Cooking It Up With Katie #99 - Birthday with Blue Buttons!

Time for another recipe at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog!
Every two weeks we bring you a recipe to help you create!

The ingredients to include this week are:
Make it for a Birthday
Add some Buttons
Use some Blue (a little or a lot)

Now this is our last challenge for a few weeks, I am going to England for 4 weeks to attend a family wedding and am no ready to go yet and my little team need a well deserved break. We will be back with challenge #100 in September and look for prizes and sponsors added back to our challenges then too!
Now all we have lost a lot of DT members and I really would like about 6 new members to join our merry crew and so if you would like to be considered just drop me a email with a link to your blog and a little bit about yourself and I will take a leisurely look and you may be just right to be a new member!
Challenges:
Creatalicious - Anything Goes
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
Reasonable Ribbon - Children's Birthday
Celebrate the Occasion - Happy Birthday
Our Creative Corner - Party (Birthday)
Corrosive Challenge - Sentiment
There She Goes - Stitching
Digital Tuesday - Inside Out

Card Recipe:
Image - Pollycraft
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper and Letters - Up, Up and Away by First Edition
Border Punch - Fiskars
Ribbon - Stash
Buttons - Stash
Twine - The Twinery

So there you have it, have a wonderful Summer and we will see you back with more challenges in September!



Katie

Cooking It Up With Katie #98 - Lace a Sunny Flower!

Time for another recipe at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog!
Every two weeks we bring you a recipe to help you create!

The ingredients to include this week are:
Make it Sunny
Add some Lace
Include some Flowers

Challenges:
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Shelly's Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes (2 entries only)
Digi Make Over - Anything Goes with a Digi
Freshly Brewed Monthly - Pop It Up (5 entries)
Bunny Zoes - Girls Girls Girls
Card Mad Fairy - Girls (and a digi)
CMC Copic Challenge - Big Hair (3 entries only)
Corrosive - Summertime Girl
One Stitch at a Time - Summer Dresses
Joanna Sheen - Summer Daze
Sassy Cheryls - Summer
My Craft Spot - Hot Summer Colors



Card Recipe:
Image - Springtime by Saturated Canary
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Daydream Doodle by The Paper Studio
Sun - KI Memories
Sentiment - Bo Bunny
Brad - The Paper Studio
Lace - Hobby Lobby





I certainly am smitten with these images from Krista at Saturated Canary and since improving my coloring skills with the instruction from the uber talented Colleen Schaan I finally feel I can do them a little justice :)
Anyway, enough of my wittering, please drop by my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog
and share a Sunny Summer creation with us!
Katie

Cooking It Up With Katie #97 - Texture a Metal Man

Time for another recipe at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog!
Every two weeks we bring you a recipe to help you create!

The ingredients to include this week are:
Make it for Dad or a special Guy
Add some Texture
Finish with a little Metal

Challenges:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Paper Crafting Journey - Hand Colored
Cards For Men - Fathers Day
Phindys Place - Fathers Day
Card Makin Mama's - Fathers Day
Celebrate The Occasion - Fathers Day
Crafty Sentiments - Fathers Day
One Stop Craft - Fathers Day
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Fathers Day
The Secret Crafter - Fathers Day
Clear It Out - Fathers Day with Brads
LEJ Designs - Daddy Dearest
Use It Tuesday - Dad (the hoarded stash is the sentiment and the paper)
The Crafty Pad - For The Boys
Ready Teddy Go - For the Boys (with a bear)
Forever Friends - Anything Goes with an Animal
Sundays with Crissy - Tags and Tickets (3 entries)
Oldie But a Goodie - Banners/Bunting (the punch) (old items are the sentiment and brad)
Frosted Designs - Stitching (I chose faux)



Card Recipe:
Image - Noah and Patches by Sassy Cheryl
Paper - Stella Rose Hattie by My Minds Eye
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - Michaels
Sentiment - Bo Bunny
Fabric Brads - The Paper Studio
Embossing Folder - The Paper Studio
Pennant Border Punch - Fiskars





Now how adorable is this little guy? I absolutely had to have him and gosh he was fun to color.
Now it's over to you, we love to see all your fabulous cards at Cooking It Up With Katie

Katie

Cooking It Up With Katie #96 - Celebrate with Ribbon and a Die Cut!

It's time for a new recipe at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog.
Each week we bring you 3 "ingredients" to help you create something wonderful!

