Cooking It Up #70 - Emboss a Summer Punch

It's time for a new recipe for your cards and paper craft projects at at Cooking It Up With Katie!

This weeks ingredients are:

Use some Embossing (wet or dry)
Make it for Summer
Add a little Punching (or die cutting)

We had a double sponsorship from the fabulous Digi's With Attitude and Digi Doodles Shop!

Challenges:
AI Factory - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Something Digi
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi
Frosted Designs - Coloring
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Friendship
Card and Scrap - Summer
Clear It Out - Summer
Everybody Art - Summer
Crafty Ann's - Summertime
Colour Create - Pink, Green and White
Alota Rubber Stamps - Tic Tac Toe! (I chose Glitter, Stamp and Ribbons)
Crafters Companion - Glitter and Glitz
The Friday Mash Up - Glitter
Wags N Whiskers - Sparkly
The Poodles Parlour - Round and Round The Garden (3 entries only)
Little Claire's - Things With Wings
My Time To Craft - Fairy tales or Fairies
Flutterby - Open (with a Fairy, Angel or Butterfly)
The Craftroom Door - Embossing
The Crazy Challenge - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Gone Fruity

Card Recipe:
Image - Strawberry Fairy
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Blossom Song by DCWV
Strawberries - Jolles
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Sentiment - Bits of Ivory
Ribbon - The Whimsy Cottage
Glitter - Stickles

I gave this sweet fairy the glitter treatment, it comes and goes my love affair with glitter, and it's on the upward trend at the moment! LOL
I do hope you can drop by and play with us at Cooking It Up With Katie!
Katie

Cuddly Buddly #5 - Petals and Pearls

It's Friday and time for another challenge from Team Cuddly at Cuddly Buddly!
This week we want to see Petals and Pearls so it's time to go girly!
It was my week with the designs from Bits Of Ivory and I decided to go with colored clip art and a coordinating paper and sentiment.

Challenges:
Clear It Out - Anything Goes
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Creative Craft World - Anything But Birthday
Crazy Challenge - Ribbon (2 entries)
Stampin Bee's - Ribbon
Anything Goes - Pick Of The Bunch (flowers)
Paper Pretties - No Markers
Amber's Crafts - Patterned Paper (1 entry only)
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Creative Craft Challenges - 3D or Decoupage

Card Recipe:
Image - Kitchen Garden by Bits of Ivory
Sentiment - Garden Vignettes by Bits of Ivory
Paper - Cottage Collection in Poppy by Cuddly Buddly
Doily Dies - French Pastry and English Tea Party by Cheery Lynn Designs
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Treasures by Shabby Chic
Pearls - Recollections
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Stash

I printed two copies of the clip art and cut them both out. Then I popped up just the fruit part on the second part for more dimension. I used two different doily dies to mat them on and added flowers in a semi circle. I added pearls to the punched border and was all done!
I hope you enjoy this one and will be coming by to play with us at Cuddly Buddly this week :)
Katie

Digital Delights - Will You Be My Gnomeo?

It's time for more new cards from the super team over at Digital Delights
This week I went with the super cute Mr Gnome and made a fun romantic card.

Challenges:
Clear It Out - Anything Goes
Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes
Papercutz - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Daisy Doodles - Anything Goes (with a digi)
Crafty Emma's - Humor
Shopping Our Stash - Buttons, Blooms and Bananas! (chose 1 or more, 13 challenges max)
Creative Craft World - Anything But Birthday
My Mum's Craft Shop - Fab N Funky (well I think he's both!)
Truly Scrumptious - Buttons and Bows

Card Recipe:
Image - Mr Gnome
Paper - Hometown Summer by Pink Paislee
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Will You Be My Gnomeo?
Heart Buttons - Dress It Up
Spotted Button - The Paper Studio
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Felt Hearts and Chipboard Corner - Colorbok

I hope you like this funny little guy, I just love him!
Be sure to drop by the blog at Digital Delights to see what other wonderful creations the team have made.
Also to get a start on your Christmas cards Wendy has a sale on Christmas Images that you really should check out!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #80 - Emboss It!

It's time for another "Once Upon a Wednesday" at The Pixie Cottage and this week it's a super easy challenge, we want you to "Emboss It!"

Challenges:
Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes
Papercutz - Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Clear It Out - Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Embossing
AI Factory - Layers (at least 2)
Phindy's Place - Double Up (use two of something, I used two stamps masked together)
Totally Gorjuss - Punch or Die
Everybody Art - Garden

Card Recipe:
Image - Apple Bench by Sandra Hammer and Darling Sisters by The Greeting Farm
Paper - Jack and Jill Paper Pad by Prima
Medium - Copic Markers
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Die Cut - Spellbinders Large Scalloped Circles
Sentiment - Garden Vignettes by Bits of Ivory
Butterfly Die Cut - Marianne D Creatables
Pearls - Bridal Dept
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts

This is the fabulous sketch we have for you this week!

I masked the two images together and I absolutely love that there are so many of The Pixie Cottage stamps, in both rubber and digital versions, that work as backgrounds to the very popular character stamps made by other companies. This makes them so versatile and the perfect compliment to your stamp collection.
We hope you can get out your embossing folders or powders and heat gun and join in with us at The Pixie Cottage this week.
Katie

Digital Delights - Summer with Dilly Duck

It's another Thursday so that means some great cards from the design team over at Digital Delights!
This week I've chosen to merge two images and a sentiment to make a gentle Summer scene.

