OSAAT Challenge #143 More Than One Fold

The One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog has a new theme this week. It's to create something with more than one fold.  This week our sponsor is Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps and the fab prize if you use a Stitchy Bear digi image is $9.00 to spend in the store. Just think how many beautiful creations you could make with that amount to spend.  You can still enter a non SBDS image and will be put into a draw to spend $3.00 in store

Well.....knowing how absolutely useless I am with scissors, craft knife or any other cutting instrument and the amount of wasted paper I was producing, I cheated and went and bought a set of triple fold cards from Papermania.  If you can't die cut it then don't bother, Jen!  Spellbinders, Marianne, Memory Box and Cheery Lynn are up there at the top of the tree for me.

The focal image of my card is this beautiful and serene digi from Teri of Delicious Doodles called Olyvia and you can find her here as well as hundreds of other beautiful designs.

I coloured Olyvia with some very pale greys and blues and the background image of trees is also a Stitchy Bear digi image I used last year called Snow Deer Scene by Ike. Lots of lovely glitter on the trees and fluffy stuff on the fur of Olyvia's dress to finish.

It was a really sunny and cold winter's day when I took the photo, that's the blue sky I've caught at the very front, really fitting for this card.

I'd like to enter the following:-

Create a Scene: Winter Scene - Week 2  
ATC's and Cards with Attitude - Anything Goes - Challenge 28 
So Artful Challenges: Bird Life - Holiday or Winter Colours

Forgetful or What!

Last week I totally forgot to post my DT card for the One Stitch at a Time challenge blog.  Our theme  was to use Fabric, Ribbon or Lace. Well, I'm not averse to putting ribbon on a guy's card and this was pure silk ribbon tied in a knot.  The image is from Barb and you can find The Black Widow right here at Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. . 

I loved the image and had a certain person (our nephew) in mind when I saw the image,  This is one strong woman and there's no messing with her.

One for the Boys

It was my brother in law's birthday yesterday, this is his card I made using a topper from Kanban's Gentleman's Journal.  I used a background paper called Travel the World from Create with TLC and Paulette kindly featured it on her blog.  Please pop over and follow her blog as she has some amazing images on her site and the very best place to find the right sentiment for your creations.

I love this devil-may-care attitude of this toff.

Cyber Monday Sale!!!

There's a fabulous sale on over at StitchyBear Digital Stamps that's on until 5am GMT. head on over and select some of the gorgeous images available, lots and lots of Christmas designs and at half price too. 

A Note to Say 'Thank You'

I made the tag on this card along with another one a while ago and used it on this vintage style card for my beautiful sis-in-law, Helen. She is so tenderly taking care of my mother-in-law who is pretty poorly at the moment.  It was just to say 'thank you' to a very special person. 

Thank you, Hels, we love you.

I've just added a couple of corner flourishes to the card by Memory Box.  The main image is from Clarity Stamps and coloured with Promarkers.  The background is from a gorgeous large Stamp from Just Rite called Vintage Travel Map and the note is from a really useful set of vintage style stamps from Hunkydory.

I would like to enter this card into the following:

Challenges 4 Everybody: Challenge #6 Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu Challenge #6 ~ It's a Vintage Thing
Penny Black and More:November Challenge~Any Die Will Do 
The Crafty Pad: Challenge #195 ~ Anything Goes
ATC's and Cards With Attitude - Challenge 26 Add a Sentiment/Anything Goes  
Flonzcraft Challenge No.2 - Colour -Red/Green/Blue/Purple



So sorry but it appears Blogger is going multicoloured!

Queenie's Birthday

It was the birthday of our dear Queen Red Mel back in August. Mel heads up our Red Hat Chapter.  I took a picture of her card and forgot all about posting it on the blog.  Whoops! It's the Tower for me!

The stamped image has been designed by Yvette Jordan called Burlesque for Kanban Crafts.  I decided to emboss the image with UTEE  to make it touchy/feely. I've kept the whole card monotone with just some silver highlights. I've added some fluffy maribou feathers to keep the burlesque theme. The lovely swirls are die cuts from Memory Box and there's a little sentiment from Craftwork Cards at the bottom.

I would like to enter the following:-

ATC's and Cards with Attitude - Add a Sentiment/Anything Goes ~ Challenge 26 

Card Making Mamas  - Anything Goes,  You Say

Joyful Stamper: Inspire Me Fridays #83 ~ Anything goes  

Raise the Bar #118 ~ Anything Goes 

The Stamp Man November Challenge ~ Emboss It 

Crafty Us Crazy - Challenge #29 ~ Party This Way 

Guylou's Inimitability Blog ~Tickle Me Fancy

Getting it together now.

Since losing our precious son, Paul, I haven't felt like doing anything crafty at all and the dust has been gathering on my work area. So I decided I'd tidy up and I suddenly felt like putting a card together. It's a Red Hatter's birthday this month and she loves poppies. Nothing better to bring a smile to my face than a House Mouse stamp. This stamp is from a set that I bought from Joanna Sheen's web site.

The background paper is from a digi-kit by Pink Petticoat in one of Liz's new colours of Peppermint Cream. A Memory Box poppy die sits on a piece of scrap paper cut with a frame from Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles.  The little sentiment is part of a set from Craftwork Cards.

My Beautiful Son

Yesterday, I lost my beautiful son, Paul to the ravages of cancer.  We were with him to the end but his body just couldn't take any more, he was so very ill.  At peace, Paul, and forever with us.

Just a couple

With family problems my mojo has totally disappeared but I managed to make a couple in the last few weeks.

The OSAAT challenge blog featured the following card as my design team entry for the 'Back to School' challenge.  The digital stamp is called 'Miss Whiplash' by Ike and it's available from the  Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps store.  I'm sure I'll use her again.

Something I made for my mother-in-law.

A card for a lovely friend.

White plus one other color

It's that time again at the One Stitch At A Time challenge blog and our theme this week is "white plus one other colour".  Our fab sponsor this week is Bunny Zoe's Crafts and you could win a £10 gift voucher if you use one of the hundreds of brilliant Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps found right here.

Entries using a non SBDS image will be entered into a draw for a gift voucher of $3 to spend in the store.  There's lots of brand new stamps on show so hurry on over.

 

I chose purple as my other colour and coloured this gorgeous image from Ike at SBDS and you can find it here.  The leaves and flowers are a mix of Memory Box (for the border and rolled flowers) and Marianne and Spellbinders dies for the leaves.  I've coloured the image with a mix of Copics and Promarkers.

I would like to enter the following:-

Dream Valley Challenges #38 ~ Die Cuts and Punches 

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge ~ Go Floral

Fat Pages and Cards With Attitude ~ Anything Goes