Birthday Wishes with Teddy Bea

I gave a peek at my new obsession yesterday with a card featuring Teddy Bo and today here comes along his girlfriend Teddy Bea!
I adore this image and I'll admit I have a sheet of her printed out ready to color again. I hope you like her as much as I do.

Challenges:
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes
The Playdate Cafe - Photo Inspiration (Shabby Chic Colors)
Colour Q - Kraft, Blushing Bride, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette and White
Teddy Bo and Co - In The Pink (and a Teddy Bo image)
Lexi's - Use a Bear
Crafty Emma's - Cute and Cuddly
Critter Challenge - Use an Animal
Going Grey - Animal Antics
Fuzzy Wuzzy - Happy Birthday (must have an animal)
Ooh La La - For Someone Special
Inspiration Ave - Furry
One Stitch At A Time - Pretty
Sparkles Forum - Fairies
Fab N Funky - Tempting Texture
CCEE - Embossing
Do You Stack Up? - Ribbon
Flourishes - Button Up
Tuesday Throwdown - Buttons
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Lace and Buttons
Flutterby - 3 Hearts (with a Butterfly, Fairy or Angel)
For Fun - Hearts
Papertake Weekly - Have A Heart
Crafty Cardmakers - Hearts
Stampin Royalty - Hearts
2 Sisters - Hearts
Crazy 4 Challenges - Hearts
Samuel Taylor's - Copic's

Card Recipe:
Image - When You Wish Upon A Star by Teddy Bo
Paper - Lace and Linen Stack by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Lace - Offray
Scrabble Tiles - Hobby Lobby
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug
Pearls - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Heart Rhinestones - Stash

After coloring Bea I added Smooch Illuminate paint to her wings and star and when it had dried I added Liquid Embossing in Glass for shine. I added glaze to her boots too. I love how the paint shines through the glaze. I've had the wooden tile letters for years and although they make for a thicker card (wouldn't put her in an envelope) she's not going anywhere, she's staying with me and so it'll be fine :)
To make this obsession a triple threat be sure to tune back in on Tuesday for another project topped with a Teddy!
Have a great Sunday!
Katie

Something Special with Teddy Bo

After seeing this gorgeous card at Rach's blog I just had to go and find the images.
It is a company based in the UK called Teddy Bo and their bears are just to die for! So sweet and soft, just like an old fashioned teddy should be.
I bought a few images and just had to play.

Challenges:
Critter Challenge - Use an Animal
Going Grey - Animal Antics
Inspiration Ave - Furry
Fuzzy Wuzzy - Happy Birthday (must have an animal)
Lexi's - Use a Bear
Crafty Emma's - Cute and Cuddly
Bearly Mine - Card for a Man/Boy
Ooh La La - For Someone Special
Flourishes - Button Up
Tuesday Throwdown - Buttons
Fab N Funky - Tempting Texture
Do You Stack Up? - Ribbon
For Fun - Hearts
Papertake Weekly - Have A Heart
Crafty Cardmakers - Hearts
Paper Playtime - Hearts
Stampin Royalty - Hearts
Totally Papercrafts - Clean and Simple (for me this is as CAS as it gets!)

Card Recipe:
Image - On His Tod by Teddy Bo
Paper - The Natural Stack by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Basic Grey/K and Co
Felt Ribbon and Button - Stash

This gorgeous guy was an absolute dream to color, so much space for shading and so easy to see where to shade.
I must admit to being a little obsessed already with these images and you can see another wonderful creation tomorrow so be sure to drop back by.
Katie

Designed 2 Delight - Sweet Pea Spring Kaela

Over at Card Ideas the team have been hard at work showing off the new images from Faith from Designed 2 Delight.
I simply adore the new "Spring Kaela" and just had to join in with the fun!

Challenges:
Pear Tree Designs - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Crafting Life's Pieces - Sketch
Sweet Stampin - Spring Flowers
Phindy's Place - Spring
Alys - Bling It Up
One Stitch at A Time - Do It With a Digi
Happileigh Scrappin - Photo Inspiration (Spring Birdhouse, I chose the Lilac and Green colors)
Kaboodle Doodles - Ribbon
Do You Stack Up? - Ribbon
Fab N Funky - Tempting Texture

Card Recipe:
Image - Spring Kaela
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Kaisercraft
Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart
Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Roses - Wild Orchid
Rhinestones - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Sentiment - Joann's
Button Brads - Making Memories

I hope you like this pretty little girl and will come along to see all the other fabulous creations at Card Ideas.
Also check back there tomorrow for their latest challenge.
Katie

Digital Delights - Moonwalk Billy

It's time for more new creations from the team at at Digital Delights!

Challenges:
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Digi Something
One Stitch at A Time - Do It With a Digi
Kaboodle Doodles - Ribbon
Bearly Mine - Card for a Man/Boy

Card Recipe:
Image - Moonwalk Billy
Paper - Basic Grey Oliver
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - The Paper Studio
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Offray
Rhinestones - Michaels $1 Spot

Billy has got out of his rocket that he zoomed off in last week and landed on the moon!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #56 - Sketch and/or Ribbon

It's Wednesday so it means another challenge 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 "Ribbon" and we know how much card makers love their ribbon!!

