Buck Wild

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 a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 275 Theme 

'Anything Goes with Autumn Colours'

This fortnight I am working with the image Buck Wild by Reeces Scrap Pieces, a gorgeous digital image to colour or in this case work with digitally to create a needlework applique effect.  

 To  begin with I placed the image into Photoshop and by creating multiple layers added my pattern fills for each area.  Once done I printed the image and added the black stitching lines by hand.  The image was then mounted on black paper.  For the background on the card base I used the Hexagon die by Sarah Davis of Crafters Companion and scraps of brown and yellow papers I had lying around.  WOW that took me ages but I do love the outcome LOL.  To finish off I added three skeleton leaves and a die cut called Love Land Corner by Memory Box.  I kept all the hearts that were part of the cut out design (obvious in a 'use lots of scraps day today) and used them to decorate the left side of the card.  Each heart and heart cut out area was embellished with a yellow glass heart gem.  Last bit was to ad my text using the Die'sire die, Just Because.

Inside of card - saying as I had some hexagons left over and it seemed a shame to put them in the bin I used them to add a bit of decoration and finished off the edges with lines using a gold pen.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Buck Wild by Reeces Scrap Pieces
• Colouring medium - digital
• Dies - Memory Box Love Land Corner, Die'sire Just Because, Crafters Companion Hexagon
• From my Stash -  Gold pen, gems

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

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

Nicole

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 76
REMEMBRANCE / MILITARY TRIBUTE

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

A while ago I bought the most gorgeous poppy die (Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Collection - Exquisite Poppy Die Set) which I have been itching to use and here I have had the perfect chance :).

Ike has been a real superstar here as I wanted to make this card for my youngest daughter, Nicole, who is in the British Army.  Most of the image I see around for Remembrance are American themed as in the dress code which would not work this time so I asked Ike if she would draw my daughter in her British military uniform from a photo I have of her taken on the day she completed her Phase 2 training and became a fully fledged army girl.  My daughter is the one on the right :).  For the image I asked Ike to have Nicole saluting.

It only took a day or two and Ike got back to me with a wonderful image, very casual with a pose that in the real military world would be totally unacceptable and probably lead to a real ticking off with the big boys.  Ike, I think was worried it was overly casual but I would not let her change it, the image had the Ike feel through and through and no disrespect is intended in any shape or form.  If anybody is offended I apologise.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Polychromos then attempted a field of poppies as the background using Pan Pastels.  Next the image was fussy cut and placed on the background.  The poppy sections were die cut and then each petal edged in black, the centre of each poppy was finished off with a black half pearl bead.  The leaves and text were also die cuts.

Ingredients:-

• image - Nicole by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Promarkers, Polychromos and Pan Pastels
• dies - Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Collection - Exquisite Poppy Die Set, Sizzix - 657939, Spellbinders - Victorian Medallion 3, Crafts Too Leaf Flourish, X Cut - Alphabet 
• from my stash - black pearls, Memento Ink 

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

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Floral Vintage Mini Album

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 a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 274 Theme 

'Anything Goes with RECYCLING'

Take 2 of my effort for this challenge.  My first effort ended up in the bin lol - I made a box and covered it with sweetie wrappers which I have hung onto for about eight months. Unfortunately the week before making it I had a massive tidy up and threw all but three of the papers out - as you can imagine with just three sweetie papers to cover a box it was rather sad.  So now we have my second attempt, a mini album made from the inner tube of some cling film but into four sectons (I never think to keep toilet roll tubes grrr).  This really is a mini album lol but rather cute. After cutting my tube into four sections I covered each part with papers used from Floral Vintage 1 by Coosty Creations.  Next I used some old card I had printed unsuccessfully but did not chuck out cut my front and back covers plus four tags.  These were also covered with papers from the paper pack.  All the pages and tags were then rubbed around the edges with a gold ink pad.  Last week I got some great sentiment rubber stamps in the post so these were used to stamp text on each page and tag.  On the back of each tag I added a small plain die cut in which a personal message can be written.  Each of the page holders then had the same embellishments added, offcuts from some rose and gold lace, Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork die cuts which I then painted with a gold paint pen and white lace flowers with pearls in the centre.  The front cover page was given a little more treatment with a rose and humming bird which I made from clay and moulds I have for silver clay, these were then coloured with Promarkers and my gold paint pen.  I then used one of the papers again and mounted it on a bit of card to die cut my daughters initials N. B.  The tags were embellished with gold peel off stickers.

Front and Back Cover

 Next Page

Next Page

Next Page

Next Page

The reverse side of the tags

Close up of the clay rose and humming bird I made

Ingredients:-

• Image - Floral Vintage 1 by Coosty Creations

• Colouring medium - 
• Dies - Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork, Tattered Lace Alphabet
• Stamps - various sentiment rubber stamps from different companies
• From my Stash -  clay rose and humming bird, lace, vinyl stickers, gold paint, gold pen, rubber sentiment stamps, lace flowers, eyelets, cling film tube, scrap card, 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Addicted to Stamps 2W  Must include Stamping (no precolored digi's) #134 Lots of Layers + a Stamp (W2 of 2)
• Amusing - W, 2E, no digi - Anything Goes with a Rubber Stamp
• Pile It On - 2W - Use theme & at least one other challenge, #120 Scrap and Cutoffs (W1 of 2)
• We Love 2 Create  - 2W, 2E, F, SIO - Always Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, - (W1 of 2) - R for Recipe* (use at least 3 ingredients from the grid)
• Quick Quotes - M (first Friday of the month), E1, SIO - No.68 - October - Stamps and Embellishments
• Creates and Makes M, 3E, last Tue - Anything Goes with optional: Use Ribbon/Lace

