Cooking It Up #44 - I Love some Embossed Pink with Digital Delights NEW RELEASES!

This is a very special week at Cooking It Up With Katie as we are coordinating with our super sponsor Digital Delights on their latest release and the team all got to work with some FABULOUS new Valentines themed images!

The ingredients for your card this week are:
Make it for someone you Love
Use any form of Embossing
Add a little Pink

Challenges:
Stamp Something - Something Digi
Craft Your Days Away - Anything Goes
Wags N Whiskers - Valentines
One Stitch At A Time - Love/Valentine
Lexi's - Say It With Love
Bunny Zoes - Love
365 Cards Day 314 - Romance
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Love Is In The Air
Woodware USA - Hearts
Getting Creative with Ann - Hearts
Sweet Stop Sketches Sketch
2 Sisters - Getting Girly
Catch The Bug - Embossing
Speedy The Cats Friends - Embossing
Secret Crafter - Tons of Texture
Creative Inspirations Paint - Texture
Fuzzy Wuzzy - Anything Goes (with an Animal image)
Crazy Challenge - Animals
Crafty Emma's - All Creatures Great and Small
Incy Wincy - Go Dotty
Basic Grey Challenges - Spots and Dots
Shannon's Sentiments - Ribbon
Stamping Vacation Sticky Situation - Border Sticker

Card Recipe:
Image - Polly Pippin In Love
Paper - Basic Grey Olivia and Fairytale Princess by The Paper Studio
Medium - Copic Markers
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Stickers - Doodlebug
Sentiment - Heidi Grace
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby

I printed out Polly twice and colored both versions. I cut them out, one whole and one just Polly and popped the Polly on top of the other for dimension.
I'm not sure if you have started your Valentines cards yet but if you haven't then maybe joining in with my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge!
Katie

Guest Designer at Incy Wincy - Pink and Brown

It's time for another guest card for and this week we have a color combo challenge of Pink and Brown.
This combo is one of my favorites as it leads to a vintage, shabby chic feel to a card and it works so well for girl cards.
We are sponsored by the fabulous Di's Digi's and this image I got to work with was so cute!

Challenges:
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
Copic Creations - Colorless blender tricks (I used burlap soaked in blender and dabbed on the bear for texture)
365 Cards Day 230 - Last but Not Least (a technique you've been putting off trying, see above!)
Our Creative Corner - More Is Better (3 of more types of embellishment) (brads, buttons, punches, sticker)
Speedy the Cat's Friends - Stitching
Totally Gorjuss - Pink
Wee Memories - Celebrate Good Times
Paper Sundaes - For Someone Little
Paper Romance - Buttons

Card Recipe:
Image - Ted's99 by Di's Digi's
Paper - My Minds Eye Loves Nest
Medium - Copic Markers
Brads - Making Memories
Buttons - Stash
Border and Corner punches - Martha Stewart
Sentiment Sticker - KI Memories

How cute is this little bear? It is images like this that remind me of "home" (4500 miles away in England) as a "99" with a Flake was my favorite treat from "Mr Whippy" :)
I hope you like her too.

A Boy and his Puppy :)

It's time for a new card, this one with lots of challenges but no DT commitments :)
I hope you like him, I think he's super sweet!

Challenges:

365 Cards Day 213 - 3B's Boy, Black and Button
Paper Pretties - Animal
Gem of a Challenge - Sketch
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Cowgirl Sunday - Anything Goes
Ooh La La - Nothing Floral
The Pink Elephant - Childhood

Card Recipe:
Image - Pink Gem Designs
Paper - DCWV Autumn Splendor
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - 7 Gypsies
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Star Punch - EK Success

I stamped two copies of the image, colored one completely and cut it out and popped it up on the mat and then colored just the puppy and popped him up too.
I don't do that many boy cards but I just love how sweet this image is and it was time to have him inked up and used :)

Cooking It Up #31 - Enjoy A Sparkly Yellow Digi!

This week over at Cooking It Up With Katie we have a new challenge and are sponsored by Sassy Studio.

