One Stitch at a Time, Challenge 62

This week at One Stitch at a Time, you get to choose the theme, because it's Anything Goes! That's right. Whatever you want to make, you'll be eligible for a prize, and that's even better when you realise that we're sponsored by Joanna Sheen.

This week, I was lucky enough to work with a gorgeous image from Blackberry Lane called Tulip Magnolia. I love magnolia flowers, but they're only around for a couple of weeks at most, and the rest of the year, those trees are unremarkable.

I coloured the image with Promarkers - mainly Almond, but with some Rose Pink, Baby Pink and Pale pink to give some shading, and a little Pastel Beige and Pastel Green for the rest. I shadowed the image with Tea Green to make it stand out from the white a little more, but it's quite a subtle effect.

I cut the image with one of my label nesties, and hand-cut a mat from the same die. I used a larger die from the same set to cut the embossed card, and embossed using a Spellbinders Impressability. These don't give as deep embossing as embossing folders, but they've got one huge plus. You can emboss them while they're still in the die, so you get that lovely clean border around your shape.

The paper is from Paper Cellar and the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and the local 99p Shop!

Hope you can join us this week.

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

Crafty Creations where anything goes,
Divas by Design where anything goes,
My Mum's Craft Shop where they want to see dies being used (nestibility labels),
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge where anything goes,
Sew Many Cards where anything goes,
Stamp Something where anything goes,
4 Crafty Chicks where they want something Spring inspired,
Delightful Challenges where they want flowers,
Everybody Art where they want flowers,

Papertake Weekly where they want punches or die cuts (die cut image and embossing)
Top Tip Tuesday where they're having a 'Flower Frenzy'
Tuesday Throwdown where they want die cuts (image and embossed panel)
Karen's Doodles where they want pastels

One Stitch at a Time Second Post

This is my second post for this week's One Stitch at a  Time 'Sassy' Challenge which is sponsored by Joanna Sheen. As I mentioned in my previous post, I struggled with this challenge, until I decided that 'sassy' could mean 'bold' and I applied that to the colours I chose.

This time, I'm using an image by Blackberry Lane which is available at the Stitchy shop - 'Camelias in a Watering Can'.

I coloured the image with Promarkers including the new gold one, and mounted it using one of my eyelet nesties. The backing paper is from ME, and I finished the card with some gold ribbon.

Hope you can join us this week!

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

Papertake Weekly where the theme is 'Truly Dimensional',

Top Tip Tuesday where the theme is 'Spring has Sprung' and what says 'Spring' better than flowers!
Crafty Calendar where the theme is 'April Showers bring forth May Flowers'
Daring Cardmakers where the theme is 'Easter or Spring', and to me, Spring means flowers.
Digis with Attitude where the theme is 'Spring has Sprung'
Totally Papercrafts where the theme is 'Springtime'
Stamp Insanity where the theme is 'Flower Power'