SMC Challenge #10 - Stitching

  
First order of business, I would like to congratulate the winner of Angel boy with Hershey from my last week’s SMC blog hop……  random.org picked #14 which turned out to be …….
Jeanette (Forest Ranger).

My term is up with Sew Many Cards as of this weekend. So I hope you enjoy my last challenge card as a SMC gal.

It’s a technique challenge – Stitching; real, faux, whatever your fancy is. Our sponsor for this week is Stitchy Stamps.

Before I show you my card, I want to explain about the images first. I used three different images but merged them together first before printing it out. They all are part of the Hershey Value Pack. You can find a tutorial here that will help you to merge digital images. (I’m sending you here incase i never get time to do a tutorial on how I merged the images as I may have done mine just a little different)

I placed Hershey inside his doghouse and placed his bowl with bones right outside. Used Prismacolor pencils blended with baby oil. Added some shimmerz to the image. Used a circle coluzzle to cut out the image while cutting some of the image outside of the circle. Scallop Circle Spellbinders was used for underneath. Design paper is  DCWV The Pets Stack that I sewed onto with white thread. Layout is SCS Sketch Challenge 275.

 

Supplies: Hershey Value Pack, prismacolor pencils, baby oil, spellbinders, coluzzle, shimmerz, DCWV The Pets Stack, yellow, brown, blue cardstock, sewing machine

Well I hope you have enjoyed my time with Sew Many Cards as much as I have. Always check back at my blog as you never know when I might just pull out a SMC image to play with (they do hold challenges every Friday, you know…)
           
         Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

Sew Many Cards Release Blog Hop

Welcome to another Sew Many Card Blog Hop. You should have hopped over from Cheri G, if not then I suggest starting at the very beginning at Sew Many Challenges.

My image I have to share with you is Hershey with Angel Boy. Isn’t it cute? How would you like to win it? Just leave me a comment and I could draw your name.

K, onto my card. I used Provo Craft Slab III design paper for all my design paper. Border punch at top of card, along with Spellbinder scallop circles. Image is colored with prismacolor pencils and blended with baby oil. I did color skin of the boy but he looks ‘grayish’ in the picture, really he is peach! lol  I left his robe and wings alone and added some Angel Wing shimmerz to his halo. The cloud was paper pieced with a piece of cloud design paper. Sentiment was computer generated.

Don’t forget to leave a comment if you would like to be in the drawing to win this digital image.

Now head on over to Sarah to see what she has in store for you.


The card is also entered in the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday Week #96
365 Cards – Day 31 All Mixed Up (1/3 no color, 1/3 patterned paper, 1/3 hand colored)
Ways To Use It 264 – Sweet Child (using a child image)

           Thanks for stopping by!
                         Amber

SMC Challenge – Let’s Punch It!

It’s Friday! Time for Sew Many Cards challenge. This weeks challenge is a Tool challenge – Let’s Punch It! Have to use a punch or punches on your project. Our sponsor for this week is Wags N Whiskers

I colored the donkey with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Added white gel pen to his scarf. Cut him out completely and attached with dimensions. Tore the white and distressed it with distress inks. (made me think of a WANTED poster) Used two different cuttlebug folders on the blues. My punches are the border punch on the bottom, circle punch (actually the crop-a-dile) to make the faux brads. I decided to make an Easel card so I used the word window punch to keep my card together. Used a light brown for the word window punch and then distressed them with distress ink.
 
 

For the inside I did the same as the outside but I left off the “brads” on the dark blue strip. The wording is also from Sew Many Cards. I colored it in with a copic marker. Tore the layer and distressed it with distressing inks too. 

 

This card is also submitted for:
Stamp, Scrap and Doodling Week 32 – Tearing
Sketch Saturday Week #95 - layout

           Thanks for stopping by!
                       
                       Amber

SMC Sketch Challenge #8

It’s time again for another Sew Many Cards challenge. This time it’s a sketch challenge with a spring theme.  Cornish Heritage Farms is the sponsor this week with a prize package of three new release stamp sets!



And here is my card:

Prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits used to blend. Cammi cut out of the oval. Apple buttons attached with Helmar Gemstone Glue

Thanks for stopping by,

Amber

SMC Challenge #7 – Easter Project

Welcome to Challenge #7 for Sew Many Cards! The theme for the challenge was Easter Project. Any kind as long as you used a SMC digital image.  

