OSAAT #174 Anything Goes

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time 

Anything Goes

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet and there is a fabulous prize of all the images used by the DT on Challenge #172 for the lucky winner who uses a Store image.

Please head on over to the NEW LOOK  & REBRANDED Stitchy Bear’s Digi Outlet to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can sign up to the newsletter & become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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It was my turn to choose this week and we are using an image from Floppy Latte Designs called Simple Framed Flowers. It is such a very elegant design and great for any occasion. In this instance I chose to make a Thank You card for a friend’s Mother in South Africa as she will be playing host to us all for 2 weeks.

As this post goes live I will be in Johannesburg having spent 5 nights at the Kruger National Park in South Africa (as long as I haven’t been eaten by a lion or something!). I found out what Hester’s favourite colours are and have coloured this up using them.

I created a second layer of just the flowers on their own and these are mounted with 3d foam and have glossy accents on them. The image has been matted on Kraft paper and then added to glittery paper from a First Edition pad. The trim is metallic with small sequins on it and is the perfect match to the colours. I used a glittery fabric butterfly sticker and added it to some scrap red card. I trimmed around it adding some gems to the body and mounted on 3d foam.

The sentiment is rub on’s from K & Co that I have had in my stash for at least 8 years. I am really trying to use things that I haven’t even see for a good many years as you tend to use what you can see more easily don’t you?

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image - Simple Framed Flowers by Floppy Latte Designs

Paper – Blank Canvas First Edition Pad

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam pads

Embellishments – Glossy Accents, gems from Dovecraft, Fabric butterfly sticker Hobbycraft, K & Co Rub-ons, sequin braid

OSAAT #154 Use a Digi

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is a favourite…….

Use a Digi

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and there is a fabulous prize of the images our DT used for challenge #152 for the lucky winner who uses a Store image

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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It was my turn to choose and image for Choccy and myself to use and in celebration of Spring it just had to be daffodils. I really do like the floral images that Floppy Latte does and this Floral Frame 7 is a fabulous example of her attention to detail that makes her floral designs so realist and a pleasure to work with.

I selected a word art from Diana at All About Me. She is so very generous with her digi kits and offers many word arts for free. This one is from Pink Spring and is available here. I coloured the image in Promarkers and Flexmarkers and cut it out using my super sharp Fiskars embroidery scissors. The blades are so precise and completely necessary for such detailed designs as this.

I used a sketch from Sketchy Challenges for the layout. The base designer paper is from Basic Grey. The doily is a die cut which has been inked with a brown distress pad to knock the edges back. The orange strip has been trimmed with a Martha Stewart punch. Finally a gold glittery butterfly has been added which was a purchase from Hobbycraft a good 3 years ago.

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Square

Image – Flower Frame 7 by Floppy Latte Designs

Sentiment – Pink Spring freebie kit by All About Me

 Paper – Hello Luscious by Basic Grey & Birdsong by Papermania

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Distress ink pad, Nelies Flower doily die, Martha Stewart punch

Embellishments – Hobbycraft gliiter butterfly sticker

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - #70 Lots of flowers
• Addicted To Stamps - #51 Lots of Flowers
• Allways Something Creative - #49 Spring / Green
• Art Impressions Stamps – #103 Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations – #31 Things With Wings
• Avadares Challenge - #9 Easter or Spring
• Basic Grey Challenges - #89 Spring is In The Air (Hello Luscious Paper)
• Bloggers Challenge – Come Fly With Me
• Catch The Bug – Green Thumb
• Catered Crop – Include a Frame
• CDAC Seasonal Fun – Spring
• Clearly Inspired - #71 Die Cuts
• Colour Me Creative – Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge - #169 All That Glitters
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #197 Easter or Spring
• Craft Us Crazy - #38 Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion - #152 Odd number of embellishments
• Crafting For All Seasons - #47 Spring
• Crafty Blogger’s Network - #9 Spring or pastel
• Crafty Boots – Old (butterfly sticker)
• Crafty Creations  – #212 Green
• Creative Corner – Include some Green
• Creative Moments - #12 Add a Sentiment
• Creative Stamp Friends - #72 Spring Colours
• Cupcake Craft Challenge - #232 Sparkle
• Forever Friends Monthly – Lots of Flowers
• Gingerloft - The colour Green
• Glitter & Sparkle - #23 Use some Green
• Great Impressions Stamps – Green the colour
• Happy Campers - #12 Butterfly
• Inspire Me Fridays - #99 Anything Goes
• My Graphico – #146 Anything Goes
• Nana Vic’s – Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #7 Use a Die Cut
• One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes
• One Stop Crafts - #219 Spring
• Oozak Challenge - #12 Anything Goes With Spring
• Order of the Opus Gluei - #152 Spring Has Sprung
• Outlawz Monday Card – GCC0304 Flowers & Butterflies
• Paper Makeup Stamps Digi Makeover – #78 Take Flight
• Paper Playtime - #5 Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede – #29 Show some green
• Sandy’s Crafty Creations – Anything Goes With some green
• Scrappy Frogs – Green
• Simon Says Stamp – A Bit O’ Green
• Sketchy Challenges - #42 Sketch for Layout
• Sparkle & Glitter – #11 Spring is in the Air
• Sparkle & Sprinkle – Use any colour of glitter
• Stamptacular Sunday - #206 To Die For

