The Pixie Cottage Challenge #67 - It's A Royal Wedding

It's Wednesday so it means another challenge over at The Pixie Cottage!
As always we have 2 parts to the challenge and you can choose either or both to play along with.
We have a fabulous sketch and our theme this week is "It's A Royal Wedding!"
We'd love to see anything from a Wedding Card, something with Princess, Crowns and Castles, or even something celebrating the British Royal Family!

Challenges:
Sparkles Forum - Anything Goes
Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes
Stampin For The Weekend - Wedding
Totally Papercrafts - Wedding
Die Cut Dreams - Wedding
Fab N Funky - Wedding (10 combined challenges max)
Crafty Cardmakers - Royal Wedding (10 combined challenges)
Kaboodle Doodles - Here Comes The Bride
Bloggers Challenge - Ribbons and Lace

Card Recipe:
Image - Love Endures All Things by ARTish
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Julianne by K and Co
Doily Die - French Pastry by Cheery Lynn Designs
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls - Recollections
Gold cardstock - American Crafts
Sentiment - K and Co

This is the great sketch! Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique or both.

I paper pieced the train on the Wedding dress and I colored the pearls on the spray with a Copic to make them gold to match the others.
I really like how this card turned out and hope you can come along and join in with us at The Pixie Cottage!

A Cheeky Little Valentine

I couldn't share this one until today as it is actually my husbands Valentine cutie!
(that's why you don't see the inside of this one ;))
We may be English but now live in Texas and he knows I have a little penchant for a good "Cowboy Romance" book and so I thought I could be his Cowgirl for the day :)
Also this is my first Kenny K card, some of my favorite card makers use these super images but I've not played with one until this card.

Challenges:
Kenny K - Circles
Cards For Men - 1 Image, 2 Papers and 3 Embellishments
Bearly Mine - For Men/Boys
Ooh La La - For Someone Special
ECP - Love
Totally Gorjuss - Love
Crafty Calendar - Love
Rainbow Lady - All About Love
Dutch Dare - Love Is In The Air
One Stop Crafts - Love Is In The Air
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Love Is In The Air
Crafty Ann's - Love Is All Around
Winter Wonderland - For The One I Love
The Sisterhood of Crafters - In Love With Valentines
Crafty Sentiments - Valentines
Crafty Purple Frog - Valentines/Romance
AI Factory - Valentines
My Sheri - Valentines
CRAFT - Valentines
Sew Many Challenges - Valentines
Stampin For The Weekend - Valentines
Delcious Doodles- Valentines
Pixie Dust - Be My Valentine
Crafty Catz - Love/Valentines
Stamp Something - Something for Your Valentine
For Fun - Hearts
Stampin Royalty - Hearts
The Stamp Man - Hearts
Crazy 4 Challenges - Hearts
The Crafty Pad - Hearts

Card Recipe:
Image - Cheyenne by Kenny K
Paper - 365 Degrees by Pink Paislee
Medium - Copic Markers
Corners and Heart - Colorbok
Brads - Spare Parts

I used the great box tutorial on Rach's blog and it is so quick and easy.
Anyway, if my sweetie is reading this, Happy Valentines Day!!!

Designed 2 Delight - Teddy as A Scarecrow :)

I'm so loving this fabulous Fall weather and hope it's nice where you are too :)
Today's card features a BRAND NEW IMAGE just released TODAY and I know you're going to absolute love him!
He was an absolute joy to color and in fact as a practice sheet (a girl can never stop practicing you know) I printed out 9 of him to check out some color combo;s, I may even share those combos tomorrow if anyone would be interested ;)

Challenges:

Stampin For The Weekend - Fall or Halloween
Challenge Up Your Life - Autumn
Crazy 4 Challenges - Autumn
Riley and Co - Colors of Autumn
Inspiration Avenue - Harvest
Thoughtful Thursdays - H is for.....Harvest
Baby Bud - Halloween or Fall
Creative Inspirations - Halloween or Fall
Belli - Pumpkins
Paper Playtime - Pumpkins or Spiderwebs
The Hybrid Chick - Fall with a Digi
Pear Tree Designs - Free For All
Stampin Royalty - Ribbons
Stamp Something - Something Digi

