Sewn Together Challenge #13

Hi Everyone

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and also leave comments – I really do appreciate it and you are all so kind.

Today see’s the launch of the new weekly challenge from Sew Many Cards. This weeks challenge is a Colour Challenge

The challenge is to make a card/ paper crafts project using only the colours Brown, Orange and Green for your papers, card stock and embellishments, you can however us other colours on your Sewn Together image.

As a Design Team member we were asked to take the challenge too, so here is my take on it

For my challenge card I chose to use the new digi stamp of Angela’s puppy Hershey!!! and I coloured him with my copic markers. My patterned papers are from a Papermania pack that I purchased from QVCUK a few years ago. TO finish the card I added a punched border using a Woodware border punch and shaped the edge with some Fiskars Victorian paper edger scissors, then I added some grosgrain ribbon, some text cut with one of my Quickutz alphabets and some buttons from my stash.

Here is a closer look at Hershey – isn’t he adorable!!!

If you would like more inspiration for this weeks challenge then why not visit my fellow Design Team mates blog – they are listed in my side bar.

To enter this weeks challenge you can find all the details on Angela’s blog HERE and if you would like Hershey and his friends to come to your house then you can link to the shop from Angela’s blog too.

So that’s it for today – speak to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together Weekly Challenge #12

Hi Everyone

Well it’s that time again to tell you all about the new weekly challenge from Sew Many Cards

This week the challenge is to make a card or paper craft project that is for Christmas and has bows – they can be ribbon, paper anything you like just so long as they are bows. For more details on entering etc see Angela’s blog HERE

For my challenge card I chose to use a previous Freebie Friday image of Santa with a Kangaroo and I coloured it with my copic markers. For the background papers I used some from a Diecuts with a View set that I purchased from QVCUK. To finish the card I added a grosgrain ribbon and bow and some faux pearls coloured with copics to match.

Here is a closer look at this cute image

So now you have seen my take on the challenge why not take a look and see what my fellow Design Team mates came up with.

Once you have done that it will me your turn to take the challenge!!!

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together Challenge #11

Hi Everyone

SO it is time to launch the new weekly challenge from Sew Many Cards – this weeks challenge is a Technique Challenge and as the images are known as Sewn Together the technique to be used this week is STITCHING!!! Obvious really right!

If you would like to take part all the details can be found on Angela’s blog HERE, you can also enter the challenge there too.

For the challenge this week I chose to use another image of Halen in Hat, she is so cute and as she has the Breast Cancer Symbol on her hat I thought I had to use her. I coloured her with my copic ciao markers using colours that matched my papers from K & Company’s K Studio Orange Stripes pad. For the technique I use a stitching template to add stitching to the edge and used glitter thread for the actual stitching. to finish the card I added a punched border and some grosgrain ribbon.

Here is a closer look at Halen.

If you would like more inspiration for this challenge then why not visit my fellow Design Team members blogs and see what they came up with for the challenge.

We can’t wait to see what you come up with for the challenge.

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together Challenge #10

Hi Everyone

Firstly I have to make a HUGE apology that this post is two days late, I’ve had some family issues that have had to take priority but thankfully they are beginning to resolve themselves and I managed to get my card for this weeks Sew Many Cards challenge done!!!

The challenge for this week is a Theme Challenge – to make a card/paper crafts project using any Sewn Together Digi Stamp that has a Thanksgiving/Fall Theme to it (or Autumn as it is called in the UK), you also have to use brads, buttons or flowers (or all of them!)

Although in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving I was still really excited to do this challenge as I adore working with the stamps that Angela creates. So here is the card that I came up with.

I know I’ve told you this many times before but Angela’s Tiger image called Tayla is my absolute favourite of all the characters she designs, so when I found that she had made an image of Tayla as a Pilgrim then I knew which image I had to use for this weeks challenge. For this card I coloured her with my new Prismacolor pencils (please be kind this is only the second image I’ve coloured with them!) and blended them with Sansodor (UK version of Gamsol). To compliment the image and the theme of the challenge I used some papers from a Diecuts with a View set that I purchased from QVCUK. To finish off the card I added some grosgrain ribbon and some shaped buttons from my stash.

