Boo!

Halloween is almost upon us and, appropriately, the challenge theme at One Stitch at a Time this week is.....

 

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.....BOO! :D

 

For my card this week I've used BBKakes' rather funky Skull Diva digi stamp:

 

 

I love this stylish little rock chick with her skull accessories. :) I coloured her with my Promarkers and fussy cut her out:

 

 

I wanted a Halloween-y background for my card so I chose this fabulous haunted house shape on my Cameo and cut it out on black card. I layered it over a background made by blending Distress Inks.

 

 

To finish I stamped a greeting in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with Silver Pearl embossing powder and then added my cut-out image using foam pads for a touch of dimension.

 

 

You don't need to use a Stitchy Bear product to enter the challenge but if you do (and we'd love to see your Stitchy Bear creations!) you'll be in with a chance of winning our main prize. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear Product will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher to the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge - S is for Scary
Card Makin' Mamas - Trick or Treat
Craftitude - Anything Goes/Spooky
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Happy Halloween
Crafty Hands Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Creative Corner - Femme Fatale
Cut It Up - Halloween/Day of the Dead
Digitally Sweet - Anything Goes
Left of Centre Creative Challenges - LOC/Halloween or Creepy
PunkyouGirl - Halloween
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Stampin' for the Weekend - Something Spooky
Stamping with the Dragon - Halloween
Stempelsonnen Challenge - Halloween

 

 

 

 

Boo!

This week for Variations Week at the Sweet Pea Stamps blog, the DT are playing with Teresa Sherman's fabulous Halloweenies images. I just love these creepy cute characters! :)

 

I chose to work with Mummy:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Promarkers and cut it out:

 

 

I decided to keep my card fairly clean and simple and used my Cameo to cut some halloween-themed images from black card, sizing them to the same size as my main image. I arranged the images in a grid formation, attaching the coloured digi stamp with foam pads to make it pop, and finished up with a spooky sentiment, also cut with my Cameo:

 

 

You can find Teresa Sherman's Halloweenies (and her other fab stamps) in both red rubber and digi format at the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

 

Brrrr... is it cold in here?

Well here we are in October and the prospect of winter begins to loom before us...

 

So to warm you up a bit, here's a cute little creation for this week's Winter Wonderland challenge at One Stitch at a Time:

 

 

This week I've used Beary Dust's Hot Chocolate image. I'm rather envious of this cuddly little bear... I could just do with soaking in a bath of lovely warm hot chocolate right about now. :D I coloured the image with my Promarkers and added a few white gel pen highlights before fussy cutting it out:

 

 

I decorated my card with some pretty christmas-themed papers in warm red and cool aqua and cut a pretty snowflake frame with my Cameo over which to layer my cut-out image:

 

 

I layered the frame and my image (attached with foam pads) over a piece of pretty white lace and finsihed things off with some flowers and some dotted flourishes done with a 3D liner pen.

 

You can enter any kind of project you like into the challenge, as long as it meets the challenge theme, and entries using a Stitchy Bear product will be eligible to win our main prize. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear product will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher for the Stitchy Bear digi outlet.

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Robyn's Fetish - Square Cards Only
Yumi & Fumi Handmade - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Colour Me Creative - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Craftitude - Anything Goes
Pattie's Creations - Ribbon
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Stampin' For The Weekend - Anything Goes

Pumpkin Pixie

This week I've been creating with one of the new digi stamps from one of my favourite Sweet Pea Stamps artists - Ching Chou Kuik.

 

 

For this card I've used the Pumpkin Pixie digi stamp. I love the halloween theme to this image... and the cute little cats! :) I coloured the image with my Promarkers in warm shades of orange and green and added a little shading around the figure using Prismacolor pencils:

 

 

I also added a touch of Spiced Marmalade Distress Stickles to the accents in her hair:

 

 

I came across this fabulous bat frame in the Silhouette store recently and thought it was just perfect for this card. I cut it out from black cardstock and teamed it with some luscious autumn-coloured papers from the new Autumn Song collection from Bo Bunny.

 

 

To finish I added some layered flowers and dotted some flourishes using black Enamel Accents.

 

 

This stamp is available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

 

 

Get Your Rock On....