Recipe:
Celebrate Something
Include some Ribbon/Trim
Use a Die Cut

Challenges:
Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes
Pennys - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes (with a Die Cut)
Auds Sentiments - Any Sentiment
Totally Gorjuss - Something New (the image)
House of Gilli - Die Cuts
Card Mad Fairy - Photo Inspiration (Jubilee)
Pan Pastel UK - Jubliee
Fun with Shapes - Pennant
The Stampman - For a Queen
One Stitch at a Time - Red, White and Blue
My Mums Craft Shop - Red, White and Blue
Quirky Crafts - Dots, Stripes and Ribbon
Crafty Pad - Colors of Your Flag
Cupcake Craft - Royalty

Card Recipe:
Image - Keep Calm Owl by Pink Gem Designs
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Red My Minds Eye Stripe Unknown
Banner Die - My Favorite Things
Ribbon - Michaels
Trim - Hobby Lobby
Buttons - Dress It Up
Glitter - Diamond by Stickles

I had to make my Union Jacks by hand as living in the US I didn't get the opportunity to shop for my Homeland products.
But the image was easy to obtain, don't you just love that about Digital Stamps!
Now it's over to you to go and create and come back and share with us at Cooking It Up With Katie

Katie

Cooking It Up #95 - Stamp a Twined Brad!

It's time for a new recipe at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog.
Each week we bring you 3 "ingredients" to help you create something wonderful!

Recipe:
Use some Brads
Add a little Twine
Make sure you Stamp (not digi)

Challenges:
Bunny Zoes - Anything Goes
Crafty Emma - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes
The Crafty Pad - Doodling (faux stitching)
Sentimental Sunday - Birthday and B (Brad, Buttons, Border)
Clear It Out - Brads
Ooh La La - Ribbon or Twine (or both)

Card Recipe:
Image - Serious Shopper by Loralie Designs
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - All A Flutter by Colorbok (at Walmart)
Sentiment - Studio G
Border Die - Marianne D
Ribbon - Michaels
Buttons - Stash
Brad - The Paper Studio
Twine - The Twinery
Chipboard Heart - Colorbok

I absolutely love the images at Loralie Designs and they are a super style of stamp to color.
I hope you like this and will come over at "Cook Something Up" with us!
Katie

Cooking It Up #94 - Happy, Hanging Hearts

It's time for a new recipe at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog.
Each week we bring you 3 "ingredients" to help you create something wonderful!

This time the ingredients are:
Make it Happy
Have something Hanging
Include a Heart

I have a very Happy Kaela, a banner that is Hanging and Heart brads in the rolled flowers.

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Auds Sentiments - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy - Punches and/or Dies
Tuesday Throwdown - In The Garden
My Time to Craft - Gardening Gems
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Use Your Green Thumb
Crafts 4 Eternity - Spring
Stamptacular Sunday - Spring Bling
One Stop Craft - 1 Image, 2 DP and 3 Embellishments (flowers, bling and brads)
Catered Crop - B is for Bird, Banner, Bling, Brads
Anything Goes - Things with Wings (the bird)
Creative Inspirations Paint - Flowers
There She Goes - Flowers
Cheery Lynn Designs - Flowers (made with a punch or die)
The Crafty Pad - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Craft Your Passion - Texture
Incy Wincy - Girlie
Reasonable Ribbon - Feminine with Ribbon
The Shabby Tearoom - Spring is Love (Pink, Green, Heart and Polka Dots)

Card Recipe:
Image - Lil Birdie by Designed 2 Delight
Paper- K and Co Merryweather
Medium - Copic Markers
Banner - Hero Arts Friendly Flags
Die Cuts - Spellbinders Labels 15, Window Frame by Cheery Lynn Designs and Cutie 4 Rolled Flower by Cheery Lynn Designs
Felt Corners - Colorbok
Twine - The Twinery
Rhinestones - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Heart Brads - The Paper Studio
Polka Dot Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Sentiment - Victorian Parlour by Colorbok

Now it's your turn to give me a Happy Hanging Heart!
Katie

Going Green with The Pixie Cottage and Cooking It Up!

It's another joint project today as both my Pixie Cottage and Cooking It Up teams are Going Green in honor of Earth Day!
The Pixie Cottage want you to be "Green and Gorgeous" and Cooking It Up have Green, Gorgeous and Garden as the 3 ingredients needed in your creation

Challenges:
Craft Room Challenge - Ink It (I used 2 rubber stamps)
Die Cut Divas - Garden (and a die cut)
Oldie But A Goodie - In The Garden (Tilda and the paper are from at least a year ago)
Papertake Weekly - Stitching
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Anything Goes with Green

Card Recipe: Image - Bench by Waterfall by Sandra Hammer and Tilda in Striped Shirt
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - My Minds Eye
Flowers - K and Co
Sentiment - 3 Bugs in a Rug
Grass Die Cut - Cheery Lynn Designs

This is the sketch option on The Pixie Cottage

So it's over to you to create something and then come and enter it at both The Pixie Cottage and Cooking It Up With Katie!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage meets Cooking It Up With Katie!

