Pile It On - You're the sprinkle to my life

Happy Sunday!
I hope you are all well and enjoying the long Memorial Day weekend.
It's time for another challenge at Pile It On and this week we want to see what is the "Sprinkle" in your life!
Our sponsors are Squigglefly and they provided some images will "sprinkles" for us to play with!

Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes or Your Favorite...
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Crafting For All Seasons - Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
Stamps R Us - Going Digital
Clear It Out - Any Coloring Medium
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Sketch
Penny's - Here Comes Summer
Pixie Dust - Tooty Fruity
Digital Tuesday - Texture
Crafty Emma's - Embossing
My Time To Craft - Use a Die Cut
Going Grey - 3 Patterned Papers
Bloggers Challenge - Make It Shimmer
Fun With Shapes and More - Everything Must Sparkle

Card Recipe:
Image - Sundae Sweet Treats
Paper - My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy Tickled Pink
Medium - Copic Markers
Embossing - Cuttlebug Bloom Dots
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Diamond Fence Trim
Glitter - Stickles Fruit Punch and Stickles Copper
Die Cut - Spellbinders Labels One
Chipboard Flowers - Colorbok
Cherry Accents - Mary Englebreit
Sentiment - Heidi Grace

I added Stickles in two colors to the ice cream and cherries for a little extra shine and I can say that in this hot Texas weather I sure could do with a Sundae this Sunday!
Katie

Ooh La La - Tilda on a trip to Paris!

I thought it was time to get a little Tilda out and ink her up, but which one? There are so many cute ones and choosing was hard. But when I saw the challenge at Totally Tilda I knew I was going to play and it really narrowed down my choice. I was going to use my little Spanish Tilda but then in a box of stickers I found this Eiffel Tower and so knew Paris would be my destination!

Challenges:
Woodware USA - Anything Goes
Aud's Sentiments - Anything Goes
Totally Tilda - Around The World (but not England) (I chose France)
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Travel/Destinations
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Distressing
Truly Scrumptious - Vintage
Crop Stop - Vintage
Peartree Designs - Lace
The Shabby Tea Room - Lace and Doilies
Anything Goes - Pearls
Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle and Bling
Bearly Mine - Inside Out (decorate inside too)
Fresh Brewed Monthly Challenge - Flowers
The Paper Variety - Flowers
Paper Romance - Paper Flowers
Crafts and Me - Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Image - Stylish Tilda
Paper - Botanicals by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Doily Die - French Pastry by Cheery Lynn Designs
Roses - Prima
Pearls - Recollections
Lace - Offray
Ribbon - Michaels
Eiffel Tower and Postmark - The Paper Studio

I think she certainly does look "stylish" enough for a trip to "The City of Lights" and I hope you do too!
Katie

Digital Delights - Shabby Little Daisy!

It's time for more new creations from the team at at Digital Delights!
This week I used one of the latest releases, a great set of friendly flowers with cute sentiments to match.
I decided to use a vintage style paper and go with a little Shabby Chic style of card.

Challenges:
Aud's Sentiments - Anything Goes
Pixie Dust - Say It Out Loud (use a sentiment)
Stampin B's - Use a Square, Circle and Oval
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Distressing
Truly Scrumptious - Vintage
Your Next Stamp - Texture
Stampin Vacation Start Here - Nestabilities
Bearly Mine - Inside Out (decorate inside too)
Papertake Weekly - Dimension (layer something)
My Partner In Crafting Crime - Layer It Up!
My Time To Craft - On The Spot (use something with spots on it)
Fresh Brewed - Cute and Sweet
Fresh Brewed Monthly Challenge - Flowers
The Paper Variety - Flowers
Peartree Designs - Lace
The Shabby Tea Room - Lace and Doilies
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Wags N Whiskers - Ribbons and Pearls
Anything Goes - Pearls
Card Cupids - Use 2 Colors (I chose Yellow and Blue)

Card Recipe:
Image - Flowerpot Faces and Sentiment
Paper - Daisy Dear by Heidi Grace for Colorbok
Medium - Copic Markers
Oval Die - Spellbinders
Doily Die - French Pastry by Cheery Lynn
Lace and Ribbon - Offray
Pearls - The Paper Studio

I printed the flower 3 times and colored, cut and layered the image.
I inked all the edges and die cuts to give it a vintage look.
I love the look of ribbon and lace together and the gathered ribbon works wonderfully like this. I finished both the outside and in with pearls.
I hope you like this and be sure to check out the rest of the work of the design team at Digital Delights

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #65 - For Mom or a Special Lady

It's Wednesday so it means another challenge over at The Pixie Cottage!
As always we have 2 parts to the challenge and you can choose either or both to play along with.
We have a fabulous sketch and our theme this week is "For Mom or a Special Lady"

Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique or both!
The randomly picked winner will win two stamps of their choice from the Pixie Cottage Collection. The winner and the Top 3 favorites will be announced on the Friday after the challenge ends.

Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - For A Lady
CCEE Stampers - Doily or Lace
Pixie Dust - Lace
The Shabby Tea Room - Lace and Doilies
Wags N Whiskers - Ribbons and Pearls
Anything Goes - Pearls
Fresh Brewed Monthly Challenge - Flowers

Card Recipe:
Image - Pleasant Porch by ARTish
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Annalee by Prima
Flowers - Prima
Lace - Offray
Pearls - Recollections
Ribbon - Unknown
Sentiment - Printed

This background stamp is gorgeous just by itself.
I know if I had a chance to sit quietly on this porch swing then I'd grab that chance with both hands!
We hope you have a special lady in your life that needs a card and if so please link it in with us over at The Pixie Cottage!
Katie

Pile It On - Romantic and Fancy - It's a Bunny Wedding!

"Romantic and Fancy" is the challenge theme this week at Pile It On
We are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps so be sure to join for a chance to win something wonderful from them!

Challenges:
Digi's With Attitude! - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Something Digi
Crafty Ann's - Elvis Song Inspiration (Love Me Tender)
Whimsie Doodles - Punch It Out
Thrilling Thursday - Get Punchy
Pals Paper Arts - Punches
Stamptacular Sunday - Buttons, Bling and Bloom
Card Making Mama's - Embellish it
Charisma Cardz - Bling and Sparkle
Crop Stop - Shine On
Frosted Designs - Bling
Paper Romance - Bling
Scrap, Stamp and Doodle - Glitz
Flutterby - Buttons and Bows (and Butterfly, Angel or Fairy)
Pixie Dust - Fluttering Wings
Secret Crafter - Butterflies
Little Miss Muffet - Stitching
If The Shoe Fits - Stitching
Belli - Seamstress
Wags N Whiskers - Ribbons and Pearls
Cute Card Thursday - Couples
Southern Girls - Animals
CRAFT - Photo Inspiration (wedding)
Amber's Crafts - Flowers
Crafty Creations - Bunnies
Alys Sunday - Bunnies
Desert Island Crafts - Pick 3 or more (I picked ribbon, bow, pearls)
Reasonable Ribbon - Dies and/or Punches and Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Image - Love Bunnies by Whimsy Stamps
Paper - The Linen Closet by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Spellbinders Fleur De Lis (used as a mat and as the corners)
Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Bow - Offray
Doily - Wilton
Pearls - The Paper Studio and Recollections
Rhinestone Flowers - The Paper Studio

This little loved up couple sure are cute! I've had the image for ages but never used it and I certainly think it is romantic enough for this challenge!
We hope to see you "putting on the Ritz" for our "Romantic and Fancy" challenge this week at Pile It On

A Cheeky Little Valentine

I couldn't share this one until today as it is actually my husbands Valentine cutie!
(that's why you don't see the inside of this one ;))
We may be English but now live in Texas and he knows I have a little penchant for a good "Cowboy Romance" book and so I thought I could be his Cowgirl for the day :)
Also this is my first Kenny K card, some of my favorite card makers use these super images but I've not played with one until this card.