OSAAT # 146 Anything Goes

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is everyone’s favourite

Anything Goes

We are sponsored this wek by the fabulous Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. 

The lucky crafter who uses a Stitchy store image will win the last Collaboration the DT used.

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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 It was my turn to pick an image for me and teamie Choccy to work with and I thought it would be nice to do something a little bit different this time. It’s always nice to show that our images can be made into more than just cards and this inspired me to make a 3D flower vase from an image called Flowers in A Glass from Floppy Latte Designs.

I am known in the family for keeping bits and bobs that I can use in my crafting. I think anyone crafty can see the potential in the most unusual of items. I love to breathe new life into things and feel as a crafter that my job it to make the world more beautiful and spread a little happiness J

The flowers in the vase have been in my stash for about 4 years. I bought them from a housewares shop in Ludlow, they are crystals and there were several ‘flowers’ and ‘leaves’ on each stem so I of course took them apart intending to incorporate them into a project. I am so happy that I managed to ACTUALLY make something with them. They are so similar to the flowers in the image I think it was meant to be.

The basis of the flower vase is a cardboard sweetie tube so I sized up the image for the narrow point of the neck to be slightly wider to hide it. I cut the tube down to hide behind the top of the image and then covered it with some scrap card.

The image was coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers and then I added some gold gel pen to the flower centres and to add some gilding to the lines of the vase. The background of the vase is a coloured a very pale pink to accent the colours from the flowers. The nib on the Flemarker was perfect for this and made it so there were no streaks at all. In fact one of my work colleagues thought I had actually printed it out and couldn’t believe I had coloured it, this was an amazing compliment J

I used a very strong glue to add the image to the tube as there is only a small strip that touches it needed to be a strong hold. 

The inside of the tube has been packed with some very thin white foam which I rolled up fairly tightly. This gave me lots of areas to be able to poke the flowers into and the stems with the clear ‘leaves’.

This was a lot of fun to make, the flowers are about £1’s worth so cost next very little as everything else is recycled and I made something beautiful. I hope it has inspired you to look at your images a little differently and think outside the box.

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Project size - 8cm Wide x 15cm High

Image – Flowers In a Glass by Floppy Latte Designs

Ingredients – Crystal flowers, scrap cardstock, thin foam packaging, sweetie tube

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Gold Gel pen

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 613 Avenue Create – #2 Anything Goes
• Art Impressions Stamps – #95 Bling It On
• Artistic Inspirations – #22 Anything Goes
• Can You Digi It - #26 Sparkle Sparkle
• Card Makin’ Mamas – Anything Goes
• Clear It Out Challenge – Texture (Flowers 4 years old)
• Corrosive Challenge - #165 Old Stash (Flowers 4 Years Old)
• Crafting For All Seasons - #43 Use Something New (digi)
• Crafty Blogger’s Network - #7 Flowers
• Crafty Creations  – #204 Something New (digi)
• Crazy Challenge - #136 No Designer Paper
• Digi Haven – Sparkles & Bling
• Diva’s By Design – #67 Anything Goes
• Dream Valley Challenges - #48 Anything Goes
• Freshly Brewed Designs - #1 Anything Goes
• Glitter & Sparkle - #15 Use a Digi
• Inky Chicks - #1 Anything Goes
• Inspire Me Fridays - #91 Anything Goes
• Lexi’s Creations - #81 Anything Goes
• Little Red Wagon - #167 Bling
• My Graphico – #143 Anything Goes
• Nana Vic’s – Anything Goes
• One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
• Party Time Tuesdays  – #102 Sparkle Glitter & Shine
• Penny’s Paper Crafty - #109 Anything Goes
• Platypus Creek - #23 Anything Goes
• Scrap It Girl – Bling Glitter Shine Sparkle
• Simply Create – #17 Anything Goes
• Stamp n Doodle – Something Neglected (Flowers bought 4 years ago)
• Stamping With The Dragon  – Anything Goes
• The Squirrel & the Fox – #35 Anything Goes
• Through The Craftroom Door - #51 Anything Goes

