Designed 2 Delight - Springtime with Ladybug Kaela

It's time for another New Release showcase over at Card Idea's.
Faith from Designed 2 Delight keeps coming out with such cute images and the team love great some great cards with them.

Challenges:
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
Going Grey - Spring has Sprung
Creative Cottage - Spring Has Sprung
Hanna And Friends - Spring
Paper Pretties - Spring
Stamp Something - Spring Something
Ambers Crafts and Stuff - Use A Die Cut
Stampin Vacation Start Here = Nestabilities
Crafty Creations - In Stitches
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
Meljen's - Punches
PALS Paper Arts - Embossing
Do You Stack Up? - Shine On
Moving Along With The Times - Precious Metals (metal rimmed tag)
Flutterby - Open (with a butterfly, angel or fairy)
Little Red Wagon - Butterflies
My Time To Craft - Ladies Young or Old

Card Recipe:
Image - Ladybug Kaela
Paper - Sweet Nectar by K and Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbons - Hobby Lobby
Pearls - The Paper Studio
Embossing Folder - Sizzix

I cut out Kaela and popped her up on the die cut circle. Then I mounted the whole circle on foam to give it more depth.
Be sure to drop over to Card Ideas to see some other great cards with Kaela and her little brother Drew.

Cooking It Up #50 - I Wish for White Wings!

It's a new challenge at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog!

The ingredients this week are:

Use some White
Add some Wings
Finish with Wishes

Challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Robyns Fetish - Anything Goes
Thrilling Thursday - Show Us What You Got (anything goes)
Totally Paper Crafts - Do It With Digi
Flutterby - Open (as long as Angel, Fairy or Butterfly)
Crafts and Me - Things With Wings
Just For Fun - Wings of A Bug
Dare To Be Sassy - Punches
Wags N Whiskers - Punches
Digital Tuesday - Punches and Digi
Challenge Up Your Life - Monochrome
Phindy's Place - Monochrome
Stampin For The Weekend - Monochrome
Stampin Bees - Monochromatic
Creative Cottage - Fabulous Florals
Desert Island Crafts - Pick 3 (I picked Monochromatic, Border Punch and Sparkle)
Lexi's - Flowers

Card Recipes:
Image - Heart Butterfly by Limited Runs
Paper - Garden Vignettes by My Minds Eye
Medium - Copic Markers
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Rhinestones - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Sentiment - Studio G
Roses - Wild Orchid

I printed and colored two of the butterflies and cut them out. Then I spritzed them with Smooch spray and let them dry. The I folded up the wings on the top butterfly and adhered it just on the body so the wings stand up.
We'd love to see your take on this recipe so come along and play at Cooking It Up With Katie

All I Want for (a Pink) Christmas....Is You!

It's time for a super sweet Christmas card and this time it's not a Christmas image but I just love it.
And although I really like the traditional colors for Christmas I must admit to loving last years Basic Grey image Eskimo Kisses and the pink theme that runs through it.

Challenges:
Crafty Creations - Buttons
Creative Cottage - Someone Special at Christmas
Paper Playtime - PS I Love You
Lollipop Crafts - Girlie
Crafty Emma's - Pink
Polly Craft - A Glittery Christmas
Creative Inspirations - A Pink Christmas
Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes Christmas Theme
The Stampman - Christmas
Scrapbook Sisters - Christmas
Creative Inspirations - Christmas or Winter
Anything Goes - Embossing (I embossed the image before coloring as I used Versafine ink that smudges with Copic's unless embossed)
Passionately Artistic - Linky Party (link any and all your projects)
Fresh Brewed - 2 of More Patterned Papers
The Paper Variety - 1 color of mist/Paint, 2 flowers or chipboard pieces and 3 patterned papers
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Hanna and Friends - Card with "Inner Life" (decorate the inside too)
Crafty Ann's - Non Traditional Christmas Colors
No Time To Stamp - Non Traditional Christmas Colors
Stamps R Us - Sparkle and Scallops
The Secret Crafter - Sparkle and Shine
Paper Romance - Everything But The Kitchen Sink (lots of everything!)
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Marker Madness
Stamping With The Dragon - Inspired by a Holiday Song (the title)
Incy Wincy - Rock On (music inspired)
Crafts and Me - Glitter
The Crafty Pad - Christmas Sparkle
Crafty Purple Frog - Sparkle
One Stitch At A Time - Favorite Colors (I love coloring with Pinks)
Sentimental Sundays - Childhood