Challenges:
Kenny K - Circles
Cards For Men - 1 Image, 2 Papers and 3 Embellishments
Bearly Mine - For Men/Boys
Ooh La La - For Someone Special
ECP - Love
Totally Gorjuss - Love
Crafty Calendar - Love
Rainbow Lady - All About Love
Dutch Dare - Love Is In The Air
One Stop Crafts - Love Is In The Air
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Love Is In The Air
Crafty Ann's - Love Is All Around
Winter Wonderland - For The One I Love
The Sisterhood of Crafters - In Love With Valentines
Crafty Sentiments - Valentines
Crafty Purple Frog - Valentines/Romance
AI Factory - Valentines
My Sheri - Valentines
CRAFT - Valentines
Sew Many Challenges - Valentines
Stampin For The Weekend - Valentines
Delcious Doodles- Valentines
Pixie Dust - Be My Valentine
Crafty Catz - Love/Valentines
Stamp Something - Something for Your Valentine
For Fun - Hearts
Stampin Royalty - Hearts
The Stamp Man - Hearts
Crazy 4 Challenges - Hearts
The Crafty Pad - Hearts

Card Recipe:
Image - Cheyenne by Kenny K
Paper - 365 Degrees by Pink Paislee
Medium - Copic Markers
Corners and Heart - Colorbok
Brads - Spare Parts

I used the great box tutorial on Rach's blog and it is so quick and easy.
Anyway, if my sweetie is reading this, Happy Valentines Day!!!

Cooking It Up #42 - Show Me Your Favorite Ribbons and Brads

It's time for the final challenge of the year at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge.

The recipe this time is:
Your favorite technique
Some ribbons
and
Some brads!

Challenges:
Paper Issues - Holiday Hookup
AI Factory - Happy Holidays
Stamp With Fun - Christmas
Digital Tuesday - Sparkling Christmas (using a digi)
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes Christmas
Twisted Thursday - Holidays with Glitter and Bling
Cupcake Craft - Non Traditional Christmas
Incy Wincy - Non Traditional Christmas
Pollycraft - White Christmas
Cupcake Inspirations - Blue and White cupcake with a Snowflake
Crafts and Me - Moody Blues
Pixie Dust - Let It Snow
Totally Gorjuss - Snow
Fairy Knoll - Frost
Paper Cutz - Snowman
Paper Playtime - Snowman
Daring Cardmakers - Snow Much Fun!
Wags N Whiskers - Snowflakes
Woodware - Winter
Catch The Bug - Winter Wonderland
The Pink Elephant - Winter Wonderland
Stamptacular Sunday - Winter Wishes
Craft Your Days Away - Punch It Out
I Did It - Creative Folds
Bunny Zoe - Sparkle and Shine
Character Cafe - Glitter
Frosted Designs - Ribbons
If The Shoe Fits - Texture
Paper Romance - Heavy Metal
Stamp Something - Something Digi
There She Goes - Use Your Stash (paper is years old!)
Mad For Markers - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - There's No Place Like a Snow Home by Robyn's Fetish
Paper - Colorbok
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - Michaels
Metal letters and brads - Making Memories
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Glitter - Stickles

I cut out the second snowman image and added foam underneath him before sticking him on top of the original.
I colored him first and then added Stickles in 3 colors to give him some Sparkle for Christmas!
We'd love to see you play along with my recipe!
Katie

Trick or Treat!!!! It's a Pixie Cottage Blog Hop :)

We at the Pixie Cottage thought it would be fun to have a little Fall Fun by showing you some of our wonderful digital stamps/images!!

Below you will find a list of the design team participants. Stop by each of their blogs and leave them a comment as well as sign up to follow their blog and you will be put in a drawing for our prize.

What are we giving away?? Well, I think it should be some digital images since this blog hop is all about digital!!!

1st Place--Pick any 5 digital images from The Pixie Cottage

2nd Place Pick any 3 digital images from The Pixie Cottage

3rd Place Pick any 1 digital image from The Pixie Cottage

Here is the list of blogs in the order you should visit them: (remember to leave a comment/and follow at each blog as well as leave a comment here to be put in the drawing for the prizes)

1. Katie
2. Tanya
3. Cheryl
4. Adrina
5. Anne
6.Carla
7. Davi
8. Denise
9. Peggy
10. Tish
11. Sharon
12. Lisette
13. Sadia

Now before you run off to see Tanya be sure you stay around to follow me and see my card!