Challenges:
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Pear Tree Designs - Anything Goes
CCEE Stampers - Punches
Paper Play - Stamp It Out (use an image)
Kaboodle Doodles - Ribbon
Woodware - Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Image - Hoo Loves You
Paper - Cosmo Cricket Delovely
Medium - Copic Markers
Pearls - Michaels $1 spot
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Michaels
Die Cut - Spellbinders

This is the sketch that is one of your challenge options.

These cuties would certainly brighten up anyone's day.
We hope to see you come along with your ribbons and play at The Pixie Cottage!

Cooking It Up #48 - Show me your Red Ribbon Corners!

It's a new challenge at my Cooking It Up With Katie
Also we are looking for a few new members to add to our merry band and all the details can be found over at the challenge. We are looking for full time members and Guest too so why not give it a shot!
On to the challenge, we are sponsored by the fabulous Digi's With Attitude this week and had some fun images to play with.

The ingredients this week are:
Use some Red
Add a little Ribbon
And don't forget the Corners!

Challenges:
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Digi Something
CRAFT - Die Cuts
Cute Card Thursday - Banish the Blues (use a funny image or sentiment)
Paper Play - Stamp It Out (use an image)
Phindy's Place - Embossing
One Stitch at A Time - Do It With a Digi
Kaboodle Doodles - Ribbon
Woodware - Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Image - Texting Tween by Digi's with Attitude
Sentiment - Sentiment Set 1 by Digi's with Attitude
Paper - My Sweet Cherry Pie by Nikki Sivils
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Spellbinders and Quickutz
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Embossing Folder - Sizzix

This sassy girl certainly made me smile and I hope she will do the same for you too.
Be sure to check out the challenge and if you would like to be a part of our team, either as a full time member or as a Guest Designer then be sure to get all the details on our Design Team Call.

Pile It On - Bright and Breezy

Many of you have been witnessing Mother Nature in abundance recently with tons of snow, ice and just general freezing weather!
Well over at Pile It On we have decided that this week we are going to bring in a little sunshine into those grey days we our super new challenge!
The title of the challenge is "Bright and Breezy" and we want you to forget about the cold Winter weather and show us your colors!
So you can do anything theme you like as long as the colors need a pair of sunglasses for you to look at them!

For this challenge we are sponsored by the fabulous Meljen's Designs!



Challenges:
Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Little Claire's Designs - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Digi Something
Paper Play - Stamp It Out (use an image)
Cupcake Crafts - Old MacDonald Had A Farm
Belli Challenge - Jewelry (I used Gems and Pearls)
CCEE Stampers - Punches
For Fun - Pick Spring or Winter (from Groundhog Day)
Creative Craft World - Love
Simon Says Stamp - Love
Paper Crafting Journey - Love
Thrilling Thursday - Love
Allsorts - Love Love Love
Pennys - Hearts a Flutter
Raise The Bar - Hearts
Simply Create - Hearts
Digi Doodle Shop - Valentines
Card Makin Mama's - Valentines
Stampin For The Weekend - Valentines
Crazy 4 Challenges - Valentines
Secret Crafter - Valentines
Prairie Fairy - For A Sweetheart
The Paper Variety - Photo Inspiration (I picked the hearts and colors)
Auds Sentiments - Corny Valentines Sentiment
Cute Card Thursday - Banish the Blues (use a funny image or sentiment)
Stamping Vacation Pick 3 - Love, Heart and Border Punch
Stamping Vacation Music In You - Love Of My Life
Stamping Vacation Occasion Oasis - Valentines Day
Stamping Vacation Extra Extra - Sweethearts
Stamping Vacation No No - No Tags
Stamping Vacation Home Sweet Home - Romance

Card Recipe:
Image - Bird's Spring Trinkets
Paper - Fine and Dandy Tickled Pink by My Minds Eye
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington Font
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Circle Cutter - Martha Stewart
Rhinestone - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Pearls - Queen and Co

I added Liquid Embossing to his boots and his banner to give a little shine :)
I hope he can banish the winter blues away from you for at least a short while today and that you'll come along and play with us at Pile It On!
Katie

1st Anniversary BLOG HOP at Pink Gem!!! - And a New Challenge too!

It is the 1st Anniversary over at A Gem Of A Challenge and we are celebrating with a Blog Hop!
As it is the challenges birthday we thought we'd have fun with our blog hop and so along the way you must find the Birthstone of all our team members!
You should have to come to me from Sharon, if you didn't then please go back to the start at A Gem Of A Challenge and start hopping along so you don't miss any of the chances to win!
Remember you need to gather the name of the Birthstone of all the Design Team Members to be in with a chance of winning the Grand Prize!
After looking at my card and commenting be sure to hop over to Caroline to carry along with the fun!
Now my birthstone, I could make it easy and tell you but first I'll give a few clues:
My birthday is in November
In it's purest form it is colorless but....
It is sometimes Blue....... but can be other colors too.
The Orange version is the state gemstone of Utah and the Blue version the state gemstone of Texas (luckily I live there as I have one on my finger!)
But making it even more eerie is that the one on my finger is called a "London" ***** (see it has 5 letters) and I'm English and London is the capital city of England!
If you haven't worked it out yet then CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWER

OK of course there is also our challenge and this week we'd like to see GEMS on your card along with the wonderful sketch that you can find on the A Gem Of A Challenge blog.
Also over there are all the details of the hop and you can see the wonderful prizes on offer!

Challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday - Whateva/Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Girlie
Paper Play - Stamp It Out (use an image)
Some Odd Girl - Scallops
Southern Girls - Dry Embossing
Phindy's Place - Embossing
CCEE Stampers - Punches
CRAFT - Die Cuts
Belli Challenge - Jewelry (I used Gems)

Card Recipe:
Image - Moon Baby by Pink Gem Designs
Paper - Cutie Pie Digital Set
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Fairy Dust by Pink Gem Designs
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder - Snow Cap by Basic Grey for Sizzix
Gems - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Die Cut - Labels 3 by Spellbinders
Ribbon - Michaels

This is a brand new stamp and one of the cutest baby ones I've seen in ages! My next door neighbor is pregnant right now and as soon as I find out what the little one is going to be I'll be coloring up another card right away!
Now it's time for you to hop over to Caroline and carry along with the fun! Be sure to keep looking for the Birthstones along the way :)
BTW If you didn't click the link above my Birthstone is a TOPAZ!

Simply add your name to the Link Gadget below to enter my draw to win 2 Pink Gem Designs digi stamps OR 1 set of Pink Gem Designs Digi Papers. My winner will be drawn at random on 19th Feb. All winners will also be announced on the Challenge blog on the 20th Feb





Good luck!
Katie

Designed 2 Delight - Bears Big Birthday Gift!

The designers at Card Ideas get to work with the fabulous designs from Faith at Designed 2 Delight and today it's my turn to showcase one of the super sweet images!
Bears Big Gift is so cute and would work well for many "celebration" cards. I have done it as a Birthday Card but it works equally well for Christmas, a Baby Shower, a Bridal Shower and more!

Challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday - Whateva/Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Digi Something
Corrosive - Button It Up
Dutch Dare - Buttons
Tuesday Throwdown - Stitching
CCEE Stampers - Punches
CRAFT - Die Cuts
Paper Play - Stamp It Out (use an image)
Stamps R Us - Animals
Alys - For The Guys
The Crafty Pad - Something for The Boys
Bearly Mine - Card For A Boy
Fuzzy Wuzzy - Happy Birthday (must have animal)
Drunken Stampers - Birthday
Crazy Challenge - Happy Birthday

Card Recipe:
Image - Bears Big Gift
Paper - Fine and Dandy True Blue pad by My Minds Eye
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Doodlebug Designs Birthday Stamps
Die Cut - Large Labels by Spellbinders
Punch - Morroco Lace Edger by EK Success
Buttons - Michaels $1 Spot
Chalk Ink - Cats Eye in Chestnut Roan
Gloss - Liquid Embossing in Clear Glass by Plaid (I got mine at Michaels)

I printed 3 copies of Bear and colored them and cut them and layered them (with the gift and arm being the only part on the top layer). I used regular white fun foam between the layers, so much cheaper than foam pads, I can cut it to size and it is a little thinner so works well when you are adding more than one layer.
I added Liquid Embossing in Clear Glass to his boots and inked around all the mats for a little extra touch.
I really love how he turned out and hope you do too:)
Be sure to check back tomorrow for a new card for Pink Gem Designs (and a very special Blog Hop too!) and then on Sunday it's Pile It On time!

Digital Delights New Releases - Billy and Rocket

It's that time again, New Releases at Digital Delights!
And for those of you who get stuck making cards for boys you are going to just love this release!
Blast Off Billy is heading your way and he is perfect for Birthday cards, invitations, party favors, scrapbook pages and much more!

Challenges:
Totally Gorjuss - As You Like It
Stamptacular Sunday - Whateva/Anything Goes
Digi's With Attitude - Digi People
Tellens Place - Make It For A Guy
Alys - For The Guys
The Crafty Pad - Something for The Boys
Bearly Mine - Card For A Boy
Drunken Stampers - Birthday
Crazy Challenge - Happy Birthday
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Get Punchy
Corrosive - Button It Up
Dutch Dare - Buttons
Crafty Emma's _ Bold And Bright
Tuesday Throwdown - Stitching

Card Recipe:
Image - Billy Blast Off and Rocket
Paper - Oh Baby Boy by Basic Grey
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Basic Grey Letters
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Buttons - Dress It Up
Ribbon - Offray

I colored two copies of the rocket and cut it out and popped it up on foam on top of the original so it really looks like Billy is standing behind it waiting to climb aboard! I also added Glossy Accents to the windows for some shine and a trio of star shaped buttons as what it a space trip without stars!
I hope you like this and be sure to check out all the new releases at Digital Delights! and see what the rest of the team came up with for this super stamps at the Digital Delights Blog!

Katie