Anything Goes! 2 new Busy Beauties Cards!

Happy Friday!
There is a story behind these cards:)
It started with a challenge win at Penny's Challenge that introduced me to the wonderful creations at Busy Beauties! I got 5 new images from them and just had to give one a try right away. With that card I entered their challenge and low and behold I won! So I got more of the wonderful images!
Then move on to another challenge that I'm a team member on. We had a challenge but the images we needed to use were held up and I really needed to get my card finished. So I made the card with all but the image and I colored in two substitute images in case the original didn't turn up in time. Well just as I'd finished the two images the original popped up in my inbox! So I was left with two cute colored images and no cards to put them on.
I didn't put them away though, I left them on my desk as I so wanted to do something with them.
I had a day away from crafting on Wednesday to do a very late (and very needed) Spring Clean but yesterday I was determined to create a couple of dazzlers to share with y'all (said in my very best Texas accent ;))


Challenges for Card 1:
Busy Beauties - Anything Goes
Design Dollies - Sketch (I know it was meant for a scrapbook page but I wanted to make it work)
Flourishes - Black and White plus One
Create 4 Fun - Black, White and another color
Creative Cottage - Going Pink
Twisted Thursday - Pink
Timbroscrapmania - Fashion Pink
The Burtonesque Dolls - Sweeney Todd (Use distressing tools or deco scissors)
Think Ink - Outside of Your Comfort Zone (this is so outside of mine that I actually had a racing heart making it! LOL)
Res Q - Top 3 (use 3 of something, I used 3 ribbons, 3 brads and 3 colors)




Card Recipe:
Image - Victorian Marionette by Busy Beauties
Paper - Very old DCWV and other unknown
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed in Burton's Nightmare
Deco Scissors - Fiskars Victorian Long
Fabric Brads - Spare Parts
Ribbons - Offray






Challenges for Card 2:
Busy Beauties - Anything Goes
Flourishes - Black and White plus One
Create 4 Fun - Black, White and another color
Creative Cottage - Going Pink
Twisted Thursday - Pink
Doodle Palace - Berry Sweet
Charisma Cardz - Spots and Stripes
Crafty Catz - Embossing
Fresh Brewed 2 papers, 1 ribbon, 2 flowers and 1 other item (I chose the image)
Drunken Stampers - Birthdays
For Fun - Birthdays
Cleary Inspired - Birthday Bash
Little Red Wagon - Sketch
Frosted Designs - Glitter
Cupcake Craft - Dazzle Us
Pollycraft - Ribbon and Bling
Meljens - Sparkle, Glitter and Bling
Shellys Images - All That Glitters (glitter paper, bling and glittery ribbon )
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo - Pink, White and Girly
Crafty Ho's - Anything Goes
Iris's Challenge - Flowers



Card Recipe:
Image - Eat Cake by Busy Beauties
Paper - Very old DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Flowers - From a trip to the UK (maybe Papermania)





I hope you've enjoyed these two cards, I certainly liked making them :)
Have a great weekend!
Katie

Digital Delights New Release and New Stetch at Delightful sketches

It's new release day at Digital Delights and you aren't going to want to miss these new images!



Also over at Delightful Sketches and Challenges we have a new sketch for you try out and all the designers are showing off the fabulous new releases!
A double dose of joy!



I added a few other challenges to help me with this one:

Crafty Creations - Child's Play
Sisterhood of Crafters - Children
Critter Challenge - Child's Birthday
Drunken Stampers - Birthdays
For Fun - Birthdays
Cleary Inspired - Birthday Bash
Scrap It With A Song - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
Three Muses - Take a Song, Any Song
Creative Cottage - Going Pink
Twisted Thursday - Pink
Diva Coffee Break - Gable Green, Bashful Blue and Pixie Pink
Cupcake Craft - Dazzle Us
Pollycraft - Ribbon and Bling
Meljens - Sparkle, Glitter and Bling
Shellys Images - All That Glitters (glitter paper, bling and glittery ribbon )
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo - Pink, White and Girly
Crafty Ho's - Anything Goes



Card Recipe:
Image - Penny and Her Teddy
Paper - DCWV Nana's Kitchen
Medium - Copic Markers
Chipboard corners - Colorbok
Fabric Brads - Spare Parts
Sentiment - Printed in Boyz R Gross font





I hope you liked this one and please be sure to try out the sketch for yourself over at Delightful Sketches and Challenges
Katie

Treehouse #51 Sketch

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by Ashley and it's this fabulous sketch!



