Pirate Tag Card / Use a Digi at OSAAT

It's time for a "Use a Digi" challenge at One Stitch at a Time (OSAAT)! I love stamping, but digi stamps are so much fun too, and StitchyBear's Digi Outlet has hundreds from many wonderful artists.

I get such a kick out of Talk Like a Pirate Day, but since that was September 19, I guess I'll have to save this for next year! I used Treasure Map by Delicious Doodles:

The sentiment is a freebie from TLC Creations (Thanks, Paulette!). It's also available as part of her Pirate Party set. I colored the Treasure Map with distress inks, using a finger dauber. I also added some details with Copic markers. The map is glued to card on the bottom and right sides, so that the tag easily sits in the pocket. I printed the sentiment directly onto Kraft paper, and heat-embossed a TPC Studio stamp in gold. I used my Crop-O-Dile to add an eyelet, and tied on some raffia ribbon.

I've been saving the lovely red/gold handmade paper for a long time; Mom brought it back from India, and I was just perfect for this project. The corners are punched with my favorite Marvy punch.

The gold coins were made with a Stampin' Up! rubber stamp. I heat-embossed a piece of cardstock with ultra-think gold embossing powder, and stamped on it while it was still hot & soft. Remember to ink your stamp before doing this! I adhered the fishing net to the card with Glossy Accents (I used ZipDry glue for everything else). Finally, I added some Recollections adhesive gem swirls to the corners.

Inspiration/Challenges:
4 Krafty Girlz #3: Anything Goes
Crafty Catz #201: Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew #46: Tags
Left of Center Creative Challenges #15: LOC or Some Element of Water
Penny's Paper-Crafty #147: Anything goes
Sisterhood of Crafters: Tag
Totally Papercrafts #187: Bring Humor To Your Creations

Thank you for visiting, and hope you'll join us at OSAAT this week,

Anything Goes at One Stitch at a Time

It's time for another fun "Anything Goes" challenge at One Stitch at a Time!

My teamie Vicky chose for her & myself this time around, and totally challenged me with Mermaid's Revenge by Delicious Doodles. Since this is an "Anything Goes" challenge, our wonderful coordinator Choccy asked that some of us make something other than a card, so I made a very funky Post-It Note holder:

I just love the digis from Delicious Doodles; they are so fun & interesting, and I had a blast coloring this with my Copics and Glaze pens.

I used Cuttlebug's 3x3 Bubble Frame Die/Emboss Combo for the frame, but since the image was larger I cut down two to make the frame (I used some of the scrap for the inside).
Actually, all of the paper used for this project is from my scrap box. Even the blue cross stitch fabric is a scrap!

The blue flourishes are a Sizzix die cut that I actually found in my scraps... can't remember now what I originally cut it! I've had the little plastic bone buttons (with shanks removed) for the longest time, and was excited to have a funky way to use them.

I generated the sentiment myself using the font Bleeding Freaks, making the outline (or "stroke") red for the first letters and blue for the rest. Thought it worked nicely for the undersea vampire theme. I printed it onto shiny gold paper (Recollections), cut it by hand, and drew the border with a white Glaze pen.

I'm really into cross stitching right now (see my other projects here), so I whipped up a little skull pattern, complete with gold tooth. Too fun! It's glued into an ornamental bottlecap.

Here it is opened up:

I started with a 4.5 x 12 inch strip and scored it at 4.75, 5.25, 10, and 10.5. I used some scrap magnet to make a closure. I ran the seashell-patterned ribbon through a small piece of paper (the same glittered black Core'dinations cardstock I used for the base) to make a loop for the small pen. This holds a regular 3x3 "sticky note" pad.

Inspiration/Challenges:

1. Allsorts Challenge Week 189: Dies and Punches
2. Crafty Cardmakers: Create a Fairytale Scene (Okay, it's a pretty dark fairytale, but hope it counts!)
3. Digi Haven: Sparkles & Bling
4. Divas by Design #67: Anything goes 
5. Eureka Stamps: Make it Sparkle
6. Haunted Design House Macabre Mondays: Anything dark/Gothic
7. Penny's Paper-Crafty #109: Anything goes
8. Songbird Challenges: Paint It Black (LOVE this song!)

