Foiled Rose

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #92
Tic Tac Toe

This fortnights challenge 'Tic Tac Toe' has been chosen by me.  I have always loved a Tic Tac Toe challenge, just enough to help focus the designing but lots of freedom too.  For this card I chose the right hand column - embossing, a stencil and blue.  

I heat foiled the sentiment and the rose which I always class as a form of embossing as an die is used and the text, once foiled, has the feel of debossing.  It is a bit of a shame as the scanning of the image is not showing the metallic effect of the foiling, hope you can imagine the shine though. Next I created the background by first blending in a pretty blue shade of Distress Ink followed by stencilling again with Distress Inks and using a Sheena Douglas stencil and a bit of stamping to give a distressed feel.  For the layering I grabbed a Promaker and quickly went around the edge of a white square I die cut with the darker blue and finally these two layers were placed on the card base which I had back with another blue. 


I am entering this card in the following challenges : =

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Little Miss Weeble

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 #254 

Theme Anything Goes with

TIC TAC TOE

I do love a tic tac toe challenge so really enjoyed myself with this one :)

I used the image 'Little Miss Weeble' by Stitchy Stamps and coloured her with Promarkers.  Next I fussy cut her as I really wanted her to pop on my card.
Now for the line on the Tic Tac Toe grid which I have followed - Three or More Layers, Lots of Blue and Pearls.  My card has a total of 7 layers.  The card blank and large purple circle were embossed with a Tim Holtz texture embossing folder.  The bottom blue layer was stamped with and oriental design and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  To this layer I added my next layer of a Tattered Lace die - Border 2.  The blue circle mount used the die - Triple Tear by Spellbinders and added some large flat backed pearl and my fussy cut image.  Finally, using Spellbinders Circles and gold heat embossing I made my sentiment and added a small gold bow.

Challenges Entered

• 613 Avenue Create - W - #160 Anything goes with twist: No Twist This Week!
• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - Round Things
• Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers 2w, C10 (W1) t is for technique 
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 175 - I'm Feeling Blue
• Moving along with the Times 2W,3E #12 Embossing (W1 of 2)

Tic Tac Toe - KatPhish

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Tic Tac Toe

OOOOO exciting stuff, I love a Tic Tac Toe challenge, not just thinking how to use a digi in a creation but also to incorporate the other elements :) Here is the Tic Tac Toe grid which you need to follow to enter the IKE'sWORLD challenge this week.

The line I am following is:- Stitching Faux or Real, Lace and Brads

I was in IKEA the other day and had, what might be a bright idea or maybe not, but certainly worth a try.  A clock was on the agenda but it had to be one that the hands were not to close to the surface of the clock face so I could decorate it.  Brilliant, they had the perfect clock for what I wanted.  For the project I first removed the hands -

Don't you just love it when what might be a problem turns out to be easy peasy.  I needed to work within the inner circle of this clock and thankfully one of the Spellbinder Grand Circles was just the same size saving me a lot of messing about.   First I coloured the digi digitally to look like a particular cat I know as this clock is for a very special person (I know you will know who you are when you see this - just sorry it won't be a surprise <g>).  Here is a photo of Leo, the cat I used to guide me in the colouring.

It is not often I have my wee camera with me when creating, often not much point as I get so carried away I forget to take the pics.  Today I made a mega effort to show you the process of this creation.   I printed the text I wanted and placed the coloured digi on the white card and used the die to cut this circle,  an acetate circle and the lace circle. So here we are with the circles cut out, the lace one was also cut with the die (not easy but I used sellotape  all over one side to stop it moving and stretching in the die and it worked). I also cut a second copy of the coloured digi which I fussy cut and will be placed on top of the lace layer.

I arranged the layers temporarily as now was the time for any corrections if sizing etc. were wrong.

All looking good so next was to colour the fish.  I used Promarkes first then added some gold and silver guilding.  The next layer on was the acetate and to hold that in place I added some brads my sister had given me a while back which are pussy cat related.  They are not showing up very well but three are shaped like fish showing their bones, another says 'treats' and the last one says 'furry friends'.  

The topper was trimmed and attached to the centre of the clock with double sided tape.  Using my black Promarker I created Faux stitching in the groove just beyond the inner circle.  Once everything was completed I put the hands back and here we have the finished clock :) :) :)

Ingredients:-

• Digi - KatPhish available from IKEsART
• Clock from IKEA
• Promarkers
• Lace, brads and acetate from my stash

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Cards und More 2W must stamp C5 - #100 Non Cute & A GD Call(Week 2)
• All Crafts Challenge - 2M, 1st Monday of the month every other month, NO CARDS - (February/March) Anything but a Card
• Come and Get It Challenges - W, Unlimited - Sweet Domestic Animals
• The Corrosive Challenges - 2W, 3E -Challenge #193 (2nd week) In Stitches.
• Speedy  Fox and Friends - W, #200 Anything but a Card
• Altered Eclectics - M, P7 - Alter Something 
• Hanna & Friends - 2W, cute/stamped/person/animal (W2 of 2) - Bingo