Here is a closer look at Pilgrim Tayla – so what do you think? Isn’t she adorable???

So now you have seen my take on this weeks challenge it is your turn to show us what you can do. You can find all the details on the Sew Many Cards Blog and you can also enter your creation on there too. For more inspiration for this challenge then why not check out my fab Design Team mates blogs – you can find a link to their blogs in my sidebar.

I will be back later today with details on the Sew Many Cards New Release Party – so look out for that!!!

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together Challenge #9

Hi Everyone

Today sees the start of the Sew Many Cards weekly challenge. As always the challenges run for a week and you can find all the details on the Sew Many Cards Blog.

The Challenge for this week is a Sketch Challenge. I’ve never really been one to uses sketches from blogsville as I usually create my own but I have to say it’s really fun working to someone else’s layout.

For my card I thought I would use one of Angela’s newest designs called Tayla Boo Boo – Tayla has always been a favourite of mine since the beginning so when Angela sent us this design I knew I had to use her. I coloured her with my copic markers and found some co-ordinating papers from Papermania to use with it. To finish the card I added some crochet trim and a papermania text sticker.

Here is a closer look at Tayla – don’t you just want to give her a cuddle and make her feel better!

So you have now seen my take on the sketch challenge, why not now visit me fellow Design Team mates and see what they did with the sketch. Afterwards it is your turn to take the challenge, once you have your creation please add a link to it on the Sew Many Cards Blog under the post for challenge #9.

If you would like any of Angela’s cute little characters you can find a link to them at the blog too.

So that’s it for this post - ‘Speak’ to you all again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #8

Hi Everyone

So it's that time again!!! For the start of the new Sew Many Cards challenge!

The challenge this time was to create a card/paper crafts project using only the colours Pink, White & Green for our paper, card stock and embellishments! We could however use other colours for our image - phew!

For my card I decided to use one for the new images of Jaden the giraffe! She looks so cute in her little pram! Just for a change I coloured her with my Faber Castell Polychromos pencils and blended with sansador (UK gamsol) - and before you ask! no my copics haven't run out! I thought with the colours set I would use some papers from a Making Memories Kid set. I wanted to keep it quite simple so I only added a ribbon for embellishment.
Here is a closer look at Jaden - I adore her!

So now you have seen my card why not pay a visit to my talented team mates and see what they chose to do with the challenge! Also why not take the challenge too - you can enter on the Sew Many Cards blog. You can also find a link there too so that you too can have Jaden and her friends join you in your craft room!

'Speak' to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #7

Hi Everyone

So today sees the start of the next Sew Many Cards weekly challenge.

The challenge for this week was a Themed Challenge - to make a friendship card using either Red or Yellow (any other colours you want) and any image.

For my creation I decided to make another Christmas card so as to help reduce the ever growing list of cards I need to make for the holidays.

As I've never played with the new Morty the Moose images I decided that I wanted to use one of these for my creation. I chose to use Morty Merry Christ-Moose! I think that this digi stamp is a fab image! What a great play on words! I coloured my image using my copic ciao markers and used some papers from a Papermania Christmas paper pack from a few years ago. I wanted to keep the card quite simple so I only added some chipboard letters as my embellishments.
Here is a closer look at Morty - isn't he just the cutest little Moose you ever saw!

So now you have seen my challenge creation it is your turn to take the challenge, which runs from today (6th October) until the 12th October. To enter please leave a link to your creation on the Sew Many Cards Blog , you can also find out what the lucky winner will receive over there too. If you need more inspiration then the best thing to do is pay a visit to my fabulous Design Team mates - I'm sure you won't be disappointed!