Thank you for visiting & hope you'll join us this week at One Stitch at a Time,

Repurposing for the Holidays

This week at One Stitch at Time, we're playing BINGO! Vicky designed a great board for us (see Challenge), so just pick 3 squares on the diagonal (you muct include the center square, a Digi image).

I chose "Buttons, Digi, Sentiment" to make this cadle. The Pine Cone Corner image is by Delicious Doodles (available at StitchyBear Digital Stamps) and the sentiment is from Create with TLC.

I've had the candle over 6 years; it was a house-warming gift, but I don't really burn candles so I figured it was time for it to have a new life.

I first saw the "stamping" on a candle technique on Christi's Creations during a Blog Hop about a year ago (Oh my gosh, I can't believe it's been so long ... a year at Feline Playful!) It really is easy! I followed the simple instructions at Splitcoaststampers. To run tissue paper through your printer, tape it securely and flat onto a piece of cardstock. You don't want to get it caught in the rollers... seriously, you'll be pulling out tiny pieces forever! The tissue paper I used was actually the protective sheeting for some acetate sheets. Sadly, I've used it all up now so I'm gonna have to buy actually tissue paper sheets!

I had so much fun making the candle that I decided to make a whole gift set. I had printed the image/sentiment on the tissue paper twice (I didn't think it would be so easy to color in pencil on the tissue paper), so I used the extra one to make a window card. 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
One Stitch at a Time: BINGO (left)
Anything But A Card Challenge - Anything but a card
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - Christmas is just around the Corner
My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps Challenge - Anything goes
Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Anything Goes
Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent Challenge: Anything Goes

Unique Crafters Challenge - Anything Goes

Hope you'll join the "BINGO" challenge at One Stitch at a Time this week. For entries using a StitchyBear Store product (be sure to add a # after your name when entering), the prize is 3 Promarkers from Creative Craft World! You're welcome to enter the challenge using different products, but instead you'll be entered into the draw to win a $3 coupon to StitchyBear Digi Stamps. Can't wait to see your projects!

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Feeling Charming, with Digis at OSAAT

We have an easy challenge for you this week at One Stitch at a Time: Use a digi. I used Peacock feather by Delicious Doodles to make this pendant & matching gift box:

For the pendant, I printed the image onto Shrinky-dink plastic and baked it in my toaster oven. The image for the box is printed on regular cardstock. I "painted" the images with purple glitter Stickles and blue Liquid Pearls. I made the box using free Digi papers from GTC's Crafty Corner.

Hope you'll join us at One Stitch at a Time for our "Use a Digi" challenge. For entries using a StitchyBear Digital Stamps Store product (be sure to add a # after your name when entering), you could win a collection of digis from the SBDS Artists. You're welcome to enter the challenge using different products, but will instead be entered into the draw to win a $3 coupon to StitchyBear. Can't wait to see your projects!

I'm entering this into the following fab challenges:

1. Allsorts - It's a Gift (Anything but a card) 
2. Avadares - Anything for August
3. ATCs & Cards With Attitude - Anything Goes
4. Can You Digi It - #16 Purple Please 
5. Craft Your Days Away  - #52 Anything Goes
6. Cute Card Thursday - bling
7. Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Bling
8. Paper Shelter Challenge - #78 Anything goes

Update: This won the prize for Can You Digi It? Challenge #16!

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Don't Forget Winona!

This week at Pile It On, the challenge is to Add some Metal, and since we're being sponsored by StitchyBear Digital Store (SBDS) I just had to make a card!

I used Vintage Chevy by SBDS creator Delicious Doodles to create this silly "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"-themed card:

My Grandma lived in Arizona, so I spent many a summer traveling much of the area of the classic old Route 66 ... Boy did I have fun reminiscing about those family trips while making this card!

The cactus is embossed/cut from a Sprite can using Cuttlebug's Disney Out West set.I can't believe how easy this is! The first time I did it I was sure the edges would be sharp, but they really aren't. I did round off the thorn that sticks up over the top, however. I sprayed it with Meadow Green glimmer mist from Tattered Angels, and I really like the result. The key is to dry it with a heat gun ... it makes such a neat pattern.

The Vintage Chevy is paper pieced from Recollections metallic papers and white cardstock, and I added shading & detail with Copics. I then added some white flocking to the seats, because that would be awesome!

I created the sentiment cut-out in SCAL, using one of their standard shapes & the font Glaser Stencil D. I added the line border by hand, and colored in the letters with a Sakura glitter pen.

