One Stitch at a Time Challenge 109

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our theme is Bright! A theme close to my heart!

Our sponsor this week is

My image this week is from Hope Jacare, called Treehouse with Bridge, and it's available at Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. I love Hope Jacare images - they're so quirky but gorgeous too, and they look perfect in really bright colours!

I coloured the image with Promarkers. The paper is from a Kate Knight pad that came with a recent magazine, and I made the flowers using punched shapes coloured with the same Promarkers. To finish, I've used a whole length of that gorgeous floral lace I've been hoarding for ages. (I've never used as much on a single project before!) I think it's perfect for both the image, and the theme.

Hope you can join us this week.

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

Pink Elephant where they want flowers,
Paper Makeup where they want bright colours,
House of Gilli where they want flowers,
Truly, Madly, Crafty where they want hand-made flowers,
Use it Tuesday where they want flowers,
Sassy Cheryl where anything goes,
Crafts and Me where they want 3D embellishments,
Crafty Creations where they want flowers,
Prairie Fairy where anything goes,

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 108

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our theme is 'Use a Digi'!

Our sponsor this week is

This week, Hazel and I are both using a gorgeous image from Ike's Art available at the Stitchy Bear Shop, called Peacock.

I coloured the image with Promarkers. The paper was put together in Photoshop Elements using an enlarged, repeated area of feathers from the image and colouring it with several gradients using colours to match the image.

The flowers were made using punched shapes with added (Promarker coloured) sticky gems, with some added gold punched swirls and leaves.

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

Can You Digi It? where they want us to find our inner peacock!
Kaboodle Doodles where they want anything but a rectangle,
Anything Goes where anything goes,
Oozak where anything goes,
Cupcake Crafts where they want bugs and birds and wings and things,
ATCs and Cards with Attitude where anything goes,
Wags and Whiskers where they want us to 'say it with flowers',
4 Crafty Chicks where they want flowers,
A Gem of a Challenge where they have a photo inspiration of a beautiful aquamarine gem.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 65 - Easter!

Our challenge this week is set by Doreen. She has chosen Easter for her theme, so we'd like to see any project you make as long as it has an Easter theme.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Digi Doodle Shop

Who are offering a $10 Gift Certificate for their Store to the challenge winner

This week, I got to work with a really pretty image from Digi Doodle Shop - called Splendid Flowers.

 I started with the image, and some beautiful Kate Knight paper that came recently with an issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine. I coloured the image with Promarkers in magenta and violet shades, and mounted it ont a mat cut using a Spellbinders die in my Wizard. Then, I did something I haven't done for years ... I looked out my peel offs. I've got loads, but they're normally buried at the back of the cupboard. But, I don't have any stamps with Easter greetings on them, and I didn't want to hand-write and the printer wasn't available, so ...

I threaded some pretty silver ribbon through the holes in the mat, and that's it! I did make a flower to add, but I preferred the card without it, so it'll go into my box for another day!

Hope you can join us this week.

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

Ribbon Carousel where anything goes (with ribbon)

Crafty Sentiments where the theme is Easter,

Creative Card crew where the theme is spring,

Scrap Creations where the theme is Easter,

Paper and such where the theme is Easter or spring,

Charisma Cards where the theme is Easter,

4 Crafty Chicks where the theme is Easter,

Aud Sentiments where they need to see 'Happy Easter',

Delightful Challenges where the theme is Easter,

Paper Play where the theme is Easter

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 107

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our theme is 'New'! And we're sponsored by

This week, I got some gorgeous papers from Panda Bear Designs to work with, as well as a lovely image from Stitchy herself!

So, of course, I decided to go for the theme 'new wardrobe'!

The image is coloured with Promarkers to match the gorgeous papers. I printed the image a little smaller than I usually would to show off the background! And then, to finish, I made some flowers using a couple of punches, colouring the card with the same Promarkers as I used in the image.

Hope you can join us this week!

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

Stamps +Fun where they want us to make our own flowers,
Party Time Tuesdays where anything goes,
Squigglefly where anything goes,
Crafty Purple Frog where anything goes,
For Your Inspiration where there's a photo inspiration (I chose the colours),
ATCs and Cards with Attitude where anything goes,
Cardmadfairy where they want die cuts or punches (flowers made from punched shapes)
Mark's Finest Papers where they want square cards,