Our sponsor is Stamps Alive, owned by Terrie Olsen. Sponsor prize package is a cuttlebug combo embossing folder – Damask. So head over to Sew Many Cards to see how you can play along.

I used Miki dressed as a Easter Bunny. I used copics for the face, cheeks, eggs, belly. For the bunny outfit, I used Gray Prismacolor pencils with odorless mineral spirits. I paper pieced the easter basket using SU’s Tea Party dsp. I then cut out Miki completely and put crystal effects on the eggs to make them shiny.

So what is my Easter Project? Why an Easter Basket of course! I used the Easter Basket tutorial over at SCS in the resource section. It was really easy to make. I used SU’s (retired) Delicate Dots dsp to decorate my basket. I used Martha Stewart’s fence punch around the bottom of the basket and SU’s scallop trim border for the handle.   For the sign I used JustRite Brayton Font and a scalloped square spellbinder all held up with a piece of ribbon. I attached it to the handle with a brad before I added the decorative paper strip.

Miki is attached to the basket with some foam dots, all ready to deliver his eggs.

       
              Thanks for stopping by,
                         Amber

SMC challenge #6 – Male project

Challenge this week for Sew Many Cards is a Theme challenge. to make a Male Project for either adult or child.  Sponsor for the challenge is KLM Designs, KATHRYN MYHRE is the owner.

SPONSOR PRIZE PACKAGE -- 3 digital images of their choice from the KLM Designs store.  So please come play with us at the Sew Many Card Challenge for a chance to win. Must use a Sew Many Card Image which a freebie can be found at the Sew Many Cards blog.

I used this image of Eris with a birthday cake. I kept the colors masculine by using browns/greens & blues. I colored the image with copics, added sparkles to the flames with a gel pen. On the water drops, I added crystal effects. I used deckle scissors on the brown layers instead of using nestabilities (for the Try New Technique262 – Faux What?). Border punch was used on the design paper. Three little brads were added to the top corner. SketchChallenge 162 is the layout I used.. an old challenge but still fun to do. 
            
Close up of the water drops:

       

             Thanks for stopping by,

                       Amber

SMC blog hop with New Releases!

Time for another Sew Many Cards Blog Hop to introduce you to the New Releases!    Our sponsors this time around are Soft Pencils and Simon Says Stamps.

Hopefully you just came from Patricia’s blog. Or you can start at the beginning at Sew Many Challenge’s blog where the entire list of DT members is also posted for the blog hop.

I get to show you a cute image that is perfect for that fisherman in your life: Morty fishing.  I colored him with copics and did a little dp with the ink pad around just the top part. Layered onto a topnote die cut and then two triangle pieces of Rusty Pickle design paper. Added a pale green ribbon to help tie it all in. Some misc. crocheted flowers in both corners held by Helmar Gemstone Glue (it dries clear).

So how would you like to win Morty? All you have to do is leave me a comment and I will pick a winner when the hop stops on March 4th!

Now it is time to hop on over to see what Sarah has in store for us.

          
             Thanks for stopping by,

                        Amber

SMC Challenges – #5Wk .. Sketch

The challenge this week at Sew Many Cards is a Sketch. Feel free to join us using the sketch, you are welcome to flip it, turn it, or mirror it, but please keep your creation as close to sketch as possible.

Our sponsor this week is Inktegrity Designs, Joni has been generous enough to donate a $10 Gift Certificate to Inktegrity Designs for winner of this weeks challenge!!!

Here is the Sketch for the challenge:
 
 

A friend of mine just had her sixth child last week (5th boy) so I decided to use Jaden in Baby Carriage to make her a card. Colored image with copics and added some sparkles to the patches with gel pen. Cut him a little out of the circle. I used a coluzzle to make my circles. I used DCWV Nana’s Nursery Baby Boy design paper and green cardstock. Simple piece of matching ribbon to divide up the card layered overtop of a yellow piece punched with a border punch. And Graceful Words “blessings” as my sentiment stamped in green. Both image and sentiment is on dimensions.