Challenges:
Clear It Out - Anything Goes
Digi's With Attitude - Anything Goes
The Craft Garden - Use a Bird
Papercutz - Something You Find In The Sky (a bird)
Crafts 4 Eternity - 3 2 1 (I used 3 images, 2 ribbons and I paper)
Fussy and Fancy - Summer
Alota Rubber Stamps - Circles
Papertake Weekly - Getting Cute
Deep Ocean - Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Images - Circular Tree Background and Dilly Duck and Ladybug
Sentiment - Ice Cream Sentiment Set
Paper - Beach Babe by Fancy Pants
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby and The Whimsey Cottage
Buttons - Stash

It was nice to use 3 digital images together on one card and these ones all seemed to go together nicely.
I hope you'll drop by Digital Delights and take a moment to see all the other wonderful creations from the Design Team.

Guest Designer for Crafty Sentiments - Special Occasions

It's my last card this month for my Guest Designer role at Crafty Sentiments and I have had a wonderful time working with them, thanks so much for asking me!
This week we want to see your cards for the Special Occasions in your life and I chose to make a Wedding card.

Challenges:
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
I Did It - Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
Emerald Fairies - Anything Goes (3 entries max)
Bunny Zoe - Lace
Desert Island Crafts - Pick 3 (I chose square card, image, patterned paper, pearls, die cut, lace)
Clear It Out - Any Coloring Medium
2 Sisters - Use a Digi
Anita Be Stampin - Lace and Pearls
Hanna and Friends - Lace and Pearls
Bearly Mine - Die Cuts and Lace
My Time To Craft - Use a Die Cut

Card Recipe:
Image - Wedding Amy
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - DCWV Linen Stack
Gold Cardstock - American Crafts Specialty Cardstock
Die Cut - Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seventeen Die Templates
Doily - Wilton
Border Punch - Martha Stewart French Scroll
Lace - Offray
Sentiment - Karen Foster Wedded Bliss

This image of Amy on her wedding day is just lovely, I think it really portrays the innocence and beauty of the bride on her big day.
Thanks for looking and be sure to drop by Crafty Sentiments and show us your Special Occasion cards!
Katie

Digital Delights - It's a BBQ Party!

Another Thursday has rolled around and so it means some more samples from the Digital Delights Team!
This time I decided to forgo a card and instead made a set of napkin rings for my next BBQ!!

Challenges:
Decorate To Celebrate - Any Handmade Party Decoration/Favor etc
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
I Did It - Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
Clear It Out - Any Coloring Medium
Patties Creations - Anything But A Card
Totally Papercrafts - Don't Be Square
Polkadoodle - Anything But A Card (10 maximum challenges)
2 Sisters - Use a Digi
Digi Design House - Anything But a Card
Fresh Brewed - Anything But A Card

Project Recipe:
Images - Grillin' and Chillin' set
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Keeping Memories Alive (years old!)

These were super simple make and I think will look great on the table!
I simply printed out lots of images, colored them and cut them out.
Then I made a simply ring of cardstock topped with patterned paper and glued the images on top!
They were a fun project to make and would a great thing for any party, just switch out the images to match your party theme!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #71 - Sketch and/or Here Comes The Sun

EDITED TO ADD - Picked in the Top 3 at AI Factory Thanks so much!


It's Once Upon a Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and this week we are looking forward to the Summer and would love to see your "Sunny" creations! Remember that we have a sketch that you can choose to use as well!

Challenges:
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
I Did It - Anything Goes
Reasonable Ribbon - Anything Goes (with ribbon)
Desert Island Crafts - Pick 3 (I chose square card, image, patterned papers, punches, ribbons)
Clear It Out - Any Coloring Medium
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Boys Boys Boys
AI Factory - Boys Will Be Boys
Delicious Doodles - Let The Sun Shine In
Totally Gorjuss - Water
Catch The Bug - Dads
Ladybug Crafts - Animals

Card Recipe:
Image - Goen Fishin' by Di Carubia
Paper - Delovely by Cosmo Cricket
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Edger Scallop Dot
Ribbon - Unknown
Sentiment - Target $1 spot
Dewdrops - Robin's Nest

This was the great sketch we worked with.

I think this little guy is definitely enjoying a sunny day with his fishing pole!
This image would be perfect for a card for Dad, maybe for Father's Day (not long away you know ;))
I hope you like this and will come and share your Sunny creations with us at The Pixie Cottage
Katie

Cooking It Up #63 - Make the Sun Shine on a Swirly Sentiment!

It's time for another recipe for your cards over at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog!

This weeks ingredients are:
Use Swirls
Give it some Sunshine
Don't forget the Sentiment!

Challenges:
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
I Did It - Anything Goes
Desert Island Crafts - Pick 3 (I chose square card, image, patterned paper, pearls, die cut)
Clear It Out - Any Coloring Medium
Delicious Doodles - Let The Sun Shine In
2 Sisters - Use a Digi
My Time To Craft - Use a Die Cut

Card Recipe:
Image - Meljens Sunflower Buggies
Paper - SEI
Medium - Copic Markers
Doily Die - English Tea by Cheery Lynn Designs
Sentiment - Unknown
Pearls - Recollections
Die Cut - Spellbinders S4-168 Nestabilities Large Labels Die Template

After die cutting the image mat I double matted it with coordinating colors and then popped the whole thing on a foam mat for dimension.
So now it's your turn to create and come and share with us at Cooking It Up With Katie!