Cooking It Up #70 - Emboss a Summer Punch

It's time for a new recipe for your cards and paper craft projects at at Cooking It Up With Katie!

This weeks ingredients are:

Use some Embossing (wet or dry)
Make it for Summer
Add a little Punching (or die cutting)

We had a double sponsorship from the fabulous Digi's With Attitude and Digi Doodles Shop!

Challenges:
AI Factory - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Something Digi
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi
Frosted Designs - Coloring
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Friendship
Card and Scrap - Summer
Clear It Out - Summer
Everybody Art - Summer
Crafty Ann's - Summertime
Colour Create - Pink, Green and White
Alota Rubber Stamps - Tic Tac Toe! (I chose Glitter, Stamp and Ribbons)
Crafters Companion - Glitter and Glitz
The Friday Mash Up - Glitter
Wags N Whiskers - Sparkly
The Poodles Parlour - Round and Round The Garden (3 entries only)
Little Claire's - Things With Wings
My Time To Craft - Fairy tales or Fairies
Flutterby - Open (with a Fairy, Angel or Butterfly)
The Craftroom Door - Embossing
The Crazy Challenge - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Gone Fruity

Card Recipe:
Image - Strawberry Fairy
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Blossom Song by DCWV
Strawberries - Jolles
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Sentiment - Bits of Ivory
Ribbon - The Whimsy Cottage
Glitter - Stickles

I gave this sweet fairy the glitter treatment, it comes and goes my love affair with glitter, and it's on the upward trend at the moment! LOL
I do hope you can drop by and play with us at Cooking It Up With Katie!
Katie

Magnolia Monday #9! - My Friend Giggling Tilda!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, it's still baking hot here in Texas and the 10 day forecast is showing highs at or above 100F every day!
If we can't be in the neighborhood pool then we are inside and that of course for me gives me the perfect excuse to craft, that's why you'll see new cards (and projects) each and every day this week.
With today being Monday that means it's Magnolia Monday and I hope you'll join and link below with your Magnolia Monday creation. Remember it is always "Anything Goes" as long as it is Magnolia and is on your blog on Monday.

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Just For You
Colour Create - Fuchsia, Green and White
Cute Card Thursday - Lace
The Crafty Pad - Lots of Texture
Crafts and Me - Favorite Stamp
Stampin Sisters in Christ - What works for you...use a favorite
Just Magnolia - Sketch
Totally Tilda - Distressing
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Stitching
Stamp Something - Bugs or Butterflies
Digi Doodles Shop - Butterflies
Flutterby - Open (with a Fairy, Angel or Butterfly)
The Shabby Tearoom - Flowers
Charisma Cardz - Flowers
Bloggers Challenge - Flowers
Robyn's Fetish - Flowers
Frosted Designs - Pick 2 (I chose ribbon and pearls)
2 Sisters - Summertime Fun
Crazy 4 Challenges - Summer
One Stop Craft - Summertime
Totally Gorjuss - Summertime
Card Makin Mamas - Summer (2 entries only)
Crazy Challenge - Summertime

Card Recipe:
Image - Giggling Tilda and Magnolia Swing
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Lime Twist Happy Go Lucky by My Minds Eye
Doily Die - French Pastry by Cheery Lynn Designs
Flowers - Prima
Sentiment - KI Memories
Lace - Wrights
Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart Medium Monarch
Pearls - Bridal Dept

This swing stamp is usually used with Swinging Tilda but this little Giggling Tilda sits on it perfectly and she just makes me smile!
I hope she makes you smile too.
Please remember that I hold this "Link Party" each and every Monday so put it in your crafting diary and schedule a card to link up with it.
I look forward to seeing all your wonderful Magnolia creations!
Katie

Happy Birthday! - With a "Wee" little Girl! (and a HUGE piece of news from me!!)