OSAAT #139 - With Thanks

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and this time it is

With Thanks

Our sponsor this week is The Robin’s Nest with a fabulous prize for the lucky winner who uses a Stitchy Bear Store image

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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For this challenge I chose Oh Dahlia from Floppy Latte Designs. Jess has some amazing and very realistic floral images in the store and this is suitable for any occasion.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers keeping to happy yellow and orange colours. I think I am inspired by the fantastic colours on the trees at the moment, I just adore Autumn J  I used a Nestabilities die to cut it out and create a pretty lacy border.

The paper is embossed from My Minds Eye Bloom & Grow pack, one of my favourites because of the colours and the simple flower and leaf shapes running through them. The border is from a free calendar and paper pack that came with a magazine in the same papers matted onto a scrap of orange card to provide definition.

My sentiment is a digi freebie from Raindrop Echo Designs. I adore butterflies and love the simplicity of the sentiment running through the body. I used a beaded trim from a floristry section of a craft store and snipped it to make the butterfly stamens. The sentiment has the wings folded back and the centre only is mounted on 3d foam. The large flower centre is embellished with a brown button and a shiny HOTP brad. The image below shows the details in close up.

In a rare move for me I resisted the urge to add anything else and called it done. This for me is a very CAS card, perhaps I am getting used to listening to the inner voice and not adding any extra bits that detract from the main image?

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Image – Oh Dalia by Floppy Latte Designs

Sentiment – Thank You Sentiments by Raindrop Echo Designs (still available)

Paper – My Minds Eye Bloom & Grow

Embellishments – Papermania Button, HOTP Brad, Pearl Floral pick

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities die

Techniques - Diecutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Anything Goes #79 – Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments #67 – Thanks
• Bearly Mine #60 – Anything Goes
• Can You Digi It #22 – Favourite Animal
• Card Makin’ Mamas – Thank You
• Challenges 4 Everybody #7 – Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge #162 – Flutterby
• Crafter’s Café Challenge #10 – Thank You
• DL Art Thankful Thursday – Thanksgiving
• Dream Valley Challenge #45 – Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps #13 – Thanksgiving
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Do It Digi
• Happy Campers #4 – Bright Colours
• Hotshot Crafts #13 – Butterflies
• Hybrid Chick Card Caravan #31 – Thankful
• Incy Wincy Designs – Giving Thanks
• Kaboodle Doodles #144 – Anything Goes
• LEJ Designs #28 – Die Cuts or Punches
• Little Red Wagon #158 – Colouring
• Loves Rubber Stamps #25 – Anything Goes
• Mema’s Crafts November Challenge #1 – Anything Goes
• My Sheri Crafts #98 – Give Thanks
• One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes
• One Stop Crafts – Anything Goes
• Outlawz PAM111012 – Thankful
• Papelitos Challenges #19 – Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
• Paper Girls #19 – Thank You
• Paper Makeup Digi Makeover #61 – Thanks
• Paper Playtime #88 – Autumn Colours
• Paper Pretties PPMC64 – Use 2 or more Circles
• Paper Pretties PWC 231 – Thank You Cards
• Papertake Weekly  – Anything Goes
• Partytime Tuesday #93 – Thank You
• Passion For Promarkers #174 – In The Garden
• Pink Elephant #173 – Fave Colouring Medium (Promarkers)
• Ribbon Carousel Challenge #74 – Give Thanks
• Scrappy Frogs – Give Thanks
• Simply Create #10 – Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Anything Goes
• Through The Craftroom Door #43 – Anything Goes