only thing I am disappointed with here is my camera has washed out all the shading of the woman's face.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
•  Digi - 'Leather and Lace' by Teri of Delicious Doodles
• Backing paper by me
• Mount cut by me and cut on my Black Cat
• Lace, leather, Stickles, gold embellishments and gold Happy Birthday peel off sticker from my stash.

StitchyBear Digital Outlet

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

• Allsorts - Here Comes The Girls (June 7)
• HIMCR #100D - All That Shimmers!  (June 8)
• Crafting-with-Dragonflies - # 3 : Card Challenge - One for the girls (June 10)
• LM #142 - Leather and Lace (June 9)
• Corrosive - #175 - I've Been Framed (June 9)

My Innocent Mum ( well I can't say Virginal!!!)

Now for my last post of the day, my mother's birthday card.  No problem with posting it as she is computer illiterate so won't see it <g>

I have made one other 'white on white' card but it was for a DT and the image I had to work with was pretty difficult.  This time, being on the other side of the fence I found it much easier lol.  For this card I used the image 'Fern' from Delicious Doodles, beautiful in it's simplicity.  As the theme of the card is White on White I printed the fern in gray instead of black.  The card shape was cut on my Black Cat, I did it a little differently this time by doing it in two sections and then adhering them together with double sided tape, much easier than lining everything up on the mat and making sure all settings are 100% perfect.  I think I got a bit carried away raking just about everything I had in white out the boxes :) - I am sure we all know the feeling.  White twine, white pearls, White Lace Stickles even the double sided foam was white hahahahahaha.  I used Spellbinder butterflies which once cut were covered in Pearl Lace Stickles.  I have to blame my sister for the Stickles, one of my most use glittery items.  She bought the gold ages ago and I inherited it.  Being in Saudi I am often out of sync with what products are on the market and I sort of looked at the bottle of Stickles and thought 'that my come in handy'. I had no idea how handy.  On my return to Saudi from my UK visit, it was onto the Internet and order a whole load more in all sorts of colours from the States.  Ridiculous, it was cheaper to get them in the States and ship them to Saudi than to buy them in the UK.  What else did I do with this card, ooooo the pearls.  I am getting a little too hooked on pearls, love them to bits, I just wish they had flat bottoms.  The lace from the card is also inherited, this time from my Mum when she was going through all her sewing items to see what I could use on my cards.  It is rather nice to be giving it back to her in this form.

I kept the inside of the card very simple, a one layered insert  using silver pen to highlight the decorative border.  I finished off with another butterfly, this time made from the wax paper used when I made the original butterflies, as they say, waste not want not.

Recipe:

• White Linen cardstock from Craft Creations
• Digi - 'Fern' from Delicious Doodles
• Card shape cut on my Black Cat
• Dies - Spellbinder - les papillions - 4
• Lace, pearls, twine, silver pen from my stash

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

• Delicious Doodles - #38 - White on White (June 6)
• Digi Haven - Butterflies (June 7)
• Just-Add-Ink - #167 - Just Add...Fabric! (June 5)
• Polkadoodle - To Die For (June 2)
• qkrstampede -  # 41- Any Winged Creature (June 7)

My Hero

Now for my second card today, another Father's Day card.  For this one I used an photo I took in Thailand for the scenery behind the digi, added a triple layered border and the buttons in green just to carry the colour of the wee girls dress over.  The border layers were coloured with Promarkers to tie in nicely with the photo image used.  I love the matching red hair of father and daughter against the more subdued browns of the card.  The buttons were tied with raffia which I thought was rather appropriate with all the trees around.  The digi and the sentiment are both from Digi Darla, 'On Top Of The World' and 'For Dad My First Hero'.

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Digi - On Top Of The World and sentiment 'For Dad, my First Hero' both from Digi Darla
• Dies - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4pk - Borders by Rachael Bright
• Promarkers
• Backing paper, scenery photo, buttons and raffia from my stash.

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

• DDC -  #64 "Fathers Day"
• Clearly i Stamp - Father’s Day (June 7)
• Cut It Up - (June 12)
• Delightful Sketches - For Dad (June 6)
• CRAFT - Challenge 209 - 30th of May – Fathers' Day/Male (June 6)
• Paper-Crafting Journey - Masculine Cards! (June 12)

Dad

A busy morning in this household today and what an enjoyable one.  I can't remember the last time I had managed to make three cards in a day, think it is almost a record.  My sister was nagging me earlier asking why I had not posted any cards since Wednesday so I think now I have redeemed myself.

The first card is a Father's Day card using a digi from Digi Darla called 'Dancing Gramps'.  Somehow a 70's feel developed with this card, I think it was something to do with kids being embarrassed by their parents.  If this was your dad dancing across the carpet in front of your friends wouldn't you be embarrassed? :)  It is a long time since I have played with embossing powders but today they saw the light of day again.  I used bronze and gold mixed to emboss the die cut, trying to give it a bit of a worn, distressed look which I think worked pretty well.  I got a bit carried away with the embossing powders also using clear for the glass and Grandad's shoes - just to give them that plastic look :)

Recipe:-

• White Linen card from Craft Creations
• Digi 'Dancing Gramps' from Digi Darla and sentiment digi 'Dad am Thankful To Have' also from Digi Darla
• Die - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4pk - Borders by Rachael Bright
• Patterned paper designed by me
• Gems, embossing powders etc from my stash

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

• DDC -  #64 "Fathers Day"
• CRAFT - Challenge 209 - 30th of May – Fathers' Day/Male (June 6)
• Paper-Crafting Journey - Masculine Cards! (June 12)