I have been holding in some super news for the past few days and now I'm allowed to spill!! Cuddly Buddly decided that now they have 7 Digital Artists that it was time to have a dedicated team working to promote the fabulous images through bi-weekly challenges and ......I'm on the team!!!!!!
Cuddly Buddly were one of the first places I bought digital stamps from over two years after seeing them in a card magazine I bought on a trip home to England. Over the past two years I have been steadily gathering a selection of images and now I get to use them for you all to see!!!
One of the latest artists draws a line called "Wee Stamps" and today I have a card featuring one of those images (and I had this one even before they put a DT call out!)
I like that I can choose from a variety of artists all in one place and have them all with me seconds after I check out, gotta love that!
I am super excited and after all the harrowing weather the midwest, Texas and southern states have been having it is nice to have something to smile about so I hope you'll celebrate this new team with me!
There are some fabulous DT members there, you can see them on the side bar of the Cuddly Buddly blog, I have no idea how I got picked but I am super excited.
And for you that are "Challenge Addicts" like me be sure to check back on July 1st when Challenge #1 will be launched and I have the honor of choosing the first challenge theme!

Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes or Your Favorite...
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Crafting For All Seasons - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Your Next Stamp - Sketch
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Any form of Coloring
My Mum's Craft Shop - Favorite Colors
Creative Craft Challenges - Brown, Blue and Cream
Colour Create - Cream, Brown and White and One other color (I chose blue)
Ruby's Rainbow - Denim and Daughters
Paper Pretties - Happy Birthday
Digital Tuesday - Texture
Ambers Crafts - Vintage
Kaboodle Doodles - Distress
Paper Romance - Distressing
The House that Stamps Built - Stitching
Crafts and Me - Gems and Pearls
Anita Be Stampin - Lace and Pearls
Hanna and Friends - Lace and Pearls
The Crafty Pad - Lace and Bow
Bunny Zoe's - Lace
Bearly Mine - Lace and Die Cut
My Time To Craft - Use a Die Cut
PALS Paper Arts - Brads

Card Recipe:
Image - Suzi With Bunny, Wee Stamps at Cuddly Buddly
Sentiment - Studio G
Paper - Ella Blue by GCD Studios
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cut - Spellbinders Exclusive
Border Die - Marianne D Creatables
Rhinestone Brads - Recollections
Pearls - Recollections
Ribbon, Bow and Lace - Offray
Chalk Ink - Dark Brown Cats Eye

This little girl is so sweet and innocent looking, carrying her basket of flowers and cute little bunny friend.
I popped up the whole image on to foam as I could make a space underneath for the lace and ribbon and so all of it sits so nice and smoothly.
I used chalk ink on all the layers for a little vintage feel, I think it goes well with the designs and colors of the patterned paper.
I really hope you like this and be sure to come back tomorrow for a brand new Design Team Challenge at Designed 2 Delight!

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Happy Easter with Caring Kaela

It's time for a new theme challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar and this week we'd love to see your Easter projects!
So grab the bunnies, chicks, eggs and go and create!

Challenges:
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes Digi
Colour Create - Pastels
Meljen's - Punches
Stamp Insanity - Punches
PALS Paper Arts - Embossing
The Rubber Cafe - Embossing
Sugar Creek Hollow - Stitching
Do You Stack Up? - Shine On
Stampin Vacation Start Here = Nestabilities
Papercutz - 3 Patterned Papers
Catered Crop - Project Inspiration
Hello Cutie - Photo Inspiration (I took the patterns, pastels and butterfly)
Patties Creations - Flowers and Pearls
House of Gilli - Ribbon and Pearls
Lexi's - Ribbon (no bows or knots)
Karens Doodles - Easter
Creative Cowgirls - Spring or Easter
Alys Sunday - Happy Spring
Sew Many Challenges - Spring Fling
Stamp Something - Spring Something
Totally Gorjuss - Spring has Sprung
Creative Craft Friends - Spring
Sparkles Forum - Springtime

Card Recipe:
Image - Caring Kaela
Paper - Ducks in a Row by October Afternoon
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbons - Offray and Michaels
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Butterfly - Michaels
Sentiment - Studio G

Kaela looks so cute in her Easter dress with the baby chick and I really liked coloring her. The butterfly is a floral accent and I trimmed the back on the body flat so it would lie flatter on the card.
The Easter eggs were made from balloon punches that I trimmed to make into eggs. The cute little bunny stamp was a $1 stamp and the super gathered ribbon was on clearance at Walmart, I'm always on the look out for a crafty bargain!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #20 - Add a Pocket or Tag - Guest Sketch

It's another Once Upon a Wednesday over at The Pixie Cottage
This week we have another Special Guest Sketcher and it's certainly a favorite or mine, it's Bev Rochester from All The Things I Love!

