Designed 2 Delight - Kaela as an Fairy

When you see my card today you'll know why I just had to make it!
Faith at Designed 2 Delight keeps coming out with such wonderful designs and I'm so happy to be able to work with them.
We have made a brand new blog called Card Ideas where you can get brand new ideas from a different designer every day of the week! Be sure to drop by there and add yourself as a follower so you don't miss any of the news.

Challenges:

Magical Monday - Wings
Whoopsi Daisy - Girlie
Paper Playtime - Christmas Song
Ooh La La - Christmas Song
Paper Cupcakes - Anything Goes
Going Grey - Anything Goes
Peartree Designs - Sketch and Gems
Papertake Weekly - Sketch (so very similar to the other)
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes
Karber Weekly - Sparkle (must use a digi)
There She Goes - Card For A Child
ABC Christmas - Y is for Yuletide (use Holly and Berries or Red and Green or Candles)
Flutterby - Open (must have Angel, Fairy or Butterfly)
The Paper Variety - Tic Tac Toe (I chose Die Cut, Make a Card, Holiday theme)
Little Paper Shop - Funky Edge
Stamp and Create - Tis The Season
Paper Issues - Holiday Hookup

Card Recipe:
Image - Kaela as a Fairy
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Homemade Christmas by DCWV
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Ribbon - Michaels
Holly and Jingle Bells - Hobby Lobby
Sentiment - Walmart
Glitter - Glamour Dust

After I colored Kaela I added lots of sparkle with Glamour Dust on her wings and shoes and Smooch paint on her cheeks and as highlights in her hair.
I really love how she turned out and hope you do too.
Katie

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!

Ahoy Mateys! - Super Lily Boo News!

Happy Tuesday,
I hope Summer is treating you right, ours is super hot and the only comfortable place is in the pool! LOL
I've been a team member at Lily Boo for almost a year now and seen the site just grow and grow with lots of faithful fans.
Thanks to the growth we have a fabulous announcement to make, we are moving to be part of the Cuddly Buddy family!!!!
You will be able to buy Lily Boo images individually along side your other Cuddly Buddly favorites!
Things will be changing a little at the team so be sure to keep checking back for more exciting news.

Challenges for the card:

Simon Says Stamp - Pirates
Creative Inspirations - One For The Boys
One Stop Crafts - One For The Boys
Crafty Cardmarkers - Cards 4 Men
Magical Crafts - Something For A Male
Get Crafty with Ann - It's a Man's World
Raise The Bar - What A Special Guy!
Die Cut Dreams - Green and Blue for a Teenage Boy
Our Creative Corner Sketch - Sketch (turned on the side)
Going Grey - Anything Goes (with BG paper)



Card Recipe:
Image - Little Pirate
Paper - Basic Grey June Bug
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - The Paper Studio
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Fabric Brads - K&Co
Ribbon - Unknown



Isn't he a cutie?
Be sure to check out all the images over at our new home over 140 there already!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #23 - Make Mine Patriotic

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage with another fabulous sketch from Pam



Along with the sketch we have the added option "Make Mine Patriotic".
We love to see a card celebrating an aspect of your country, or choose the colors of your country's flag, anything that makes you proud to be who you are!
Now with it being World Cup time and me being English there really wasn't much doubt which direction my card would take:)

And to get you in the mood here is my favorite footie song this year



Challenges:
Paper Playtime - Flag Day (choose any combo of red, white and blue)
Daring Cardmakers - The World is Your Oyster
Crafty Ann's - Fly the Flag
Magical Crafts - Something for a Man (all the men I know love sports)
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Masculine
Totally Gorjuss - For The Boys
CRAFT - Mans card
Crafty Cardmakers - Cards for Men
Cupcake Crafts - One for The Boys
Incy Wincy - One for The Guys
Pollycraft - Let Have a Sing Song (definitely a lot of singing at footie matches and this card was certainly inspired by "3 Lions")
Stamp N Doodle - Photo Inspiration "Africa" (although my lion is far too cute to be out on the plains ;))
Creative Craft Challenges - For The Man in Your Life
A Crafty Little Place - One for the Boys
Creative Inspirations - One for The Boys
Stampin Royalty - Masculine Project
Crazy Amigos - The World Cup




Card Recipe:
Image - Loves A Lot Lion by Eileen Gutierrez
Paper - Stash
Medium - Copic Markers
Football - Stick It Felt
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Printed in Twelve Ton Goldfish font





I loved the felt football so much that I added one inside too :)



Oh isn't this the cutest Lion ever?
I hope you've enjoyed my little trip back home today and we'd love to see your Patriotic creations!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #21 - A Little Metal Please :)

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and this week Pam has another super sketch for us!



Along with the sketch we'd love to see a little "Metalwork". This could be metallic paper, brads, eyelets, charms, clips, anything metal at all!
Remember you can chose to do the sketch, the theme or both!