Card Recipe:
Image - Sweet Dreams by Penny Johnson
Paper - DCWV Eskimo Kisses
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cut - Beaded Circles by Spellbinders
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Border Punch - French Scroll by Martha Stewart
Mist - Homemade with Viva Precious Metal Color Paint in Mother of Pearl
Glitter - Glamor Dust

I see many of my English cardmaking friends using Glamour Dust on their cards and although Decor are an American company you don't see it in the big box stores very often, so it was wonderful to see it in Hobby Lobby in the Christmas department.
I used Elmers glue pen under the the glitter and it worked wonderfully. I only have the Crystal and the Gold but I'm sure I'll be using them both on many cards before Christmas comes :)

Katie

Lots to see today - And something very exciting for me!

Today is super exciting here at Both Sides of the Paper.
First I want to introduce a new artist to the blog.....drumroll please.... here is the very first blogged card by Georgia my daughter! Georgia has been making cards alongside me for about 6 months and today she is a guest designer at Messy's Mini Missions which is a challenge blog just for under 16's! Georgia is 11 and doesn't have her own blog so we are showing the card here :)

Challenges for Georgia's card:
Creative Cottage - Embossing
Shellys - Tic Tac Toe (Georgia chose Flowers, Ribbon and Embossing)
Paper Pretties - Make a Square Card
Simon Says Stamp - Punch Em
Fussy and Fancy - Winter Wonderland
Bee Crafty - Christmas
Speedy The Cat's Friends - Holiday card
Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Use a Christmas Digi
Wee Memories - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - Edwina Elf
Paper - The Christmas Combo by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder - Basic Grey for Sizzix
Flower - Hobby Lobby
Sentiment - Hobby Lobby
Ribbon - Michaels

She colored this all herself including picking all the colors and even trying a little blending! I can see me needing lots of refill inks for my Copic's! Hee Hee!

Now I have some super exciting news too.....I am being published!!!
Today I have 1 card and 1 mini album being published online!
My Pumpkin card is at Scrapbook News and Review and my Harvest album is at Scrapbooking.com and I am very happy about it!
Now I don't know if I can link directly too them as I know that SNR is a subscription but if I can I will (this post goes out at 2am while I'm sleeping :))
EDITED: I found the album link at Scrapbooking.com.
Please be sure to come back everyday this week as there are new cards every day so plenty to see!
Have a wonderful Monday!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #37 - Fun and Games

This week we have fabulous sketch from former team member Pam over at The Pixie Cottage and it's so versatile that I know you are going to want to use it.



We have the additional theme of "Fun and Games" so if you picked up the free digital image from last week's challenge then you have no excuses, you have to come and play with us! You can interpret the theme however you like, I chose to go with a birthday card for a child, they always have fun and play games don't they? LOL

Challenges:

Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthdays
Creative Cottage - Birthday Boy
AI Factory - Card for a Boy
Simple Doodles - Color Me With Dots
Tanda Stamps - Blue and Green
Fairy Fun - Embossing
Sew Many Challenges - Embossing
Crafty Pad - Embossing
Totally Papercrafts - Happy Birthday
Daring Cardmakers - Come Fly With Me (the balloons)
Secret Crafter - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Stitching
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything Goes
Tuesday Taggers - It Takes All Sorts (open challenge)
Flourishes - Celebration



Card Recipe:
Image - Birthday Boy by Eileen Gutierrez
Paper - Basic Grey Oliver and Origins
Medium - Copic Markers
Embossing folder - Sizzix
Ribbon - Michaels
Sentiment - The Paper Studio
Dew Drops - Robins Nest





I had fun with the extras on this one. I airbrushed the background and then added a little paper piecing with the embossed balloons, I thought it looked cute :)
He certainly looks like he is having a good time and I hope you'll join in and have fun with us too this week!