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

Spooky Love

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 75
SPOOKY LOVE

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

A DL card for a change lol.  The background was created with yucky acrylic paints I have, they are very thick and plastic so not nice to work with but boy do they add texture to the end result :)  I know my end result is not very spooky (I see that as the dark side) but hopefully the essence of the card is spooky enough.  The image is an old one of Ike's :) :) Alice cat which I coloured to look like a tiger of sorts hahahaha.  Lots of die cuts finished off the card, a spider with googly eyes, spiders web, bats and sentiment.  The web die cut is from Sizzix the rest I made myself.

Ingredients:-

• image - Alice Cat by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Promarkers, acrylic paints
• dies - Sizzix web die, the rest made my be and cut on my Silver Bullet
• from my stash  - googly eyes, gold pen

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

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Thank You in orange and purple

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 a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 273 Theme 

'Anything Goes with HALLOWEEN COLOURS'

This fortnight I worked with the Lil' Monsters Paper Pack by Panda Bear Designs.   I only used two of the papers from the pack but there are 6 papers.  The thank you card was designed digitally (I am not a fan of Halloween so don't participate but a thank you card is always needed :) ) in three sections, the top layer, the base layer and the inside.  This was so I could add a bit of dimension to the card with the top layer.  The front of the card was finished off with black Stickles along the border between the orange and the purple.  I felt rather guilty with so much digital work but it is a great way to work with digital papers :) so I then made something I have been wanting to try for a while - lolly pop stick bracelets.  I printed two strips of the same paper which I had added a black design to the purple paper and 'Live....Love....Laugh' to the orange paper.  The stick were soaked in hot water and when soft enough were then wrapped round a furniture polish can to dry into the correct shape.  I then covered the outside of the bracelets with the digital paper, varnished then added black wool borders to both and another coat of varnish.  

Ingredients:-

• Image - Lil' Monsters Paper Pack by Panda Bear Designs
• Colouring medium - all digital colouring
• Dies - none
• From my Stash -  Black Stickles, lolly pop sticks, wool, varnish

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

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

Butterflies

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 74
GIRL POWER
(think pink)

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

I am a great believer in the power of positive thought so love how the sentiment and the image 'Butterfly' I used on this card came together for the theme of 'Girl Power' with pink and breast cancer being the underlying meaning.

Ingredients:-

• image - Butterfly by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Promarkers
• embossing folder - Tattered Lace Butterflies
• dies - Tattered Lace Rose Corner, flower die free from a magazine
• from my stash - silver bead string, ribbon, silver stamp pad, silver and pink metallic pens.

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafter's Cafe (2W, P1/15, E3, F) #158 - Use lots of Pink
• Creative Craft Cottage Challenges (2W, P7/21, F, E3) #73 Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
• Daisy Chain Challenges (M, P5, E3) #1 Pink for Breast Cancer
• Love to Scrap - 2W, 3E, F, digi or real stamping - (Week 2) Pink
• Dragonfly Dreams - M – (Oct 2) Think Pink!
• The Corrosive Challenges - M, 3E #10 Pink for Awareness
• Catch The Bug  W,3E,SIO  Breast Cancer Awareness
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 219 - Think PInk
• Cut it Up- 2W, 1E, Must have Die Cuts - No. 106 - (W2 of 2) - Pink or Breast Cancer Awareness
• In The Pink 2W,3E #104 Flower Power (in pink of course) (W2 of 2)

Angel 2

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 a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 272 Theme 

'Anything Goes with MONOCHROMATIC'

I tried something I had not done before with this card :)  I love embossing on cards, guess that is because when holding a textured surface I always think the whole creation comes to life.  For this card I only wanted embossing in some areas so an embossing folder was not going to work well; so I used some of my swirly die cuts bits and placed them on the areas of the card I wanted de-bossed and ran this combination through my Gemini.  A great result, just what I wanted :) :) :) 

Ingredients:-

• Image - Angel 2 by IKEsART
• Colouring medium - Promarkers, Polychromos, Pan Pastels
• Dies - top of card modified from Monica's CraftRoom doily, Spellbinders Ovals, Memory Box swirl
• From my Stash -  Flower Soft, blue glass embossing powder, sentiment stamp, ribbon, gems, wood chip bird

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5  #165 Anything Goes + A Sentiment (W1 of 2)
• Craft Rocket Challenges 2W,3E #25 Ribbon &/or Lace (W1 of 2)
• Crafty Ribbons W,must include ribbon #169 Ribbon Or Lace
• Creates and Makes M, 3E, last Tue - Anything Goes with optional: Use a Die
• Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (September) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
• Critters and Creatures - M, must include critter - (September) Always Anything Goes with a Critter/Creature
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E, C10 - (Week 1) Embossing + DT Call
• Get Creative Challenges - 2W, 3E - (Week 2) Embossing
• Ooh La La Creations - 2W, SIO - (Week 1) Feminine
• Broken Fairy Designs 2W, E2 #12 - Anything Goes with a twist: Monochromatic (W1 of 2)

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