She created this fabulous sketch for us to use:


As well as the sketch we have an optional technique of adding a Tag or a Pocket to your card, remember you can chose the sketch, the technique or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.

As always I have a few other challenges with this card:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
AI Factory - Brads and Animals
Speedy the Cat - Animal
One Stitch At a Time - Furry Friends
Paper Popsicles - Animals
365 Cards Day 85 - Flora and Fauna
Digital Tuesday - Cute People (I don't think bears ARE people but these ones are dressed up like people and sure are cute and are brand new digis!)
Colour Create - Soft Green and Light Aqua
Dutch Dare - 2 papers, 3 colors and 4 buttons
Papercutz - Buttons and Lace
The Town Scrapper - Flowers and Lace
Creative Craft Challenges - Bows and Ribbons
Paperplay - Wedding Celebrations
Etsy Inspired - Green and Aqua Wedding Invitation
Think Ink - Pockets



Card Recipe:
Image - Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Bride by ArTish and Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Groom by ArTish
Paper - DCWV The Linen Closet
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Medium - Copic Markers
Glitter - Stickles
Sentiment - KI Memories
Rhinestones - Colorbok
Doily - Little Yellow Bicycle Clothesline Paper Doilies
Lace - Offray
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting





Cut these cuties out and popped them up and then "Stickled" them as much as possible! LOL
We'd love to see your creations with the sketch, so get creating and drop by The Pixie Cottage and show us what you made!
Katie

Thanks A Bunch! - A Christmas Lala, or is she?

Happy Saturday,
I like to buy stamps that I can use for more than one card/occasion but for a lot of the Holiday stamps it is very difficult. It's hard to make a Bunny with an egg anything but Easter and Santa really won't work for the 4th of July, hee hee!
But some of them can be used with a little "tweak" and I think this one will make you look at your stamps with different eyes.

Of course there are challenges too:

Artful Inkables - 3 Buttons, 2 Ribbons and a Circle
365 Cards Day 74 - Buttons and Bows
Creative Card Crew - Sketch
Totally Gorjuss - Round and Round
Creative Craft - Blue and Brown
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Blue, Brown and White
Colour Create - Khaki, Aqua, Brown and Cream
Paperplay - Brown and ...
Alphabet Challenge - C is For Chocolate colors
Aud's Sentiments - Thanks A Bunch
Lala Lands - Anything Goes (with a Lala Lands Stamp)
Papertake - Sparkly, Shiny and Special
Paper Makeup - 3 Flowers



Card Recipe:
Paper - K & Co Pads Margo and Bailey
Medium - Copic Markers
Image - Ornament Lala
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Rhinestones - Queen and Co
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font
Die Cut - Spellbinders





I colored over the ornament on the image in the same color as her dress so that when I added the flowers you couldn't see it underneath, a great way to use a Holiday stamp for other occasions.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Katie

Challenge #14 at Cooking It Up! and the Design Team revealed!

It's a super exciting time at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog today as I'm revealing my new team and their first creations!
Be sure to check out all the new members and be sure to give them a great welcome!

The "recipe" this time is:

Use something New (to welcome the New Team) - I used a Brand New EK Success border punch
Use something Old (to remember me by)- The pink dp is from 2003!
Use something Sweet (this can be a theme, an image, a color scheme, anything that makes you think Sweet)

Remember the challenge includes all of the above and anything else you want to add.

I've also found a few other challenges to go with my own to make this card:

Colour Create want Pastels with Easter/Spring as an option
Eat Sleep Stamp had a sketch
Quirky Crafts want to see flowers
Handfull Of Stamps want A Sweet One
Charisma had a Spring has Sprung theme
Corrosive want Spring



Card Recipe:
Image - Easter Egg Briley (I cut her away from her egg)
Paper - DCWV The Sweet Stack and pink plaid is Paper Pizazz
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Border Punch - EK Success Daisy Chain
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Sentiment - Studio G



Inside is more dp and a message mat.



Here's a close up of sweet Briley on her flower swing.
I hope you can spend a moment a meet my new team and have a go at the challenge too!
Katie

Challenge #13 at Cooking It Up!