Well that's it for today - 'speak' to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Blog Hop with Sew Many Cards and PaperCraft Planet

Hi Everyone

So as promised, here is my Christmas Card for the Sew Many Cards group event being held today on PaperCraft Planet for World Card Making Day. If you have missed all the details about everything that is going on today and the chances to win Sewn Together images then please read my post below this that has all the Sew Many Cards World Card Making Day details listed and how to be a winner!!

My fellow Sew Many Cards team mates are also playing along today so why not visit them too, they are :- Deanette , Georgia , Jennifer , Jeri , Kim , Sarabeth , Sheila and of course me! Also please could you leave us all some love - ta!

So for my card I decided to follow the Challenge recipe that is a part of Sew Many Cards World Card making Day event (see post below for details) As the challenge was I Christmas card I decided to use the new Penguin image that Angela released last Monday - isn't he just adorable!! As it's for Christmas I wanted him and the papers to be bright and vivid so I used my copics to colour him (yes I know any excuse to use them!), I used some patterned papers from Dovecraft that are from a collection from a few years ago. To finish the card I cut out the word Noel from a sheet of double sided sticky tape and once they were attached to the card I covered them with green glitter and I used some blue organza ribbon from my stash.
Here is a closer look at this little cutie pie!! I love him so much!

As this card opens in a slightly unusual way I thought I would add this picture to my post too - if you want to see more of how it works then please yell at me!

So that's my card - please remember to take part on the challenge and to join in all the goings on today, the Sew Many Cards slot at Papercraft Planet is only for an hour and is between 8pm and 8.59pm EST. Also remember to read below for all your ways to win some fab digi stamps and please visit my team mates to see what they came up with.

Take care and enjoy your weekend

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Today is World Cardmaking Day with Sew Many Cards & PaperCraft Planet

Hi Everyone

So here is all the details for today's celebration with Sew Many Cards and PaperCraft Planet

WORLD CARD MAKING DAY

Sew Many Cards is celebrating World Card Making Day with some great giveaways and challenges. Later in the day, we will announce the winners of the blog hop that ended Thursday. AND remember, of you spend $10 in the store, you will get a free fall bonus pack of images - Check out this post. You can visit the Sewn Together Store HERE If you have a special request, let Angela know and she will see what she can do to help.

Okay, now for the fun, I know you have been waiting for.

There are several things you can do to win, so fasten your seat belts and get ready for the ride:

1. One person in random conversation will all of a sudden win a free digi - this can be any comment on any of the blogs, the group at PaperCraft Planet, or the Sew Many Cards Blog - the more you are "talking" the more chances you have to win. - So visit the DT blogs and start talking -)

PaperCraft Planet

Deanette

Donna

Georgia

Jennifer

Jeri

Kim

Sarabeth

Sheila

2. Join the Sewn Together Group at PaperCraft Planet for an entry into a drawing for TWO free stamps of your choice. If you are already a member just let Angela know.

3. Complete a project by creating a holiday card or project using the following recipe:

A Sew Many Cards Digi Image (freebies are found HERE ) or visit our store using the coupon code for 50% off

Something with Glitter (this can be shimmerz, glitter, stickles, glimmer mists...)

Any kind of Ribbon

2 Patterned Papers

This challenge is due by 12pm EST, Enter on the Sew Many Cards Blog and enter your link into Mr Linky or leave a comment if he is not working.

The free image this week:

To download this image please click HERE

4. Subscribe to the Sew Many Cards blog for a chance to win a free digital image of your choice. Subscribe to SMC by Email - if you are already a subscriber, please let Angela know.

So that's all the Details for the Special Event, I'll be back later with my card for the hop.

I hope you enjoy the day

Crafty hugs Donna xx

World Cardmaking Day with PCP and Sew Many Cards Part Two

Hi Everyone

As promised I have the rest of the details about the World Card Making day with Sew Many Cards and Papercraft Planet on October 3rd.

