The Pixie Cottage Challenge #33 - Back 2 School

It's another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and we have another fabulous sketch from Pam.
Sadly Pam has had some health issues that have forced her to step down from creating cards for us but she has a lasting legacy here as she created many wonderful sketches and we will continue using them to honor her time with us.



The challenge along with the sketch this week is a great one, "Back To School".
If your children haven't already gone back then they will be super soon and it's the perfect time to celebrate the upcoming school year.

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:

Twisted Thursday - Back to School and Yellow
Frosted Designs - Back To School
Character Cafe - Glaze
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
Stampin For The Weekend - Anything Goes
Stamp Insanity - Button Up Buttercup
Ellephantastic - Male Project
Stempeltraeume - Card for a Man (mine is for a boy)
Let's Ink It Up - Anything Goes plus Yellow
One Stitch at a Time - Say it With Shapes
Crafty Ho's - Photo Inspiration (I did Back to School with it)



Card Recipe:
Image - Udderly Adorable Boy by Alisa Ramirez
Paper - DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Acrylic Letters - Recollections
Buttons - Stash
Sentiment - Printed




I think this little guy really is "adoraBULL" and I added Glossy Accents to his hat to make him super awesome!
I hope all your little ones (and bigger ones too) have got over the 1st Day "Gitters" and are back to enjoying learning and being with their friends.
Be sure to use a little of that time you have on your hands (yeah right Mom's?) and come and show us your creations.

Cooking It Up #23 - Paper Piece A Fruity Circle!

It's time for another challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie and this week we are sponsored by the fabulous Robyn's Fetish!

The recipe for the challenge is:

Get Fruity
Circles
Paper Piecing

And I added a few more to my card too:

Dutch Dare - Anything Goes
Paper Play - Anything Goes
Our Creative Corner - Sketch
Lexi's - Paper Piecing
Bee Crafty - All About The Image (do something other than just color the image)
One Stop Crafts - Patterns
Die Cut Dreams - Gingham
Teddy Stampers - More than 1 shape (square, rectangle and circles (the brads))
Stepel Magie - Circles (the brads)
One Stitch At A Time - Pink
Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly
Stempeltraeume - Photo Inspiration



Card Recipe:
Image - Cutie Patootie Bear
Paper - K&Co Berry Sweet
Medium - Copic Markers
Brads - Target $1 spot
Flowers - Prima
Sentiment - KI Memories





I paper pieced her dress, pockets and flowers.
I hope you like her and I'd love to see you have a go at the challenge too!
We are starting with weekly challenges so there are many more chances to win!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #16 - Floral Fantasy - Guest Sketch

It's Once Upon a Wednesday again at The Pixie Cottage and we have a super Special Guest Sketcher for you today.
It is the fabulous Jacque from Jacques Magnolias and she came up with this fantastic sketch for us.


Please drop over and leave her some love, she is genuinely one of the nicest crafters I've ever met.
Also todays card features some of the fabric flowers I showed you in Saturdays tutorial, if you missed it you can see all the details HERE

Of course I added a few other challenges along the way to help:

Crafty Catz - Stitching
Stamptacular Sunday - "Sew" Special
Daring Cardmakers - Die Cuts
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Our Creative Corner - Blooming Blossoms
Creative Craft Challenges - Blooming Marvellous
One Stitch At A Time - Flowers
Wee Memories - Flowers
Tellens Place - Flowers
Die Cut Dreams - Make Your Own Flowers
Pollycraft - Make Your Own Flowers
Stempeltraeume - Animals
The Pink Elephant - Aqua



Card Recipe:
Image - Buffy the Bunny and Little Chick by Alisa Ramirez for The Pixie Cottage
Paper - DCVW Nanas Nursery Baby Boy
Medium - Copic Markers
Border punches - Martha Stewart Iron Gate and Daisy Dot
Fabric - Walmart
Brads - K&Co
Sentiment - Fiskars
Die Cut - Spellbinders Label 11
Embossing Folder - Sizzix



Inside is more dp and a faux stitched message mat



Here you can see I popped up the flower on Buffys headband and tried to coordinate the colors with the fabric for the flowers.
I hope you like this and we'd love to have you join in with the challenge over at The Pixie Cottage
Katie