Happy Wednesday!
It's time for another challenge over at my Cooking It Up With Katie card recipe blog.

This weeks recipe is:

Use some fabric (ribbon doesn't count)
Add your favorite technique and tell us what it is
Tear an edge or use deco scissors

Remember the challenge includes all of the above and anything else you want to add.

A few challenges helped me too:

Friday Sketchers had a great Sketch
Paper Cutz had an Anything Goes theme
Fussy and Fancy want Green
Incy Wincy want at least 1/3rd Green
Cuttlebug Blog want Green and use of CB (I used mine to cut my Nestie)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers want to see a Die Cut
Cleary I Stamp want you to Think Green
Stamp Something want Green and Cream
Raise The Bar want you to Go Green
Colour Create had the combo of Mint, Chocolate and Cream
No Time To Stamp wanted Green, Pink and Brown
Crafty Calendar wanted Flowers
Creative Cottage also wants Flowers



Card Recipe:
Image - Tilda with Teddy Bear from Magnolia-licious
Paper - K & Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Fabric - Unknown
Brads - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Studio G for Michaels






I tore the background strip behind Tilda, sewed the fabric flowers (my new favorite thing) and I slightly distressed and inked the edges which is a favorite technique of mine.
I tried to do the Distress Ink coloring look with my Copic's ala Suzanne Dean and although I followed her You Tube video I think I'll need to practise a little more but I really like how this Tilda turned out.

I hope you've liked my little Tilda and that you'll join me over at Cooking It Up With Katie
Katie

La La Lands Guest DT - How Charming

Happy Wednesday!
I can't believe my 2 months "guesting" at LaLa Lands is over already!
This is my last challenge with them and I've enjoyed every single second of it, I hope you've enjoyed all my LaLa projects too.

For this challenge the team were asked to use charms somewhere on their projects.
I have collected quite a few over the years but I always seem to forget to use them so it was good to be "made" to use one!

Although many challenges are on a Christmas Break I did find a few to work with this.

Sweet Sunday Sketch gave me the sketch
Colour Create had the combo of Pink, Burgundy and Ivory
Whimsy Stamps wanted a "Chip Off The Old Block"



For this card I used Sweet Lala and she wants to give you a Valentines hug! I colored her with Copic's and cut and matted her with a Label Nestie.
The dp are K&Co and My Minds Eye.
The chipboard sentiment is from Colorbok.
The border punch is Valentines Lace by Martha Stewart.
The charm is from my stash, I'm not sure where it came from.
The flowers are from Brides.
Ribbon is from Michaels.

Inside is more dp and ribbon topped message mat.

Here's Lala again sending you Love!
If you have some charms in your stash then grab them and add them to a card and join in the challenge!
Come back on Friday for more new cards and projects, just remember the Tylenol for the New Years Eve hangover! LOL
Katie

Pixie Cottage Showcase

Hi and Happy Weekend!
It's time for another showcase at The Pixie Cottage and the Design Team have come up with some super ideas for the new stamps.
Stamps are arriving almost daily at Michelle's Scrapbooking so be sure to go over and check to see if your favorite is there.
This time the team could decide to use whichever theme they liked for their project but as I'm in the Holiday Mood I kept with the Christmas theme.
There are a few challenges this fits as well:
The Crafty Pad had a recipe of 1 circle, 2 ribbons, 3 papers, 4 gems and some sparkle
Corrosive Challenges wanted to see some Embossing
Little Paper Shop wanted a Die Cut and I used Spellbinders to make my hang tag
Colour Create had the combo of Green, Red and White with the option of Christmas
Whimsy Stamps wanted "Anything But A Card" and the same challenge was at Crafty Angels
Challenge Up Your Life wanted a Festive Box/Package
Die Cut Dreams want to see Santa!
Stamp With Fun had a Christmas theme
Creatalicious wanted "Something for Christmas and some Sparkle!"
2 Red Bananas had a sketch that worked for the front of my tin.
Kaboodle Doodles wanted Buttons, Bows and Bling
Creative Inspirations wants some "Sparkle"



This time I chose The Jolly Old Elf by Alisa Ramirez and he was so much fun to work with!
I decided not to make a card but instead did an altered lunchbox that could be used for all sorts of things at this time of year. You could leave cookies in it for Santa on Christmas Eve, save cards, notes, receipts etc in it or fill it with treats to give as a gift.
I colored him with Copic's and then gave him the "Puffy Paint Treatment" all over his "fluffy bits".