Card also qualifies for the Limited Supply260 on SCS. Use of ribbon and trim (border punch).

         Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

SMC Challenge #4 Duel Theme

It’s Friday and that means a Sew Many Cards Challenge! It is a Dual Theme…. Make a card with a Valentine Theme and with the colors red, pink and white! Please use Sew Many Cards digital images if you have them and if you don’t, then head on over to the challenge blog to pick up the Friday Freebie image!

Our sponsor this week is TELLENS PLACE, You can check out their blog here. Prize Package is $10 Gift Certificate to Tellen’s Designs

Terry Oulboub is owner and she had this to say: “Tellen’s Place Designs is the home of Tellen Design images. These images are drawn by the owner, Terry’s, son. Terry thought it would be fun for her son to continue these images for her as he had done in 1999, when she first began selling her crafts at various venues. With the digital world becoming such an excited and explosive place with thousands of images to delight everyone’s fancy, it seemed natural to add to that universe.

Tellen’s Place Designs became home to these images for a wide variety of reasons. Having a home to call their own, this opened the door to creativity on so many levels; especially for beginners. Adding card and mini album kits answered many calls to those who wanted to dabble in the scrap world but did not have the time or space to house all of the goods needed to “scrap a world fantastic.”

Tellen’s Place is the beginning, where it all started. It is a place where Tellen Design images come to life through the weekly challenges. We are delighted to share the digital world with others and even more delighted to sponsor Sew Many Challenges, another wonderful place to be. We invite you to visit us at your next opportunity.”

I decided to use Miki with his alphabet blocks this week.  I added cotton candy stickles to the “I” and “you” and Christmas red stickles to the heart.  Cut out the circle with a circle coluzzle and then the scalloped circle with Spellbinders. Image was colored with copics. I even colored the ribbon (it was white) with the same copic as the middle block (R21) and added white dots with white gel pen so it would tie in with the image/scallop circle. I sponged some pink around the circle to add a little bit of a pinkish glow.

Besides Sew Many Cards Challenge of Valentine theme and colors, Pink/white/red, this card is also for the following challenges:

Challenge #5: To the One You Love – Pile It on
Challenge #15: Glitter/bling - Little Red Wagon
Day 347: White Space (sketch)  – 365 Cards
Challenge #7:Poka dots/Stripes - Lexi’s Creations
Challenge #9: Love – The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #99 In the Name of Love – Cute Card Thursday
What’s Love got to do with It – Simon Says
Valentine/Love Challenge – Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog

           Thanks for stopping by!
                        Amber

Sew Many Cards Valentine Challenge

Today’s Sew Many Cards challenge is a Valentine theme with the colors red, black and silver.


Our sponsor is The Cutting Cafe and the sponsor prize package is 3 stamp sets or individuals stamps of their choice from The Cutting Cafe.

I used this cute image to make my valentine card.

Colored him with copics and added sparkle gel pen to his eyes, heart and patches. I cut an oval around him but cut him out of it a little. Added three heart brads in the corner and design adhesive (xoxo) with glitter to the ribbon. Spellbinder oval is on Helmar zapdots. Layered him on brushed silver cardstock.

He is also entered in the sketch challenge over at My Grafico and Lexi's Creations challenge of Valentine theme.

And guess what? I have picked a winner from my SMC blog hop comments…and the winner is …. lucky #13 Debbi!  Please email our DT Coordinator Jeri, Jeri@SewManyChallenges.com and she will get your image to you!!  Congrats!!


           Thanks for stopping by,

                     Amber

Sew Many Cards Blog Hop

 
Welcome to another Sew Many Cards New Release Blog Hop!! So glad you could join us this week for a chance to see Angela’s new releases and a chance at winning some great prizes!! Hopefully you have arrived here from Kym W.

Our sponsors this month is  Wags N’ Whiskers and  Simon Says Stamp!

To win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Wags N’ Whiskers Store and a new release stamp from Wags N’ Whiskers you MUST comment on EACH design team members blog. We know we have a large team, but it’ll be well worth the hop to see all of our teams great projects and our sponsors awesome prizes!

Would you like to win a $10 Gift Certificate to Simon Says Stamp and the entire line of Sew Many Cards new releases…then we have a special challenge this week for you during our blog hop…You’ll find all the details on the last stop of our hop!