As always I found a few challenges to go with this one:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Secret Crafter - Buttons and Blooms
Quirky Crafts - Girly Girl
One Stitch At a Time - Something New
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Charisma Cards - Circles
Pixie Dust - Circles
Fun Two Stamp - Metal Accessories
Magical Crafts - Metal
Just Us Girls - Dry Embossing
One Stop Crafts - Swirls and Pearls
Oh Alice - Swirls
Totally Gorjuss - Wings
Gingersnaps - Wings
Ooh La La - Colors of Their Blog (Lilac, Green, Pink and Cream)
Scrap It With A Song - I Hope You Dance
Totally Stampalicious - TV Inspiration - Dancing With The Stars



Card Recipe:
Image - Baby Maisy by Di Carubia
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Martha Stewart Playful Pink
Butterflies - K&Co Grand Adhesions
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folders - Sizzix
Flowers - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - K&Co
Swirls - Quickutz







These are the Copic's I used on the image.

So now it's your turn with either the sketch or the technique, just remember to come back to The Pixie Cottage and enter your creation in our challenge!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #14 - Buttons - Guest Sketch

Happy Wednesday!
It certainly is a time for change at The Pixie Cottage as we add another dimension to our challenges.
Starting this week we will be having a Special Guest Sketch Artist every other week to share a sketch with you! These are some of the most popular skechers in the card blogging world and you will be amazed at the work they have created for The Pixie Cottage

Starting us off is the artist from the uber (as my DS would say) popular challenge site Midnight Madness, yes it's Priscilla!
She has made this super sketch for us and if you run over to The Pixie Cottage you will see the fabulous card she made with the sketch using the super new Hannah With Butterflies by Sandra Hammer stamp which is one of my favorites!

Here is the exclusive sketch she created for us.



The additional thing we'd like to see this week is Buttons on your card.
Remember you can chose to do the Sketch, the product or both!

I found a few challenges to go with my card:

CRAFT - Buttons
Crafty Anns - Let The Sun Shine In
Teddy Stampers - Spring
Fun 2 Stamp - Flowers
ResQ - Pick at least 2 clues from a puzzle. I chose flowers, square, punch, buttons, pattern, Spring
Just Cute Bears - Flowers
Magical Crafts - Animal Antics
Paper Jewels - Sewing and Buttons
Simple Doodles - Inspire Someone
Raise the Bar - Spring for It
The Pink Elephant - 1 image, 2 dies and 3 of your favorite embellishment (I've actually got 4!)
Wild Flower Patch - Punch It Up and Be Bold



Card Recipe:
Image - Barnie in Spring by ArTish from The Pixie Cottage
Papers - My Minds Eye Summer Song
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Buttons - The Paper Studio
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Color Oasis



Inside is more dp and a message mat.



I just hope a bee doesn't come out and sting Barnie on the nose! LOL
I hope you've enjoyed the card, if you have be sure to check out all the other Design Team member creations and maybe have a try at the sketch (or the buttons!) yourself.
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge 12 - Running Around In Circles!

Hello and Happy Hump Day!
It's time for another new challenge at The Pixie Cottage and this time we want to see you running around in circles! That's right, as long as it has a circle on it you can enter! We know there many of you out there that downloaded our free image and we'd love to see you use it in this challenge if you could although it's not a requirement.

I have a big list of challenges with this card:

Sweet Stampin had a "Spring is in the Air" theme
Lots to Do had a Springtime theme
Crafty Cardmakers had a Spring into Spring theme
The Shabby Tearoom want Spring and Stitching
Incy Wincy want Easter or Spring
Lexis want Easter
Stamp With Fun want Easter
Magical Crafts have an Easter/Spring theme
Crazy 4 Challenges had a Spring theme
Secret Crafter said Spring has Sprung
Allsorts had a Spring is in The Air theme
Crafty Catz had a Spring theme
Frosted Designs want you to Think Spring
Paper Garden want Spring too
Challenge Up Your Life want Spring Flowers
My Grafico wanted 3's
The Pink Elephant had the perfect sketch
Rosie Dees wanted Spring with Green, Yellow and White



Card Recipe:
Image - Chickadee-da-dum by ArTish for The Pixie Cottage
Paper - DCWV The Flower Shower
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - American Crafts
Flower - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Printed



Inside is more dp and a message mat.



Now tell me you can look at this silly trio without smiling!
Now it's your turn to get out your punches, die cuts and circle cutters and join in the fun!
Katie

Just For You Mum! - Adapting a Fall Stamp for Spring

Happy Tuesday!
It's snowing here in TX!!! (well it is a little South of us and it should be with us soon)
And to celebrate I'm doing a card just because I can :)
There are lots of challenges I wanted to work with this week so I made another card to go in the box of "someday I'll send it"

These are the ones this one covers:

Friday Sketchers had a fabulous sketch
Cutie Stampers wanted Yellow and Birthday
Pennys wanted Birthday
Quixotic wanted Something for Mum
Magical Crafts wanted Something for Mum too
Secret Crafter had a Mum theme too
Cuttlebug Challenges wanted Stitching (I did faux) (and a CB product)
Inky Impressions want you to Think Spring
Belli wanted Butterflies (one on the hatpin)
ABC Design had a Birthday theme
Stamp With Fun want Stitching
Practical Scrappers want to see Stamps
Flourishes want Flowers
Jacksonbelle want Flowers too!



Card Recipe

Image - Fall Friends (I had to do a very delicate "ink job" on the stamp so that the Pumpkin part didn't stamp so I could replace it with flowers)
Paper - K&Co
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug Happy Birthday




Inside is more dp and a faux stitched message mat.



I hope this shows that this super cute Scarecrow stamp from Fall can be adapted to fit another season.
Try the technique for yourself, it opens up a whole new use for your seasonal stamps!
Katie