Cuddly Buddly New Releases!

EDITED TO ADD - Picked as the featured card at Word Play! Thanks so much!!!

It's new release day at Cuddly Buddly and this week I got to help out and play with one of the brand new Pachela Studio's images!
Furgus is whizzing off to a party and the new Basic Grey Oxford papers were just perfect for this little Scottish doggie!

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (with the option of buttons)
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
KB Cute Monday - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi
Aud's Sentiments - Sentiment with 2 or more words
Cardmad Fairy - Use an Animal and a Digi (1 entry only)
Forever Friends - Birthday (with an animal)
2 Sisters - Birthday
Penny's - Birthday
Ruby's Rainbow - Birthday
Wags N Whiskers - Birthdays
Paper Creator - Special Occasion
Kaboodle Doodles - Celebrations
Pollycraft - Celebrations
Ellephantastic - Celebrations (1 entry only)
Basic Grey - Stitching
Simon Says Stamp - Stitching
Phindy's Place - Buttons
Word Play - Puppies
Crafters Companion - One for The Boys
Always Something Creative - For the Men
Paper Crafting Journey - For him
ABC Challenge - Y is for Yesterday (the car is definitely vintage)
Crafty Catz - A Vintage Look (1 entry only)

Card Recipe:
Image - Furgus MacFluff Drive Time
Paper - Oxford by Basic Grey
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Birthday Wishes by Karen Foster Design
Buttons - Stash

These images have got to be some of the easiest to color as they are perfectly drawn with all the shade spots marked for you, perfect!
I hope you'll drop by at the Cuddly Buddly blog as not only are there new releases but also a brand new challenge from the "Buddly" side of the challenge Design Team!
Katie

Celebrations Blog Hop with Digital Delights and Delightful Challenges!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Digital Delights It's a Celebration Blog Hop 30th June-1st July 2011. This is a 2 day hop to help you get through all 30 of our talented designers, collect your letters and enter to win the grand prize!

If you came here from Juelmarie then you are in the right spot! If you have just come across this posting while browsing around in blog land then start at the top Digital Delights so you don't miss all of the amazing projects!

The theme of this hop is CELEBRATIONS!! At Digital Delights by Louby Loo, we are celebrating the new store! Wendy (aka Louby Loo) just completed the move to a new and improved store! In honor of this, each stop along the way will have a Digital Delights stamp from their project to be given away. There are amazing sponsors for the grand prize at the end.

This is a hop with a different twist as along the hop there are letters to find in the postings - not all blogs have the letters but if you gather all the letters then at the end of the hop on day 2 assemble them to create a Digital Delights related word. You then return to the Digital Delights and enter your name in the InLinks at the bottom of the post (do not reveal the secret word yet). After the hop you will be contacted if you are selected at random--at which point you will be asked to reveal the correct word.
Now on to my project(s).


Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Basic Grey - Stitching
Speedy the Cats Friends - Sparkle (I used Rhinestones)
There She Goes - 3 Dies/Punches (Spellbinders, MFT and Marianne D)
Forever Friends - Birthday (with an animal)
Fab N Funky - Triangles (10 combined challenges max)
Fresh Brewed - Birthday or Party
Whimsie Doodles - Red, Twine and at least one Flower
Crafts and Me - Birthdays

Card Recipe:
Image - Birthday Pippin
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Basic Grey Life Of The Party
Banner Die - My Favorite Things
Die Cut - Spellbinders Labels Seventeen
Buttons - Stash
Bakers Twine - The Twinery Caribbean

I will be giving away the following Digital Delights by Louby Loo image which I used to complete my project:

In order to be eligible to receive this digital stamp, please leave a comment below, become a follower if you fancy. In your comment please provide an email address so that you can be contacted when I draw the prize.
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you liked my project.
Now back to the hop - I can now reveal my hidden blog hop letter is I DON'T HAVE ONE BUT KEEP HOPPING!!! Remember to collect all the letters from the hop and assemble to form a Digital Delights related word then return to Digital Delights to enter.