As usual I added a few other challenges too:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
One Stop Craft - Birthstones (I did the "Birth" part as "Birthday" and used Rhine "stones"!)
Little Red Wagon - Birthday
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Happy Birthday for a Girl
Crazy Challenge - It's A Girl Thing (what girl doesn't love cake?)
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Celebration
My Time To Craft - Vivid Greetings (bright colors)



Card Recipe:
Image - Celebrate in Style by Treehouse Digitals
Paper - Cosmo Cricket DeLovely
Medium - Copic Markers
Glitter - Stickles
Rhinestones and Pearls - Queen and Co
Doily - Little Yellow Bicycle Clothesline Paper Doilies
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Border Punch - EK Success





I think I may have gone a little overboard with the Stickles but all girls love glitter and sparkle so I think it turned out fine!

We'd love to see what you can do with our sketch at The Treehouse so please pop along and play!
Katie

Treehouse #50 Pink, Sky Blue, Brown, Cream

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by Yaneri.
She has a color challenge for you and wants to see Pink, Sky Blue, Brown and Cream.

As usual I have other challenges that I used to help me with this card:

Gingersnaps - Quote
Sweet Sunday Sketch - Sketch
One Stop Crafts - Summer Breeze
Flutterby - Flowers and Butterfly
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Flower Power
Color Throwdown - Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo and Baja Breeze
Creative Craft World - Easel Card
Corrosive - Easel Card
Inky Impressions - Choose at least 2, I chose Easel Card, Flowers, Circle and Sparkle
Getting Crafty with Ann - Round and Round
Cupcake Inspirations - I chose the Pink and the Pearls from the photo
Crafty Creations - Encouragement
Simply Saturday - Scallops
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Cute and Girly
Pixie Dust Studios - Add a Pearl
Digi Doodle Shop - Sparkle, Glitter, Glitz
Paper Take Weekly - Say It With Flowers
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Charisma - 3D



Card Recipe:
Image - Aloha Collection from Treehouse Digitals
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - DCWV
Flowers- Wild Orchid Crafts
Die Cuts - Spellbinders and Quickcutz
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Printed
Pearls - Martha Stewart colored with Copic's





I colored the butterfly 3 times, cut it out and popped it up for more dimension.
I gave it a quick spritz of Smooch to make it shimmer and shine.
This was such fun to make and I hope you are inspired by the colors and go and join in with us this at The Treehouse.
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #19 - 3D/Decoupage/Paper Tole

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday over at The Pixie Cottage and we have another wonderful sketch for you.



We also have the added technique challenge of Paper Tole.

I have a few other challenges to go with that:


Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Praire Fairy - Flowers
Our Daily Bread - Flowers
Meljens - Flowers and Blooms
Pollycraft - Summer Blooms
Crafty Catz - Petals and Pearls
Paper Take Weekly - Say It With Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
Digi Doodle Best - Ribbon
Twisted Thursday - Ribbon
Pixie Dust - Cut It Out
Your Next Stamp - Cut It Out and Pop It Up
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Just For Fun Color Challenge - Lime Green, Turquoise and Yellow
Colour Q - Bermuda Bay, Kiwi Kiss, Summer Sun, Soft Suede and White
KL Stampin Scrappin - Animals
Stamp With Fun - Stripes
Creative Inspirations - Punches or Die Cuts (I used both)
Crafty Cardmakers - Inside Out



Card Recipe:
Image - Puppy Love by Eileen Gutierrez
Paper - DCWV The Citrus Stack
Ribbon - Michaels
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Basic Grey
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Colorbok
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting





I hope you can see the layers of the Paper Tole technique on this image.
I love how dimensional you can make you card using this and it is quite therapeutic to me to see and cut out tiny pieces! LOL
We'd love to see your take on the sketch or the technique or both over at The Pixie Cottage
Katie

Digital Delights New Releases and a New Sketch at Delightful Sketches!

It's new release day today at Digital Delights!!
We have a super cute selection of new images and I got to work with the very sweet Dilly Duck
Also we have a new sketch challenge over at Delightful Sketches



I have a few other challenges to help me with this one.

Simple Doodles - You're on My Mind
Speedy The Cats Friends - Use a Corner Punch
Practical Scrappers - Punches
Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Just For Fun Color Challenge - Blue, Green and Orange
ECP - Spring
Crazy Challenge - Cute and Cuddly
Pile It On - Cute and Cuddly
My Time To Craft - Too Cute
Lil Red Wagon - Brads (patterned on my flowers)
Fab N Funky - Metal Mania (brads)



Card Recipe:
Image - Dilly Duck
Paper - My Minds Eye Where The Heart Is
Corner Punch - Emaginations
Border Punch - EK Success
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Prima
Brads - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Studio G





I think Dilly looks so cute!
We'd love to see what you can do with our sketch so please get creating and come and share with us at Delightful Sketches
Katie

Challenge #13 at Cooking It Up!

Happy Wednesday!
It's time for another challenge over at my Cooking It Up With Katie card recipe blog.

