Counting the days

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Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

This is my project for this weeks challenge on brown sugar, I decided to make a plague for a bride to be.  I have two nieces that got engaged this year.  One getting married in two years time and one getting married in four years time.

This is a piece of mount board which i received from my neighbour as he is a picture framer and these were left over pieces.  i painted it with chalk paint then went over it with Mod podge sparkle medium, Took the image that I received from our sponsor and enlarged it.  Painted the heart with blackboard paint went round it with clear glue from a glue gun and then while it was warm sprinkle from silver glitter over it.  Coloured the flowers in with pencils and the coated them with Mod podge gloss-lustre.  The bow is made with a free die I received from a magazine and the letters are from various dies.  In the bottom corners i used aged silver embossing enamel to give it a wee bit of a aged look.

Items used

white mount board

Cosmic shimmer Chalk paint natural stone

Mod podge sparkle medium

Mod podge gloss lustre medium

Deco art chalkboard paint

Stampendous aged silver embossing enamel

Sizzix Alphabet Curlie Girl Dies

Quickutz alphabet dies

bow die free from magazine

Steadtler/Crayola coloured pencils

Cosmic shimmer pva glue

brown garden twine

Clear hot glue stick

Crafters Companion silver glitter

Hearts die from Creative Expressions shadow box accessory - Mr & Mrs

Image - Heart with tulips from our

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Karen Xxx

You Can Do It

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Its hard to believe we are in September where has this summer gone kids are back to school so this weeks challenge is quite appropriate for this week.

Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Back to School

Items Used

Gold Mirri card

Red, yellow and red card stock

Sizzix Clipboard and holder for the pencil dies

Sizzix scribbles and splats for paint splats dies

Spellbinders A2 Matting basics A & B

White 6x6 card stock for card base

Background paper, Image and sentiment from our sponsors

Imagine That

"School time Ted and Trudy"

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Birthday wishes to you

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

My card this week I took the simple approach and kept it flat.  Coloured the image with pencils and layered it with co-ordinating papers

Items Used

Sentiment and die from Tonic Verso Live, Laugh, Love/ Single Banner

Lace from my stash

Bling gems - Docrafts, Hawthorn & Bramble

Distress Ink - Wilted Violet

Pink paper from my stash

Patterned paper from first edition - Dreamcatcher 8x8 pad

white cardstock

image from Lacy sunshine - Rory's Butterfly

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Karen Xxx

Sending you a note

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: One for the Boys

So here is my card for this week

This card is made up off a pece of A4 white card stock folded in half, I cut the front in half and attached a piece of project acetate.  Using some blue card stock I layered into my card and then place patterned paper on top.  My image was already coloured which was a help as to what coloured scheme i chose.  I cut it out using a spellbinder die and again matted and layered into with the same colour scheme as the base card.  Finished it up with a sentiment that came with the image and a few black gems in each corner.  i matted and layed the inside from cover the same way as I done the front which meant it hid the glue which I attached the acteate with and the inside of the back which with the sctate show through.

Items used:-

White, blue cardstock

blacka gems

Patterned paper by My Minds Eye - Big Boy Stack

project acetate

Collall photglue

Spellbinder die - Labels 26

Coloured image from 

Sponsor - Imagine That

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Prize - $10 gift certificate 

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To the Birthday Girl

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Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

So here is my card for this week

This weeks card is has a white card base size 7" x 7" matted with pink card stock and then layered with patterned paper from the Big Girl collection.  The image is from our Sponsors below and coloured in using a few different brands, Spectrum Noir blending pencils and Steadlter ergo soft pencils blended using the Spectrum Noir Blending fluid.  The flowers are made from a Spellbinder floral dies with a red gem in the centre.  The sentiment is stamped using Versafine Vintage Sepia.

Items used

Image from our Sponsors -

Stamps Big Eye Big Head Dolls Messy Bessy IMG824 My Besties By Sherri Baldy

Pink, Brown, White card stock

Pattern paper from My Minds Eye, Big Girl collection

5mm Red gems

Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Steadtler Ergo Soft Pencils

Sentiment stamp from Creative Expression 

Spellbinders Blooms 3 and flourish is from Jewel flowers & flourishes

Tattered Lace Beautiful Blooms

Vintage Lace

Collall Photoglue

Our Sponsor this week is

My Besties

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Meet Allistair the Alligator

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Spring

So here is my card for this week

Say hello to Allistair the Alligator, he is a digi image from our sponsors this week, (details below).  He is coloured with Steadtler and Crayola pencils and blended with Spectrum Noir blending solution.  He is cut out using Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B, and if you can see from the photo I cut around the end of his tail and slipped the die undersneath so its hanging of the page, then I matted it onto a distress yellow patterened paper and olive green cadstock.

My background is done using the same distress yellow paper with a co ordinating patterened paper from the same stack.  the harlaquin was cut using the sizzix thinlets mixed media dies.  The both of these are then layered on the olive green card stock.  Finishing off with three black gems on two of the opposite corners.