The ingredients are:
Use a Digi
Add some Yellow
Finish with a little Sparkle

Challenges:

Digi Doodles Shop - Emboss It
Stamp Insanity - Emboss
Crafty Catz - Stitching
Tellens Place - Bling
Eat Sleep Stamp - Sketch
Off The Wall Craftiness - Colors Pink, Yellow, Green and Blue
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Stitching
Alys - 2 papers and 2 buttons
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Stamp It Crazy - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - Dimension and a Sentiment
Karber - Hobbies and Leisure
365 Cards Day 212 - 3G's, Girl, Green and Glisten
Creative Cottage - Bling It On

Card Recipe:
Image - Sassy Studios Cocoa Carol
Paper - Cosmo Cricket De Lovely
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Heidi Grace
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug border flowers

I don't think you can see very well from the photos but I used a border embossing folder around all 4 sides of the blue and green paper.
I also colored a second image of the girl and popped her up.
I think she looks very cozy in her chair with her cop of cocoa.

Time for a Cool Down - Winter Wonderland Card

It is still getting into the 90's here in Texas and I could really do with a cool down. As the weather channel don't seem to be sending me one I thought I may make my own with a Christmas Card! LOL
This is my 1st Christmas card this year and I really like how it turned out.
The April stamp was actually a Valentines stamp but with a little careful cutting and a Winter color theme I think she works well for this card too.

Challenges:
365 Cards Day 206 - Winter Wonderland Scene
Raise the Bar - Bundle Up
ABC Christmas - T is for Tree
2 Sisters - Christmas
Sew Many Challenges - Christmas
Aimees - Christmas Wishes
Creative Inspirations - 2 of More Stamped Images
Fresh Brewed - Paper Piecing
Sketch and Stash - Sketch
Christmas Card Challenge - Distressing
ABC - D for Distressing
Let's Ink It Up - Favorite Stamp and a Charm
Belli - B themed embellishments, Bow and Brads
The Pink Elephant - Aqua, DP and any Embellishment
AI Factory - Anything Goes
Charisma - Anything Goes
Moving Along with the Times - To Do List: 2 dps, glitter (in the paper), embossing (I heat embossed the puffy paint)

Card Recipe:
Images - Winter Window and April With Hearts
Paper - My Minds Eye and Basic Grey
Medium - Copic Markers and Airbrush System
Snowflake charms - Making Memories
Puffy Paint - Tulip

I managed to get it to work this morning :)
You can see that I paper pieced Aprils bow and dress and colored the rest of her and the image with Copic's. I airbrushed with W3 and E40 to give a (hopefully) dusk feeling to the image. Then finally I added Puffy Paint to certain areas of the the snow and heated it to pop it up.
I don't know whether April is peeking in at Santa's workshop, going to start caroling but whatever she is doing I think she looks cute and hope you do too.

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #28 - Double Up - Guest Sketch

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and another sketch from our fabulous Special Guest Sketcher Jay Jay!




Along with the sketch we have the added option of "Double Up" where we'd like to see you use two stamps on the card (one can be a sentiment)
You don't have to use a Pixie Cottage Stamp to enter but if you do have why not try out!
Remember you can use the sketch, the theme or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like!

Now this challenge will be running for 2 weeks instead of one as The Pixies need a little break and so it's vacation time, time to sit back with a Margarita or two and feel the sand between our toes.
So you have no excuse not to join in as you have two weeks to get your card completed and linked for us to see!