The new challenge at One Stitch at a Time this week is Anything Goes and this week I've been working with this funky "Rock On" image by Pookie Designs...

 

 

Isn't he fabulous? :D

 

I coloured him with my Promarkers and cut him out...

 

 

...and I had the idea of having him stand astride the sentiment for the card.... and what else could the sentiment be but "Rock On"?!! :D It's an awesome sentiment that sums up a whole lot in just two words. It's also fab for those notoriously difficult male/teenage cards. :)Divas by Design

 

So I had a search of the Silhouette online store and found this great layered Rock On word art and I cut it on with my Cameo using white card and silver mirri card.

 

 

Right from the start I knew I had *the* perfect paper to go with this image and I chose this sheet from the DCWV Rockstar stack. I attached the sentiment and the image using foam pads. layering them together so that my little rock star stood astride the sentiment, and I finished things off, appropriately, with a scattering of little wooden stars which I coloured silver using a metallic marker. :)

 

 

If you enter the OSAAT challenge using a Stitchy Bear image, you'll be in with a chance to win our main prize. You can still enter without a Stitchy Bear image and you'll be entered into a draw to win a $3 gift certificate for the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet. :)

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Dies or Punches

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Make It Shine

Digitally Sweet - Anything Goes

Jellypark Challenges - The Sentiment is the Key

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

4 Krafty Girlz - Anything Goes

As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Sentiment

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

The Male Room - Sports and Hobbies

Sisterhood of Crafters - Use a Digi

Whimsy Inspirations - Masculine

 

Spinner Card

Ching Chou Kuik's The Moth is one of several gorgeous rubber stamps by this amazing artist that each comes on a single sheet with a lovely sentiment stamp. As soon as I saw this stamp I had an idea for a card:

 

I've never made this type of card before (in fact, I wasn't even sure I knew what the name for it was, I just knew I'd seen some in magazines etc) but just thought this circular framed image would look fabulous on a card where the image could spin around... and have the sentiment on the reverse:

 

 

I have to say though, as pleased as I am with how this card came out, it's a bear to photograph properly! :lol: Here's what it looks like closed up:

 

 

And here's the reverse side:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Promarkers and added some Stickles over the moths:

 

 

I cut the card shape out from coloured card using my Cameo and decorated it with some pretty paper and added some flower flourishes cut from gold mirri card using the Cameo. I stamped the sentiment onto a circle of white card and blended Spiced Marmalade and then Salty Ocean Distress Inks around the edges before attaching to the card.

 

 

 

Red, White and Blue

It's Variations Week again at Sweet Pea Stamps and this time the DT are playing with Karen Middleton's sweet Red, White and Blue image. I love Variations Week... it's always amazing to see how everyone takes the same image and creates something so different with it. :)

For my card I coloured the stamp with my Promarkers in shades of red, white and blue - as seemed appropriate - and added some sparkly Stickles to the scattered stars.

 

 

I cut out the image with a Nestabilities die and embossed the edges and decorated my card with gold mirri card and one of the backgrounds I made while playing with my Gelli plate last month - I thought the red, white and blue colours, with touches of gold, in this print were just a perfect match for the theme of the stamp and the colours I'd used to colour it in.

 

 

I added a couple of lengths of ribbon in blue and gold and then cut some zooming star shapes with my Cameo and layered them under the image, which I matted onto more gold mirri card and attached with foam tape. To finish I added some teeny tiny little star-shaped gemstones here and there.

 

 

This image is available in both red rubber and digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

 

WOYWW 201

Ooops. The mess is starting to encroach a little again!

 

 

In my defence, it's been a crazy busy couple of weeks, with Easter and then my DD1's birthday (and birthday party). So much so that I've not done much crafting for the past few days... although I have spent this evening finishing up a scrapbook page (woot, an actual paper scrapbook page - I never seem to get around to doing those much anymore!) which is sitting on the desk while some silicone glue dries. It's not something I can share just yet though, hence why I've haphazardly covered it with a random instruction leaflet (from the kiddy digital camera I got DD1 for her birthday! :lol:)!

 

Ooh I did do one other bit of crafting in the past few days though... I managed to find time in the day before DD1's birthday to make her a birthday card!

