One Stitch at a Time Challenge 45

The theme at One Stitch at a Time this week is 'New' or 'New Beginnings', and this week I was given the choice of the whole Stitchy Bear shop. (Can you imagine how long that choice took me?) But with that theme, one image soon became the obvious choice - Snowdrop Heart by Hope Jacare. Well, nothing says 'new beginnings' to me more than snowdrops - a promise of spring when it still seems some way off.

And I decided to make more than just a card! I got some printable Shrink Plastic from Crafty Computer Paper just before Christmas, and I set up a file to print various sizes of the image. Then, I coloured each image with Promakers and a little added Sakura Stardust pen. The Promarkers were quite hard to use on the plastic because it has such low absorbancy, and it was almost impossible to get an even result, so I decided to make the most of that, adding a stippled effect on top of the base layer of colour. Then, cut out, punched and shrank the various bits and made up a key ring and a bracelet.

The card image was printed on white card, and again coloured with Promarkers. The backing paper was made using a small copy of the image which I coloured digitally and then tiled. The card was finished with some ribbon and a couple of butterflies.

The thing I love about digital stamps is the way you can resize so easily. To make the things above with a rubber stamp I would've needed four different sizes of stamp, or would have needed to scan and resize the image - something which would probably infringe the copyright of the image.

Hope you can join us this week. We're sponsored by Joanna Sheen!

And, don't forget, if you add our Birthday Bash logo to your sidebar and enter the challenge, you'll be eligible for a draw to win some free images! See OSAAT for more details.

I'd like to enter these into the following challenges:
Pollycraft Monday Challenge whose theme is 'New Things'. (The shrink plastic and digi-stamp are new to me.)
Crafty Creations whose theme is 'New Beginnings' (new life at the end of winter!)
Stampavie and More whose theme is 'Sparkling' (glitter pen used on leaves and around heart.)
Creative Cottage whose theme is 'All Things New' (Printable Shrink Plastic and stamp)
Top Tip Tuesday where the theme is 'Anything Goes'
Kaboodle Doodles where they want us to 'Do it with Digis' (image and paper both digis.)
Karber who want digis with pearls. (Bracelet has both!)
Papercrafting Journey  whose theme is 'Let's Get Digital'
Stamp Something who have an 'Anything Goes' theme this week
Fairytale Challenge who want flowers
The Saturday Challenge whose theme is 'With Love' and what says love better than a heart and flowers!
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays whose theme is 'Anything Goes'
Challenge Up Your Life where the theme is 'Clean and Simple' (entering the card)
Really Reasonable Ribbon who want hearts and ribbon (the card)
Two Sisters who want flowers