I used the wooden California & Illinois pieces from Studio Calico's Abroad Collection ("It winds from Chicago to L.A. / More than two thousand miles all the way"), colored them with more Meadow Green glimmer mist, and added tiny dots with copper Liquid Pearls for -- you guess it -- Chicago & L.A.!

The brad has been in my stash forever ... seriously, at least 4 years. I've had the two DPs probably even longer. I've had the green variegated ribbon for quite a while too, but this is its first cut.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft - The Great Outdoors
Creative Belli Challenge #149 - vacation/travel
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - Outdoors
Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge #76 - Anything Goes with a Die-cut
Dude Time Doodles Challenge - Travel (+ masculine)
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

I don't know about you, but I never tire of the classic version of "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" as  performed by Nat King Cole, but I thought you might get a kick out of this tourist video with a more modern version of the song:

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OSAAT Challenge #118: Stitch It!

This week at One Stitch at a Time, we want to encourage you to use one of your digi stamps from a StitchyBear Store designer, so the theme is "Use a Stitchy Bear Store Digi and/or Stitching (real or faux)"!

I used In the Pumpkin Patch by Delicious Doodles:

This was quite a challenge for me, coloring-wise. Plus, I only have 2 oranges and the lighter one was one its last legs...Guess it's time to order those refills!I hand-stitched the border on the image, but the orange/white border on the card was done on my machine.

I found this fun, hand-made-type paper at Michaels, and although it's highly textured it heat-embossed quite well (with the help of my Embossing Buddy!). I heat-embossed the netting stamp (Rogue Redhead Designs) in black and the sentiment (Fiskars) in shiny green.

I wanted to make a special embellishment, so I used the Woven Patch tutorial by Karen Barbé that I saw recently on Pinterest. Try it, do!

Hope you'll join us at One Stitch at a Time for our "Use a Stitchy Bear Store Digi and/or Stitching" challenge. For entries using a StitchyBear Store product (be sure to add a # after your name when entering), your could win this month's StitchyBear Designer Collaboration set. You're welcome to enter the challenge using different products, but will instead be entered into the draw to win a $3 coupon to StitchyBear. Can't wait to see your projects!

That Craft Place

Inspiration/Challenges:
52 Card Pickup Week 24: Link-up Party
ATCs & Cards With Attitude: Anything Goes
Jacksons Digital Expression Challenge #8: Anything Goes using some type of colour media (Copics)
Paper Crafting Journey Challenges: Colour it Up
That Craft Place: Sketch (rotated 90° clock-wise)

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Use a Digi / Mothers Day Challenge at One Stitch at a Time

One Stitch at a TimePanda Love by Delicious Doodles

From time-to-time, we get to choose an image for ourself and a teammate; this week, I chose for both myself and Nataliya. Wait till you see her gorgeous card using this image!

The sentiment is a freebie I found online by Kate Pullen. It's difficult to see in these photos, but I added some detail to the sentiment with a Sakura glitter pen. I used foam pop-tape to mount the sentiment piece to a die cut. I wrapped the piece with a pretty black-and-white ribbon and added some gemstones.

Al the pieces are cut/embossed with a Spellbinders scalloped-circle die set. The white paper is a 65LB Core'dinations textured paper; the black paper is also Core'dinations, but a black/white sandable cardstock. I sanded down some of it to give it texture. I also added tons more gemstones!

Hope you'll join us at One Stitch at a Time for our Use a Digi / Mothers Day challenge.

For entries using a StitchyBear Store product (be sure to add a # after your name when entering), the prize is this month's Collab collection from the artists at StitchyBear! You're welcome to enter the challenge using different products, but instead you'll be entered into the draw to win a $3 coupon to the StitchyBear Store. Can't wait to see your projects!

Inspiration/Challenges:

1. Allsorts Week 153: Black and White
2. Art Impressions Challenge 61: Circle Cards
3. Card Crafter's Circle Challenge #21: Mum's the Word!
4. Crafty Creations Challenge #168: Mother's Day
5. The Cutie Pie Challenge 17: Monochromatic
6. Deep Ocean Challenge #24: Use Punches/dies
7. Delightful Challenges: Mother's Day
8. SweetStamps Challenge #63: For Mom

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Flowers for Dad

I'm so tickled to officially have 33 Blogger followers (hi Helen!) ... that's the number of years I have! This seems so very lucky to me.