Pile It On - Operation Write Home

This is a very special challenge at Pile It On this week. We are working alongside Operation Write Home to provide handmade cards for our troops overseas to send home to their loved ones. There are guidelines that you have to follow to make these cards so this week the team won't be showing their sparkle as glitter is a big No No but we still made some fabulous samples for you!
OWH accepts all types of cards but are especially looking for Birthday, Anniversary or Christmas cards at the present time so that is what we are asking you to make this week.

Challenges:

A Crafty Little Place - Sketch
Totally Papercrafts - Go Dotty
Stamp Something - Spots and Stripes
Ooh La La - Stripes
Timbro Scrapmania - Anything Goes
Fab N Funky - Anything Goes
Gingersnaps - Punches
Paper Pretties - Brads
Lili of The Valley - One for The Boys (with a Lili image)
Karners Challenge - Card for A Boy
Going Grey - Card for a Child
Incy Wincy - Celebrate
Pennys - Birthdays
Creative Cottage - Celebrations
Paper Romance - Clean and Simple




Card Recipe:
Image - Lili of The Valley
Paper- DCWV from years ago!
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - 7 Gypsies
Border Punch - Martha Stewart





These two little guys look so happy to be sharing a quiet moment together.
We'd really like you to make a card or two for Operation Write Home too and if you send them to Dalis at Pile It On you'll get a little RAK for all your hard work.
All the details are on the challenge blog about where to send them.

Anything Goes! 2 new Busy Beauties Cards!

Happy Friday!
There is a story behind these cards:)
It started with a challenge win at Penny's Challenge that introduced me to the wonderful creations at Busy Beauties! I got 5 new images from them and just had to give one a try right away. With that card I entered their challenge and low and behold I won! So I got more of the wonderful images!
Then move on to another challenge that I'm a team member on. We had a challenge but the images we needed to use were held up and I really needed to get my card finished. So I made the card with all but the image and I colored in two substitute images in case the original didn't turn up in time. Well just as I'd finished the two images the original popped up in my inbox! So I was left with two cute colored images and no cards to put them on.
I didn't put them away though, I left them on my desk as I so wanted to do something with them.
I had a day away from crafting on Wednesday to do a very late (and very needed) Spring Clean but yesterday I was determined to create a couple of dazzlers to share with y'all (said in my very best Texas accent ;))


Challenges for Card 1:
Busy Beauties - Anything Goes
Design Dollies - Sketch (I know it was meant for a scrapbook page but I wanted to make it work)
Flourishes - Black and White plus One
Create 4 Fun - Black, White and another color
Creative Cottage - Going Pink
Twisted Thursday - Pink
Timbroscrapmania - Fashion Pink
The Burtonesque Dolls - Sweeney Todd (Use distressing tools or deco scissors)
Think Ink - Outside of Your Comfort Zone (this is so outside of mine that I actually had a racing heart making it! LOL)
Res Q - Top 3 (use 3 of something, I used 3 ribbons, 3 brads and 3 colors)




Card Recipe:
Image - Victorian Marionette by Busy Beauties
Paper - Very old DCWV and other unknown
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed in Burton's Nightmare
Deco Scissors - Fiskars Victorian Long
Fabric Brads - Spare Parts
Ribbons - Offray