The Challenge for the hop is:

Create a holiday card using the following recipe:-
A sew Many Cards Digi Image (freebies are found HERE )
Something with Glitter (this can be shimmerz, glitter, stickles, glimmer mists etc)
Any kind of ribbon
2 patterned papers

This challenge is due on 4th October by 12pm EST

To follow all the goings on for World Cardmaking day please visit Sew Many Cards at our PaperCraftPlanet Group and The Sew Many Cards Blog The hop on our group is only for one hour in the Saturday night. Here are all the World Card Making Day details again

WHAT
World Card Making Day is a holiday especially for card makers around the world to: Celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family. Kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season

WHEN
October 3rd, kicking off the holiday card making season, the most popular time for creating and sharing handmade greetings. Visit Sew Many Cards at our PaperCraftPlanet group between 8pm and 8.59pm EST to check out the challenge and freebies Angela has to give away!

WHO
Papercraft Planet has organised a Group hop so members can Hop via groups. We will also have the group hop info in the main group blog HERE and you will be able to hop along with the designers of Sew Many Cards too!

WHY
It is a day to connect with fellow card makers both near and far, to applaud the creativity that powers the craft, and to provide an opportunity for card makers to connect and find resources that will empower, inspire and encourage them in their card making. (PCP)

So we look forward to welcoming you to this event

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #6

Hi Everyone

Well it's time for the next Sew Many Cards Sewn Together DT Challenge, can you believe we are at #6 already - it seems to me like just last week we were doing the first one!

Our challenge this week was to make a Stair Step card - we can do any colours and images but it had to be that technique of card. So here is mine example

For my card I decided I would do a Christmas card and help get all those done a bit more, I chose to use two of the Sew Many Cards images - one of which was a new release yesterday. The images I chose are called Tayla, Miki & Jaden Christmas carols and Tayla reindeer - they are just so cute! As I think I've mentioned before Tayla is my favourite character but I do love Jaden too so when I saw the new Carollers I knew I had to use it! I coloured both images with my copic markers and picked some papers from a Deicuts woth a View Christmas stack for the background. To finish the card I made some poinsettia's from a Quickutz die, cut the Noel from with the Girls are Weird Sizzlets Alpha set and added some organza ribbon from my stash.
Here I've tried to flatted the front two steps down a bit so you can get a bit of a better look at our carollers.

For this picture I turned the card to the side so that you can see the steps a bit more. To make my card I cut a piece of card stock to 12" x 5" and scored it at 1",2",4",6" and 9" and them did mountain, valley, mountain, valley and mountain folds which then gives you your base card ready to decorate.

So I hope you like it! Now it's your turn to try, you can find all the details for the challenge on the Sew Many Cards blog and this is also where you will need to link your creations - Angela will be offering a prize to someone. If you need more inspiration then you can visit my fab team mates to see what they decided to do, please also leave them a comment - they are great creators and deserve all the praise they can get.

Well that's it from me - 'speak' to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #5

Hi Everyone

Sorry this challenge post is late today - I had scheduled it to post at 10am this morning but something must have happened cause I can't even find the post!

So it is time again for the Sew Many Cards weekly challenge. The design team was challenged this week to make a card/project that uses one of the cute donkey digi stamps. I really enjoyed the challenge this week.

For my card I chose to use the donkey hiding behind a cactus - he looks so sweet! I decided to go back to one of my first loves and use my distress inks etc from Ranger/Tim Holtz for this project and 'shabby' up my background papers. As usual I coloured my donkey with my copic markers and chose papers from a Papermania pad called Spring Burst. I found some chipboard letters in my craft stuff that were the same colour as my papers but they kind of blended into the background so I sanded the edges and use Vintage Photo distress ink on them. To finish the card I used a border punch from woodware and added some satin ribbon and buttons from my stash.

Here is a closer look at this little cutie!