The week I have a combo post, my project for The Pixie Cottage #115 is "Sweet Treat" which works fabulously with Cooking It Up With Katie #93 "Fold me a Fun Flower!"
I don't usually combine Design Team assignments but this time it just was meant to be!


Challenges:
Anything Goes - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Creative Craft - Anything But a Card
Creative Monday - Anything But A Card
Craft Us Crazy - Anything But a Card
Gingerloft - Anything But a Card
Totally Stampalicious - Anything But a Card
Kaboodle Doodles - Anything But a Rectangle
Fussy and Fancy - Anything But a Square or Rectangle
Shabby Tearoom - Homegrown Flowers (yellow, lilac and pink and homemade flowers)
Cheery Lynn Designs - Make a Basket (use at least one of their dies)
Creative Stamp Friends - Easter Package
Crafty Pad - Eggtastic
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo Inspiration (pastel cupcakes with bunnies)
Crafty Sentiments - Bunnies
Stamptacular Sunday - Pastels
Sassy Cheryls - Pastels
Tuesday Throwdown - Pastels
Incy Wincy - Easter and/or Pastels
Top Tip Tuesday - Easter or Animals (I have both)
My Mums Craft Shop - Easter or Animals (I have both)
Everybody Art - Easter
My Craft Spot - Easter
Hooked on Craft - Easter
The Kraft Journal - Easter/Spring (using something made from Kraft colored paper)
Ribbon Carousel - Spring (with a spooled item)

Just a note to say I stopped adding the Easter challenges as there were so many to choose from that I tried to include all my favorites but the list was endless. Please don't feel left out if I didn't include you on this last Easter project of the year

Project Recipe:
Image - Got Rabbits by ARTish
Sentiment - Studio G
Paper - Watercolor Bouquet by K and Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Dies - Cuties 3 (to make the roses), Cuties 4 (for the handle) and Wedding Garter all by Cheery Lynn Designs
Ribbon - Michaels
Eggs - Craft Store painted with Martha Stewart Pearl Paint in Pink Taffeta

This is the sketch should you choose that.

I just love this Pearl Paint from Martha Stewart. The colors are fabulous and the sheen is the best I found.

I love how the roses look when completed, you die cut them as a strip and then roll and secure them to create the rose. I used a quilling pen to hold the end so I could get a tight roll and then added hot glue on the base and added a circle of cardstock for extra strength.
I decided at the end to weave some lemon sheer ribbon around the handle, I should have thought about that before adding the roses but will remember next time :)

You can see from this shot that I used the same weaving technique to create my basket as was in the Saturday tutorial, I just made my basket shallower.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed this little Easter Treat and will come along and play with me at The Pixie Cottage and Cooking It Up With Katie this time around!
Katie

Cooking It Up #91 - Emboss me a Stitched Punch!

This time at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge we are doing just for fun, no sponsor and no prize but we hope that doesn't stop you from joining in. We hope our little recipe can be a jumping off point for your latest creation :)

Now our recipe for this challenge:
Show some Embossing
Include some Stitching
Finish with a Punch!


Challenges:
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Emerald Faeries - Embossing (3 entries only)
Crafty Emma - Flower Frenzy
Cupcake Craftroom - Spring Bouquet

Card Recipe:
Image - Easter Tulips by Designed 2 Delight
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Follow Your Heart Be Happy by My Minds Eye
Embossing Folder - Script by The Paper Studio
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Die Cut - Labels 15 by Spellbinders
Sentiment - Hallmark

This is the second time I've used this image, I love it, so gentle and springy and in these muted colors it is perfect for an adult Easter card.
I hope you enjoyed it and will come over and play with me at Cooking It Up With Katie
Katie

Cooking It Up #90 - Your 3 Favorite Things

This time at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge we are doing just for fun, no sponsor and no prize but we hope that doesn't stop you from joining in. We hope our little recipe can be a jumping off point for your latest creation :)

Our recipe this week is simple, we want you to use Your 3 Favorite Things, be sure to mention them in your post though or you won't be eligible for the Top Chef title.
I have lots of favorite things and this time I chose Pearls (look at how many of cards have the pearl treatment), dies (gosh I can't get enough of the fabulous delicate ones out there) and the super cute Teddy Bea (who does love her?)