I covered the handle with fabulous Christmas ribbons (wired ones work best) and tied one in a bow right in the middle of the handle.

Here you can see a close of Santa in all his fluffy fineness! LOL

I added an embossed image as a "hangtag" and I love how the white core of the cardstock shows through on the image. It is mounted on an Inverted Scallop circle Nestie and also has star buttons on it's "tail".

On the lid I added a floral pick from last year, it's got fake candy on it too to add a sweet touch! When creating projects remember there are many places you can find things that may work for you.

I hope you've enjoyed my little project and be sure to check out all the fabulous work of the designers at The Pixie Cottage today!
Katie

Pass Me The Coffee - New Retro card for My Grafico

Happy Wednesday!
It's time for another sketch chalenge at My Grafico and this time the team got to use the fabulous Vintage Appliances set! I'll admit this was a little out of my comfort zone of "cute, cuter and even more cute" but once I had the right idea it was fun!
Of course I found a few challenges to go with the sketch which helped me along the way.

Colour Create had the combo of Red, Yellow, Black and White which I thought worked well for the vintage feel of the card and Paper Maniac wanted Black, White and a "Pop" of color so I thought they'd go together.
Etsy Inspired had a jewelry store for inspiration and I loved these Sparrows Nest Earrings and thought they had the perfect vintage touch.
Kraftin Kimmie wanted to see Buttons
Paper Play wanted you to use your Favorite Embellishment and I'll admit to having a soft spot for rhinestones at the moment, most of my cards have them, and there's pretty much always a punched border too!
The Secret Crafter wanted you to Dig Deep and bring out an old image but this one is "old style" but new to me but the papers certainly are old so I hope that counts.



I colored the Coffee pot with Copic's in a graphic/retro style that I hope I got right.
The dp are from my stash and I had to add a border from the fabulous Valentines Lace border punch from Martha Stewart. This was originally a Valentines only release and Michaels sold out of them immediately but Martha has just brought lots of new punches and thankful brought this one into the regular line! Yippee!!
I'm on a border punch kick right now so I can assure you that you'll be seeing lots in the next few weeks of cards :)
I printed the sentiment and double matted to match the color scheme. I hope I brought a little retro feel to this card, it's not a genre I'm familiar working with.



The inside is more dp and another border across the message mat.



I think we all know a friend who can be a bear without her coffee and I hope this brought a smile along the way.
Katie

OK, Now I really think I need an Intervention!

I hope you are having a great week so far!
It's been a great week so far for me.
Yesterday I got to have my first card on a the new Design Team at My Grafico Challenges and it felt great!
And now I can reveal some great news I got on Sunday, I'm on another team at Lily Boo's Boutique!
They are a new digital stamp company based in England (my homeland :)) and soon they'll be having a challlenge blog too so everyone will get a chance to play with their fab images!
I must admit that today I'm going a little far with the challenge combining but as my Mum comes into town in 2 days I really need to get everything in one card! LOL
Today's card covers the following 17 (WOW) challenges:
Papertake Weekly gave me the wonderful Dawny P sketch but I think I missed it by a day :(
Three Clovers wanted some fruity
and
Cute Card Thursday was feel fruity too!
One Stop Craft Challenge wanted Swirls (in the dp) and Pearls
Just Magnolia anted us to Distress and so I sanded down the embossed cardstock and also inked the vintage lace
Pollycraft wanted Buttons and Bows, you can see the bow and the buttons are on the embossed borders.
Rubbernecker Stamps wanted Buttons too
Paperlicious wanted at least 5 buttons, I hope the embossed ones count!
Colour Create gave me the color combo of Pink, Orange and Green
No Time To Stamp wanted us to use lace
and
Dutch Dare wanted lace too
Creative Card Crew wanted Girls to Have Fun (I may have missed the deadline on this too!)
Paper Play wanted Dimension
Daring Card Makers wanted Bejewelled Bliss!
High Hopes was Going for the Gold
Creative Inspirations wanted some Bling
and
finally
Stamp Something wanted something Paper Pieced.
So after that huge list here comes the card!