The next stop on the hop is: Larelyn

and here are all the people on the hop so you can make sure you visit them all:





Have fun and KEEP HOPPING!

Guest Designer at ABC Christmas Challenge - Let's get Krafty for Kids!

Over at ABC Christmas Challenge they have a new challenge and are being sponsored by Digital Delights. They kindly asked me to make a card for them to which I gladly accepted :)
The challenge is "K is for Kids and Kraft" and it was a challenge for me as I'm not a huge Kraft fan, even though it is very popular right now.

Challenges:
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
I Did It - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Let's Get Krafty
Digi Doodle Shop - Embossing
Christmas Card Challenges - Christmas with the option of
Christmas Inspirations - Christmas Card for a Child
Basic Grey Challenges - Mix It Up (I used BG papers and BG embossing folder)
Phindys Place - Christmas in May
Winter Wonderland - P is for...Punches (anything beginning with P)
Christmas Stampin - Very Vintage (although the image is not Vintage the style of papers, Kraft paper and inking are)
2 Sisters - Use a Digi
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Scallops
Digital Tuesday - Texture
Ladybug Crafts - Animals
My Time To Craft - Use a Die Cut

Card Recipe:
Image - Tango The Skating Bird
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Basic Grey Fruitcake (discontinued)
Gloss - Liquid Embossing by All Night Media
Embossing Folder - Basic Grey Diamonds by Sizzix
Die Cut - Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seventeen Die Templatesand Spellbinders Nestabilities Eyelet Squares Die Templates
Border Punch - Snowflake Border by Martha Stewart

I thought this little guy was so sweet and to make him just a little sweeter I added Liquid Embossing to his skates for some extra shine!
It was nice to make a Christmas card for a change and I highly recommend you visiting and adding ABC Christmas Challenge to your blog roll!
Katie

Digital Delights - Boo!

Time for more fabulous cards from the Digital Delights Team!
All of them have created some super cards using images designed by Wendy Hall for Digital Delights.

Challenges:

Mojo Monday - Sketch
Basic Grey Challenges - Paper Piecing
Stamp Something - Something Cute
Paper Jewels - Night Time
Wee Memories - Wee Ones (card for a child)
Cowgirl Sunday - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
Your Next Stamp - Anything Goes
Bee Crafty - Anything Goes (and a Digi)
Stamptacular Sunday - Distressing
Artful Inkables - Distressing
Res Q - Use Scissors (couldn't paper piece without them!)
Stars and Stamps - Halloween
Gingersnaps - Punches



Card Recipe:
Image - Sitting Mummy
Paper - Eerie by Basic Grey
Ink - Chalk Ink Dew Drops in Dark Moss and Coal
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Rub On





I love how perfect the paper in the pack was for me to use to Paper Piece the Mummy. I also added ink to the edges of the image and to mats and edges of the card to add to the distressed look the papers already had.
I adore the new Martha Stewart spooky fence punch and I'm sure you'll see it on quite a few more cards before this year's Halloween crafting season is over.
I hope you'll go over to see the fabulous work of the rest of the team!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #30 - Feeling Blue - Guest Sketch

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and another sketch from a fabulous Special Guest Sketcher. This time it is the mega talented Jacqui Dennis! . Jacqui is a super busy lady working on fabulous teams like Whiff of Joy, Lili of the Valley, Crafter's Companion, Wild Orchid Crafts, Just Magnolia, A Spoon Full of Sugar and Penny Black! I don't know how she does it all.
Well she found time in that schedule to create a sketch just for us here at The Pixie Cottage.




Along with the sketch we have the added option of "Feeling Blue" where we'd simply like to see you use the color blue somewhere on your card!
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!

Challenges:
Dutch Dare - Anything Goes
Riase the Bar - Sticker
Basic Grey - Stitching (and BG)
Paper Sundaes - Stitching
The Shabby Tea Room - Photo Inspiration (I chose the colors)
Totally Stampalicious - Inside Out
Practical Scrappers - Favorite Product (patterned paper)



Card Recipe:
Image - Whispering Maisy and Matt
Paper - Basic Grey Two Scoops
Medium - Copic Markers
Glitter Flowers - Colorbok
Fabric Brads - Spare Parts
Sentiment - Cloud 9





This is such a cute image and I love the blue and green tones to the papers.
I hope to seeing getting a little "blue" and playing along with us at The Pixie Cottage!