This weeks recipe is:

Use some fabric (ribbon doesn't count)
Add your favorite technique and tell us what it is
Tear an edge or use deco scissors

Remember the challenge includes all of the above and anything else you want to add.

A few challenges helped me too:

Friday Sketchers had a great Sketch
Paper Cutz had an Anything Goes theme
Fussy and Fancy want Green
Incy Wincy want at least 1/3rd Green
Cuttlebug Blog want Green and use of CB (I used mine to cut my Nestie)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers want to see a Die Cut
Cleary I Stamp want you to Think Green
Stamp Something want Green and Cream
Raise The Bar want you to Go Green
Colour Create had the combo of Mint, Chocolate and Cream
No Time To Stamp wanted Green, Pink and Brown
Crafty Calendar wanted Flowers
Creative Cottage also wants Flowers



Card Recipe:
Image - Tilda with Teddy Bear from Magnolia-licious
Paper - K & Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Fabric - Unknown
Brads - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Studio G for Michaels






I tore the background strip behind Tilda, sewed the fabric flowers (my new favorite thing) and I slightly distressed and inked the edges which is a favorite technique of mine.
I tried to do the Distress Ink coloring look with my Copic's ala Suzanne Dean and although I followed her You Tube video I think I'll need to practise a little more but I really like how this Tilda turned out.

I hope you've liked my little Tilda and that you'll join me over at Cooking It Up With Katie
Katie

Challenge #12 at Cooking It Up!

Happy Wednesday!
It's time for another challenge over at my Cooking It Up With Katie card recipe blog.

This weeks recipe is:

Use the Decoupage/3D/Paper Tole technique (this is where you color more than one copy of the image and cut out and pop up certain parts to form a 3D image, for my English viewers you can use the preprinted sheets for this too)
Use some metal
Add the current challenge from your favorite blog

Remember the challenge includes all of the above and anything else you want to add.

Here are the other challenges I used along with the recipe:

Get Sketchy had a sketch
Stamp Something had a recipe of Designer Paper, Button(s) and Ribbon
Cupcake Crafts had a Round and Round theme
Crazy 4 Challenges had "It's All About Texture" has their theme and wanted at least 3 different textures. I used textured glittered paper, paper flowers and rippled buttons
Drunken Stampers want Glitter and Lace
Gingersnaps want Lace too
The Secret Crafter wanted Stitching
Clearly I Stamp said It's Hip To Be Square and wanted a square card (and they are sponsored by Clear Dollar Stamps who are giving away a great prize!)
Sassy Susie has a color combo of Lilac and Aqua
PaperTake wanted Buttons, Bows, Brads and Bling
Pixie Dust wanted you to Think Birthday
Tellens Place want Bling
CRAFT want Ribbons and Sparkle



Card Recipe:

Image - Flower Cart from Pixie Dust Studios
Paper - Flower Shower stack by DCWV
Flowers - Mini Roses by Prima
Lace - Offray
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - K&Co
Brads - The Paper Studio by Hobby Lobby
Glitter - Diamond Stickles



Inside is more dp and a faux stitched message mat.



I hope you can see the layers on the decoupaged image.
I'd love to see you over at Cooking It Up With Katie and hope you try out the recipe for this challenge.
Katie

I Love Spring with Tilda!

Happy Valentines Day!
I hope you are having a wonderful romantic day!
Today I have a "Love" card but not a Valentines card.

There were still a lot of Valentines challenges floating around on the web but I found a few non-Valentines that worked for this one:

Just Magnolia had a Love theme
Friday Sketchers had a sketch
Clearly I Stamp want you to Glam It Up
Fussy and Fancy want you to Dazzle them
Raise The Bar had a Be Mine Forever challenge where they wanted you to use a product/stamp/item that you'd never give up
Sassy Susie wants Hearts and Flowers
Fun With Shapes want Lilac, Green and White
Humblepie want to see you use your Dies
No Time to Stamp wanted Purple and Green
Allsorts had a your choice 3,2,1 recipe so I have a 3 part sentiment, 2 dp and 1 image
Pile It On had a "Let Us See Your Flowers" theme
Magnolia Down Under wanted Buttons, Bows and Flowers, Tilda has buttons on her shirt, bows in her hair and there are flowers on the card!



Card recipe:

Image - Tilda with Watering Can colored with Copic's and Glossy Accnts added to her boots and watering can
Papers - Nana's Nursery Baby Boy Stack
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Dies - Nestabilities Oval and Scalloped Oval
Spring Sticker - Doodlebug Tags and Tabs
Rhinestones and Pearls - Michaels $1 spot
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Valentines Lace



Inside is more dp and a message mat.



Tilda has "Green Wings" as well as "Green Thumbs" in this image and I hope it brings a little Spring into your Winter day.
Have a wonderful rest of your Valentines Day.
Katie