Challenges for Card 2:
Busy Beauties - Anything Goes
Flourishes - Black and White plus One
Create 4 Fun - Black, White and another color
Creative Cottage - Going Pink
Twisted Thursday - Pink
Doodle Palace - Berry Sweet
Charisma Cardz - Spots and Stripes
Crafty Catz - Embossing
Fresh Brewed 2 papers, 1 ribbon, 2 flowers and 1 other item (I chose the image)
Drunken Stampers - Birthdays
For Fun - Birthdays
Cleary Inspired - Birthday Bash
Little Red Wagon - Sketch
Frosted Designs - Glitter
Cupcake Craft - Dazzle Us
Pollycraft - Ribbon and Bling
Meljens - Sparkle, Glitter and Bling
Shellys Images - All That Glitters (glitter paper, bling and glittery ribbon )
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo - Pink, White and Girly
Crafty Ho's - Anything Goes
Iris's Challenge - Flowers



Card Recipe:
Image - Eat Cake by Busy Beauties
Paper - Very old DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Flowers - From a trip to the UK (maybe Papermania)





I hope you've enjoyed these two cards, I certainly liked making them :)
Have a great weekend!
Katie

Digital Delights New Release and New Stetch at Delightful sketches

It's new release day at Digital Delights and you aren't going to want to miss these new images!



Also over at Delightful Sketches and Challenges we have a new sketch for you try out and all the designers are showing off the fabulous new releases!
A double dose of joy!



I added a few other challenges to help me with this one:

Crafty Creations - Child's Play
Sisterhood of Crafters - Children
Critter Challenge - Child's Birthday
Drunken Stampers - Birthdays
For Fun - Birthdays
Cleary Inspired - Birthday Bash
Scrap It With A Song - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
Three Muses - Take a Song, Any Song
Creative Cottage - Going Pink
Twisted Thursday - Pink
Diva Coffee Break - Gable Green, Bashful Blue and Pixie Pink
Cupcake Craft - Dazzle Us
Pollycraft - Ribbon and Bling
Meljens - Sparkle, Glitter and Bling
Shellys Images - All That Glitters (glitter paper, bling and glittery ribbon )
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo - Pink, White and Girly
Crafty Ho's - Anything Goes



Card Recipe:
Image - Penny and Her Teddy
Paper - DCWV Nana's Kitchen
Medium - Copic Markers
Chipboard corners - Colorbok
Fabric Brads - Spare Parts
Sentiment - Printed in Boyz R Gross font





I hope you liked this one and please be sure to try out the sketch for yourself over at Delightful Sketches and Challenges
Katie

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

One For The Boys

Happy Monday!
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Ours was super busy with Choir stuff, Scout stuff, house work (yuck), yard work and a little relaxing thrown in for good measure :)
But before that marathon weekend I did manage to complete another card for you.
I absolutely love the designs from Meljen's Designs and when I saw this little guy I just fell in love with him and he jumped right into my shopping cart!

This was the perfect time to use him as lots of challenges were asking for Boy themed cards:

Creative Inspirations - Card For A Child
Creative Cottage - One For The Boys
Dare U2 Digi - One For The Boys
Daring Cardmakers - Boyzone
365 Cards Day 83 - 4 Wheel Drive
Cute Card Thursday - Sketch
Meljens - Seeing Spots
Crafty Catz - Stars and Stripes



Card Recipe:
Image - A Boy and His Wagon by Meljens Designs
Paper - Nana's Kids by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Chipboard buttons - Colorbok
Sentiment - KI Memories





I just this little guy, so cute and so like the little dudes in my life :)
Katie

Life is Uncertain...Eat Dessert First :) Another Tilda card

Happy Monday!!
What a way to start a week, ice cream with Tilda!
I found this ice cream punch on clearance and knew I had to use it as soon as I got home! I hadn't used this Tilda on a card yet and so it was the perfect choice of image.
And there were a few challenges around to help me:

Friday Sketchers - Sketch
Creative Cottage - Food and Drink
Rosie Dees - So Yummy
Just Magnolia - It Takes Two
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Dimension
Your Next Stamp - Going Dotty
Hand Full of Stamps - Just a Little Dotty
Cupcake Inspirations - Pink, Green, Orange flowery cupcakes!
Stempel Magie - Summer
Crafty Angels - One for The Girls (what girl doesn't like dessert? LOL)