Challenges:
Creative Cottage - Embossing
Shellys - Tic Tac Toe (I chose Brads, Punch and Embossing)
Paper Pretties - Make a Square Card
Simon Says Stamp - Punch Em
The Crafty Pad - Stitching
Stempeltraeume - Favorite Animal
Paper Playtime - Halloween
Tuesday Taggers - Halloween and Deep Purple
A Crafty Little Place - Spooky
Crafty Creations - Halloween or Autumn
Lil Red Wagon - Halloween
Wild Flower Patch - Halloween
Dutch Dare - Halloween
AI Factory - Halloween
Create With Connie and Mary - Halloween
Paper Play - Halloween
Pixie Dust - Halloween
Treehouse Stamps - Halloween
Crafty Catz - Halloween
Twisted Thursday - Trick or Treat
Daring Cardmakers - Trick or Treat
Oh Alice - Halloween

Card Recipe:
Image - Licorice the Cat
Paper - K and Co Spooktacular
Medium - Copic Markers
Border and Corner Punches - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - K and Co Spooktacular
Ribbon - American Crafts
Brads - Spare Parts

Now you've see Licorice the Kitty HOP HOP HOP ALONG to see Tanya and carry on with the rest of the HOPPING FUN!

Katie

Cooking It Up #26 - Little Darling with Pixie Dust

It's time for a new Cooking It Up With Katie challenge and this week we are sponsored by Pixie Dust Studios who gave us such cute images to work with!

The recipe this week is:

Boy
Checks/Gingham/Plaid
Brown

Now I know I have a girl on the card but I used the "Boy" part of the recipe to help me choose the colors and style of the DP and I hope it works.

Challenges:

Belli - Round and Metal
Paper Romance - Metal Embellishment
The Shabby Tea Room - A Little Bit of Metal
Auds Sentiments - Anything Goes
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open (with an Angel, Fairy or Butterfly)
Craft Your Days Away - With Wings
Cute Card Thursday - Sketch
Pixie Dust - Polka Dots
Clearly Inspired - Cute and Fuzzy (the image is cute and the felt accents are fuzzy)
Res Q - "Some Me Time" (use favorite things, mine are my Copic's, border punches and Basic Grey paper :))
Stamp Something - Digital Something
Stampin B's - Circle, Flower and Die Cut
Totally Stampalicious - At least 2 textures (I used felt, metal and acrylic)



Card Recipe:
Image - Pixie Dust
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Basic Grey Max and Whiskers
Sentiment - K&Co
Border Punch - Fiskars Apron Lace
Felt Accents - Colorbok
Die Cut - Quickutz






I just love this little image, she looks to me like a Girl Scout Brownie Fairy!
The brown and blue tones to me are very relaxing and the Max and Whiskers papers are just wonderful!
I hope to see you joining in at Cooking It Up With Katie with your creations!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #20 - Anything But A Card - Guest Sketch

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and another sketch from our fabulous Special Guest Sketcher Jay Jay!



Along with the sketch we have the added challenge of making "Anything But A Card"
You don't have to use a Pixie Cottage Stamp to enter but if you do have why not try out!
Remember you can use the sketch, the theme or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like!



Challenges for this project:

Pixie Dust - Pretty in Pink
Paper Romance - Pink and Bling
Frosted Designs - Pick 5. Punches, Ribbon, Pink, Flowers, Buttons
Thrilling Thursday - Recipe: Ribbon, Bling and Embossing
Stamptacular Sunday - Buttons and Bows
Wee Memories - Buttons, Brads and Bling (any of them)
Digi Doodle Shop - Flowers
One Stitch At A Time - Pack A Punch
Alphabet Challenge - P is for Punches
Tanda Stamps - Beautiful Borders
Sew Many Challenges - Stitching
Pollycraft - In Stitches
Practical Scrappers - Stitching
Little Paper Shop - Sewing
Alys - Get Dotty
Wild Flower Patch - Polka Dots
Stempeltraeume - Packaging (a box)
Gingersnaps - Go 3D
Simon Says Stamp - Make a Gift
The Pink Elephant - Ribbon and Sparkles
Everybody Art - In The Garden



Recipe:
Image - Pumpkin Fairy Hannah by Sandra Hammer
Paper - Glitz and Glitter KI Memories
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Flower Punch - EK Success
Chipboard Corners - Colorbok
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Scoring Tool (for box) - Martha Stewart Score Board





I love how this turned out and it was nice to make something other than a card for a change.
We'd all love to see you playing over at The Pixie Cottage so grab your supplies and get creating!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #31 - Fancy Fold

It's time for another new sketch from Pam at The Pixie Cottage and a new technique challenge to go along with it!



