One Stitch at a Time Challenge 157

This week at One Stitch at a Time, we're celebrating spring. We want to see your spring-themed creations.

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This week, I worked with an image from one of the newer Stitchy Bear artists - BB Cakes and an image called Flower Boy 1.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and cut and matted it using Nestibilities. The background paper is from Me to You. I border-punched the edge of the paper and a separate piece of blue card using Tonic border punches and finished with some sticky gems.

I hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Pause, Dream, Enjoy, where anything goes,
Squigglefly where anything goes,
The Paper Shelter where anything goes,
Simon Says Stamp where anything goes,
A Gem of a Challenge where they want us to 'make it cute',
613 Avenue Create where they want flowers,

Creative Inspirations Ink where anything goes,

Lacy Sunshine where anything goes,

Will You Miss Us?

One of our colleagues is retiring, and I've made a card for our planning group to sign. I work in a school for children with learning difficulties, and over half of the children have a diagnosis of being on the Autistic Spectrum.

Although they're not wearing school uniform, these two Mo Manning images are perfect! Between learning delays and the need to control their environment, we see a lot of 'terrible twos' type tantrums! It's definitely one of the more challenging things we deal with at work.

I printed the combined image quite big, outlining  it and adding the sentiment in Photoshop Elements, then coloured with Promarkers. The paper is from a Pamela West CD, and I've finished the card using a Martha Stewart border die and lots of sticky gems!

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

Whoopsie Daisy where they're looking for punched elements,
Pause, Dream, Enjoy where anything goes,
Through the Craftroom Door where anything goes,
I Love Promarkers where anything goes,
Stamping for the Weekend where the theme is 'Child's Play',
Lady Anne's Challenges where it's 'anything goes with a sentiment',
No Matter Which where anything goes,
Eclectic Ellapu where they want Humour,
613 Avenue Create where anything goes.

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 156

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our challenge is to use a digi.

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See the challenge blog for more details.

This week I worked with an image from Kaz Krafts called Butterfly Scent.

I coloured the image with Promarkers. The die cuts are Nestibilities, and I edged the image and paper (from Papermania) with Glamour Dust. The lace is a bit of a find, s far as I'm concerned. It's from Tiger, and if you've got a shop near you, check it out - it's ready to stick!

I hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Bearly Mine where anything goes,
Passion for Promarkers where the theme is 'Butterflies',
I Love Promarkers where anything goes,
Paper Pretties where they want glitter,
Colour Me Creative where they want spring colours,
Brown Sugar where anything goes,
Card Making Mamas where the theme is 'Springtime',
Clearly Inspired where anything goes,
Sweet Pea Stampers where they want spring colours,

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 87

This time at Crafty Cardmakers, the challenge, set by my team mate Yvonne, is 'Friendship'. She wants to see the word 'Friend' or 'Friendship' somewhere on your creation.

Our sponsors this time are:

and

For more details of prizes, see the challenge blog - the link's in my sidebar.

I got to work with one of the image from sponsor Saturated Canary. I haven't worked with any of their digis before, but they always look lovely so I was keen to try.

I didn't set out to make a large card, but it ended up eight by eight! I'm kind of between trimmers at the moment, so I decided to rely on die cuts as far as possible. 

I added the words in Photoshop elements before printing, then cut the image with a Spellbinders die. And that's when the card started to grow! I was planning on using one of the larger Labels 1 (from Spellbinders) to matt with, but when I saw how it looked skewed through 45 degrees, I had to go that way, and that made it too big for my normal six by six cards. I've matted using blue mirriboard and some gorgeous foiled paper I got a while ago from Craft Creations. The bottom layer is another bit of blue mirriboard, and on top of that, I've used some pearlescent pink which I've cut using my new Marianne Anja corner die.

I hope you can join us this time.

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

Lady Anne where anything goes,

One Stop Craft Challenge where anything goes,

Clearly Inspired where anything goes,

Digital Tuesday where they want something 'framed',

Nana Vic's Challenge where anything goes,

Natalie and Amy's Challenge where they want die cuts.