I used Tilda with Ladybug and covered the ladybug with a punched apple to go with my theme.
The dp is DCVW.
I embossed the Coredinations green cardstock with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and sanded it for the white to show through.
The lace was distressed further with green chalk ink and I added pearls and rhinestones to fulfil the challenges.
I embossed the orange borders with the button Cuttlebug folder and then inked on the topped. I added gold accents with my Prismacolor marker to complete the Gold challenge.



The inside has more dp and another button embossed border.



I admit I'll be going for rehab soon! LOL
Have a great day!

Feeling the chill with this card :)

Hello and welcome to the 2nd card for today (there was a challenge I thought ended tomorrow but it ends today so I had to push the post up :))
It's definitely Christmas week here and I have another card to get you inspired to drag out your Christmas goodies!
This is another with a not so usual color combo but with it's Wintery feel I think it works great.
This card fills another 4 challenges:
Charisma Cardz gave me the sketch
Digital Tuesday had the Christmas in July theme
Colour Create had the color combo of Blue and White
and
Creative Card Crew needed some Polka Dots and the dp has dots in it's stripes and the girl has dots of her wellies!



I used a super cute image from Polly Craft from the Cherry Kisses Collection
I colored her with Copic's and the dp are DCWV. The flowers are Prima and the sentiments are from Walmart.



The inside has some more of the cute dp along with another of my poems.
I'll have to sign off now to make a card for tomorrow or it will be a bare blog! , hee hee!
Katie

Little Girls are the nicest things :)

Happy Hump Day!
Another week is already half way through, this Summer seems to be racing by!
It's hot again but what else should I expect from Texas in July :)
Today's card covers 6 challenges and is a theme that fits with the eBay sellers group I'm in as well. I'm in a group of sellers that all sell handmade paper crafts including scrapbook pages and handmade cards. Each month we have a theme and for July we are doing Gummy Bears on Parade and you can see all the wonderful work from my friends HERE.
The challenges this card covers are:
Sketch Saturday - Sketch 58
Colour Create - Color Challenge, Grassy Green, Apple Green, Sunflower Yellow, Lemon and White.
Flutterby Wednesdays - Fairys, Buttons and Bows
Cute Card Thursday - A stitch in time, real or faux stitching
Paper Play Challenges - Paper Roses, handmade flowers
The Secret Crafter Saturday - 3 ribbons



This little fairy bear comes from Teddy Bears Playtime 2 by Cuddly Buddy, what I love about this set is that you get the black and white line drawings as well as the colored versions so you can color them yourself! I colored her with Copic's and added Diamond Stickles to the star, bow and flower.
The dp is DCVW Nana's Nursery Baby Boy.
The border punch is EK Success and the sentiment is Cloud 9. I made the large flower from a punch, inked the edges and added a button and ribbon.



The inside message mat has the same trim as on the front.
I used faux stitching with my fine tip Prisma markers.
I really like how sweet she seems and I hope she makes you smile too :)
Have a great day!
Katie

Magical Monday, a Colour Create Challenge and a Stampavie challenge!

Hello everyone!
I woke up this morning to a wonderful message on my blog.
I had won the 200,000 hit blog candy over at Scrap Bitz!
Suzanne is a coloring god in my eyes and I check her blog everyday without fail, you should too and look at the great tutorials that she has over on You Tube.
So I'm now going to be stalking the mailman so I can play with those wonderful new stamps by Victoria Case
Anyway enough of my ramblings and on to todays card.
I usually do sketch challenges but the colors in the challenge at Colour Create were perfect for the cute My Sweet Lili by Sarah Kay.
Also Stampavie's bi-weekly challenge is to use flowers so this works perfectly!




I colored the image with my Copic's and the papers are from the Baby Girl pad by Martha Stewart from Walmart. I used my Nesties to cut the mat and Quickitz Nesting dies for the circles. The sentiment is an old one from Making Memories and the flowers are from Hobby Lobby. The border punch is Apron Lace from Fiskars.



I kept the inside simple with just some coordinating paper are ribbon.



Here is a close up of the image as she is so cute!
Today I made and mailed a Fathers Day card for my Dad back in England, talk about leaving it to the last moment :)
I'm hoping to make some more cards this afternoon as there are more challenges that I just have to do!
TTFN
Katie