This is a fairly simple sketch as we'd like you to also make the card with a "Fancy Fold"! This can be an easel card, a gatefold, a z- fold, anything other than the regular one fold card. Of course you can just do the sketch but it wouldn't be a challenge without a little thinking would it! LOL
You don't have to use a Pixie Cottage Stamp to enter but if you do have why not try out!
Remember you can use the sketch, the theme or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like!

Challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop - Use Your Favorite Stamp
Craft Your Days Away - Favorite Thing
Sentiment Sundays - Anything Goes
Drunken Stampers - Masking
Pixie Dust - Buttons
Crafty Catz - Buttons and Bows
Curtain Call - Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Early Expresso, Very Vanilla
Cupcake Inspirations - Brown and Orange/Peach cupcakes
Creative Stamp Friends - Friends
Our Creative Corner - Embossing
Penny's - Anything Goes
Rosie Dees = More Than One Fold
Anything Goes - Folds
Crazy Challenge - Forest Friends/Back to Nature



Card Recipe:
Image - Apple Hannah by Sandra Hammer and Orchid Park by ALota Rubber Stamps
Paper - K&Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Prima
Border Punch - Martha Stewart and Fiskars



This is the card open.



There is a panel on the back for the message.



Here is a close up of the image. I masked the two images together and love how well they work together.
We'd love to see you over at The Pixie Cottage!

Lily Boo Too - Anything Goes!

It's time for another monthly challenge at Lily Boo Too and this month it's easy as the theme is ANYTHING GOES!!!
You MUST use a Lily Boo image to play so grab your favorite at Cuddly Buddy or there are TONS of FREEBIES to found just by clicking HERE

Challenges:

AI Factory - Christmas
Tuesday Taggers - Christmas
Tuesday Throwdown - Christmas
Tellens Place - Christmas
Lil Red Wagon - Christmas
Stamp Something - Christmas
Our Creative Corner - Christmas
Auds Sentiments - Christmas Sentiment
Cupcake Craft - Pastel Christmas
Pixie Dust - Blue, Grey/Silver and White
Kah Wink E Dink - Anything Goes as long as it's Cool (what's cooler than a snowman?)
Thoughtful Thursdays - Weather
Just Inspirational - Sketch



Card Recipe:
Image - Lily Boo
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Walmart
Flowers - Colorbok





So grab your favorite Lily Boo image (or grab a freebie to play with) and comes and join in!

Pile It On - Quirky

Happy Sunday!
I'm super excited as today I go to the class to get Copic Certified!
I've been collecting and using these markers for over a year now but there has never been a class near enough for me to go. I'm really happy that Marianne Walker, head of Copic education, will be teaching the class and that I'll soon be able to add the Certified banner to my blog!
Anyway enough of my excitement and on to today's card.
As it is indeed Sunday it means another chance to Pile It On and have some super challenge fun!
The team at Pile It On were this week challenged to create something a little Quirky and we were helped along by the wonderful images from our super sponsor Bug A Boo Stamps!!

As always we had to add more challenges to our cards and we hope you will too:

Papertake Weekly - Fun Fun Fun!
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch
Stamp Something - Stamp Something Digi
Busy Beauties Creation Station - Anything Goes
Tuesday Taggers - Touchy Feely Texture. Sponsored this week by Tanda Stamps
Meljens - Dry Embossing
Crazy Challenge - Black, White and Pink
Create 4 Fun - Black, White and another color
AI Factory - Anything Goes with a Punch
Pixie Dust - Punch It Out
Wee Memories - Punch It
Your Next Stamp - Border Punch
Charisma - Flowers
Alphabet Challenge - F is for Flowers
Stempel-Magie - Flowers
Paper Make Up - Flowers
Paperplay - Flowers and Sparkle
Digi Doodle Shop - Buttons
Frosted Designs - Buttons
ResQ - Close It Up, use Stitching, Buttons etc
Creative Inspirations Challenge - Stitching/Faux Stitching
Alys - Stiching (real or faux)
Digital Tuesday - Let's Get Trendy (fashion trend)
Oh Alice - Show Us Your Muchness (your signature style). Mine is definitely a "more is more" style
Rainbow Lady - Faces



Card Recipe:
Image - Overdrawn Ruby by Bug a Boo Stamps
Paper - Papermania
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Spare Parts
Buttons - Spare Parts and Dress It Up
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Trim - Joanns





This is such a fun image and I love the sentiment.
Perfect for your best girlfriend on any occasion!
Katie