One Stitch at a Time Challenge 183

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our challenge is to make something Autumn-themed. If you're like me, the cooler days (and nights) are very welcome, so thinking about Autumn is very welcome!

Our sponsors this week are:

See the challenge blog for more details.

This week, I worked with an image from Barbara Jensen called Butter Blue, which I decided to colour in Autumn shades instead of blue!

I coloured with Promarkers. The image is cut using a Spellbinders die, and the frame is one of the Fleur de Lis rectangles. The background paper is from the Papermania Persimmon collection, and it's faintly patterned although that doesn't show clearly in the photo. I edged the paper using a Martha Stewart border punch. and mounted everything onto a cream card.

I hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Lady Anne where they want 'things with wings',
Digi Makeover where anything goes,
Love to Create where they have a picture for inspiration,
Bearly Mine where anything goes,
Die Cutting Divas where they want Autumn colours,
Party Time Tuesdays where anything goes,
Oldie but a Goodie where they want dies and punches (both the die and punch used in this project are over a year old.)
A Creative Romance where they want winged creations,
2 Sisters where anything goes,
CMC where they want Autumn colours.

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 168

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our challenge is to use a digi! Hazel chose our image this week, and she chose some cats by Barbara Jensen which just ooze character!

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When I saw the images, I just knew I had to add some text, so I went looking for something. I finally came up with a quote from one of the two writers whose writing makes me laugh out loud - Terry Pratchett. (The other one is the late lamented Douglas Adams: Eddies in the space-time continuum (Sorry, just had to put that in.))

Anyway, on to the card.

And, so you don't have to stand on your head or turn your computer upside-down, it says:

In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

I combined the two images and added the text frame in Photoshop Elements. The background paper was also created in PSE using a gradient and some paw prints.

I hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine where anything goes,
Nana Vic's Challenge where anything goes,
Aud Sentiments where anything goes,
Charisma Cards where they want digi stamps,
My Heart Pieces where they want clean and simple,
Digi Haven where anything goes.

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 153

This week at One Stitch at a Time, we're (sort of) celebrating Spring with our theme of 'Go Green'! That can be literal (with green colours) or you can recycle.

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See the challenge blog for details.

I had a image from Barbara Jensen to work with this week, and I chose a cute girl who goes by the name of Lolly Poppy. And I chose to use the colour green since I didn't have anything handy to recycle ...

I added the sentiment in Photoshop Elements before printing, then coloured with a mix of Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I cut the image and matt using a Sizzix Framelets die set. The background was debossed using a Crafter's Companion embossing folder. (Yes, it was an accident - but I liked the effect so it stayed ...) The card is Papermania pearlescent, and I've finished using a new Sizzix Thinlits border die and some sticky gems.

I hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine where anything goes,
Creative Card Crew where the theme is 'birthdays',
Digital Tuesday where the theme is 'birthdays',
Pink Elephant where anything goes,
CRAFT where they want embossing (hope 'debossing' is ok!)
Craft Us Crazy where anything goes,
Crafting for All Seasons where they want us to use dies or punches,
Crafts and Me where they want us to use dies or punches,
Divas by Design where anything goes,
Digi Haven where the theme is 'green',

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 92

This week at One Stitch at a Time, we want you to use a digi! That's all - easy! Our sponsors this week are Stamping Boutique

My image this week is from Barbara Jensen Designs, and it's called, not too surprisingly, 'Parrot'. It's available at Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

I coloured the image with Promarkers, and cut it and two matt layers with my petite oval Nesties. I had lots of fun with all those blues! The background papers come from two sources. The floral one I've had for a very long time! It was part of a Sizzix pad I bought years ago! (It was the first patterened paper I'd ever bought.) The plainer paper is left over from one of my sessions with various Mica sprays. I must've used most of the sheet, but there was enough left for this card. I seem to remember wrapping the card in cling film to get a subtle pattern from the various colours.

My embellishments were all cut using Marianne Creatables dies, and were cut from Craft Creations Sparkle Paper.  (That's very reduced at the moment, but I'll have to see if I can justify the postage cost before I buy anything ...)

Hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Ooh La La where they want sparkle,

Paper Creations where they want us to 'bling it up' (hope my shiny flowers with gem brads are bling-y enough!)

The Crazy Challenge where anything goes,

Papertake Weekly where anything goes,

Divas by Design where anything goes,

Dutch Dare where they want things with wings,

Crafty Catz where anything goes,

Hotshot Craft where they want us to use Promarkers,

Totally Papercrafts where they want anything but Christmas.

Sweet Stamping where they want things with wings.