Challenges:
Stamp and Create - Stitching
Lexi's - Real or Faux Stitching
Ellephantastic - Stitching
Lots To Do - Stitching
My Time To Craft - Check It Out
CRAFT - Babies/Children
Papertake - Cutie Patootie
The Shabby Tearoom - From the Garden colors, Green, Cream, Red, Yellow, Pink and White
Create With Connie and Mary - Red, Pink, Green and Yellow
365 Cards Day 138 - Pick Your Own Recipe, I chose Gingham, Red/Green/Yellow, 2 brads and a Heart
Paper Make Up - Felt (the heart and flower are felt embellishments)
Res Q - Red and Metal
Bunny Zoe - Summer Days
Allsorts - Summer Days
The Secret Crafter - Summer Holidays
Wee Memories - Summer Fun
The Town Scrapper - Anything Goes
The Stampman - Anything Goes



Card Recipe:
Image - Hannah on a Swing (new)
Paper - My Sweet Cherry Pie by Nikki Sivils
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Prima
Sentiment - Studio G
Felt flower and Heart - Colorbok




I adore this new image of Hannah, she looks so carefree and reminds me of the fun I used to have in the garden as a child.
We'd love to have you play along in our challenge too!

Cooking It Up #21 - Sketch some Yellow Stitching!

It's a very special day at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog as today has the first creations by my new Design Team!
They have made some fabulous cards and I'm so lucky to have them working along side me.

Today we have a new recipe for you to try:

Choose a Sketch from another challenge
Add a little Yellow
Do some Stitching, can be real or faux

We are sponsored by the fabulous Meljens and got to work with some of their gorgeous images!
You can win some too by entering the challenge, just remember you have to include ALL the ingredients to be eligible for the prize.

Challenges for this card:

Donna's Den - Sketch
Alota Rubber Stamps - Inside and Out
Twisted Thursday - Sparkles
Bee Crafty - 3D
365 Cards Day 123 - Shades of Yellow
ResQ - Sunny
Whoopsi Daisy - Bright Vibrant Colors
By The Cute and Girly - Warm Summer Days
Pick 3 - Summer Theme, Yellow cardstock and a Sticker
Drunken Stampers - Summer
KL Stampin Scrappin - Summer
ECP - Summer
Crafty Ho's - Fun in The Sun
Crafty Calendar - Summer (and yellow if you like)
Stempel Magie - Friendship
Alphabet Challenge - J is for Jewels
Craft Your Passion - Stitching
Stamp and Create - Stitching
Artful Inkables - Stitching
Speedy The Cats Friends - Use a Die Cut
Creative Card Crew - Die Cuts
Little Red Wagon - Nestabilites
Wee Memories - Free For All
Prairie Fairy - Anything Goes
Pocket Full of Posies - One For The Girls
If The Shoe Fits - Wings
Crazy Challenge - Up in The Air




Card Recipe:
Image - Woodland Princess by Meljen's
Paper - Songbird by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Felt Flowers - Hobby Lobby
Sentiment - Clear Sticker





This was such a fun challenge and my team all made wonderful creations and we want to see yours too so be sure to visit Cooking It Up With Katie and get Cooking too!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #20 - Add a Pocket or Tag - Guest Sketch

It's another Once Upon a Wednesday over at The Pixie Cottage
This week we have another Special Guest Sketcher and it's certainly a favorite or mine, it's Bev Rochester from All The Things I Love!

She created this fabulous sketch for us to use:


As well as the sketch we have an optional technique of adding a Tag or a Pocket to your card, remember you can chose the sketch, the technique or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.

As always I have a few other challenges with this card:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
AI Factory - Brads and Animals
Speedy the Cat - Animal
One Stitch At a Time - Furry Friends
Paper Popsicles - Animals
365 Cards Day 85 - Flora and Fauna
Digital Tuesday - Cute People (I don't think bears ARE people but these ones are dressed up like people and sure are cute and are brand new digis!)
Colour Create - Soft Green and Light Aqua
Dutch Dare - 2 papers, 3 colors and 4 buttons
Papercutz - Buttons and Lace
The Town Scrapper - Flowers and Lace
Creative Craft Challenges - Bows and Ribbons
Paperplay - Wedding Celebrations
Etsy Inspired - Green and Aqua Wedding Invitation
Think Ink - Pockets



Card Recipe:
Image - Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Bride by ArTish and Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Groom by ArTish
Paper - DCWV The Linen Closet
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Medium - Copic Markers
Glitter - Stickles
Sentiment - KI Memories
Rhinestones - Colorbok
Doily - Little Yellow Bicycle Clothesline Paper Doilies
Lace - Offray
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting





Cut these cuties out and popped them up and then "Stickled" them as much as possible! LOL
We'd love to see your creations with the sketch, so get creating and drop by The Pixie Cottage and show us what you made!
Katie

Thanks A Bunch! - A Christmas Lala, or is she?

