One Stitch at a Time Challenge 148

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our challenge is to use a digi! So, that's easy, sin't it?

Our sponsor this week is:

This week, I worked with an image from Beary Dust - one I've used before, but which is definitely worth a second outing! Her name is Corey.

I love her pose - it just lends itself so well to so many captions!

In this instance, I've made a card for my sister's birthday, adding the sentiment in Photoshop Elements before printing. I cut the image with one of my Nesties and coloured with Promarkers. I've matted using a Spellbinders decorative label die. The paper is one of the gorgeous Kate Knight papers from a recent magazine freebie pad. The border die is from Sizzix, as is the dragonfly die. I finished with some sticky gems and that's it.

I hope you can join us this week.

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

Digi Stamps 4 Joy where it's anything goes,
I Love Promarkers where it's anything goes,
The Paper Shelter where it's anything goes,
Whoopsie Daisy where they want us to use a digi,
Simply Create Too where anything goes,
Forever Friends where the theme is 'birthdays',
Papercrafting Journey where they want something 'for a girl',
My Time to Craft where they want 'things with wings',

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 83

This time at Crafty Cardmakers, the challenge, set by my team-mate Kim, is to make a belated birthday card! It can be any theme, intended for any recipient, but it must have a sentiment that makes it clear it's a belated birthday card.

Our sponsors this time are Milk Coffee who have a gorgeous selection of images to choose from.

and

I was lucky enough to work with one of our sponsor's images this time - and it seemed perfect to me for the theme! It's called Lady with Antique Bicycle (although that bike looks remarkably like mine, and although it's not new, I don't think it's an antique!)

Isn't that a pretty image? I added the sentiment in Photoshop Elements before printing, then coloured with Promarkers. I cut the image with a Spellbinders die (labels 8) and cut a frame using the decorative labels 8. (And am I the only person who'd love to see Grand Labels 8 too?)

The paper is a Kate Knight design from magazine last year, and I finished with some Spellbinders die cut butterflies which I'v shaded with Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire.

I hope you can join us this time. Go on, you know you need a belated card in your stash!

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

Forever Friends where the theme is 'birthdays',
Moving Along with the Times where the theme is 'birthdays',
Papercrafting Journey where anything goes,
Divas by Design where they want it 'girly',
Bearly Mine where anything goes,
Can you Digi It where they're 'getting girly',
Stampin' for the Weekend where they want something 'girly',
The Squirrel and the Fox where anything goes.

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 147

This week at One Stitch at a Time, the theme is Love! That can be a valentine theme, romantic love or any other sort of love you can imagine!

Our sponsor this time is:

And I decided to make a card for my younger son's 21st birthday!

I've used an image from Pookie Designs. It reminded me, not of my son, but of of some of his friends! Always a keen musician, my son took part in many school concerts and band nights, and one band which appeared regularly, included one young man with very long hair who used to bend over his guitar and windmill his hair around in time to the music. It was rather mesmerising, and it became his 'trade mark' as he played some very heavy rock music.

I coloured the image with Promarkers, having cut it using a Sizzix die. I had to hand-cut the outer green layer using the outside of the largest die in the set. It doesn't seem to matter how big a set of dies is, I always seem to want another one ...) The paper is from Papermania, and I finished with a couple of corner swirls, also from Sizzix.

I hope you can join us this week.

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

Cards Galore where anything goes,
Artistic Inspirations where anything goes,
Forever Friends where the theme is 'birthdays',
Moving Along with the Times where the theme is 'birthdays',
Papercrafting Journey where anything goes,

The Squirrel and the Fox where anything goes.

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 146

This week at One Stitch at a Time, we've got that easiest of all challenges - Anything Goes.

We're sponsored by

and you can win the latest set of collaboration images and papers.

This week, I worked with an image from IKEsART called Godshill.

It's a lovely image to colour, and such a lovely reminder of an English village scene with those thatched roofs.

I've used some Serif paper and cut some Papermania Shimmer card using a Spellbinders die in my Big Shot Pro, and that's it!  It's the sort of card I like to have in my box because it's so general - male/female/birthday/getwell/hello - pretty much whatever you want to say!

I hope you can join us this week.

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

Lady Anne's Challenge where anything goes,
Creative Creations where anything goes,
Lexi's Creations where anything goes,
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge where anything goes,
Fresh Brewed where anything goes,
Papercrafting Journey where anything goes,
Stampin' for the Weekend where anything goes,
Stamping with the Dragon where anything goes.