It's Magnolia Monday #4! - Summer Fun!

EDITED TO ADD Placed in the Top 3 at Dream Valley Challenges. Thanks so much!!!!


It's Monday so that means another Magnolia card from my and another Magnolia Monday for you to link to!
This weeks we have gone with a Summer theme and if you have a Magnolia card on your blog today then please link it up and we will share the love!

Challenges:
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes (with ribbon etc)
All That Scraps - Anything Goes (with a stamp sold in the store)
Just Magnolia - Anything Goes (with Lace as an optional extra)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Anything Goes
7 Kids College Fund - Sketch
Dutch Magnolia Chickies - Summer
ABC - V is for Variety (use at least 3 different embellishments)
Emerald Faeries - Lots of Bling (3 entries max)
Anything Goes - Masking
Basic Grey - Shabby Chic
The Shabby Tearoom - Embossing
One Stop Craft - Texture
Crafts and Me - Punch It Out
Card Cupids - 3 or More Layers
Dream Valley - Stamp Something (no digi's)
Chamber Maids - 2 different Ribbons or Laces
Diva's by Design - Florals (2 entries only)
Creations by Gill M - Pink and Green and Flowers
Dutch Dare - Pink and Green
Jay Gees Nook - Photo Inspiration (pink, green, flowers, girly, sewing)
CR84FN - Color Combo (light pink, medium green and a neutral)

Card Recipe:
Images - Stump and Bench by Sandra Hammer and Giggling Tilda
Paper - Basic Grey Sugared
Medium - Copic Markers
Pearl Brads - Martha Stewart Brides
Sentiment - Printed
Rhinestones - Michaels
Lace - Offray
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Doily Lace
Ribbon - Stash

I've had this Tilda for a long while but never inked her her up.
I think this is a good use for her and I hope you think she is having some Summer Fun and will come along and link up to share in the love!



Katie

Birthday Fun with Toby Tumble at Cuddly Buddly!

Now last week I announced that I had a new DT position at Cuddly Buddly and this week we are starting the introductions of the new Challenge Design Team Members and I'd love you to go and see them all at the Cuddly Buddly blog
We have new cards , just getting in the swing of things before the new challenges start on July 1st, and I got to work with the super sweet little Toby Tumble

Challenges:
KB Cute - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Something Digi
The Beary Scrap - Sketch
Ooh La La - Happy Birthday
Scrappy Frogs - Happy Birthday
Anita B Stampin - Layers
Digital Tuesday - Animal Friends
Sisterhood of Crafter - Buttons
The Shabby Tearoom - 2 Papers, 4 Buttons, 6 Layers (the buttons have pearls on top)
ABC - V is for Variety, 3 or more different embellishments (I used flowers, buttons, pearls and lace)
Crafts and Me - Punch It Out (inside)
Bunny Zoe's - Lace
Happileigh Scrappin - Lots of Embellishments
House of Gilli - Flowers
Copic Creations - Vintage/Distressed
AI Factory - Distressed

Card Recipe:
Image - Toby Tumble Not Too Much Trouble
Paper - Annalee by Prima
Medium - Copic Markers
Lace - Offray
Pearls - Recollections
Sentiment - Joanns Card Essentials
Flowers - Prima
Buttons - Stash
Embossing Folder - Tim Holtz Regal Flourishes

I printed and colored two copies of the image. I cut out the art with Toby and the gift and popped it up on top for some extra dimension.
I'm really excited about this new team, some fabulous paper crafters, and it is setting up to be a fun Summer!
Katie

Digital Delights - Little Gingers Gift Box and Card Set

It's time for another fabulous sample from Digital Delights and I hope you are going to love this little set perfect for Holiday gift giving!

Challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers - Card and Matching Gift
ABC Challenge - H is for Holidays
Stamp and Create - Tis The Season
Scrappy Frogs - Christmas
Alota Rubber Stamps - Let's Celebrate Christmas
Totally Gorjuss - Traditional Christmas Colors
Reasonable Ribbon - Ribbon and Christmas
Crazy 4 Challenges - Christmas
Flourishes - Just Do It! Make A Christmas card :)
Bee Crafty - Christmas (with a digi)
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Christmas (with a digi)
Stamp Something - Something Digi
Drunken Stampers - Stitching (I did faux)
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Marker Madness
Stamp With Fun - Square
ECP - Red
Sassy Studios - Anything Goes
Going Grey - Inspired by a Song (Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly, Tis the Season to be Jolly)

Card Recipe:
Image - Gingerbread Holiday Set
Paper - DCWV The Christmas Combo
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbons - Stash
Sentiments - The Paper Studio
Border and Corner Punches - Martha Stewart
Flower Punch - EK Success
Bandaid Tin - Provo Craft

These images are so cute and I know I'll be using more of them soon.

