Digital Delights - Have a Whale of a Birthday!

It's time for another showcase at Digital Delights and we sure have a wonderful collection of cards for you today!

Challenges:
I Did It! - Sketch
Stamp Something - Something Digital
One Stitch At A Time - Digital
Mami Doodles - Anything Goes
Craftalicious - Birthdays
Pollycraft - Birthdays
Digital Tuesday - Happy Birthday
Prairie Fairy - Card for a Man/Boy
Oh Alice - Under the Sea
Alys - Under The Sea
Daring Cardmakers - The Sea
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Animals
KL Stampin Scrappin - Ribbon



Card Recipe:
Image - Whale by Digital Delights
Paper - K&Co Poppyseeds
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed
Ribbon - American Crafts





He sure is a cute whale and without the sketch I'd never have thought of printing him 3 times and I'm so glad I found it!
Be sure to check out all the other wonderful work of the team over at Digital Delights

Katie

Cooking It Up #22 - True Friends - Button Me a Blue Bow!

It's the final bi-weekly challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie before we change to weekly and it's a great one!

This challenge's recipe is:
Buttons
Bows
and
Blue!
To be for a chance of being named Top Chef you must include ALL the ingredients.
You can add as many other challenges as you like.

Challenges:

The Craft Garden - Fairies
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Choose any sketch. I chose #5
Lexi's - Real or Faux Stitching
Dare U2 Digi - Stitching
Raise The Bar - Something Old (the quote), Something New (the papers), Something Borrowed (or recycled/gifted) (the Image), Something Blue (the felt corners)
Paper Make Up - Felt (the corners)
Paper Playtime - Flower Power
Lucy's Cards - Buttons
Crazy 4 Challenges - Buttons
KL Stampin Scrappin - Ribbon
Stamp Something - Something Digital
One Stitch At A Time - Digital



Card Recipe:
Image - Josephine by Fairy Knoll
Paper - Devonshire by Kaiser Craft
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Stash
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Sentiment - Cloud 9





We'd love to see your creations so please drop along and play with us!

Guest Designer card for Chi Chi - A New Sketch Challenge

I'm guesting over at Chi Chi Memories for the month of July and today it's a new sketch at the Chi Chi Challenge!
I got to play with another of the fabulously cute images and I hope you love the result as much as I do!







Challenges:
Stamp Something - 1 paper, 1 image and 1 ribbon
KL Stampin Scrappin - Dry Embossing
Crafts and Me - Pink, Black and White
Craft Ho's - Black, White and 1 other
La La Lands - Black, White and 1 other
Colour Q - Color combo
Charisma - Pink
Speedy The Cats Friends - Punch It!
Lots To Do - People or Places
Pals Paper Arts - Wedding
Hanna and Friends - Celebrating
I Did It Creations - Special Occasion Card
Practical - Embossing
For Fun - Coloring
Gingersnaps - Markers



Card Recipe:
Image - Wedding Tower by Chi Chi Memories
Paper - Stash
Medium - Copic Markers
Gloss - Glossy Accents by Ranger
Embossing folder - Sizzix
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Walmart (years ago!)





I added a touch of Glossy Accents and a touch of Stickles to give a little sparkle to the card. I think it would work equally well for a Wedding or an Anniversary.
I'd love to see you play with the new sketch at the Chi Chi Challenge!

Get Sunny With Lily Boo!

Happy Saturday!
It's another cute Summer card for you today and this one stars a cute image by Lily Boo at Cuddly Buddly.
There are so many cute ones to choose from and if you'd like to "try before you buy" there are 3 pages of FREEBIES! for you to try that will keep you in cards for a while! LOL


Challenges:

A Crafty Little Place - Sketch
Colour Q - Melon Mambo, Cameo Coarl, Bermuda Bay, Barely Banana, White
Glitterbabe - Orange, Pink and Turquoise
Creative Card Crew - Die Cuts
Speedy The Cats Friends - Punch It!
Scrap It With A Song - America the Beautiful, "From sea to shining sea"
Pick 3 - Summer Theme, Yellow cardstock and a Sticker
My Sheri - Summer
ECP - Summer
Crafty Calendar - Summer
Fresh Brewed - Summertime
Crafty Ho's - Fun in The Sun
Stampin Sanity - Water
If The Shoe Fits - Vacation
Thoughtful Thursdays - Beach
Craft Your Passion - Stitching
Stamp and Create - Stitching
Artful Inkables - Stitching
Lucy's Cards - Buttons
Alphabet Challenge - K is for Kids




Card Recipe:
Image - Lily Boo Teen Girl at the Beach (not available right now but keep checking back!)
Paper - Cosmo Cricket De Lovely
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - K&Co






I'm really "feeling" this card as in just a short while I'll be on the beach in Mexico for the 1st vacation I've had in 10, yes 10, years!!!!
I'll be building sandcastles with my children, drinking a few "frozen concoctions" and generally having a great time!
But before then keep checking back as there are plenty more fun cards to come!

