Embossed Celebrate

Good Morning!
Here in Canada, today is the first day of spring although it isn't very spring like here in Thunder Bay, Ontario I tell ya. Our snow was almost gone, we had days where it was warm enough that a spring jacket was all you needed, but Mother Nature was fooling with us. We got a huge dumping of snow this past Wednesday. Ugh.....enough already!!!
Anyway, it's time for a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time. For the next 2 weeks, we want to see your

Challenge #258

Anything Goes With Embossing

It can be Heat Embossing, Dry Embossing, Emboss Resist or Embossing Folders. The winner gets this awesome prize.....

How wonderful is that?

Here is the card I made:

Whole Card

 

Close-up of the digital stamp I used

 

Flowers

 

 

I used 2 different types of embossing on my card. I used an embossing folder on the background and I heat embossed the sentiment.

Recipe
Image: Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet "Play Time" by Stitchy
Medium: CTMH ShinHan Alcohol Markers
Ribbon: Offray
Cardstock: Pink - CTMH  White - Recollections
Pattern Paper: CTMH
Brads: We R Memory Keepers
Gems: Dollarama
Inks: CTMH - Canary, Pear, Pixie and Versa Mark
Flowers: Prima and Dollarama
Embossing Powder: CTMH - Gold
Sentiment: CTMH - "Say It All" stamp set
Special Tools: Stampin' Up embossing folder "Confetti" and Heat Gun

Thank you for popping by to see my card. I hope you will have a look at the gorgeous creations from my teammates too.
Hugs, xo

No Squares or Rectangles

Good Morning Friends!
I know I have been gone awhile but, I'm back :-) I have been able to rejoin my awesome friends at the One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog and this is my first challenge designing for Stitchy and her fellow creators StitchyBear Digital Stamp Outlet. On to our challenge.......

#253 Anything Goes BUT No Squares or Rectangle Shaped Cards

Our Rules

 

1) You can enter with as many times as you wish with images from any store, we would obviously love you to use our image :) :) If you are using StitchyBear products then we have a second challenge on our FaceBook page which you can enter into too
2) You must link to our challenge blog.
3) No backlinking, you project must be a new project, blogged after our challenge goes live.

 

 

Here is my card:

Front View

 

Close-up of Embellishments

Inside

 

 

Recipe

Image: "Window" by My Heart Pieces from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet

Medium: Crayola Pencils

Patterned Paper: Pebbles "Garden Party"

Ink: CTMH "Black"

Rhinestones: Dollarama

Flowers: Prima

Brad: Doodlebug

Sentiment: CTMH "Say It All:

Ribbon: Details & Accessories

Tools: CM Cutting System, Stampin' Up Small Tag Punch

 

Challenges I am Entering

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New. I used new craft goodies; a new image, brand new patterned papers and a brand new stamp set

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #180 Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #345 - Recipe 1 Ribbon, 2 Embellishments, 3 Papers, An Image

Fusion Card Challenge 2nd Year Celebration (I was inspired by the colours and the flowers)

 

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you visit my design team sisters and leave them some love.

Hugs, xo





Toot! Toot!

Good Morning Card Crafters!

Are you ready for another challenge? It is Sunday morning, so you know what that means....time for a new challenge to start at OSAAT, and since it is an even numbered week, that means its one of your favourite themes. #196 - "Use a Digi" kicks off today! With it being an even number this week, that also means that our whole DT is playing and we have tons of inspiration for you on the OSAAT blog.

 We have a terrific prize for you this week too.The Sponsor for this weeks challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with a complete set of digi images that the team used in challenge #194. To win the main prize you MUST use an Image from our store. Runner up prize for person using none store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet. So everyone can win something ;O). 

It was my turn to pick for my little mini team, and I just couldn't resist a fabulous image by Scrapper's Delights. Here is the card I made with it:

Front

 

Washi Tape & Tag

 

Image with Silver & Gold Brads

 

Inside

 

Card Recipe

Image: Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet - 'Train Spotting' by Scrapper's Delights

Medium: Crayola Pencils

Cardstocks: White - Recollections

                    Blue & Ruby - CTMH

Design Paper: CTMH

Ink: CTMH - Outdoor Denim

Ribbon: CTMH

Gold Letters: CM

Brads: Unknown

Washi Tape: CTMH

 

I would like to enter my card into the followig challenges:

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #52 'Show us Your New Stash' (The Washi Tape and image are brand new items for me)

Heart 2 Heart - 'New Year, New Beginnings' (The Washi Tape and using it is all brand new for me. Have never used a washi tape before, ever. The digi image is a brand new image too.)

3 Girl Jam - 'Anything Goes With Ribbon'

Ribbon Carousel Blog - RCC89 Love, Birthdays & Chicken Soup (I made a Birthday card)

The Ribbon Reel - #67 'Ring in the New Year' ( I have used gold washi tape, gold letters, gold & silver brads) 

 

Your Next Stamp - YNS Fun Friday #8 (sketch)

 

Remember, there is a ton of inspiration that my DT sisters can't wait to share with you this week, so why not grab a cup of coffee or tea and go visit them all for awhile.

Hugs, xo

Dragon Lore

Hello bloggers:
Its new challenge day at OSAAT, and you have quite awhile to get something made up for our current challenge. Its one of your favourite challenge themes too, so how cool is that!?! This week its #194 - Anything Goes, and you have 27 days to join in the fun.

"We are having a short break folks so this challenge is a little different :-) We will recommence our weekly challenges on January 12th. In the meantime may we take this opportunity to thank you all for participating in our challenge this year, have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year for Jan 1 and see you in 2014 :-) :-) :-)"

The Sponsor for this weeks challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with a complete set of digi images that the team used in challenge #192. To win main prize you MUST use an Image from our store. Runner up prize for person using none store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet. So everyone can win something ;O).

Winners will be announced on January 12th, 2014.

Here is my card for the current challenge:

Front

Inside

 

Close-up of the image

 

Card Recipe

Image: Stitchy Bear's Digital Stamp Outlet - "Chinese Dragon" by Ike's Art

Medium: CTMH Watercolour Pencils

Cardstock: Recollections

Ink: CTMH - Holiday Red

D.P.: Bo Bunny

Sentiments: CTMH - Perfect Fit Birthdays & Curly Sentiments

Brads: Doodlebug

 

I hope you stop by the challenge blog and check out all the creative goodness the rest of the team has for you.                              

Hugs xo

Steampunk Wishes

Good morning!
How is everyone this morning? How many of you are ready for Christmas?? Is that a bad word right now? I have not even started really; at least as far as the gift buying goes. Once we have snow on the ground, I will be itching to get things done up and ready.
This week, at One Stitch At A Time, we have a super easy challenge for you. It is time for

#190 - Anything Goes!!
 

If you use one of the products from Stitchy Bear's Digital Outlet, you will be entered into a draw for our grand prize which is all of the images the design team used in Challenge #188. That is worth about $20.00! If you don't use one of our products, you will be entered into a separate draw for a $3.00 gift certificate to our store.

Before I show you my card for this week, I want to let you know that this is my very first attempt EVER at a "steampunk" themed anything. That's correct, I have never tried this style, ever. (I have never made a "Shabby Chic" creation either).
Well, here goes:

Front

 

 

Close-up of all the bits on her hat.

 

 

Close-up of the image

 

Card Recipe

Image: Stitchy Bear Digital Stamp Outlet - 3 Pc Steampunk Set by BB Kakes

Medium: Copics #B0000, C3, 5, E31, 33, 34, 37, G00, 02, 05, R000, 01, 20, 22, 24, 29, 46, W1, 3, 5, 7, 10, Blender 0, Sakura Gelly Roll Silver & Gold and CM Gold

Cardstock: Copic & Recollections

P. P. Bo Bunny

Ink: CTMH 'Barn Red'

Keyhole Sticker: Bo Bunny

Stamps: CTMH 'Perfect Fit - Birthday' and 'Teddy Bear Birthday'

 

I hope you have enjoyed popping in today; I always welcome your visits. Be sure to drop by the blogs of all the other girls and leave some love for them too.

 

Hugs, xo

Birthday Owl

Good morning blogging friends:

Did all of you have a good Halloween? I know my grand-children did, that's for sure. It even turned out to be a fairly nice night, temperature wise, and the rain held off too. I want to thank those of you who gave our last challenge a try. There were some very nice projects submitted for #187 - Boo.

One Stitch At A Time has a new challenge starting today. This week's theme is #188 - Use a Digi. This means that you MUST use something digital on your creation. It could be the image, a digital paper, a digital sentiment, etc. The prize this week is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

The Prize is the full set of digi images that the DT used in challenge #186 , so that's about $20 worth of digi images. To win our main prize you MUST use an image that's available in Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet by any of our creators.  Remember to put a # after your name so we can find you easily. You can still enter with a none Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet image but will be entered into a separate draw to win $3 to spend in our store.

 It was my turn to pick the image for my little group and here is the card I made:

Front

 

 

Image

 

 

Close-up of owl

 

 

Close-up of vine and leaves.

 

 

Card Recipe

Image: Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet - Swirly Owl Branch (Hope Jacare)

Cardstock: Recollections

Patterned Paper: HOTP

Medium: CTMH Watercolour Pencils

Fibers: EK Success

Ink: CTMH - Topiary

My team mates and I can't wait to see what you create this week. I hope you stop by the rest of the DT blogs, and leave them some love.

Hugs xo

Autumn Lamp

Good morning bloggers:

First off friends, thanks so much to all of you who were so sympathetic to my plight this past weeks regarding my broken glasses. Guess what??? I got NEW ones!! My prescription had to be changed too so having them break was rather a good thing I guess. Turns out it had been 3 years since my last exam and I really was going a wee bit blind. No excuses there now. The best part?? I no longer have to ask complete strangers what time my watch says anymore, lol. Why didn't I simply ask them what time it was you wonder?? I intentionally set my watch and clocks ahead about 10 minutes so that I'm not late for physical therapy appointments, chiropractor, etc. I have 3 appointments for these each week and have to take city bus to get there. That's why it was always strangers who had to read my watch. This way, I was being told the time I NEEDED to hear in order to make sure I was on time. Until 2 years ago, I was habitually late for everything! With my watch set 10 minutes fast, guess who isn't late anymore??

This week, at One Stitch At A Time, we have a challenge that fits in with the current time of year. It is #187 - Boo! (Autumn colours if you don't do Halloween). The sponsor of our main prize for this week is Creative Craftworld. They are generously giving 3 Promarkers to one winner who has used an image from the Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet Store. One entrant using a non-Stitchy Bear image will win a Gift Certificate for $3.00 to the Stitchy Bear Outlet Store. Please remember that if you are not using images from the Stitchy Bear Store, you can only enter the challenge a maximum of 3 times. When you do use our images, you can enter as many times as you want.

It was nice that we were given that option by Choccy, as I don't do Halloween cards at all. I have never gotten a Halloween card nor have I ever given one out. The dressing up in costumes and going trick-or-treating was always enough.
Autumn colours are so beautiful and the season is so short that I take advantage of every chance to work with them. This time, I have an autumn themed birthday card to share with you all.

Front

Do you see all the distressing on the edges?

 

 

 

Flowers with orange rhinestone centers. There is my bow too.

 

 

 

Here is the sentiment tag I made.

 

 

 

Here is a close-up of the digital image I used. You can see the orange rhinestones I embellished my image with.

 

 

Card Recipe

Image: Floppy Latte Designs "Fall Lamp Post"

Medium: CTMH - Watercolour Pencils

Cardstock: Recollections

Patterned Paper: CTMH

Rhinestones: Dollarama

Ink: CTMH "Black" & "Sunset"

Ribbon: 3 Girl Jam

Sentiment: CTMH "Perfect Fit - Halloween"

Special Tools: Creative Memories Custom Cutting System Ovals and 1-1/4" & 1-1/2" circle punches

 

I want to tank you so much for popping by to visit me and my card today. Be sure to drop by my teamies blogs too; I'm sure you will have a "spook-tacular" time there!