 

 

I was struggling for inspiration at first but she had been banging on for weeks about wanting an Octonauts birthday cake for her party so I thought, why not go with the same theme for her card? :) I googled for the image and used a SU stamp (it reminds me of bubbles!) for the background and cut the name and number 4 on my Cameo. Simple, but effective - and she loved it.

 

Oh and the Octonauts cake? Was. Awesome.

 

 

I'd never had a cake professionally made before but I googled for local cake makers and called Sara's Celebration Cakes. I'd left it a bit late to order but, bless her, she said she could squeeze us in. She'd never heard of the Octonauts (it's an animated show on the pre-schoolers cBeebies channel, for those not in the know!) but she went away and googled it and came back and suggested that she could make the Gup-B ship with the 3 main characters sitting in it. And that's exactly what she did. I was - and, quite frankly, still am -  amazed by it! It totally exceeded my expectations. The level of detail was incredible (down to teeny tiny icing Octonauts logos on the tailfin of the ship!) and it also tasted great! DD1 *loved* it. :)

 

 

So thank you, Sara, for helping to make my little girl's first proper birthday party absolutely brilliant. :)

 

And on that note, I shall sign off and head to bed. Hope you enjoy your skip around the craft desks of blogland and that Wednesday is good to you.

A Rose By Any Other Name

I love working with Sweet Pea Stamps... not only because of the gorgeous stamps I get to create with, but also because of the awesome team of creative ladies I get to work with and the fabulous inspiration I get from seeing their creations.

This week I have taken a bit of inspiration from one of my fellow-DT members and done my own take on Milo's gorgeous, super-detailed style:

 

I have to admit that I love how this turned out. :)

I've used Ching Chou Kuik's beautiful Red Rose digi stamp. I love the Dia de los Muertos sugar skulls influence of this image. I coloured her with Promarkers, using red and gold colours and keeping her skin super-pale.

 

 

I teamed the image with a red and black colour scheme and lots of texture and detail for a rather gothic/baroque feel.

 

 

I cut a card shaped card blank with My Cameo and layered some gorgeous Basic Grey paper (from the Boxer collection) onto it. I then added lots of texture and dimension with flowers and lace and fabric and trinkets, cutting out the image and layering it over the top of it all:

 

 



I added lots of little decorative touches like a little metal pendant which I filled with more of the patterned paper and layers of UTEE, into which I set a paper rose, and a little shrink plastic butterfly.

 

Other additions include a little wooden key with I coloured black with my Promarkers and coated with Glossy Accents...

 

And some heart-shaped decorative pins and a ticket stamped onto kraft card.
 

You can buy this gorgeous image in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store. Hope you like my card and that Milo doesn't mind me "borrowing" her fabulous style. :)

 

Bonjour mes cheries!

Simplement pour m'amuser (et pour une autre raison que je vais expliquer dans un moment), j'ai decidé d'écrire cette note en français. Il serait interressant aussi de voir comment horrible est mon français après quelques anneés sans l'utiliser.

 

Bon, pour expliquer, la chose qui m'a inspiré d'écrire en français aujourd'hui  était le defi cette semaine à Passion for Promarkers, dont le sujet est "From Around The World". En effet, on doit créer quelque chose (en utilisant les Promarkers, bien sûr) qui montre quelque partie du monde.

 

J'espère que je ne dois pas expliquer quelle partie du monde j'ai choisi, hein? ;)

 

Donc, voici ma carte:

 

 

J'ai utilisé un dessin de Sassy Studio et l'a colorié avec mes Promarkers:

 

 

Les papiers sont par Websters Pages (gratuites avec un magazine, bien sûr) et j'ai ajouté un napperon, une piece de dentelle, un réverbère découpé, et quelques fioritures et fleurs découpé avec mon Cameo:

 

 

Les fleurs petites sont des spirales est les fleurs plus grandes j'ai tamponné avec un tampon d'écriture et j'ai colorié les bords avec de l'encre "Distress" avant de les assembler.

 

 

Et voila.

 

J'éspère que vous aimer ma création - et que mon français n'était pas trop affreux! :D

 

A bientôt, mes amies!