A Little Red Cupcake - Designed 2 Delight

Today I have a little tasty treat for you!
It's too easy to just color a cupcake in the usual pastel colors so today I decided to try it with a little more dramatic color combo.
This is one of the fabulous Dollar Delight's from Designed 2 Delight


Challenges:
Cupcake Craft - Sweet Treats
Fresh Brewed Designs - Sweet Treats
Lexi's - Birthdays
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Crafty Purple Frog - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz- Black, White and 1 other color
Everybody Art - Photo Inspiration (a red rose on a black background)

Card Recipe:
Image - Cuppy Cake
Paper - Garden Vignettes
Medium - Copic Markers
Doily - Little Yellow Bicycle
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

I colored another cupcake and popped it on top for dimension.
I think would be a super birthday card for a special girlfriend, do you?
Be sure to drop back tomorrow for two more new cards.

So Sweet you Make Halloween a Treat!

I've had this little rubber stamp for a while and when i saw the sketch challenge at All That Scraps I knew it was time to get her inked up!

Challenges:

ABC - D is for Distressed
The Stampman - Distressing
Tuesday Throwdown - Distressing
Anoyme Scrappere - Vintage
All That Scraps - Sketch
Belli - B Themed Embellishments
Paper Pretties - Pearls, Rhinestones or Glitter
Pals Paper Arts - Halloween
Gingerloft - Happy Haunting
Copic Creations - Shading around an image
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Stamping Vacation No No - No Sparkle
Stamping Vacation Special Month - Fall Hat Month and Sewing Month
Stamping Vacation Music - Black Magic Woman
Alphabet Challenge - U is for Unused Stash (I've had the stamp for a while and never used it and the paper is from last year, I only just got around to using it)
Darkness Inspiration - Witches
Secret Crafter - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Stitching




Card Recipe:
Image - Witch Emma by CC Designs
Medium - Copic Markers and Airbrush System
Paper - Basic Grey Eerie
Sentiment - Crafty Secrets
Distressing tool - Tim Holtz for Ranger
Circle Cutter - Martha Stewart
Buttons - Michaels $1 spot





I airbrushed the background after coloring her and then masking her and I like the effect, I just need to do it more often to get better at it :)

Cooking It Up #28 - You Can Be My Hero

We have another super challenge at my blog Cooking It Up With Katieand this week we are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps



The recipe is:
3 papers
Something Clear
Music/Song


Challenges:

Charisma - Inspired by a Song
The Stampman - Music
Our Creative Corner Sketch - Sketch
Stampin B's - Use a Charm
ABC Challenge - C is for Charms
Totally Papercrafts - Charming
Just Inspirational - Use a Digi
Meljens - Stripes
Ooh La La - Stripes
Digital Tuesday - Dots and Stripes
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Photo Insporation (I chose the spots, stripes and red)
Paper Playtime - Knights, Castles and Damsels in Distress
Alota Rubber Stamps - Fairytales
Going Grey - Children
Speedy The Cat's Friends - 5 of Something (used 5 dewdrops)
Cowgirl Sunday - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes




Card Recipe:
Image - Knight Connor
Paper - Basic Grey Oliver
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed
Dewdrops - Robins Nest
Charm - Hobby Lobby





This is such a cute little guy, perfect for a birthday card or a Good Luck card.
I hope you like him and that you'll come along and play with me and the team at Cooking It Up With Katie this week!

My BlogAversary!!! A Little Candy and a New Card too!

A year ago yesterday I first put fingers to my keyboard and made my first blog post.
I'd be holding off FOREVER as it seemed like it would be more work and not enough fun but I couldn't have been more wrong!
In just a year I've made over 400 posts, have over 250 followers and over 54000 hits!
I've met some fabulous people, seen some superb creations and hopefully brought a smile to others through sharing mine.
To say a great big thank you I have a little package to giveaway.
To be in with a chance of winning please add a link and photo to your sidebar or a quick post about it and add yourself as a follower too if you aren't already.
The candy with run for 2 weeks and I'll draw a winner over the weekend of June 12th with the winner being revealed June 14th.
You could win this little bundle!



Creating Keepsakes 2 Minute Memories
Small Wooden frame to alter
Set of Chipboard coasters (perfect for altering)
96 Chipboard letters
3 sets of Clear Stamps
7 Chipboard accents

So please make sure you join in and add your link at the bottom in the gadget :)

Of course I couldn't really make a post without having a card and some challenges too so here you are!