So now you have see my take on the challenge please visit my team mates to see what they came up with and of course we want to see your challenge projects too, just visit the Sew Many Cards blog for all the details. I can't wait to see your ideas!

Crafty hugs Donna xx

World Cardmaking Day with PCP and Sew Many Cards

Hi Everyone

I have a upcoming event for you to put on your diaries.

WHAT
World Card Making Day is a holiday especially for card makers around the world to:
Celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family.
Kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season.

WHEN
October 3rd, kicks off the holiday card-making season, the most popular time for creating and sharing handmade greetings. Visit Sew Many Cards at our PaperCraftPlanet group between 8pm and 8.59pm EST to check out the challenge and freebies Angela has to give away!

WHO
PaperCraftPlanet has organized a Group hop so members can Hop via groups. We will also have the group hop info on the main group blog HERE and from there you will be able to hop along with the designers of Sew Many Cards Too!

WHY
It is a day to connect with fellow card makers both near and far, to applaud the creativity that powers the craft, and to provide an opportunity for card makers to connect and find resources that will empower, inspire and encourage them in their card making. (PCP)

Later I will have the challenge details for you.

I hope you will be able to take part.

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #4

Hi Everyone,

Is it me or is the time just flying by these days, it doesn't feel like a week ago that I was bringing you the Sewn Together DT Challenge #3 and now here we are with #4! I apologise for my absence this past week or so but the cold I had doesn't really want to go away and I'm not sleeping much so the idea of crafting hasn't been appealing, but I think (fingers crossed!) that I might be starting to feel a bit better so I will try and post more this week.

Anyway back to the challenge for this week for Sew Many Cards Angela asked us to make a card using a sketch, we could use any image and any colours but we had to use the sketch provided - So here is the card I came up with


I chose to use this cute little image of Zee curled up on the moon with his little bear, straight away it said baby to me so that was what I decided I would do. I coloured Zee with my Copic Ciao markers trying to keep the colours as soft as possible, this is the second image of him that I coloured as the first one I did Zee with black markings as usual for a Zebra but for some reason it looked too much on the card so I re-printed him and changed his stripes to pink. For my card and backing papers I used a pad from Making Memories Kids Collection called Bella - I adore these pads because you get plain colours of card as well as patterned. To finish the card I stamped the greeting with Versafine using a stamp from the Baby Arrivals set by Clear Choice Stamps and added some baby buttons from my stash

Here is a closer look at Zee having some peaceful time with his little friend.

I really enjoyed this weeks challenge using a sketch, I do make my own sketches at home but I've never tried any of the sketch challenges on the Internet before but I think this might make me give them a go in the future. So now that you have seen my card from this challenge why not give the challenge a go for yourself, you can find all the details on the Sew Many Cards Blog and someone will be lucky enough to win a prize! If you need more inspiration then please visit my DT team-mates (their blog links are in my sidebar) and see how they used the sketch, I can promise you they will be worth the visit. Finally if you would like any of these cute little characters to join you at home then you can find a link to them on the Sew Many Cards Blog along with the link to the Freebie Friday image.

Well that's it for this post, 'speak' to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #3

Hi Everyone

I'm really feeling terrible that I'm kind of neglecting my blog but I feel so rough at the moment. I promise as soon as I start to feel a bit better I'll get back to posting properly, at least now the girls are back at school it's a bit quieter during the day so hopefully some rest will see me right.

Well it's that time of the week again, time for the next Sewn Together Challenge , this week is a Themed Challenge to make a Christmas card using any image and any colour. So this is what I decided on

For my card I wanted to use colours that are not usually associated with Christmas and I also really wanted to use the super cute image of Miki with Candy Cane, so I decided that I would colour him in pinks and greys (with a little bit of other colour for contrast). I used my Copic markers to colour in Miki and then decided to use some papers from the Diecuts with a View Rose Tinted Christmas - Christmas Multi Stack for the card as they were the exact colours I was using and also had a Candy Cane just like Miki did. To accent the card I added some grosgrain ribbon from the Dovecraft Smirk range and some sticky-back rhinestones (I didn't have any black ones so I coloured a silver one with my black copic marker), finally to finish the card I added a stamped greeting from a clear stamp set by Hot off the Press and some glitter on the candy cane because you have to have sparkle with Christmas.