Card Recipe:
Image - Scarecrow Teddy Set
Paper - DCWV Autumn Splendor
Medium - Copic Markers
Rub On Sentiment - Daisy Hill
Buttons - Michaels $1 spot
Ribbon - American Crafts

Didn't I tell you that you'd love him?
He is so super sweet and guess what? if you play in Faith's challenges you be pleased that he is this weeks freebie!!! (just the bear not the background).
So if you played last time you'll be making a card with him this week!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #38 - Orange - Guest Sketch

It's time for another challenge over at and this week we have a Special Guest Sketch Artist and it's Aud Nordheim!
She created this fabulous sketch for us:



As the additional challenge this week we'd love to see you use Orange in your creation. That shouldn't be too difficult with Fall upon us and Halloween racing fast towards us.

Challenges:

Digi Doodles Shop - Emboss It
Stamp Insanity - Emboss
Stampin For The Weekend - Tag It
Wee Memories - Tags
Stamp Something - Fall colors
For Fun - Fall
Meljens - Fall Colors
Stamptacular Sunday - Colors of Fall
Creative Stamp Friends - Autumn
Craftalicious - Autumn Colors
Drunken Stampers - Fall
A Crafty Little Place - Autumn
Flourishes - Autumn
Tuesday Taggers - Autumn sponsored by The Craft Barn
Speedy The Cats Friends - Pumpkin
Corrosive - Masking (I masked the image so I could airbrush the background)
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Anything Goes
Make It Crafty - Anything Goes
Random Amusing - 2 different Ribbons

Card Recipe:
Image - Pumpkin Molly
Medium - Copic Markers and Airbrush System
Paper - Autumn Splendor by DCWV (not available online but I got it from Michaels)
Embossing folders by Sizzix (Tim Holtz) and Cuttlebug (flower border)
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby

I really love how this one turned out, I airbrushed the background (thanks Risa for the super Tutorial) and colored another image, cut it out and popped it up for some more dimension.
I added some brown paint to the centers of the flowers on the embossed border and also embossed the punched border across the middle.
I love the colors of Fall, so bright and cheery and I hope it got the theme across in this card.

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #33 - Back 2 School

It's another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and we have another fabulous sketch from Pam.
Sadly Pam has had some health issues that have forced her to step down from creating cards for us but she has a lasting legacy here as she created many wonderful sketches and we will continue using them to honor her time with us.



The challenge along with the sketch this week is a great one, "Back To School".
If your children haven't already gone back then they will be super soon and it's the perfect time to celebrate the upcoming school year.

You don't have to use a Pixie Cottage Stamp to enter but if you do have why not try out!
Remember you can use the sketch, the theme or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like!


Challenges:

Twisted Thursday - Back to School and Yellow
Frosted Designs - Back To School
Character Cafe - Glaze
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
Stampin For The Weekend - Anything Goes
Stamp Insanity - Button Up Buttercup
Ellephantastic - Male Project
Stempeltraeume - Card for a Man (mine is for a boy)
Let's Ink It Up - Anything Goes plus Yellow
One Stitch at a Time - Say it With Shapes
Crafty Ho's - Photo Inspiration (I did Back to School with it)



Card Recipe:
Image - Udderly Adorable Boy by Alisa Ramirez
Paper - DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Acrylic Letters - Recollections
Buttons - Stash
Sentiment - Printed




I think this little guy really is "adoraBULL" and I added Glossy Accents to his hat to make him super awesome!
I hope all your little ones (and bigger ones too) have got over the 1st Day "Gitters" and are back to enjoying learning and being with their friends.
Be sure to use a little of that time you have on your hands (yeah right Mom's?) and come and show us your creations.

Digital Delights - Bee My Honey!

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

Challenges:

Stampin For The Weekend - 3 DP's, 2 Flowers, 1 Ribbon and an added extra of Gems or Charms
Digital Tuesday - Dazzle Us
Digi Doodle Shop - Punches or Die Cuts
Crafty Cardmakers - Recipe , Yellow or Orange, Stickers or Punches, Animal or Fish
One Stitch at a Time - Black White and 1 other color
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Black White and 1 other color
Rosie and Dees - All Creatures Great and Small
No Time To Stamp - 2 of Something (2 buttons, 2 flowers)
Simon Says - Going Dotty
Anything Goes - Punches





Card Recipe:
Image - Honey Pot Larry
Paper - Stash
Border and Corner Punch - Loops by Martha Stewart
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers and Buttons - Spare Parts





I'm sure we all know someone who would be worthy of this cute card! LOL

Another new Chi Chi card! - Getting Ready for Summer!