Happy Saturday,
I like to buy stamps that I can use for more than one card/occasion but for a lot of the Holiday stamps it is very difficult. It's hard to make a Bunny with an egg anything but Easter and Santa really won't work for the 4th of July, hee hee!
But some of them can be used with a little "tweak" and I think this one will make you look at your stamps with different eyes.

Of course there are challenges too:

Artful Inkables - 3 Buttons, 2 Ribbons and a Circle
365 Cards Day 74 - Buttons and Bows
Creative Card Crew - Sketch
Totally Gorjuss - Round and Round
Creative Craft - Blue and Brown
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Blue, Brown and White
Colour Create - Khaki, Aqua, Brown and Cream
Paperplay - Brown and ...
Alphabet Challenge - C is For Chocolate colors
Aud's Sentiments - Thanks A Bunch
Lala Lands - Anything Goes (with a Lala Lands Stamp)
Papertake - Sparkly, Shiny and Special
Paper Makeup - 3 Flowers



Card Recipe:
Paper - K & Co Pads Margo and Bailey
Medium - Copic Markers
Image - Ornament Lala
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Rhinestones - Queen and Co
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font
Die Cut - Spellbinders





I colored over the ornament on the image in the same color as her dress so that when I added the flowers you couldn't see it underneath, a great way to use a Holiday stamp for other occasions.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Katie

Treehouse - Faux Birthday

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by Gloria and she wants to something Faux/Fake on a birthday card.
I decided to do faux stitching for my technique.

There are a few other challenges along with that:

Crafty Catz - Stitching
Fussy and Fancy - Birthday with a Sweet Treat
Oh Alice - Queen of Tarts (include food)
365 Cards Day 54 - Joy Fold (my 1st time doing this fold)
No Time To Stamp - Joy Fold
PaperTake - Something Different (never done a Joy fold before)
Cupcake Inspiration - Chocolate Birthday cupcake inspiration



Card Recipe:
Image - Chocoholic
Paper - The Paper Studio
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Studio G





I think I'd like a slice now please :)
We'd love to see your faux techniques over at The Treehouse.
Katie

So Super Sweet! A New Pixie Cottage Card

Happy Saturday!
It's been Spring Break here this week so thank goodness for evenings!
I've a new Pixie Cottage card for you today and be sure to check out The Pixie blog as there is a new tutorial by team member Renata.

I used a few challenges to help me with this:

Color Dare had the combo of Real Red, More Mustard, Gable Green and Tempting Turquoise
Moxie Fab had a Chair with a Pillow with similar colors and patterns to the dp I chose
Sweet Sketch Wednesday had a great sketch
365 Cards Day 13 A Whole New Dimension
Crafty Cardmakers want a Feminine Celebration
Charisma wants Something for The Kids
Paper Cutz want 1 Ribbon and 3 Buttons



Card Recipe:
Image - Sweet Molly from The Pixie Cottage
Paper - The Citrus Stack by DCWV
Buttons - The Paper Studio
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Studio G
Border Punch - Martha Stewart



Inside is more dp and a message mat.



Hopefully you can see that I popped up the cupcake and flowers in Molly's hair and I replaced the top of her lollipop with a button!
I hope she brought a little sweetness into your day and be sure to check back tomorrow for a Pile It On card with a ton of challenges!
Katie

Did you say Coffee? Or was it a nice Cuppa Tea?

Two new cards for you today both guaranteed to warm you up if you are still feeling the Winter chill ;)
Also this will satisfy my friends on both sides of the pond as I know my neighbors are all "Java" fans and my family back "home" wouldn't be seen without their "Cuppa".