Here's The Scoop! Dairy Delights Card

It's time to cool off again with another Ice Cream Dream of a card!!! LOL
This is a combo of both Clear and Digital stamps, I love using both together.
The cart is the digi and the sundae and two sentiments are acrylic.

Challenges:

Quirky Crafts - Ribbons
Pile It On - Favorite Things (who doesn't like Ice Cream?)
Cowgirl Sunday - Scallops
Ooh La La - Simply Summer
Drunken Stampers - Summer
KL Stampin Scrappin - Summer
ECP - Summer
Crafty Ho's - Fun in The Sun
Totally Stampalicious - Food
Cute Card Thursday - Let's Get Fruity



Card Recipe:

Clear Dollar Stamps : Dairy Delights by Wendy Hall
Digital Delights Stamps :
Paper : Nana's Nursery Baby Girl by DCWV
Copic Markers: R30, R32, R11, R12, YG11, Y23, W00, W1
Extras : Border Punch by Martha Stewart, Ribbon by Offray, Brads by Basic Grey





This was such a cute card to make and I hope you like the ice cream colors I chose to complete this one with.

Treehouse #55 Pink, Mellow Moss, white (1 other your choice)

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by Gloria.
She has given us a color challenge of Pink, Mellow Moss, White and another color if you need it.
Following on from last week's tottering teacups today I have their best friend, the Teapot!

Challenges:
Allsorts - Sketch
Everybody Art - Green and Pink
KL Stampin Scrappin - Get Shabby
Challenge Up Your Life - Vintage
The Shabby Tearoom - Photo Inspiration
Crafty Ann's - Embossing
Tuesday Throwdown - Dry Embossing
Fun With Shapes and More - Flowery
Practical Scrappers - Flowers
Dare U2 Digi - Blooms and Butterflies
Crafty Calendar - Bugs and Beasties
One Stitch at a Time - Seeing Double
Cuttlebug Challenge - Inspired by Inchies (all the squares behind the image have been embossed)
Simon Says Stamp - Friends




Card Recipe:
Image and Sentiment - Time For Tea by Treehouse Digitals
Paper - K&Co Classic K Margo
Medium - Copic Markers
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart






I really like how this one turned out, it is such a homely image and reminds me of very fond memories of times I spent as a child with my Nana. She's now 94 but can still make a great pot of tea.
Have fun with our color combo and be sure to link your entries over at The Treehouse

Surprise it's Ashley's Birthday!

Over at Treehouse stamps it celebration day today as it is stamp artist Ashley's birthday!!!
So as a surprise we have all made her a card to make her day extra special!

Challenges:
Friday Sketchers - Sketch (turned)
Annabelle Stamps - Pink and Green
Alphabet Challenge G is for Green
Stamp Challenges - Happy Something
One Stitch At A Time - Celebration
KL Stampin Scrappin - Girly Birthday
Donna's Den - Happy Birthday (their 1st challenge!)
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes Birthday
Hand Full of Stamps - How Cute is That?
Bee Crafty - Blooming Marvelous
Stamp With Fun - Fairytales
Just Us Girls - Going Digital



Card Recipe:
Image - Happy Dragon (brand new!)
Paper - Fairytale Princess by The Paper Studio
Medium - Copic Markers
Roses - Prima (pink) and Wild Orchid Crafts (green)
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font





If you want to see some more great Treehouse cards and join in the fun be sure to check out the following team members blogs for more birthday wishes!

Neva McMullen
Kelly Hampton
Maria Levine
Anne Harmon
Yaneri Rodriquez
Gloria Morizen
Anne Harmon
Heather Prince
Kimberly Lowery
Stephanie Serrano
and then run and wish the birthday girl Ashley Happy Birthday too!

Hope you enjoyed this one, I know I did!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #19 - 3D/Decoupage/Paper Tole

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday over at The Pixie Cottage and we have another wonderful sketch for you.



We also have the added technique challenge of Paper Tole.

I have a few other challenges to go with that:


Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Praire Fairy - Flowers
Our Daily Bread - Flowers
Meljens - Flowers and Blooms
Pollycraft - Summer Blooms
Crafty Catz - Petals and Pearls
Paper Take Weekly - Say It With Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
Digi Doodle Best - Ribbon
Twisted Thursday - Ribbon
Pixie Dust - Cut It Out
Your Next Stamp - Cut It Out and Pop It Up
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Just For Fun Color Challenge - Lime Green, Turquoise and Yellow
Colour Q - Bermuda Bay, Kiwi Kiss, Summer Sun, Soft Suede and White
KL Stampin Scrappin - Animals
Stamp With Fun - Stripes
Creative Inspirations - Punches or Die Cuts (I used both)
Crafty Cardmakers - Inside Out



Card Recipe:
Image - Puppy Love by Eileen Gutierrez
Paper - DCWV The Citrus Stack
Ribbon - Michaels
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Basic Grey
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Colorbok
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting





I hope you can see the layers of the Paper Tole technique on this image.
I love how dimensional you can make you card using this and it is quite therapeutic to me to see and cut out tiny pieces! LOL
We'd love to see your take on the sketch or the technique or both over at The Pixie Cottage
Katie

Challenge #17 at Cooking It Up!

It's a double posting day today and the first one is for my challenge blog Cooking It Up With Katie

If you haven't been over there before make sure you drop by as every other Wednesday I set a new challenge with a list of 3 "ingredients" that I need to see in your project. As long as you include them all I don't mind if you combine my challenge with any number of others, the more the merrier I say!

The recipe this challenge is:

Be charming

Make it Male

Use 3 colors only (not including white to stamp on)

And I added the following challenges to it:

Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Stampin For The Weekend - Card for a Male
Cute Card Thursday - Boyz to Men
Crazy 4 Challenges - Boy Card
Tanda Stamps - Toddler Time
KL Stampin Scrappin - 123, 1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 embellishments
Penny's Challenges - 123, 1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 embellishments
Secret Crafter - 321, 3 embellishments, 2 papers and 1 image
Res Q - Photo Inspiration (I took the bright colors and the stripes)
Cupcake Crafts - Buttons
One Stitch at a Time - Going Dotty
Fab N Funky - Metal Mania (used a metal charm)



Card Recipe:
Image - Birthday Boy Pixie Cottage stamp
Medium - Copic Markers
Papers - Party Time stack and Summer Song stack both from My Minds Eye
Ribbon - Michaels
Chipboard Buttons - Colorbok
Sentiment - My Sentiments Exactly




Inside is a faux stitched message mat.



As you can see I took my 3 colors from the base dp and used blue, green and orange. This was a super fun card to make and I hope you like it too.
I'd love to see what you can come up from my ingredients so go and create and drop back to Cooking It Up With Katie and show me what you've done!
Check back a little later for a new card for The Pixie Cottage.
Katie

Treehouse Stamps - Challenge #41 Thank You

Time for another Treehouse Challenge and this week our featured Team Member is the super sweet Yaneri from Scrapy Crafter Creations
This week she challenged all of us to make "Thank You" cards, something we can all do with having a small stash of.
So we'd love to see what you can do with this theme too!

Paper Garden had a Sketch which I turned a 1/4 turn and I dropped it on top of the sketch from Kl Stampin Scrappin. I never combine sketches but these two worked so I gave it a try.
One Stop wanted Spots and Dots
Paper Play had a Thank You theme
Saturday Spotlight wanted something Slick and I used Glossy Accents on the Umbrella, the Puddle and the Boots
Stampotique have a Spring has Sprung theme
The Cuttlebug Spot were going Digi (and some CB too)



Card Recipe:
Image - Stars and Showers digital collection from Treehouse Stamps
Paper - DCWV Flower Shower and My Minds Eye Summer Song
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Around the Page
Ribbon - American Crafts
Medium - Copic Markers
Shine - Glossy Accents
Sentiment - Printed in CK Diva font





Hopefully you can see his "shiny bits" on this close up.
Now we all need to remember to write more Thank You notes so use our challenge as an excuse to get one ready for that time you'll need it next.
Katie

Treehouse- Spring Cleaning - Clean And Simple Challenge

Happy Thursday,
Now this week at The Treehouse we have a new challenge that was a real challenge to me.
We want you to make a "Clean and Simple" card which means very few embellishments, fewer layers and an image that can make the card alone.
Now this was a real test for me as I like to add lots of challenges to my card and that usually means lots of "stuff" on the card so to strip it down to the basics really took me out of my comfort zone.
I have Design Team member Neva of Neva's Crafty Cave to thank for this challenge, take a look at her blog to see her style.

Now I couldn't not have challenges so these I think work for this type of card;

Taylored Expressions had a beautiful clean looking sketch
Sassy Susie had an Easter theme
KL Stampin and Scrappin want Buttons
Ooh La La had an Anything Goes theme
Stamp With Fun wanted a Spring card
Rosie Dees also want you to Think Spring
Tanda Teaser wanted Simply Spring
Scrappy Frogs wanted you to "Challenge Yourself" and this certainly was a challenge for me.



Card Recipe:
Image - Joyful BlessingsTreehouse Stamps digi
Embossing folder - Sizzix
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Buttons - Dress it Up by Jesse James
Medium - Copic Markers
Acrylic flower - Hobby Lobby



I didn't leave the inside blank but it sure is simple ;)



I colored two of the image and popped one on top of the other. I know that doesn't really fit completely with the "Clean and Simple" rule but it's as simple as this "Fussy and Fancy" girls gonna get! LOL
And it really was a super quick card once I decided how to approach it, jst about 20 minutes from start to finish.

I hope you've enjoyed this and don't think I've cleaned up too much, there's sure to be some more "fancy schmancy" on my next card :)
Katie