Have you "Mushroom" for any more cards?

Happy Friday!
Earlier in the week I showed you a Ladybug card made from an image I won in a challenge, well today is another one of those fabulous images! I love all the weird and wonderful creations at Busy Beauties and this set of Mushrooms/Toadstools is super sweet!

I used a few challenges to help me finish this card:

Oh Alice - Mushroom Inspiration
Basic Grey - Punch It (and BG)
Lexi's - Sketch
Craft Your Passion - 5 Buttons
Going Grey - Children (and BG)
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Charisma - 3D
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper



Card Recipe:
Image - A Happy Day by Busy Beauties
Paper - Basic Grey Infuse
Medium - Copic Markers
Buttons - Unknown
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Marcella by K&Co





I did two copies of the image, cut one out and popped it on top.
The buttons are from a grab bag I got years ago and there are some great rustic ones in there so I used jute to help with the rustic, outdoors feel.
I really had fun with this card and hope you like it too.
Katie

Buttons and Bling! - New Digital Delights Challenge

I said there'd be three and I wasn't fooling!!!LOL
It's time for another challenge at Delightful Sketches and Challenges and this week we'd like to see your Buttons and your Bling!

This week we are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp so make sure you join in for a chance to win!

As usual I found a couple of other challenges to help me with this card:

Corrosive wanted Easter or Spring
Everybody Art wanted Spring
Totally Gorjuss want Hearts
One Stop Craft were Feeling Fruity
Basic Grey were Tutti Fruity
Our Creative Corner had the perfect sketch




Card Recipe:
Image - Briley
Paper - Basic Grey Nook and Pantry
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Prima
Border punches - Martha Stewart
Chipboard Button - Unknown
Rhinestones - Unknown
Ribbon - Michaels
Sentiment - Studio G



Inside is a message mat with coordinating punched border.



Doesn't Briley look sweet in her overalls?
So now it's your turn, grab your buttons and bling and enter the challenge, you could be our winner!
Katie

Oh Baby! Here comes the Boy! Another Sneak Peek from The Pixie Cottage

Sorry for the second post of the day. I had planned this for another day but I realised I'd miss some challenges so I had to bring it to you today :)
Earlier in the week you may have seen my Baby Girl card.
Well I couldn't resist another one and so here is her Baby Brother!

Just a few challenges with this one:

Basic Grey Challenges had a Photo Inspiration of a nursery
Creative Cottage were at their 1st challenge and the theme was "New"
Crafty Catz want Something For the Boys
Create 4 Fun had a Fabulous sketch with tons of layers
Crazy 4 Challenges wanted Paper Piercing, which I did around the image layer
One Stop want you to Sew Simple
The Crafty Pad want to see a Charm
Creative Inspirations want Charms too



Card Recipe:
Image - Baby Blake preorder from The Pixie Cottage
Paper - Basic Grey Oh Baby Boy and Eskimo Kisses
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts but Prima make some very similar
Charm - Walmart
Sentiment - Making Memories
Dewdrops - Robins Nest
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting dies





How cute is this little guy?
I was trying to do a card without flowers but then I thought, who usually receives a Baby card?, yes I know it's the parents but the Mum usually is the one that looks at them the most and what new Mum doesn't want flowers too? And these need no loonking after :)
I hope you've enjoyed my second baby card of the week :)
Katie

Oh Baby! Sneek Peek at New Baby stamps at The Pixie Cottage!

Happy Tuesday,
It's almost Spring, time for new life and so I thought I'd make a baby girl card with one of the next stamps to arrive from The Pixie Cottage.
She little sweetie is just waiting to bring you a smile!