Challenges:
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Favorite Things (one entry only)
Allsorts - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi
Teddy Bo and Co - Pearls and Swirls (and a TB image)
Corrosive - Another Dimension
Crazy Challenge - Punches and/or Dies

Card Recipe:
Image - Teddy Bo and Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Paint - Creative Inspirations Paint in Fairy Dust
Paper - Victorian Parlour by Colorbok
Die - Polynesian Sails Oval by Cheery Lynn Designs
Pearls - Hobby Lobby
Sentiment - Unknow
Swirls Die - Quickutz

So now go and gather together your favorite things and create a card to share with us at Cooking It Up With Katie
Katie

Cooking It Up #89 - A Spooled Metal Sentiment!

This time at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge we are doing just for fun, no sponsor and no prize but we hope that doesn't stop you from joining in. We hope our little recipe can be a jumping off point for your latest creation :)

Our recipe is:
Use anything that comes on a Spool (ribbon, lace, twine etc)
Add Something metal
Include A Sentiment

Challenges:
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Do You Stack Up? - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes (with spooled item)
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (with Love as an option)

Card Recipe:
Image - Lily I Love Shopping by Rachelle Anne Miller
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - My Favorite Things by Recollections
Die Cuts - Labels 22 by Spellbinders and Polynesian Sails Oval by Cheery Lynn Designs
Border Punch - Double Bubble by Fiskars
Ribbon - Michaels
Sentiment - Heidi Grace

So now it's your turn to create and then share with us at Cooking It Up With Katie
Katie

Cooking It Up #88 - Punch Me an Embossed Heart!

It's time for the 2nd challenge of 2012 at my Cooking It Up With Katie and as a reminder this year we are moving to challenges every other week to give everyone two weeks to complete the challenge.

The ingredients this week are:
Use some Hearts
Make sure you Punch
Include some Embossing

Challenges:
2 Sisters - Embossing
Corrosive - I Heart You (3 entries only)
Robyn's Fetish - Love
Cupcake Crafts - Love
There She Goes - Love and Hearts
Sentimental Sundays - Die Cuts (3 entries only)
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Make a Heart Stand out
Stamptacular Sunday - Seeing Spots

Card Recipe:
Image - Lovebirds by Robyns Fetish
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - One Happy Day
Punch Around the Page - Hearts by Martha Stewart
Die Cut - Dainty Dutch Deco Square by Cheery Lynn Designs
Sentiment - Printed
Embossing Folder - Hearts by Cuttlebug (on the blue panel)
Button - Unknown
Twine - The Twinery

Now it's your turn to get Cookin' at Cooking It Up With Katie!
Katie

Cooking It Up #87 - Show me a Pink Posie with Pearls

It's time for the 1st challenge of 2012 at my Cooking It Up With Katie and this year we are moving to challenges every other week to give everyone two weeks to complete the challenge.

The recipe for your card is:
Make it Pink
Add some Pearls
Include some Posies (flowers)

Challenges:
Lexi's - Anything Goes
CRAFT - Thank You
Clear It Out - Thank You
One Stitch at a Time - Embellishments in 3's (I used 3 punched rosettes and 3 flowers)
The Crazy Challenge - Lace and/or Pearls (2 entries only)
Paper Creations Ink - Die Cuts and/or Punches
Digital Tuesday - Punch It Out (and a digi element)

Card Recipe:
Image - Thank You Flower
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Spring Feast by First Edition
Roses - Prima
Die Cut - Polynesian Sails Oval Doily
Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Recollections

I hope you liked this pretty little pink card and will come along and share your creation with us at Cooking It Up With Katie, you have 2 weeks to join in and so you don't really have an excuse ;)
Katie

Cooking It Up #86 - Anything Goes

Get out your aprons and come along and play with us at Cooking It Up With Katie
This challenge is a little different, as December is almost upon us and everyone will be busy with Family and Festivities I thought the team needed a break and that you needed an easy challenge.
So we are going to run the challenge for 5 weeks and the theme is "Anything Goes!".
The only restriction is that you only enter 3 times in total, all other entries after that will be deleted and the earlier ones may be forfeited.


Challenges:
Card Makin Mama's - Sentiment (2 entries only)
2 Sisters - Holiday
Gingerloft - Winter or Christmas
Stamptacular Sunday - Christmas
Daisy Doodles - Digi and Christmas
Craft Your Passion - Tis The Season
Speedy The Cats Friends - Masculine
Lexi's - One For The Lads
Sweet Stampin - Punches/Dies (2 entries only)

Card Recipe:
Image and Sentiment - Dude Time Doodles
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - A Hootin Holiday by The Paper Studio
Ribbon - Michaels
Die Cut - Spellbinders

This was such a fun image, it made me smile the whole time I was making the card :)
Anyway this is a really fun and easy challenge for you and you have a whole 5 weeks to enter!
Katie