Okay now that all that is out of the way.. on to my card! I’ve been reorganizing my area and of course I make a card that I want to sew on! So instead of pulling out the sewing machine (as I had just put it away that day), I pulled out the good ole thread and needle and did the sewing by hand. I used Pink Paislee paper and the piece under the donkey is from a sticker book by Pink Paislee. The main card uses DoubleMates cardstock.

I used prismacolor pencils and blended it with odorless mineral spirits. I printed the image out again and colored just the head. Cut it out and attached it to the body using Helmar Liquid Scrap Dot so that there is some 3D look to it. Sponged in blue ink for the sky and green ink for the grass. Shadow was added with a gray copic marker.

I used Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch for my layout and also for Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenge of using a digi image.

Please stop by each of the Sew Many Cards design team members blogs and leave a friendly comment, and be sure to leave us an email or link to your blog when you finish the hop at our challenge blog!!
Your next stop in the hop will be Kym B. If you lose your way the list is at Sew Many Challenges.

                             Thanks for Looking,

                           Amber

SMC Challenge – Color Challenge

It’s time again for another Sew Many Cards Challenge. This time it is a color challenge: PURPLE, WHITE & a splash of BLACK.


                 

Our sponsor this week is Cosmo Cricket with a Cosmo Cricket prize of Jolly by Golly Crafting Kit.

 
Come play with us for a chance to win!

My CHALLENGE CARD:

I love this color combo but have a hard time photographing purple so please bare with me. I used the Friday Freebie from Sew Many Cards that you can find on their Challenge blog (or just click on their name as it will take you right to their blog).

I used the sketch from CPS this week for my layout. I colored the image with prismacolor pencils and then blended with odorless mineral spirits. Black sparkly gel pen was used for all the patches. I added crystal effects to the wheel and to the hearts for some dimension. All the hearts are purple. I grabbed a sentiment from Lola Love (Our Craft Lounge) and stamped it in the corner and colored it in purple to match. I went over the sentiment with a clear sparkly gel pen for some subtle bling.

On the white cardstock, I used the love swirls wheel in purple. Cuttlebug’d the purple cardstock with the Swiss Dot folder. I wanted heart buttons for the sides but didn’t have any in my stash so I decided to revisit an old Try New Technique239 5-Layer Button. I took the heart from Eris the Elephant (see post below) and made it smaller before printing just the hearts out. Colored them with prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits. I faux sewed them on and attached them to the cardstock with Helmar Gemstone Glue. My splash of black comes from under the image and as the main card.

Supplies used: wheelbarrow of hearts, eris w/hearts (Sew Many Cards), Lola Love (Our Craft Lounge), Love Swirls wheel, purple/black/white cardstock, prismacolor pencils, odorless mineral spirits, crystal effects, cuttlebug, gel pens

                      Thanks for stopping by!
                                
                                  Amber

Eris the Elephant for Valentines Day

It’s been a while since I’ve done the SCS sketch challenge264. But this sketch called out to me and I think it will become one of my favorites to use over and over and over again.

I decided to use Eris the Elephant from Sew Many Cards for my card. I used copics to color her and applied Crystal Effects to her toe nails and the balloons. I also cut her out of the box. Sentiment is from Our Craft Lounge Pea-Nut set. Entire image is on Helmar ZapDots. Vellum cardstock was run through the cuttlebug and attached to the black using Helmar V2 Vellum adhesive. On the red cardstock, I used a heart background stamp in red. The middle strip is ribbon (that I've had in my stash for ages) layered on black cardstock.


supplies used: Eris w/hearts (Sew Many Cards), Pea-Nut (Our Craft Lounge), misc heart background stamp, red/white/black cardstock, vellum cardstock, ribbon, crystal effects, Helmar zapdots & V2 Vellum adhesive, cuttlebug

                   Thanks for stopping by!

                                  Amber

Let it Snow with SMC challenge

Welcome to SMC (Sew Many Cards) Friday Challenge. The theme for this week is ANYTHING GOES IN THE NEW YEAR!! Please use a Sew Many Cards image for your project or card and use any techniques, colors, or theme!! Check out the NEW Sew Many Cards Challenge Blog where each challenge will be listed every Friday. Hope you can join in the fun as we have a sponsor this week :
with a fun prize: CUTTLEBUGS COMBO FOLDER...DAMASK....$15 value.