Both cards have a few challenges too:

Coffee Card

Mojo Monday had a great Sketch
Totally Stampalicious want a Coffee themed project
Daisy Doodles had an Artists Choice (free week) as long as it was a Digi image
Double Dutch were having a Boys Only (or Men) theme
Crazy 4 Challenges also want a Masculine card
Crafty Catz want Something for the Boys
Creative Inspirations also want a Male card
One Stitch at a Time had a recipe of 1 Ribbon, 2 DP and 2 Brads



Card Recipe:
Image - Dustin Pike
Paper - All My Memories
Die Cuts - Spellbinders and Quickutz
Embossing folder - Sizzix
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Brads - Recollections for Michaels
Medium - Copic Markers
Rhinestones - $1 spot





Tea Card

Critter Challenge had a super sweet sketch
Crafty Pad wanted an Oval and at least 2 ribbons
365 Cards Day 13 had "A Whole New Dimension" as the theme where they wanted just a piece of the image popped up
The Pink Elephant had a Spring theme
Stampin B's want Spring or Easter



Card Recipe:
Image - Mimosa with Tea
Paper - My Minds Eye Where the Heart Is
Buttons - The Paper Studio
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Ribbon - American Crafts
Medium - Copic Markers





I stamped the hands and teapot twice and popped it up.

Now which brew would you prefer, a cup o' joe or a nice cuppa tea?
Have a wonderful Tuesday!
Katie

Freebie Friday At Digital Delights!

Happy Friday!
(if you are looking for my Tilda winner be sure to go to the post below)
It's time for another Freebie and you are not going to want to miss this one!
You can see it being used at the Freebie Friday page.




Just a reminder that you can now find the freebies at our groups at Papercraft Planet and SNR Card Universe All you have to do is join one or both of our groups and the image is yours. You can find it under the subject Freebie Friday in the discussions area!!) Be sure to become a follower of the groups of your choice so you can be sure to keep up to date with our fun happenings!!

There is no way I could miss playing with this cutie and I used a few challenge to help me.

LaLa Lands wanted Hearts
Fussy and Fancy wanted Hearts
The Secret Crafter wanted Hearts
365 Cards Day 340 had a Shape Up day and the shape was a Heart
Diedrich Dare had a great sketch by Jack
Creative Inspirations had a color combo of Pink and Cream
The Pink Elephant was All About Pink
ABC was at N for New and Cupid is brand new today!
Crafty Creations want Wings
Flutterby want a Fairy, Butterfly or an Angel
My Time To Craft had a Fairy Folk theme
Quixotic wanted Fairies too (I know it's a stretch to say Cupid is a fairy but he does have wings!)
Pollycraft had a Things With Wings theme
Your Next Stamp wanted Charms
Inky Impressions wanted Charms too
CCEE wanted Hearts and Charms
Tellens Place wanted you to play Tic Tac Toe and I chose Charms, Punches and Stitching
Fab N Funky wanted Embossing
Doodle Palace wanted you to "Show Me Some Texture"
Sophisticats wanted to see a little Love
Gingersnaps wanted Romance
Bee Crafty wanted Romance
Papertake had a "Love Actually" theme
Stampin For The Weekend wanted Valentines
Stamp Something had a Love Something theme
Crafty Calendar" wanted Love/Friendship with an option of Hearts
ABC Designs had an "I Love You Sweetheart" theme



I colored this cutie with Copic's, the list is below the bottom photo.
The dp is from my stash. The border punch is Martha Stewart, the love charm from the Bridal department and the doilies are from Hobby Lobby.
The sentiment is P.etc




The inside is more dp and a message mat.



The colors I used were:
Face R00, R01, E93
Hair Y21, Y26, Y28, E35
Wings R0000, R11, R20
Heart R39, R59
Bow E37, E29
Cloud R0000, R81, Colorless Blender

I really hope you run over and join one of the groups so you can grab this cutie, he was so much fun to color and I just love the expression on his face.
Be sure to come back on Sunday for another new card.
Katie