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StitchyBear Digital Stamps

is having a fabulous sale right now!

 

EVERYTHING is 33% OFF!!

 

There are even a lot of recently released digi products included in this.

Don't wait too long though because this amazing sale is OVER March 22.

Grab a cup of coffee and start browsing the site now...before its too late.

 

Oriental Elegance

Good Afternoon!
We have a new challenge over at One Stitch At A Time this week and it is everyone's favourite I think..... #154 - Anything Goes
I made up a card but kept it fairly simple when it comes to embellishing it as I wanted it to appear as elegant as possible due to the gorgeous image one of my partners had picked for us to use this time.

Here is my card for #154 - Anything Goes:

Front of card

 

 

Close-up of image

 

Attaching the ribbon diagonally was my wonderful hubby's idea. When I added the bow, I left the tails long so I could slightly twist them and tuck them under the image.

 

StitchyBear Stores is our funtastic sponsor this week too. With 1 lucky winner winning the images the DT used in challenge # 152.

You are allowed to enter our challenge with 3 enteries that are None StitchyBear store products.... You can enter with 'StitchyBear store products' as many times as you wish. So fill your boots with StitchyBear Digital Store products and share your creations with us here.

Please remember to win our top prize you must enter using a StitchyBear Digital Store product and put a # after your name so we can find you easily .. We dont want to miss you :O)

Why not pop over to our store and try some of our digital products... I promise you won't be disappointed... With 18 different creators. You are going to find that perfect product for your needs.

You can still enter our challenge using a none StitchyBear Digital Store product..... However you will be entered into a separate draw to win $3 to spend at our store.

 

Card Recipe:

Image: Delicious Doodles - Quiet Contemplation

Cardstock: Recollections

Medium: CTMH Water Colour Pencils

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny - Serenity

Ribbon: Recycled from a flower arrangement

 

Thanks for popping by and be sure to visit all of my team mates fabulous blogs too.

Hugs, xo

 

Bunny Bricks

Good Afternoon:
This week has the first Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means! It's time for a brand new challenge at Technique Time Tuesday. It is a very simple one called 'Brick Wall' and won't take you very long to make up a card to enter our challenge. As always, the lovely Mynnette had done up a fabulous tutorial to help you out which can be found HERE.

March's Top Winner will receive 3 digital sentiments made by Mynnette, and each stamper who's card is showcased will receive 1 digital sentiment made by Mynnette  ! ;) Here's the best part--THE WINNERS get to choose what they want their sentiment to say and what style! If this doesn't sound like something you'd like, you could choose from some sentiments that she already has made. :)

With Easter fast approaching, I decided to use this technique to get an Easter card done. Here it is:

Front

I decided to mount my image on a bit of a tilt to give my card a different look.

Close-up of my bow with a flower in the centre that is attached to the bow with a brad.

 

 

Close-up of ribbon and flower at bottome of card. I used a brad to attach this flower to the ribbon also.

 

 

Card Recipe:
Image: Memories of a Lifetime - Birds & Butterflies "Joyous Easter"
Cardbase: Recollections
Cardstock: CTMH
Patterned Paper: Stitchybear Stamps - "Eggtravaganza" Digital Papers
Ribbon: Recycled from a flower arrangement
Flowers: Michaels
Brads: My stash

Please visit the blogs of my wonderful Technique Time Crew Mates too; they have some awesome creations to share with you this month.

Hugs, xo

Lady in Green

Good Afternoon:
I'm here to tell you all about the new challenge over at One Stitch At A Time and share my card with you.  Our theme this week is 'Green'. Now this can be the colour green or you can go green, and use recycled items on your project. I chose to do a bit of both on mine.

Have a little peek:

Front

 

Close-up of the flowers

 

 

Close-up of the bow

 

 

Inside

 

Card Recipe

Image: Ikesart - Vintage Lady

Medium: Crayola Pencil Crayons

Cardstock: Recollection

Patterned Paper: Crafts 100% Cotton Paper (the branches are actually a shimmery silver colour)

Flowers: Michaels

Brads: My stash

Ribbon: Recycled from a flower arrangement

 

The sponsor for this funtastic challenge is

With $9 to spend at our store.

Please remember to win our top prize you must enter using a StitchyBear Digital Store product and put a # after your name so we can find you easily .. We dont want to miss you :O)

Why not pop over to our store and try some of our digital products... I promise you won't be disappointed... With 18 different creators. You are going to find that perfect product for your needs.

We also have new 'holiday bundles' especially created just for specific holidays/ occassions.

Whilst you are there have a look at our 'cut in half' and freebies areas ..Another great way to try our products

You can still enter our challenge using a none StitchyBear Digital Store product..... However you will be entered into a separate draw to win $3 to spend at our store.

 

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Make It Monday - #131

Simon Says Stamp - Bit O' Green

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges - #79 Springtime

Crafting For All Seasons - #47 Spring Into Spring

Ribbon Carousel - RCC #78 Spring is in The Air

The Crafty Bloggers Network - #9 Spring or Pastel 

Simply Create Too - #32 - "ST. PATRICK'S DAY" [OR 'USE MOSTLY GREEN']

Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - March Challenge #20 - Happy Birthday!

Be sure to pop by all of my team mates blogs to see their fabulous creations. I know they would all love to have you come by for a visit.

 

Thanks for stopping in to have a look at my card :)

Hugs, xo

A Little Girly

Good morning friends:
It has been so long since I posted on here, wow! Life has been so busy and time has just slipped away. hubby and I took some time off too and went on a bit of a holiday with his family.

Well, I shall get right to the point of this post and the reason you are here. Its time for a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time. This week's challenge, #151 is "Girly". Nothing says "Girly" to me like flowers, picot edged ribbon and pink; lots and lots of pink stuff.

Here is my card for our "Girly" challenge:

Front of card.

 

Close-up of my flowers.

 

Inside

 

Card Recipe:

Image: Kassal Digi Stamps - Harriet Hippo

Medium:  Copics - #B00, 02, 06, RV00, 02 & YG13

Cardstock:  Recollections

Pattern Papers:  Sandylion & Creating Keepsakes

Flowers:  Prima

Brads:  My Stash

Ribbon:  Offray

 

I think my card will make a good card for a new baby girl or a young girl's birthday.

Thanks for stopping by to visit and have a peek at my new card. Be sure you stop by all of my team mates blogs and leave them some love.

Hugs, xo

 

Strawberry Wine

Good Afternoon:
We have a super easy challenge for you this week at OSAAT.....its #146 "Anything Goes" week! That means you can make any paper craft item using any theme that strikes your fancy.

It was Nataliya's turn to pick the image for her and myself and she picked a summer fresh image for us which was really nice as it is freezing where I am right now. I used the image to make something I haven`t tried before, a Bottle Tag. Once I figured out the size it needed to be, it was easy peasy from there.

Here is my Bottle Tag:

Whole View

 

 

Close-up of image

 

 

Ribbon & Slider

 

 

I even had a bottle of Strawberry Samba wine to display my tag on!

 

 

 

The sponsor for this weeks challenge is ourselves :O)

Where one lucky winner will be able to win our December set of collab images as used by our DT in challenge #144... Its a Mega set including papers 2 sets of 8 papers... plus 7 images.. So at least a $35 value if bought separate..
Remember to win this mega set yoou MUST use a digital product in StitchyBear Digital Store
Pop a # after your name when filling in Mr.Linky. So we don't miss you.

Digital product. But will be entered into a separate draw to win $3 to spend at SBDS.

 

Card Recipe:

Image: Hope Jacare `Bowl of Strawberries`

Cardstock: Recollections

Patterned Paper: CTMH

Medium: CTMH Watercolour Pencils & Creative Memories Markers

Ribbon: Offray

Ribbon Slider: We R Memory Keepers

Brads: CTMH

 

I will try and find some challenges to enter this into.

 

I hope you are all having a terrific week. Be sure and pop by my OSAAT team mates blogs and leave them some love.

 

Thanks for dropping by to have a peek at this week`s creation.

Hugs, xo

What's New?

Good Afternoon!
First off, Congratulations to Donna Mundinger! Donna has won the 'Poinsettia Fairy' by Ike's Art that I used on my card for the OSAAT Blog Hop. Way to go Donna!! If you want to see the complete list of winners from our Blog Hop, click HERE to be taken to the correct post.

Well, "What's New?" The year, a car, your house? For some of you, it may even be a baby. 'New' is the theme this week at OSAAT, and the DT wants to see "What's new with you?" There are so many different cards on the blog to inspire your 'New' themed card and we can't wait to see them.

I chose to make a card for a 'New Baby" this time:

Front of card

It has been so long since I've had to make a baby card, but as soon as I saw that image, I just had to work with it.

 

Close-up of bow & tag

 

 

The cute Rocking Horse trim

 

 

Close-up of the flowers & brads

 

 

Inside

 

As its New Year.... Our first challenge should be we feel a good excuse to use those fun new stash items you have received for Christmas ;O) Or celebrate the newness of something... So thats where our first challenge has come from ;O)

We would like you to tell us about your 'new' item in your write up too please

The sponsor for this challenge is
Our very own StitchyBear

With $ 9 to spend in our store...

To win this you MUST use an image or product from StitchyBear Digital Stamps

Pop a # after your name when filling in Mr.Linky. So we don't miss you..

So i would put ........... Tracey#

You can also enter using a non StitchyBear Digital product. But will be entered into a separate draw to win $3 to spend at SBDS.

 

Be sure to spread the love around by visiting the rest of the DT as well; their creations are beautiful.

 

Card Recipe:

Image: Stitchy 'Nap Time'

Cardstock: CTMH

Ribbon: Offray

Flowers: Dollarama

Brads: My Stash

Rocking Horse Trim: Dollarama

Patterned Paper: My Scraps box (sorry)

Ink: CTMH 'Sweet Leaf'

Medium: Copics #E31, 33, 34, 39, G0000, 00, 02

Sentiment: CTMH 'Baby Love'

 

Challenges for this card:

Crafting Life's Pieces - Sketch #54

 

Can't wait to see and read about your "New" thing!

Hugs, xo

 

Birthday Surprise

Hello Friends:
I want to start by wishing all of you a very Happy New Year! I know I'm a bit late on that but it has been so very hectic the 2 weeks or so; totally crazy here in my little piece of paradise. Today I have the January challenge from Technique Tuesday and it is fabulous! This month's technique is a "Pedestal Pop-Up Card". As always, Mynnette has a super easy tutorial for you to follow and you will have your cards popping in no time.

Here is my card using January's technique:

Front of card

 

 

The magic is on the inside!

 

 

Close-up of the popped up portion

 

 

Card Recipe:

Cardstock & Patterned Paper: ScrapbooKing Kit

Ink: CTMH 'Pansy Purple'

Die Cuts: Colorbok

Sentiments: CTMH 'Gracious Greetings' & 'Because of You'

Ribbon: My Stash

 

Be sure you pop by the Technique Tuesday blog and check out this month's DT cards; all of them are fabulous and very deserving of some blog love :) Also, Technique Tuesday is looking for a few more DT members to join us. Hurry though, this call ends on January 31st! Be sure to check out the DT Call post and rules for applying. Good Luck; we can't wait to work with you!

 

Hugs, xo

OSAAT Blog Hop

Good morning folks!
Guess what today is? It is BLOG HOP time at One Stitch At A Time!! I am super excited about this as it is my first time to be involved in a Blog Hop as a Designer. Each of my Design Team mates have made something fabulous to share with you and there are oodles of prizes to be won. Our Blog Hop runs from today through to January 5, 2013. Do you want to know how to win one of our awesome prizes?
To win a prize:
1. You can hop around to each of our blogs where you MUST leave a message on every DT blog. You have to hop to each blog in order as they are listed because each of us has a special letter for you to collect. The letters spell a word/words which you will email to Choccy when you have completed the hop. A lucky winner will win the full set of images used by the DT. ( There will be a super freebie for everyone that completes the hop )
2. By commenting on each of our blogs, your name is entered into a draw to win the digital image/papers that we have used in our creation. Thats right folks, each of the DT members have a prize to be won on their blog.
3. You can also enter the regular challenge on the OSAAT blog. If you use a Stitchy Bear image, you have a chance of winning a complete set of the digital images/papers the DT have used for the Hop. If you use a non-Stitchy Bear image, you could win one image used by the DT.

Here is what I made for our Blog Hop:

Front View

Outside Left

Outside Right

Glittery Eyelashes

Close-up of the bow and handmade pins

Card opened up

Inside Left

Inside Center

Inside Right

One Last Look

Isn't this image by Ike beautiful? She is called Poinsettia Fairy. For a chance to win this gorgeous digital image, just leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

Remember that I said you had to hop to each blog in a specific order? Here is the order:

Choccy DT Coordinator

Jill

Josephine

Ali

Nataliya

Vicky

Nikki

Susan

Hazel

Trisha

Mandy

Crafty Girl

Tracey  (that's me)

Cg

Karen

So, as I had said, each DT member has a special letter for you to collect. The letter I have to share with you is the letter "L". Your next stop on our hop is CG
Thank you so much for hopping by to visit me blog today!

Hugs xo

Christmas Door

Good day!
I am getting super excited for this coming Sunday, December 16th.......I am a creating a card for my very first Blog Hop as a designer!! Only 4 more sleeps, where I live anyway, lol. Each of us even received special images to use from Stitchy and her wonderful team of Digital Image Creators. Wait till you see what each of us has made! And the prizes........OH BOY!!! You are going to love it, I promise :)

Well, enough teasing for now, I guess, lol. I really want to share another Christmas card with you. I decided to make this very clean and simple so that I didn't distract from the image. There is so much detail in my digi image that I decided to not even colour it this time around.

Here it is:

Front

 

 

Close-up of tag

 

 

 

Image close-up

 

 

The challenge on right now at One Stitch At A Time is #143 - More Than 1 Fold and you have plenty of time yet to join in the fun.

 

Sponsor for this week is

With $9 to spend instore :O)

So treat yourself too this Christmas.

Now in order to win the main prize you MUST use an image that is available at the StitchyBear store now with over 2300 images. Theres something for everyone !! Including .99 Cent specials and freebies !! If you join us using a StitchyBear store product please put # after your name so our fabulous Choccy doesn't miss your entry :O)

You can still enter a card using a none SBDS image. But you will be in a separate draw. To win $3 to spend in our store.

Tiled Christmas

Good morning!
I'm here today to share a new technique with you for this month's challenge at the Technique Tuesday blog. Mynnette and all of the crew want to see your Faux Tile cards this month. Mynnette has a fabulous tutorial on the blog and it is super easy to follow. You have the whole month to complete your project too.

Here is my card:

Front of card

 

Sentiment tag

 

 

Bow, die-cut & pins

 

 

Inside

 

 

Another peek of the front

 

Be sure you pop by the Technique Tuesday blog to see all of the fabulous cards the rest of the crew made. I apologize for how yellow these pictures are. It has been so gloomy here for days now and no matter what I did, my pictures would not turn out nice at all.

 

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: Stampin' Up - red; Recollections - white

Patterned Paper: HOTP

Ribbon & Bow: my stash

Holly Berries & Leaves Die Cut: Michaels

Stick Pins: Handmade by me

Embossing Powder: CTMH

Ink: CTMH - New England Ivy

Sentiments & Image: Stampin' Up

Label Punch: Stampin' Up

 

Thanks for popping by :)

Hugs xo

Rockin' Birthday

Hi everybody!
Sorry I have been away for a bit but I am here to share my DT card for this week's challenge at One Stitch at a Time. Challenge #141 .... Fabric, ribbon or Lace; a fabulous challenge for this time of year I think, especially with all those awesome Christmas cards that everyone is doing right now. I however chose to do a birthday card this time around, and give you all a break from red and green, lol. Can you believe that November is over in 2 days?? I sure can't!!

Well, here is this week's card for you:

Front of card

 

 

Close-up of torn & inked edges

 

 

Close-up of the Burlap I used as my fabric. Do you see the shimmer of the brown cardstock I used? I have several different colours of this shimmer cardstock.

 

 

The inside where I again tore my edges but I didn't ink these ones.

 

 

The sponsor of this challenge is

With 3 x Promarkers

To win this you must use a SBDS product. Dont forget to put a # after your name if you use one of our products in your entry so that our dear Choccy doesn't miss you.

If you want to enter using a none Stitchy Bear Digital Store product/ image then thats fine...

But you will be placed into a separate draw for a $3 gift voucher to spend at our store

 

 

EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA!

I have some exciting news to share with you.......

OK our last challenge of the year will be 16th December. We hope you are all ready for some fun ? Our final challenge will be a blog hop hop hop !! Yes lots of hopping over 3 weeks :O) Dont forget to come back then, for all the details of the fun , freebies and prizes to be won. Our DT and Creators are so excited about our hop.

Card Recipe:
Image: Pookie Designs - Rock On
Ink: CTMH - Cocoa
Medium: Copics #B00, 02, 05, 21, 24, 29, C1, 3, 5, 7, E000, 00, 21, 23, 29, 31, 33, 39, R32, 35, 39. I also used Sakura Gelly Roll pens in Silver, Gold & Red.
Sentiments: CTMH - Curly Sentiments & My Stamp Box - Everyday Lines
Fabric: CTMH - Burlap
Cardstock & Patterned Paper: Recollections

Challenges I am entering:
Pile It On: #48 Anything But a Christmas Card
Paper Pretties Monday: #67 Anything Goes
Here Come the Boys: #41 Birthdays Only
ATC's & Cards With Attitude: #27 Anything Goes or Autumn/Winter
Make it Monday: #117

Thank you so much for dropping by today. Please be sure you visit all of our lovely DT and leave them some hugs too. Don't forget about our upcoming Blog Hop!!
Hugs xo