And as always I've added a few challenges too;

Basic Grey Challenges had a beautiful photo inspiration
One Stop want you to Sew Simple
Our Creative Corner had a beautiful Sketch
One Stitch at a Time had a color combo of Purple and Pink
Sophisticats wanted Flourishes and Bling
Cupcake Crafts had a Flower Power theme



Card Recipe:

Image - Pre-order The Pixie Cottage coming later in March
Paper - Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Sentiment - Letters from Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Deep Lattice
Die Cuts - Sizzix
Medium - Copic Markers



Inside is more dp and a faux stitched message mat.



Here's our baby girl!

I hope you've enjoyed this and if you have a baby card to make in the future remember this cutie and she has a brother too!
Katie

Treehouse Stamps Challenge - Paper Piecing

Happy Thursday,
It's time for another challenge at Treehouse Stamps and this week we're doing my favorite, Paper Piecing!

I chose a few challenges to help me with the task.

Basic Grey had a sketch (and use their product)
Handfull of Stamps had an Open Week
Bee Crafty wanted Stitching (I used Faux) and a digi image
Corrosive wanted Stitching too
Sophisticats wanted Stitching too
Pile It On had a "Let Us See Your Flowers" theme
Sketchy Colors wanted Light Green, Dark Green and Pink
Incy Wincy want you to Punch It Out
Kaboodle Doodle want Spots and/or Stripes
Lexis wanted Spots and/or Stripes too
Practical Scrappers wanted Flowers
Crazy Challenge said "Spring is Coming" and wanted a Butterfly and Flowers
Magical Crafts want "Something for the Kids"
Belli wanted Butterflies or Dragonflies



Card Recipe:
Butterfly - Hello Friend collection
Paper - Pheobe collection by Basic Grey
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Flourish - Sizzlets
Sentiment - KI Memories
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - American Crafts





So grab your timy scissors or your exacto knife, getting cutting and join in the fun over at The Treehouse
Katie

La La Lands Guest DT - We're going on a Blog Hop!!!!

Happy Wednesday,
There's a new face in town and she's Princess Rosie!
To celebrate her release all the Design Team at LaLa Lands got to make a card with the fabulous new image.
Also to help make it even more fun we're having a Blog Hop with fun and prizes along the way!

Here are all the fun facts you need to know!
Welcome to La-La Land Crafts' Fairy Tale Release Blog Hop. To celebrate the release of our new Princess Rosie stamp, we are giving her the royal treatment that she deserves. Every member of our Design Team and the Guest Designers have made their cards with Princess Rosie which they are now showing on their blogs. To make the Blog Hop even more fun, along with the cards you will find some clues (a secret word or two) on every blog. When you follow the order of the Blog Hop and get to the end, you will have collected all of the words and will be able to put them together into a sentence. When you are done, you will need to come back to La-La Land Crafts Blog and leave your entry into the Blog Candy with Mr Linky.

What's in it for you???

Besides seeing all the gorgeous cards from our Design Team? The winner of the Blog Hop will receive the newly released Princess Rosie stamp along with super goodies that you can see here!

- Art Warehouse BORDERS Clear Stamp Set
- Hero Arts FROGGY Clear Stamp Set
- two spools of Sweet & Sassy RIBBON
- twelve large Prima FLOWERS
What's even more? While on your treasure hunt for secret words, you might even find some more treats offered by our designers!!! And!! Best of all, I have some great news for you!! Princess Rosie stamp is already available for purchase in our online store!!!

What do you have to do to join our Blog Hop????

* Start your Blog Hop at the La-La Land Crafts' blog

* Each DT Member will guide you to the next Blog during the Blog Hop

* Collect all of the secret words and put them together into a sentence

* Final stop is back at La-La Land Crafts Blog where you have to leave your entry in the comments under the main post. IMPORTANT!!! Do not reveal your answer in your comment!! We will contact the winner for the answer. If the answer is incorrect we will draw the winning number again..

One entry per person please. We will draw the winning number from all the entries next Wednesday, December 23rd, around 10 am PST. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will ship internationally!!

We would really appreciate it if you could help spread the word about our Blog Hop on your blog or just by the word of mouth if you don't have a blog :-)

Now if you started at La La Lands and got to me from Kim's blog then you're on the right track, if not please go back to the start so you don't miss a thing!