It's time for another guest card for Chi Chi Memories and this time it's for their latest sketch challenge!



Challenges:
Aud Sentiments - Hello Friend
Wee Memories - Stitching
Crafty Creations - It's a Stitch Up
Our Creative Corner - Corners
Just Us Girls - Going Digital
Flourishes - Embossing
Spoonfull of Sugar - Enjoy the Sunshine
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate Summer
Sentimental Sundays - Summer
Quirky Crafts - Summer
Stampin For The Weekend - Summer
Shabby Tearoom Summer
Diva Stamper - Photo Inspiration (the strawberries and the shape of the plate)






Card Recipe:
Image - All of my Heart
Paper - Berry Sweet by K&Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Die Cut - Spellbinders Labels 9
Glitter - Diamond Stickles
Embossing folder - Sizzix
Butterflies and Flowers - Papermania (I think)
Sentiment - Printed





Here's a close up.
I love how just changing your marker color can change the whole feel of an image.
Hope you liked her!

Challenge #19 at Cooking It Up! and a New CDS Card!

Happy Wednesday!
Not only is it double posting day BUT I've killed two birds with one stone too!
It's the day to reveal my second card using the fabulous stamps that Wendy Hall designed for Clear Dollar Stamps.
And also it is the latest challenge over at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog and the card works perfectly for that challenge! LOL

The recipe is:

Embossing (I heat embossed the images before coloring)
Ribbon
and Green

And as a huge bonus (and a great reason for entering) the challenge is sponsored this time by the always fabulous Wendy from Digital Delights!

I did find a few other challenges to fit as well:

Raise The Bar - Celebrate Summer
Stampin For The Weekend - Summer
Stampin With Dragon - Summer
Paper Sundaes - Summer Fun
Our Creative Corner - What does Summer Mean To You?
ECP - Green
Craftalicious - New



Card Recipe:
Image - Backyard Barbeque - Clear and Digital Stamps
Paper - K&Co Citronella
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart






This doggy sure looks like he's having some Summer Fun! I thought he was waiting for dropped food but my 3 year old son is convinced he has his ears pricked up listening to the music! LOL
Whatever it is, he sure looks happy and I hope I brought a smile to your face with this one too.
Katie

"Giraffe" A Good Time? - Treehouse Challenge #49 - Masculine Cards

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by the wonderful Neva!
She'd like you to stretch your creativity a little and make a card for a man or boy in your life!
There are so many new digital stamps at The Treehouse Store that it was hard to choose the perfect image but I think you'll like this one!

I needed a few challenges to help me create mine:

Allsorts - Sketch
Papercutz - Child's Zoo Birthday
Critter Challenge - Critter Birthday
Stampin For The Weekend - Card for a Male
Crazy 4 Challenges - Boy Card
Curtain Call - Summer Sun, Bordering Blue, Whisper White and Tangerine Tango
The Pink Elephant - Yellow, Designer Paper and Buttons
Cupcake Craft - Buttons
A Spoon Full of Sugar - 3 papers and 3 buttons
Digital Tuesday - Make Me Laugh (well I thought the sentiment was funny :))
Sisterhood of Crafters - You Crack Me Up (something funny)



Card Recipe:
Image - Giraffe from Zoofari Friends
Paper - My Minds Eye and DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed
Buttons - Dress it Up by Jesse James





This is such a cute digi set and could be used for a lot of different occasions.
We all know how hard it is to do cards for the men in our lives, maybe this challenge will spur you on! We'd love to see what you can create, come and show us at The Treehouse
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

The Pixie Cottage Challenge - Green

Happy Wednesday!
It's almost St Patrick's Day so to celebrate the team over at The Pixie Cottage are challenging you to use a little Green in your creations this week!
Also we have a very special surprise for you, we have a FREE digital image by our super artist and team member ArTish that we would love to see you use on your card!
I've used it and it sure is a cute image!
This is the first time we've offered a digital image and it will go in the store after the challenge is over in case you miss it.
Are we looking at going all digi on you? No, of course not, rubber is our first love but customer feedback has led us to know that some of you want the instant gratification and versitility of a digital image. But remember that the image is for your use only, sharing and copying files is stealing so please respect the artists time and skill by keeping the image for yourself. Feel free to post the link back to here for others to get the image but do not post it on your own blog.