So for my Anything Goes… I went with a shaped card and paper piecing. I’m not big into shaped cards but with this image it was super easy! I also paper pieced PJ’s scarf and ice skates, which I learned an easy way from Mel Stampz. (THANK YOU!)
I attached the paper pieces with Helmar ZapDots.

The rest of PJ, I colored with copics. Used a clear sparkle gel pen on the snowflakes and brushed Shimmerz over the entire globe.


Look how easy that was to make a shaped card? I just folded the paper in half and cut the globe out but stopped short at the top leaving about 1/2 inch still attached for the back flap. Now I realize that Copics bleed through so I attached another piece of white cardstock on to the back and cut it to shape of the globe and it completely covered up the copic bleeding.

Also Fridays will be the day you get a FREE image to play with (which will make it easy for you to use your free image in the new challenges)-Sew don't forget to check out Sew Many Challenges where you'll find Friday's Freebie image, don't forget to become a follower as you never know what they'll have in store for you. And while you are at it sign up for the newsletter HERE . Check back later on in the day to see what I have done with the ‘freebie’ image.

Supplies: PJ digital image, copics, misc design paper, white cardstock, Shimmerz, glitter gel pen, Helmar ZapDots, scissors

Thanks for stopping by!

Amber

Sew Many Cards Blog Hop with candy!

 
Welcome to my first blog hop as a design team member with Sew Many Cards. Each one of us on the team is showcasing a project using one of Angela’s new images!! SEW MANY CARDS is starting off our blog hop so if you didn’t come from there first… feel free to go back there, I will wait for you.

Here is my card using Angela’s image “Bears in Love”. I printed the image 3 times, colored them all the same using copics and cut them all out but one image. I made a faux layer on the “main” image using a black marker and a ruler. Then I layered the other two cutouts on top using Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots. Before I layered the final heart on, I painted some Angel Wings Shimmerz on it. I also sponged on some pink ink in the corners of the white cardstock just to give it some more depth.

I used some misc Valentine design paper for the background. Added a ribbon which i threaded through a flower ‘ribbon’ brad and then layered the whole thing onto brown cardstock.

 
So how would you like to win this digital image? All you have to do is leave me a comment and when this blog hop is over (Jan.11), I’ll pick a lucky person to receive this digital image!

Now not only do I have a chance for you to win a digital image from Sew Many Cards but also a grand prize package of $10.00 gift certificate to Doodle Beans Stamps & $15.00 Amazon.com Gift Certificate!!  Doodle Bean Stamps is our sponsor for this grand prize package.    So how do you go about getting entered for it? Easy, just visit EVERY design team blog and leave a comment on EVERY design team blog.

Well I hope you enjoyed my creation. Now hop on over to Audrey E to see what she has in store for you using another one of Angela’s adorable images.

Welcoming 2010 in with a new Design Team !

I haven’t posted since last year! haha I know.. that joke gets old so fast! So what do I have in store for you this year? Well hopefully a lot more stamping and less sickness!! (well one can hope!)

I am excited to share with you this card I did this morning for the Try New Technique254 (man it felt good to get back into the SCS’s challenges!), I even combined it with the Featured Stamper152. The technique was to do some paper quilting. I picked a quilt design called Pineapple to use. I also changed the image, colors to the FS card I cased.

What’s so exciting about this card is it’s a digital image from Sew Many Cards and I am now a member of their design team! So without further ado… here is my card:

Isn’t that image too cute! This Halen the Hare and it looks like she was playing in her mommy’s jewelry box. Check out that bling around her neck! I added rhinestones to the necklace image to make her sparkle. Entire image is colored in with copics. I added some “Pool” Smooch (pearlized accent ink) to her patches. I used a circle coluzzle to cut her out, leaving her feet and some of her hat to hang out over the edge. The design paper I used for the quilt and background is from Dream Street Paper and were attached using Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner. Halen and the nestabilitie is attached to the card with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to give it some dimension.

I can’t wait to bring you more goodies from Sew Many Cards. Thank you for being with me through this exciting new journey and through the rest of this year.