I'm making you look at my card first before giving the secret word!
And of course there are more challenges in this card!

Paper Play had a "Movies and Books" theme and my card was inspired the movie "Snow White"
Saturday Spotlight had a "Music in your Soul" theme and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" is the song Snow White sings in the movie
Friday Sketchers gave me the fabulous sketch
Daring Cardmakers wanted to see Polka Dots and No Christmas
Basic Grey had a color combo of Cream, Pink and Blue and their product
Allsorts wanted "Pearls and Swirls", you can see the pearls and the dp has swirls on it and the font was swirly too.
Kraftin Kimmie want you to "Sparkle Baby"
Totally Gorjuss had a free week as long as the image was Cute and Rosie sure is Cute!



Princess Rosie is colored with Copics and I added tiny gold pearls to her crown.
The dp is Basic Grey from the Blush Collection.
The pink and gold embossed paper is from The Paper Company.
The flowers are Prima with Martha Stewart pearl brads in their centers.
I printed the sentiment myself.



Inside is more of the wonderful dp.



After me you need to hop along to Maureens blog for the next clue!

My clue is "HAVE".
Remember to gather them all for a chance to win.
Have fun!
Katie

Happy Birthday - New Card for My Grafico

Happy Wednesday!
This week at My Grafico we got to work with a fabulous set called Arabian Paradise

PaperPlay had a theme of Parlez Vous, any langugage but English on your cards so I used the French for Happy Birthday
Paper Cutz wanted to see Stars
Copic Creations wanted to see Red Hair
Crafty Cardmakers wanted to see you "Stamp Something" whether it was rubber or digital
Digi Kitty wanted to see a Frame
The Pink Elephant had a color challenge of Brown, Yellow, Neutral and a color of your choice.
2 Red Bananas also had a color combo of Red, Orange, Yellow and Brown and you had to use 3 of them.
365 Cards Day 247 had an AD inspiration photo
Basic Grey Challenges also had a photo inspiration



I realized now I've added the photo that the color combo's didn't include green but I hope they'll still let me in!LOL
I used the fabulous "Scarlets Letter" dp from Basic Grey which I thought was a little Arabian in theme and worked well with the image. I printed the dancer on Kraft paper to give a coordinating look with the dp. The "Happy Birthday" title is in French as I thought the dancer looked a little Moroccan and they speak French (as well as Arabic) in Morocco. I used a new border punch from Martha Stewart called Eyelet Lace and I love the delicate look it gives.
The butterflies are from a set I bought last Christmas in England.


The dp inside was slit to allow the message mat to slip in.



So run over to My Grafico to see the sketch and give it a go yourself!
Katie

Freebie Friday At Digital Delights!

Happy Friday,
Wow, another week is almost at it's end but luckily that means that it's time for another freebie over at Digital Delights!
This week it's another super cute Halloween image, this time of Billy and he's dressed as a Devil and he's riding a spider! LOL


I got a sneak peek of him a couple of day ago and had to get working on a card right away as he was too cute for words!
I used the fantastic sketch from Basic Grey Challenges and it gave me an excuse to raid my stash to complete it.
Also Simon Says Stamp had a Halloween theme and so did Cuttlebug Challenge (also a little tip, Wendy is sponsoring this challenge so you could get even more of her wonderful images if you win!)
Dare U2 Digi had the color combo of Yellow, Orange, Black and White and I think he fit's for this challenge too!

Now I'm not saying I'm a hoarder but the black dp and letters are from "Aged and Confused - Vagabond" which was one of Basic Grey's first releases! I have so little of it left but, you know, it has to be used eventually.
The colors are a little different from the regular Halloween color scheme but I think they worked well enough.
The circle accents are from Martha Stewart from last year at Michaels and the orange "pearls" are also Martha Stewart this time from her collection at Walmart.

The inside is a little more of the dp and a message mat.

Isn't Billy a cutie?

So run on over to Digital Delights! right now and grab yourself the freebie while it's there! And I'm love to see what you can do with him so be sure to come back and link to let me see!
Katie