Here is a closer look at Miki all ready to celebrate the holiday season.

So that's what I came up with, I'd love to know what you think. Please visit my wonderful DT team-mates to see all the fab ideas that they have all come up with, I know they will be worth the visit, and why not give the challenge a go for yourself, you can find all the details on the Sew Many Cards Blog and Angela will announce on their what you could be lucky enough to win if your card/project is chosen. While you are there don't forget to check out the Freebie Friday section and if you would like some of these cute little guys 'n' gals to come to your house then you can find them all HERE patiently waiting for you.

Thanks again to everyone who takes the time to visit my blog and for all you kind comments, I'll be back again as soon as I can.

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sewn Together DT Challenge #2

Hi Everyone

Well it's that time of week again for the Sew Many Cards DT Challenge. Our challenge this week was to create a card or projects with a Halloween image using any/all of the following colours - purple, yellow, neutral (black does not count, white does count), pink & red. So this is the card I created


I decided to use the Zebra called Zee who has decided to be a ghost and coloured him with my copic markers. For the papers I printed them from a Crafters Companion CD-Rom set called Occasions because it is really hard to find halloween prducts in the UK, I was to pleased to find halloween on the disk set. I finished the card with diecut cardstock using some Quickutz dies that I had and added some satin ribbon for texture.

Here is a close up of Zee all ready to celebrate the spooky season.

So now it is your turn to take the challenge, please check out all the rules on the Sew Many Cards blog and if your card is chosen then you could win some of these really cute little characters. Don't forget to check out all my other team mates creations, I'm sure they will be fab. While mentioning digi stamps Angela from Sew Many Cards has just created a forum that is for crafters that love Digi stamps so why not check that out too while you are at the Sew Many Cards Blog.

Anyway thats it for this post, 'speak' to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna

Sewn Together DT Challenge #1

Hi everyone

Well the day has finally arrived for the first Sewn Together DT Challenge. I've already seen all my fellow team-mates creations and they are beautiful.

Our challenge for this first one was to create a project using our favorite image - easy enough right! I thought so at first until I then had to sit down and actually decide which one of all the cute images was actually my favorite and I have to say that choosing the image took ages, so I hope you like it.

Sew many cards are also giving you the opportnity to take part in this challenge - you have until August 31st to post a card on the Sew Many Cards blog using Mr Linky in This Post and the lucky winner will receive Three images of their choice from the Sewn Together Collection. So why not give it a go! If for some reason one of these cuties hasn't yet followed you home to your computer then you could always use one of the two current Freebie Friday images for your creation.

So now I suppose I should really show you what I decided on using

This little cutie is Tayla and I think she might have chosen the wrong size of hat to celebrate halloween - what do you think? As soon as I saw the Tayla images I had a feeling I would use her but I just didn't know which so I decided to go with this one as I think it's so sweet and I love seeing halloween creations but I don't usually get a chance to make halloween cards as here in the UK we don't really celebrate it. I coloured her with my Copic ciao markers, all the paper and card stock is from Diecuts with a View and I found a pumpkin button in my button drawer so I thought I would add that onto the project. I finally finished the card off with a border punch from woodward and ribbon/buttons from my stash. I hope you like her.

Here is a closer look at Tayla - I have finally managed to fix the blur - yippee

Anyway that is my first challenge project, please visit my other team-mates and take a look at their wonderful creations and don't forget to also stop by the Sew Many Cards Blog to check out all the goings on with these cute images and also give the challenge a go - you never know it could be you.

'Speak' to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx