June is Here - Time for a Blushing Bride!

Is it June already?
I can't believe where this year has gone.
June is known as the Wedding Month with June Brides primping their hair and wearing their finest on that most special day!
So to celebrate I made another Wedding card. Up until a couple of weeks ago I'd never made any and now I've made 3 and I don't even know anyone getting married! LOL

I have a few challenges that this one fits:

Our Creative Corner - Sketch
Meljens - Silver and Gold
Fun Two Stamp - Metal Accessories
Lucys Cards - Digital
Copic Creations - Animals
Sweet Stampin - Pimp Your Card
Bee Crafty - Something New
Paper Garden - Something Girly (what's more girly than her Wedding Day?)
Cupcake Inspiration - Cupcake photo
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Hearts
The Shabby Tea Room - Dear to my Heart (used a heart charm and what is more Heart than a Wedding?)
Totally Stampalicious - TV Inspiration - Say Yes To The Dress



Card Recipe:
Image - The Wedding Collection at Lily Boo
Paper - DCWV The Linen Closet stack
Medium - Copic Markers
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Sentiment - Karen Foster
Lace - Offray





The sketch called for scalloped edges to the mat on the circle but I used Bridal Confetti instead and I think it ties the theme in nicely.



These are the markers I used on this one.
So if you are getting married this month I wish you all the very best in love and luck! My anniversary isn't until August but it will be 16 years this year and I'm grateful for each and every one of those :)
Katie

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Treehouse #50 Pink, Sky Blue, Brown, Cream

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by Yaneri.
She has a color challenge for you and wants to see Pink, Sky Blue, Brown and Cream.

As usual I have other challenges that I used to help me with this card:

Gingersnaps - Quote
Sweet Sunday Sketch - Sketch
One Stop Crafts - Summer Breeze
Flutterby - Flowers and Butterfly
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Flower Power
Color Throwdown - Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo and Baja Breeze
Creative Craft World - Easel Card
Corrosive - Easel Card
Inky Impressions - Choose at least 2, I chose Easel Card, Flowers, Circle and Sparkle
Getting Crafty with Ann - Round and Round
Cupcake Inspirations - I chose the Pink and the Pearls from the photo
Crafty Creations - Encouragement
Simply Saturday - Scallops
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Cute and Girly
Pixie Dust Studios - Add a Pearl
Digi Doodle Shop - Sparkle, Glitter, Glitz
Paper Take Weekly - Say It With Flowers
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Charisma - 3D



Card Recipe:
Image - Aloha Collection from Treehouse Digitals
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - DCWV
Flowers- Wild Orchid Crafts
Die Cuts - Spellbinders and Quickcutz
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Printed
Pearls - Martha Stewart colored with Copic's





I colored the butterfly 3 times, cut it out and popped it up for more dimension.
I gave it a quick spritz of Smooch to make it shimmer and shine.
This was such fun to make and I hope you are inspired by the colors and go and join in with us this at The Treehouse.
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #17 - Make Your Own Charms

It's Once Upon Wednesday time at The Pixie Cottage and for this challenge we'd love to see you use your skill to "Make Your Own Charm"! This could be out of Polymer clay, Shrink Plastic, Beads and Jewelery findings, anything you can think of!
And along with the technique part we have another fabulous sketch from our very own team member Pam.



More challenges:
Charisma - Girly Card with Flowers
Alota Rubber Stamps - Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Make Your Own anything
Pixie Dust - Photo Inspiration
No Time To Stamp - 3D Flowers
Annabelle Stamps - Pearls
Alphabet Challenge - A is for Animals
Allsorts - Animals
Totally Gorjuss - In Stitches
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Stitching
KL Stampin Scrappin - Inside Out (decorate inside as well as out)
Cupcake Inspirations - Colors pink, green and white and flowers
Sentimental Sundays - For That Someone Special
Stamp With Fun - Friends



Card Recipe:
Image - Little Chick and Little Lamb by Alisa Ramirez
Paper - The Paper Studio and Making Memories
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls - $1 spot
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Melissa Frances





These two look so cute together and I think they'd be perfect baby cards, friendship cards and birthdays too.
I made my charm from beads and jewelry findings and I'd love to see what you can come up with.
Please join in and share with us at The Pixie Cottage this week.
Katie

Treehouse Stamps - Get into the Spotlight!

Here is the second card for today.
This time we are in The Treehouse and our challenge was set by the wonderful Kelly
She wanted us to try the Spotlight technique.

This was a new technique for me and if you'd like to see a tutorial there is one at Split Coast Stampers that really helped me.

I had another couple of challenges to help me make this card:

Cupcake Inspirations had Sweet Flowery Cupcakes
The Crafty Pad want Yellow, Orange and Green
Sweet Stampin had a great sketch
Raise The Bar had an April Fool theme and wanted to see a technique/project you usually shy away from, well this is certainly one of those cards!
Copic Colour wanted R17, Y13 and YG21



Card Recipe:
Image - Sea Turtle Friend
Paper - The Paper Studio Gabi's Garden
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts





Here you can see where I "spotlit" the shell on the turtle.
So I'd love to see you give this a try!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge - A new Sketch

Happy Wednesday,
It's new challenge time at The Pixie Cottage and this time we have a fabulous sketch drawn by own very own Anne!



Of course I have to play along with other challenges too!

CCEE have "Sweet" as their theme
Handfull Of Stamps were Sending You Wishes
Fun With Shapes want Spots
Frosted Designs want Polka Dots and Plaid
If The Shoe Fits were Mad For Plaid
Crafty Catz had a Charming Bear theme (wanting a Bear and a Charm)
Pixie Dust want you to be Charmed
Scrap, Stamp and Doodle want Charms too
Sweet Stampin want New Beginnings
Lots to Do wanted you to use a machine and I used my Big Shot
Hope's Cupcake Inspiration had a great photo
ResQ had a "You Are What You Eat" theme
Practical Scrappers want to see Stamps
Crafty Creations want you to Cut It Out and Pop It Up



Card Recipe:

Image - Smiles and his Cupcake by The Pixie Cottage
Paper - Doodlebug Designs
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - K&Co
Ribbon - American Crafts
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Medium - Copic Markers
Pearls - Queen & Co



Inside is more of the supersweet dp and a message mat.



Wouldn't you love a cupcake so big you could lie in it like a bed? LOL

We also have Design Team news on The Pixie Cottage blog so be sure to check that out when you take a look at all the wonderful creations the team has for you this time.
And make sure you have a try with this sketch, you could be our winner :)
Katie

Cute Daisy May - Lavender and Lace

Happy Monday,
It's time for another theme at Cute Daisy May Challenge and this time it was chosen by Design Team member Wendy.
You can see her wonderful work at her blog, Crafty Butterfly.

I found a couple of challenges to go along with this one.

Design Dollies wanted Vintage
Everybody Art wanted a Thank You card
Moving Along With the Times had a sketch and a Childhood Memories theme
Sweet Stamping had a Floral Fantasy!
Daring Cardmakers had a theme of Feburary's Birthstone; Amethyst
Cupcake Inspiration helped with the colors
Paper Jewels had their 1st challenge and it is "Cute and Girly"
Pinkle Art wanted Roses
Crafty Cardmakers wanted Digital Delights


I chose this image of Daisy gardening from Sheet 167 and colored her with Copic's, the list of colors is below. I cut her with a Label Nestie.
I used a selection of dp and inked all the edges to enhance the Vintage feel.
I also used the new Paper Lace Martha Stewart punch along with her Doily Lace border punch.
The flowers came from the fantastic Wild Orchid Crafts.I'd seen the UK ladies using these in adundance and just had to give them a try. They are super flowers and were shipped really fast, less than one week from ordering to receiving, can't get better!
The sentiment is from a Studio G $1 set.

Inside is more dp and a message mat.

Here is Daisy and the colors I used.
Skin: R00, R01, E93
Hair: E13, E15, E17
Tree: G40, G82, G94
Leaves : G94
Bow: BV0000, BV01, BV04
Overalls: BV00, BV01, BV04
Gloves: G21, G99
Flowerpot: E35, E37
Dirt: E29, E59
Watering Can and Shovel: C1, C3, C5
Flowers: BV08, V17
Hearts and Butterflies: V01
Other pot: YR00, YR01, YR02
Outlined in C00

I'd love to see your take on the Lavender and Lace theme at the Cute Daisy May Challenge, you may be our winner!
Katie

New Digital Delights card and soon we'll be Hopping!

Happy Tuesday!
It's a super busy week on the blogs this week and the team at Digital Delights will be joining in the fun with a super blog hop on Thursday!



You'll want to make sure you don't want to miss out on the fun as we'll be debuting a brand new collection of images and there'll be prizes too!

And to celebrate this great week I decided to use one of Wendys super sweet older designs by creating a card for y'all!

There are a few challenges that go with this one too :)

Mojo Monday had a great sketch
Stamping Vacation had a Pick 3 and I chose; Use a butterfly, Make a card for no specific occasion and use colors that remind you of Spring
Ann's Creative Nook wanted you to be Inspired by Fabric and I chose this purse as my color inspiration
Hope Stamps Eternal had some super cute Cupcakes as inspiration complete with flip flops and sunglasses!



I chose to use the super sweet Beach Bonnie as the star of this "Just Because" card. It's nice to send a card on a special occasion but think how extra someone would be to receive a handmade just because you thought of them :)
I colored Bonnie with Copics but my Y21 ran again, I must have overfilled it :(
Never mind, maybe it's just a touch too muh sun! LOL
The super dp is My Minds Eye "Where The Heart Is" that I picked up at Hobby Lobby.
The ribbon is Hobby Lobby too and he sentiment is The Paper Studio.
I added Queen & Co pearls to the side mat.



The inside is more dp and a message mat.



I hope that brings a little sunshine into your Winter day and be sure to check back at Digital Delights on Thursday to join in the blog hop for fun and prizes too!
Katie