Rose

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 259

Theme 'Anything Goes with DISTRESSING

Distressing is so much fun and with all the techniques around one is spoilt for choice.  I did try something a bit new for me with this card, printing and colouring the image on vellum, it gave a fabulous effect when I distressed the edges.

Once I had printed and coloured the image and put it against the black card it was not as dramatic as I hoped it would be so I coloured the reverse side of the vellum with black Pan Pastels - much better.  I then mounted this on black card and distressed the edges.  Next I cut a couple of doilies, one in black and one in silver.  The card shape design was done on my die cutter.  Next I took a piece of black card and crumpled it all up, then sprayed it with silver glitter spray, it does not show up very well but is lovely and textured.  This was then mounted on another piece of black card to strengthen it and the edges also distressed.  Finally some black and silver trip and oh yes, a thinking of you sentiment stamped with silver ink.

The inside of the card also got a fair bit of attention with an rose stamped with silver ink and cut out using a circular Spellbinder die, once again the edges were distressed.  The writing area looked too perfect so I grabbed the black Pan Pastel and dabbed some on then smudged it around well with my finger and finally used sandpaper to roughen all the paper up.  Very cool and do much fun :) :) :)

Ingredients:-

• Image -  Rose by CraftyGirl Creations
• Colouring medium - Polychromos and Pan Pastels
• Dies - Spellbinders circles and doilies
• From my Stash - silver glitter spray, foam tape, distressing wheel, sandpaper, lace trim

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Glitter n Sparkle - W, F - #182 Use a Punch/Die!
• The Corrosive Challenges - M 2nd Sunday, 3E  #3 Anything Goes 
• Catch The Bug W,3E,SIO  anything goes 
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Anything Goes
• Docerela Creations - 2W, 1E, Must Stamp, SIO - No. 99 - (W2 of 2) - Add Flowers
• Through the Purple Haze 2W, E3, C10 #98 Flowers (W2 of 2)
• Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #123 Use DIe-Cuts/Punches (Week 1 of 2 )
• Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 2W, 2E, SIO - (Week 1) Flowers
• Vintage Stamping Challenges/Flonz Craft - M, 3E, Must Stamp, does not have to be vintage -  (March) At least 3 Layers

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

SPS - Rose

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  Today I am sharing with you my DT challenge card for the May monthly Challenge - Flowers.  For this card I have used the beautiful digi Rose by Rachel Anderson.

To begin with I designed my doily and digi mount in Illustrator then cut with my Black Cat

Next I had a ball creating my card base.  First I airbrushed the card with Promarkers, then stamped the rose and embossed with both clear and pink embossing dye.

 To add a bit of texture I attacked an embossing folder with a rolling pin hahahahaha.  I love this as I can control where I want the embossing and by applying different amounts of pressure can also achieve and fading effect.

 Here we have the card showing the embossed area.

Next back to airbrushing with Promarkers and then I heat embossed with Silver Pearl.

You can see here the lovely shimmer and texture to the doily - yummy

 Now playtime is over and down to work - colour the digi.  This is my Mum's Birthday card and I remember as a child (me not Mum) how much she always loved the Peace Rose so I have tried to colour the rose in so it looks like her special rose.  Shame I can't capture the smell as well :) :) :)  Colouring was done with Promarkers and I finished of with some Glossy Accents for the water droplets and Liquid Pearls around the edge of the digi mount.

 Promarkers I used.

 Next I coloured three white roses I had to also look like Peace Roses

 Twiddle fingers, thinking time.  I was sitting there wondering what to do next. I had my leaves ready which I had trimmed the wire stems off and had placed the leaves and flowers on the card roughly where I wanted them.  Something else was needed, a bit of height (length).  While pondering what I had in my stash I saw the pieces of wire I had cut off the leaves - I wonder.  Taking my prodding tool I wound the wire around the end to make spiral bits.  Perfect, this is just want I wanted for the bouquet.

Final bit to make, a butterfly.  This was die cut using  Spellbinder - Les Papillions Two.  I then coloured with Promarkers and heat embossed with Silver Pearl.

 and here we have the finished card with added lace, a ladybird and a wee bow :)

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi 'Rose' by Rachel Anderson available from Sweet Pea Stamps
• Butterfly die - Spellbinder - Les Papillions Two (doily and digi mount by me)
• Promarkers
• Liquid Pearls
• Embossing Powder - Pink and Silver Pearl
• Glossy Accents
• Flowers, lace, leaves, ladybird, bow from my stash

Challenges entered

• Craft Room Challenge 2W, 3E - Roses & Romance (Week 1)
• Creative Card Crew 2W - #60 Girly  (Week 2) 
• Creative Colours 2W ,Cards only, No CAS, F -  Pick Any 3 Colours from photo* + Use Flowers (Week 1)
• Die Cuttin' Divas W, must include a Die-cut - #163 Make It Girly
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - W, E2, Must Be Square #33 Floral
• Card Mania - 2W, 3E - (Week 2) Fairies
• Created With Love Challenges - 2W, 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, no challenge on 5th week of month, 3E - (Week 2) In the Garden
• Digi Makeover Challenge - W, SIO, must use digi - For a Special Lady
• Eureka Stamps - W, 3E, F - Lace & Pearls
• Whoopsi Daisy - W, SIO - Hand-colored image
• Addicted to Stamps - 2W, must use stamp- #81 Things with Wings (week 1)
• The Squirrel & The Fox - 2W, 2E - #68 Die Cut or Punch (week 2)
• Inkspirational - 2W, C10 - (W1 of 2) #55 Pink and Green
• Sugar Creek Hollow  - 2W, 3E, SIO #84 (W1 of 2) Tic Tac Toe*  FLOWERS, PEARLS, DIE CUT
• Savvy Handmade Cards - 2W, 1E (must use stamping - rubber or digi) - (W1 of 2) -  Make Believe or Mythical Creatures
• Add a Little Dazzle - W, SIO - #23 Pearls/anything goes
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - SIO - #308 Mother's day/Spring
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - 3E -  #175 Pastel colors
• Sisterhood of Crafters  - 2W, 3E - Things with Wings (2nd week)