Items used

Patterned paper - My minds Eye - Complete Boy 2009 collection by Jen Wilson

Olive green card stock

Black gems by Great Expressions from The Works

Sizzix thinlets mixed media dies by Tim Holtz

Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B

Steadtler and Crayola coloured pencils

Spectrum Noir pencil blending solution

Digi Image Allister the Alligator

Our Sponsor this week is

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Happy April Fools

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Firstly can I apologise for this blog post being late, its been a little hectic in our household this week, packing the husband off for a few days and then one of my fur babies getting herself hurt.  This meant multiple trips to the vets, resulting in surgery on Monday morning.  So here is my card for this week Brown Sugar Challenge.

The card base was 6 x 6 white and layered with patterned paper.  The image was coloured with pencils and cut with a spellbinders lacy die and using a pair of scissors I cut the lace part off.

I handmade the flowers from a spellbinders bloom die and added a little glitter glue to the tips of the petals to make them sparkle.

Sponsor - Sassy Studio 

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Items Used

white, orange and white cardstock

patterned paper - Papermania Hampstead, A warm welcome

crayola and steadtler coloured pencils

spellbinders - lacy circles and Blooms Number 3

tattered lace - beautiful blooms

cosmic shimmer glue

1mm foam tape

dovecraft glitter glue

8mm flat backed pearls

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Karen Xxx

Happy Easter

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Spring

So here is my card for this week

The card base is 8 x 4.5" and is white card stock.  I cut the front of the card away leaving about 1/2" at the top to attach the acetate too.  I cut two strips of the patterned paper from the stack and used a Martha Stewart border punch - doily lace and the seep edge border punch - Eyelet lace.

The sentiment was made using a Alphabet Die set from Quickutz (apologies but I don't remember which one).  The card stock was white coloured with distress ink "Victorian Velvet")

The flowers are cherry blossoms from Wild Orchard Crafts and the leaves were cut from green patterned paper using Spellbinders little leaf set

The photo above shows up close how the acetate sits nicely on the front of the card and i have mirrored the back of the acetate with the front with patterned paper.  The insert of the card is out of the same patterned paper and when it is going to be sent out I will insert a verse.

I coloured my image with Crayola Coloured pencils and layered onto a die from Sizzix Circles and Spellbinders Lacy Circles.  

Sponsor - Star Stampz

Store -  https://www.etsy.com/shop/StarStampz

Prize -  3 digi images of winners choice

Items Used -

Image - Spring Ladybug

White card stock

Project clear acetate

Quickutz Alphabet

Cherry Blossoms from Wild Orchard Crafts

Patterned paper - Spring Feast

1st edition paper by Mindy Terasawa

Spellbinders Dies - Little Leaf Set and Lacy Circles

Sizzix Circles

Small 2mm stars and circles gems

Martha Stewart border punch - Eyelet Lace

Martha Stewart Deep Edger Border Punch - Doily Lace

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New Baby Girl

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Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Cute and Cuddley

So here is my card for this week

The base card is 7.5 x 7.5 and made out of A4 pink card stock x 2, its layered with a patterned paper from K & Company, Baby Girl.  Then layer four pink card 3.25" x 3.25" with patterned paper from the same paper pad. 

The cherry blossom flowers and rose leaves are from Wild Orchard Crafts and the charm "It's a Girl" is from Creative charms out of my stash.

It the bottom right hand corner and also the top left hand corner I have attached 3 pink buttons.

The image is coloured in with Crayola pencils and die cut with Sizzix circles and mounted onto a Decorative Circle from Spellbinder Grand selection.  The sentiment is from a free set I got with a magazine and stamped using archival ink pad "Sepia". Punched out of whited card and mounted onto a piece of patterned paper from the same pad. 

Sponsor  -  Stitchy Bear 

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Items used -

Image - My Pillow from sponsor
Pink and white card stock
Patterned paper - K & Company - Scrap to go
Baby Girl
Pink buttons from stash
Creative Charms - "It's a Girl"
two tone cherry blossoms, rose leaves from Wild Orchard Crafts
Stampin up Punch - Scallop Circle and
Circle 1 3/8"
Crayola Coloured pencils
Cosmic shimmer glue
1 mm Foam Roll
"New Baby" sentiment from special occasions from a
free stamp set
Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles

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Candy Cane Wishes .....

Happy Christmas everyone and welcome to my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Christmas

Candy cane were made out of air dry clay with a metal snowflake embellishment

The little gingerbread man was made using brown air dry clay.

The sentiment is apart of the digi stamp set from our sponsors.

The image is from our sponsors and coloured in with Spectrum Noir blending coloured pencils and mounted onto to blue card.

Sponsors - Stitchy Bear Stamps

Store - http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop/

Blog - http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

Items Used:-

Lilac blue and white card stock

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape

Spectrum Noir Blending pencils

Air dry clay - red, white and brown

snowflake charms

Spellbinder dies

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Karen Xxx