 

Hugs & Boos, xo

 

 

On a Whimsy & A Siamese Birthday

Hello fabulous bloggers!
I'm starting this post with needing to let you all know that I have been a very bad blogger and a horrific DT member lately :( :( I have a few more cards to share with you all today; and these are cards that should have been posted on here a couple of weeks ago :( The first card, I had honestly thought I had posted on here, but was very upset to find out I hadn't done it at all. While there is no worthy excuse for this, the only thing I can think of is the fact that I honestly don't look at my actual blog too often. I typically log on to blogger right on the home page where it shows the list of all the blogs I am part of. If I have zero pending comments, I don't even click on my blog at all. With no pending comments, I assumed my cards just weren't 'up to snuff'.
I am going to have to change the way I am doing things, definitely!

Well, onto the cards I have to share with you. First one up is:

"Whimsy Wishes"

Front

 

 

 

Inside

 

Sentiment

 

 

Image Close-up

 

Card Recipe

Image: Gingerloft - 'O Whumsy Flower'

Medium: CTMH Watercolour Pencils

Cardstock: Recollections

Patterned Paper: MME

Sentiment: CTMH "Perfect Fit - Birthdays"

Ribbon: Offray

Ink: CTMH 'Cranberry'

Pewter Frame: We R Memory Keepers

Brads: CTMH

Special Tools: CM Custom Cutting System and Marvy Uchida 3 inch Scallop Punch

 

 

My second card on this post is:

A Siamese Birthday:

Front

 

 

My Tag

 

 

Inside

(I love how the ink distressing turned out on these papers)

 

 

Image Close-up

(I tried very hard to get the colours right for Siamese kittens)

Raised Image

 

Card Recipe

Images: Barb Jensen - "Two Kittens" I cut each image out separately, fussy cutting the stretching kitten, and attached it with 3D Foam Squares to give the image some depth.

Medium: CTMH Watercolour Pencils & Blending Pen

Cardstock: Recollections

Ink: CTMH "Chocolate"

Patterned Paper & Sentiment Tag: HOTP

Gems: Michael's

Fibers: EK Success

My tag was also attached with 3D Foam Squares.

 

Now I just have to see if there are any challenges left to enter these cards into?

Hugs, xo

 

Geisha Birthday

Good Morning fellow bloggers!
It is Oct 5th as I am typing this and I am finally starting to feel a bit better, Yahoo! Last weekend, I had my grandchildren come for a sleepover; I don't know if this was coming on anyway, or if the lack of sleep that weekend weakened my immune system just enough for this to take hold but, they went home last Sunday evening, and within hours, I felt like I had been run over by a transport truck. My throat hurt so bad I hated to talk, head was pounding, back and neck were screaming in agony, it was not a good place to be at all. Things got worse as the week went on. My throat was so raw, I actually consumed a minimum of a FULL package of Halls Cough Drops every single day, except for today. Anyone who knows me is fully aware that I go nowhere without a beverage in my hand. A normal day for me sees me drinking a full pot of coffee, 90-100 ounces of plain water and 2-3 cans of Diet, Caffeine Free Pepsi, (I AM NOT EXAGERATING!) This past week, even with drinking my normal amounts of liquid, I could not get enough plain water into me. The Halls alone were not soothing my throat; it was horrible!

Well, enough about me; onward to what you have come here to read ;) It is new challenge day at One Stitch At A Time.....#184 - Use a Digi!! This can be a digi image, digi sentiment, digi papers, etc. Any digi item on your card qualifies; just be sure to let us know what your digi item is. I really hope you will come out to play with us this week :) We are offering the fabulous prize of a FULL Set of the images the DT used in Challenge #182 to one lucky participant using a digi from the Stitchy Bear Store, in this week's challenge. The full set is valued at about $20.00!! One entrant using a non-Stitchy Bear digi will win a Gift Certificate for $3.00 to the Stitchy Bear Outlet Store. The digital image on my card was chosen by one of my team mates.

Here is the card I made:

Front

 

Flowers

Inside

 

 

My handmade pins

 

 

Tag & Bow

 

 

Close-up of image

 

 

Card Recipe

 

Digital Image: Alipeeps Art - "Geisha Girl"

Medium: Copics #C1, 3, 5, 7, E000, 00, 23, G0000, 00, 02, R20 & 46

Cardstock: Copic & Recollections

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny

Ink: CTMH - Holiday Red

Flowers: Dollarama

Ribbon: Recycled from flower arrangement

Sentiment: CTMH - Perfect Fit Birthdays

Stick Pins: Handmade by me

Special Tools: CM Custom Cutting System & Circle Punch

 

I hope you have  enjoyed reading about my latest card. Please stop by all the OSAAT designer's blogs and leave them a comment; they absolutely adore each and every one of them.