Lili Of The Valley - Sketch
CRAFT - Blue and Green
ABC - V is for Vintage (I thought the image worked for this theme)
Creative Inspirations - Distressed
Crafts and Me - Distressing
Craft Your Passion - Distressing
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Distressing
Creative Challenge - Blooming Charming
ECP - Buttons
Gingersnaps - Read
Inky Impressions - Choice, I chose F for Flowers, R for Ribbon and Distress and S for Stitching
Sew Many - 3 techniques and a charm (coloring, distressing, faux stitching)



Card Recipe:
Image - Little Girls Story Time by Lili of The Valley
Paper - Unknown
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Swirls - Quickutz
Sentiment - Studio G
Border Punch - Fiskars
Die Cuts - Spellbinders Label 11
Medium - Copic Markers
Ink - Memento and Chalk Ink







I thought you may like to see which Copic markers I used to color the image.

I really like how this one turned out and the chair reminds me so much of one my Nana has, even down to the throw pillow and matching antimacassar covers.
Lili Of The Valley has some fabulous stamps and there are a brand new set being released soon and they have a fabulous blog candy giveaway of all the new stamps!
You can find all the details at their blog

I hope you like this one and please join in my giveaway, the more people that play the more fun it is!
Please add your name to the gadget below and add a link/post on your blog to advertise the candy.
Thanks and Good Luck!
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

Pile It On - Is Spring Finally Here?

Happy Sunday!
It's time for a card with a lot of challenges, yes it's Pile It On time!
This week we are sponsored by Sew Many Cards, home of the Sewn Together animals!
Our theme is Spring, anything that makes you think of Spring, the colors, the weather, the flowers, anything!

Of course at Pile It On we want you to add as many challenges as you can to do your creation!

ABC - Sparkle
KL Stampin N Scrappin - Bling It On
Little Red Wagon - Dry Embossing
Quixotic - Heavy Metal
Dare U2 Digi - Metal
Your Next Stamp - Stitching
Crafty Pad - Stitching
Allsorts - In Stitches
Sweet Stampin - In Stitches
Crafty Angels - Favorite Things
Pennys - Open week
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Creative Belli - Die Cut Shapes
Doodle Palace - Funny Animals
Dancing in Pajamas- Photo Inspiration (I chose the dots)
Everybody Art - Paper Patchwork
Cute Card Thursday - Touchy Feely
Stamp Something - Something Layered
Stamping Vacation Pick 3 - Faux stitching, Dry Embossing and Die Cut machine
Sundays With Crissy - Make Mine a Combo
Scrappy Frogs - Pick 3, die cut, embossing, use a digi



Card Recipe:
Image - Sew Many Cards
Paper - My Minds Eye Home collection
Ribbon - Michaels
Brads - The Paper Studio
Embossing folders - Cuttlebug
Shine - Glossy Acccents by Ranger
Sentiment - Printed
Border punch - Martha Stewart



Inside is more dp and a faux stitched message mat.



I think this owl looks very wise and we should all takes his words as gospel! LOL
So get out your Springy supplies, add a few more challenges and come back and Pile It On!
Katie

Mad? Who are You Calling Mad? or Alice in Digi Land!

Happy Friday,
Today is the day you've been waiting for if you are either a Johnny Depp, Tim Burton or simply an Alice in Wonderland fan! The movie opens today and to celebrateDigital Delights have a special release of Alice inspired images! You can find them all on the front page.

Also for our friends over at our groups at Papercraft Planet and SNR Card Universe we have a Freebie for you and it's the cutest grinning cat you'll ever see!



Now you know I was itching to play with the brand new images and so I have a couple of cards to show you how wonderful these images are (and a few challenges too!)


Creative Card Crew wanted a Celebration
Gingersnaps also want you to Celebrate
Sew Many Cards wanted Something For The Boys
Die Cuts R Us had a great sketch
Digital Tuesday wanted Scallops
Flourishes also wanted Scallops
No Time To Stamp wanted Punched Borders



Card Recipe:

Image - Mad Hatter Peyton
Paper - Cafe Mediterranean by DCWV (got it at Joanns but it's not online yet)
Deep border punch - Martha Stewart Garden Trellis
Medium - Copic Markers
Buttons - Jesse James





Oh Alice had a great sketch
Simple Doodles also want Paper Piecing (and a digi)
ABC were at P is for Paper Piecing
Frosted Designs wanted your Favorite Technique and mine is Paper Piecing
Tuesday Taggers wanted Swirls and Curls
Challenge Up Your Life wants Stripes and at least 3 buttons
Dare U2 Digi wanted Pearls (and a digi)



Card Recipe:

Image - Wonderland Briley
Paper - Cafe Mediterranean by DCWV
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Half Daisy
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Buttons - Jesse James
Die Cut - Cuttlebug
Pearls - Queen & Co







So whether you go down the Rabbit Hole, attend the Tea Party or meet the Queen of Hearts you are sure to want these fabulous new images!
Katie