One Stitch at a Time Challenge 64

This week at One Stitch at a time, our challenge is Picnics, or alternatively, 4th July. Now, this side of the Atlantic, 4th July is just another school day, so naturally, I went for the picnics challenge!

All the images used by the DT this week come from the collaboration package for June. Remember, if you spend $10 in the Stitchy shop during June, you'll get the whole package absolutely free!

We're sponsored this week by Lily of the Valley.

I got a lovely image to work with this week - from Beary Dust - and it'll be part of the package of images and papers you get if you spend $10 in the Stitchy store during July.

I coloured the image with Promarkers. Now, there's a story behind the paper pad! I went to a local supermarket one Saturday morning, and spotted a magazine for sale that had a freebie paper pad. I was in the process of making a card for a wedding and needed a low-key red pattern for that, and it had one, so I bought the magazine. A day or so later, I got this image through, and realised the same pad would be ideal. And even better, it's called 'Picnic in the Park'!

I used three different papers from the pad - two in the background, and I die cut a third to make the flower using a Marianne Creativity die in my Wizard. (It's actually one of the Poinsettia dies, but I think it works for this too.) I edged the flower with some Distress Ink in Barn Door.

The buttons are also from the paper pack - I cut them out and coated them with dimensional glaze before threading with gold yarn.

Hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Stamps R Us where they want us to use a digi,
House of Gilli where they want us to use flowers. (Only one this time.)
Scrap Creations where they want us to use at least three patterned papers. (Two in the background and one for the flower.)
My Time to Craft where they want us to use a die cut (flower layers),
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge where the theme is'here comes summer',
Truly Scrumptious where anything goes,
Digi Doodles where anything goes,
Crafting for all Seasons where anything goes,
Fab 'n' Funky where they want 'cute and cuddly,
Crafty Calendar where they want teddy bears.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge

This week on Crafty Cardmakers, we've got an either/or challenge! To celebrate the upcoming royal wedding here in the UK, we want you to make either something for a wedding, or something red, white and blue.

And we're sponsored this week by Joanna Sheen. The lucky winner will get £10 to spend in her shop, and remember, she doesn't charge postage anywhere in the world! (I don't know of any other shop that does that.)

So, I don't have any reason to make a wedding card, so I went for the colourscheme. I wanted to do something stamped, and when I started looking through my collection of unmountd stamps, I got completely waylaid by some freebies from Craft Stamper magazine, and this was the result!

The flowers, butterfly and dragonfly are all from various issues of Craft Stamper, while the paisley 'leaves' are from a set of stamps from Artemio that I bought in France last summer.

I've used distress inks throughout, stamping the images, colouing the flowers and leaves and painting the stalks and shading the background. I stamped an extra couple of flowers and a dragonfly for layering. The flowers were also coated with a 3D glaze.

To finish, I used a Martha Stewart border punch.

Hope you can join us this week.

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

Top Tip Tuesday where the theme is 'Spring has Sprung' and what says 'Spring' better than flowers!
Incy Wincy who want 'bold and bright',
Crafty Calendar who want 'April showers bring forth May flowers'

Books

Well, it's the last day of half term, so it's back to school tomorrow. This will cut back on my crafting time (and energy) so I expect the posts will go back to a more manageable level!



This is a card made with one of my newer Sarah Kay stamps. I've had it a while, definitely stamped it just after I got it, and in the case of this image, coloured it too. But then it sat, waiting for further inspiration. That inspiration came from two sources - first a magazine - the Summer edition of Creative Cardmaking which came with some gorgeous papers and embellishments, and the Passion for Promarkers challenge which this week has a 'books' theme.

The image was coloured with Promarkers, and the additions are just some ribbon, three papers and an embellishment from the magazine, a little card from my collection, some cut with my Spellbinders tag die and stamped with a Papermania stamp, and a sticky gem which was also coloured with Promarkers. The only other thing I did was to give the flower embellishment a coat of 3D glaze to make it stand out a little more.