Card Recipe:
Images - Tilda with Ice Cream and Shabby Chic Fence
Paper - Sugar and Spice stack by The Paper Studio
Ice Cream punch - Martha Stewart
Border punch - Scandanavian Lace by EK Success
Ribbon - Michaels
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font





It was so hard to take a photo without the sparkles being all you could see so I tried one without a flash.
Oh well, she is really cute in real life even if I can't make it translate into a decent photo! LOL
Katie

Pile It On - Boyish Colors sponsored by In Style Stamps

It's Pile It On time again and this time we have a wonderful sponsor In Style Stamps!
We had great images to work with and our challenge is to Use Boyish Colors!
It seems that all card makers struggle with male themed cards so maybe this week is your chance to get another one made even if you have been putting it off! LOL

Obviously with Pile It On we want you to add as many other challenges to your card as you can and these are mine this time:


Stampin Royalty - Use Your Punches
Inky Impressions - 3 layers, 2 designer papers, 1 ribbon, and three embellishments
Creative Cottage - Circles
Cards For Men - Monochromatic
Your Next Stamp - Going Dotty
Crafty Catz - Spots
Crafts and Me - Sparkle (the dp is glittered)
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
AI Factory - Buttons
Sophisicats - Card for a Child
Oh Alice - Card for a Child



Card Recipe:
Image - Nathan by In Style Stamps
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - My Minds Eye
Sentiment - Carolees Creations
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Iron Gate
Chipboard buttons - Colorbok
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby





So it's time to grab your greens and blues and maybe some red and yellow too and go and make us a card fit for the Prince in your life :)
Katie

Treehouse - 3D or Decoupage/Paper Tole

It's time for another challenge in The Treehouse and this week the challenge is brought to you by ME!
I've a technique challenge for you and I'd like to see the Paper Tole/Decoupage technique on your card.

Crazy Challenge - Don't Call Me Flat
Friends Having Fun - Sketch (turned it a 1/4 turn)
For Fun - Encouraging card
Creative Cottage - Things with Wings



Card Recipe:
Image and Sentiment - Tweety by Treehouse Digitals
Paper - The Paper Studio
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punches - Martha Stewart





In this photo you should be able to see the layers in the image.
It is easy to do this technique with both rubber stamps and digital and I urge you to give it a try :)
Katie

Just Because - Relax with Mr Mouse :)

Happy Saturday Everyone!
I hope you are having lovely Spring weather, we are here in Texas, the usual storms have not yet arrived so we are enjoying sunshine and warmer temps. One thing that is not so good though are the dreaded weeds, I feel we are fighting a loosing battle and we've had to resort to spraying them as they just popped up too fast to pull them out.
After an afternoon of yard work I feel the need for a little R & R, just like the little character on my card today.
He is a new image from Meljens Design and he sure is a cutie!

I found a few challenges to go along with him:

Stamp With Fun - 3 Papers, 3 Flowers and 2 Buttons
Mojo Monday - Sketch
The Pink Elephant - Nature
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Green
Creative Cottage - Buttons and Bows
CRAFT - Buttons
By The Cute and Girly - Fairytales (I definitely think a mouse under toadstool would be reading a fairy tale :))
Practical Scrappers want to see markers
Simon Says Stamp want a Card for A Child
Handfull Of Stamps want you to Digi It
Papercutz want 3 patterned papers




Card Recipe:
Image - Mushroom Mouse by Meljens Designs
Paper - My Minds Eye Home collection
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Colorbok
Buttons - Dress It Up by Jesse James



Inside is more of the gorgeous glittered dp and a message mat.



I just love cute this little guy is, he certainly looks like he's enjoying his book.
I hope you can find some "me time" this weekend and do a little of what you really want to do :)
Katie