 

Hugs, xo

Friendly Woodpecker

Good morning!
How are you enjoying your weekend? Only 1 more left this summer :( I for one don't feel like we have even had a 'summer' this year. I swear we went from Spring straight into Autumn. My poor garden has basically done nothing this year. Too many rainy days and not enough sunshine; not to mention the horribly cold nights. This year has been terrible.

Are you ready to play again with the DT at One Stitch At A Time? Challenge #178 is 'Anything Goes', and all my awesome teamies have been super busy creating some fabulous projects to share with you. Please make sure you stop by and visit with all of them, they love getting company.
Anyone who knows me, knows that my second favourite animal (after my Shih Tzu fur-babies) is BIRDS. I love birds. I make use of several styles of bird feeders in my yard, all year long and you can often find me standing on the deck, (even when its -25 C), watching and photographing the different birds who come to visit my feeders. I never get tired of watching them, especially when the parents are teaching the babies how to land on my feeders and eat. We actually had a family of Cardinals; Mom, Dad and 3 babies, and I watched all afternoon as Mom and Dad lined up all 3 baby birds on the branch of an evergreen and repeatedly flew back and forth from branch to feeder. Finally, 1 baby gave it a shot, and even though he didn't stick the landing, he tried a few more times, and then success. The 2nd baby eventually tried and with practice, she too finally got it. No way was baby Cardinal #3 trying it though. He hung on when Mom tried giving him a push, then took off back to the tree where I'm sure the nest was hidden. A couple days later, all 3 babies were flying back and forth from that same evergreen branch to my feeder while Mom and Dad looked on with pride.

Our sponsor for this week's challenge is......some of the Stitchy Angels Design Team with an assortment of terrific prizes they have donated! Can I have a big round of applause for these amazing ladies?!?!

Well, enough of my bird story, and here is why I even mentioned birds:

Front of my card.

 

 

Close-up of Diamond cut corners and sentiment

Close-up of the Red Headed Woodpecker

 

 

Inside of my card

 

Card Recipe

Image: Floppy Latte Designs - 'Red Headed Woodpecker'

Medium: Copics # E70, 74, 79, R20, 22, 24, 29, W1, 3, 5, 7, 10

Cardstock: Copic & Recollections

Patterned Paper, Card base, Vellum & Sentiment: HOTP

Fibers: EK Success

Brads: Making Memories

Special Tools: EK Success 'Diamond Corner' Punch

 

\Well, that is it from me for today. I hope you come by and visit me again soon.

Hugs xo

 

Out of This World

Good Morning Bloggers!

Its Sunday and that means a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time! Challenge #176 is 'Use a Digi', and this is a very popular theme for our followers. StitchyBear Stamps is  sponsoring this week's challenge and the prize for 1 lucky participant is one of each digi the Design Team used in Challenge #174; valued at appx $20.00. To have an other peek at those awesome digis, just click HERE.

On to the card I have to share with you today :)

Front

Side View (to show that I popped out my image)

 

 

Close-up of the image.

 

 

Inside

 

Card Recipe

Image & Digital Patterned Papers: Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet - "Starship"

Cardstock: Recollections

Medium: Crayola Pencils

Ink: CTMH - "Olive"

Brads: My stash

Sentiments: CTMH "Its Your Day"

 

Challenges for this card are:

365 Cards - Day 220 'Evens, Not Odds' (2 patterned papers, 2 cardstock, 4 brads, 2 sentiments {1 inside, 1 outside} and 6 colours)

Your Next Stamp Fun Friday Challenge - #3 (I used both the sketch & colors in the picture for my inspiration) 

                       

 

Sunny Side Up Creations - Colour Challenge #29

                    

Please be sure you stop by to see what the rest of the Designers have made & leave them some love too. Thank you for the fabulous visit!

 

Hugs, xo