Guest Designer card for Chi Chi - A New Sketch Challenge

I'm guesting over at Chi Chi Memories for the month of July and today it's a new sketch at the Chi Chi Challenge!
I got to play with another of the fabulously cute images and I hope you love the result as much as I do!




Challenges for this card:

I Love Digi - Emboss It
Allsorts - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Embossing
Oh Alice - Twinkle, Twinkle
Sunday Stamper - Pearls A Singer (use Pearls)
Speedy the Cats Friends - Flowers
Corrosive - Flowers
Magical Crafts - Flower Power
Bee Crafty - Pink and Girly
Bunny Zoe Crafts - Nice and Girly (and their 1st challenge!)
Pollycraft - Pinkalicious
Totally Stampalicious - Baby
Creative Inspirations - Paper Piecing
Practical Scrapper - Border Punches
Lexi's - Layers



Card Recipe:
Image - Baby Flower
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Basic Grey Lemonade
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Queen and Co
Flowers - Martha Stewart
Glitter - Stickles
Sentiment - Carole's Creations





It's a great sketch and we'd love to see you playing along with us at the Chi Chi Challenge!

Lily Boo Too - In The Summertime

Happy July!
I can't believe half of the year has gone by already!
It's the 1st of a new month and so that means a new challenge at Lily Boo Too!
This month we'd love to see your Summer creations and if you haven't heard the news already it's now super easy to get Lily Boo images as they have a new home at Cuddly Buddly!

Challenges for this card:

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch
Just For Fun Color Challenge - Pink, Green and White/Cream
Basic Grey Challenges - Photo Inspiration (green from the kiwi, cherries from the currents, sun from the peaches)
Craftycatz - Let's Go Digital
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
I Love Digi - Emboss It
Allsorts - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Embossing
Aud's Sentiments - Sentiment with Love in it
Practical Scrapper - Border Punches
Stampin B's - Summer Fun
Pear Tree Designs - Summer Lovin'
Digital Tuesday - Summertime
Timbro Scrapmania - Summer
Creative Cottage - Summer Surprise
Quirky Crafts - Ribbon
Flourishes - Fruity (used Cherry dp)




Card Recipe:
Image - Watering Can House
Paper - Basic Grey Lemonade
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Printed
Embossing folder - Crafts Too





I wish I lived in a little watering can house instead of having to keep using one on my plants three times a day! LOL
Summer is in full swing here in Texas and I hope it is with you too.
Please drop by and show us your Summer creations at Lily Boo Too!

King Of The Grill - New Clear Dollar Stamps from Wendy Hall

Happy Sunday!
Just in time for the Memorial Day cook out I have a super cute card for all the Dad's/Uncles/Grandpas etc out there!
Wendy Hall of Digital Delights has a brand new set of acrylic stamps put out by Clear Dollar Stamps. These will be available to buy on June 1st (I'll update the link as soon as they go on sale) and are great for a card for your King Of The Grill!
Also to go along with them Wendy has a fabulous set of Digital Delights images too! I got to use both the clear and the digi's on this card.

I have a few challenges that this one will fit too:

Tuesday Taggers - It's a Man's World
Digital Tuesday - Cute People
Dare U2 Digi - One For The Boys
Crafty Catz - The Boyz are Back!
I Love Digi - For My Dad
Twisted Thursday - Hip Hip Hooray for Dads
Crafty Pad - Card for Dad
One Stitch At a Time - Something New (the stamp and the papers)
Corrosive - Cooking
Cupcake Craft - Black and Grey + One other color
Jacksonbelle - Black and 1 other Color
Allsorts - Black, White and another Color
Quixotic - Embossing (I heat embossed the images before coloring)



Clear Dollar Stamps - Backyard Barbeque (available June 1st)
Digital Delights Stamps - Outdoor Grill set
Paper - DCWV The Natural Stack,
Ink: Versafine heat set and embossed
Medium - Copic Markers Y15, Y17, Y35, YR14, YR18, E50, E08, R00, R01, C00, C5, C7
Punch - Martha Stewart Border punch




I cut out the grill and the steak and popped them up above Dear Ole Dad (who was also cut out).
This is such a cute set for Fathers Day cards, summer scrapbook pages, even invitations to a real Backyard BBQ!!
I hope you liked him and that he gave you a smile.
Katie

50K Hits so it's time to PARTY!!!

Happy Monday everyone!!
I can't believe it, at the end of this month I will have been blogging for a year and last Friday I passed the 50,000th hit here! I can't believe how many of you keep coming and looking at my work and each day I feel blessed by you all.
To celebrate I'm going to have a little candy for you :)
To be in with a chance to win all you have to do is leave your name and a link to your blog in the gadget at the end of this post.
If you'd like to add my candy and a link to your sidebar you can do, the more players we have the more fun it is :) but you'll still be entered if you don't.
This is what you could win:





4 wood mounted stamps
2 sets of chipboard letters
Sentiment stamp by The Pixie Cottage
Chipboard coasters
30 roses by Wild Orchid Crafts
Set of Tiny Type letter stickers

Now obviously I couldn't blog without a card and this one has a message for all of you that have been with me through the last year:

I Love Digi - Thank You card
ABC - T is for Thank You
Color Dare - Old Olive, Summer Sun, Certainly Celery and Very Vanilla
Lili Of The Valley - Here Comes Summer
Sweet Stampin - It's Summertime
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Stampin Royalty - Use Your Punches
Creative Card Crew - April Showers bring May Flowers
Cutie Stampers - Flowers
Alota Rubber Stamps - Flowers
Beary Scrap - May Flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Buttons, Bows and Bling
Handfull of Stamps - Look What I Got (new stash, the BG paper)
Alphabet Challenge - A is for Animals
Allsorts - Animals
Just Cute Bears - Buttons and Bows (and a bear)



Card Recipe:
Image - Meljens Designs Freebie
Paper - Basic Grey Origins
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Medium - Copic Markers
Rhinestones - Michaels $1 spot
Trim - Joanns
Buttons - Spare Parts by Hobby Lobby





I thought this was the perfect image to say how I feel about all the support you've all given me over the past year and please add your name and link below to be a part of my candy.
The link gadget will stay open for 2 weeks so get your entry in by May 17th for a chance to win.
Good luck!!!



Katie

Love and Best Fishes!

Happy Tuesday!
I'm trying to build up my stash of male themed birthday cards and when I want a good man card I always turn to my Dustin Pike images first!
He is a super artist and the humor in his work always makes me smile, I hope it does for you too!

I used a few challenges to help me with this:

I Love Digi wanted 3 papers, 2 brads and 1 embellishment
Alota Rubber Stamps wanted 3 of something, 2 of something and 1 of something else!
Sweet Stampin want a Card for a Man
A Spoonfull of Sugar want One For The Boys
Cards For Men want Humor
Stampin B's want a Funny Card
CCEE want Silly Critters
Charisma want Animal Magic (anyone remember Johnny Morris?)
Magical Crafts want Animal Antics
Our Creative Corner had a Sketch
Pixie Dust want Black, White and another color
My Time To Craft were On The Spot



Card Recipe:
Image - Dustin Pike
Paper - DCWV
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - EK Success
Brads - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Printed
Bow - Unknown





I printed and colored another image of the fish and bowl and popped it on top to give a more dimension to the card.
The sentiment is a play on the "Love and Best Dishes" that Paula Dean always says at the end of her show and I thought it added just enough humor for it to work with any one.

I hope this card gave you a smile, be back tomorrow for a new Pixie Cottage card and challenge :)
Katie