In celebration, I'm adding a my "lucky" rubber stamp to my 2nd Blogoversary Candy. It's a simple pennant rubber stamp, but everything I make with it seems to come out great, so it feels "lucky" to me! I'm sure you'll agree.

Many of you have already signed up, and there's still time! I've put a badge up on that post and on my right sidebar, if you'd like to share it. Thanks again to all you crafters out there, and all the inspiration you've brought into our lives.

I haven't posted in several days, but I have many projects half-blogged and half-glued. First off are our Fathers Day cards for this year. I wanted them to be simple, but with plenty of texture and detail. I used the emboss-resist technique to create the white portions. The hidden fallen flowers were a last-minute idea, inspired by a photo my oldest friend recently posted on FaceBook. Her father was a wonderful male influence on me growing up, so I'm thinking I'll make a similar card for him.

Inspiration:
Creative Inspirations Challenge #115: Card For Dad
Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge #70: Father’s Day (Masculine) Theme
Delicious Doodles Challenge #29: Father's Day

Stamps: Foreground Forest set by Raisin Boat, frame from Regal Greetings set by {ippity} Stamps
Paper: Hammermill, Recollections
Tools: SCAL, Cricut, Marvy heat tool, Sizzix Texture Boutique, MS border punch (for flowers)
Other: ZipDry glue, Glossy Accents, Stampendous embossing powder, Tim Holtz and Memento inks, bakers twine

Remember what the doorknob said: Feed your head

I've been salivating over projects that use Glossy Accents for some time, and I finally got my hot little hands on some. This is how the phone conversation with my mom went yesterday:
cg: So have you heard of this 3D adhesive called Glossy Accents?
mom: No...
cg: Folks use it to create a wet effect...like, you can add some on an umbrella and it looks exactly like raindrops.
mom: Eeeeeeeee!!!
cg: My thoughts exactly. I saw one card where the crafter used it on rainboots and it looked so real I thought I was going to have a heartattack.
mom: Okay, I have a pencil to write this down. Did you get it on one of your fancy online stores?
cg: No! Apparently it's been in the Tim Holtz section of Michaels for ever. I even used a coupon.
mom: Oh! Well. Guess I'll be making a stop!
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I haven't spoken to her today, but I'm quite sure that we're both going to be spending much of the evening with our Glossy Accents! That's how I spent much of yesterday, using my new favorite product for the goggles & plane blades for these cards I'm sending to Card Cupids:

This card design was inspired by several challenges: the square-and-triangle-themed Mojo Sketch; the bright combo at Color Throwdown; the "ribbon or fiber" challenge at Card Cupids; and the Texture theme at Delicious Doodles. I added as much texture as I could muster: heat-embossing, puff-paint (Marvy snow pen), flocking, Glossy Accents (of course), paper piecing, and texture embossing. Love love love my Sizzix.

I made six, and although each card varies slightly, to make life easiest for the various visiting DTs I'm entering this particular card (below) in all the challenges that inspired the set.

I couldn't not make the rabbits white. I won this little guy by entering the CDAC Special Occasion Challenge sponsored by Zlatoena Designs. I adore her work and her blog. Thank you Zlatina!

And although I said that I was sending all 6 to Card Cupids, I'm actually sending one to Mom. How can I not?!

Inspiration:
Sketch: Mojo Monday #193
Color: Color Throwdown #144: Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery
Theme: Delicious Doodles Challenge #28: Texture
Embellishment: Card Cupids New Challenge Sunday: Ribbon or Fiber

Stamps: Rabbit Traveler/Air plane by Zlatoena Designs, Howdy sentiment from My Favorite Things, Hello Friend sentiment from StudioG
Paper: Hammermill, Recollections, stash designer paper (Paper Studio?)
Tools: HP printer & ink, Marvy heat tool, Sizzix Texture Boutique & starbursts embossing folder, Fiskars paper cutter, decorative edge cutter, MS detailing scissors
Other: ZipDry glue, ZIG glue pen, Glossy Accents, Stampendous or ZING embossing powder, Versamark watermark ink, Marvy snow pen, Elmers or Sakura gel pen, bakers twine from Soiree collection by House of 3
Copics: RV29