I have a few other challenges with this card:

Just Us Girls had a great Sketch
Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger had a wonderful photo of Gingham Green chairs
Tuesday Taggers have a St Patrick's Day theme
Tellens Place wanted St Pat's too
Pennys want Green for St Patrick's Day
Busy Beauties had St Patrick's Day theme too
Stampin Royalty want only Green
Copic Creations want Green too
Inky Impressions also want Green
For Fun more Green needed here
Cute Card Thursday also want Green
Twisted Thursday want Green as well
Prairie Fairy want Green too
Paper Cutz want St Patrick's Day
Crafty Catz Green with an option of St Patrick's Day
Opus Gluei also want Green
Stampin For The Weekend also has a Monochromatic theme
Alphabet Challenge were at S for Stamping
One Stop want you to Sew Simple
The Crafty Pad want to see a Charm
Creative Inspirations want Charms too
Paper Jewels had a Gotta Have Bling theme (inspired by This Piece
Die Cut Dreams have No Flowers Allowed
Handfull of Stamps wanted Shine!
Gingersnaps wanted Frosted and they included Diamond Glaze so I think my "wet spots" count :)



Card Recipe:
Image - Digital image by Artish for The Pixie Cottage
Papers - DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - Michaels
Shine - Glossy Accents
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls and Rhinestones - $1 spot



Inside is more dp and a faux stitched message mat.



In the words of my husband (who is 1/2 Irish) it looks like St Pat has "been on the Guinness" with his red shiny nose!
I hope you've enjoyed this, be sure to snag the freebie and come back and show us what you did with him/her!
Katie

Pile It On - Happy New Year!

Happy Sunday!
It's time to get back to business with the 1st challenge of 2010 for Pile It On and the theme is Happy New Year! Of course you must combine it with other challenges or else you won't be "Piling It On!"

I found a few to help me this week and the 1st is a brand new challenge blog.
Fussy and Fancy had the theme of "New"
Stampin For The Weekend had a New Beginnings theme
PaperTake Weekly also had a "New Beginnings" theme
Cute Card Thursday had an "All New" theme
Sassy Susie had a theme of Friends Old and New
Crafty Ann had a New Year theme too
365 Cards Day 312 had a "Metal Mania" theme
Ildi Co had a Scraps and Metal theme
Paper Play had a Precious Metals theme
Just Magnolia had a monthly challenge of Paper Pleating (and a Magnolia stamp)
Magnolia Down Under wanted a "Stamp with another use" and I used a Summer stamp on a New Years Card
Crafty Card Makers wanted your favorites of 2009 and I have to say that discovering Magnolia stamps was a breakthrough in my cardmaking and is definitely a favorite of mine.
Frosted Designs had an Ink challenge and I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp Tilda
Flutterby wanted to see "New" along with a Fairy, Butterfly or Angel and this Tilda certainly has her Angel Wings showing
Easy Breezy Kewl had a color combo of Soft Suede, Ballet Blue, Whisper White, Kraft and Bravo Burgundy
Pals Paper Arts had a great sketch



This is a Tilda from a previous years release but she's new to me and the first time I'm used her. She's called Tilda With Watering Can and I colored her with Copic's.
The dp is K@Co and the metal phrase is Making Memories.

Challenge #7 at Cooking It Up!

Wow the weeks are flying by!
I can't believe we are on the 7th challenge at my Cooking It Up With Katie blog.
I'd love some more entrants and this could be the challenge to try as I'm offering a prize so run over and check it out!

The recipe is:
Use a Christmas theme
Add Ribbon
Use any current sketch challenge

Stampin For The Weekend want a Christmas card with Red, Green and Gold
Creative Card Crew also wanted Gold (or Silver)
Color Chef had the combo of Red, Green and Cream/White
Charisma had a color combo of Red, Green and White/Silver
Rosie Dees wanted Red, Green and Bling!
Sunflowers and Dragonflies had a theme of Merry Christmas
365 Cards Day 280 had the theme of "Candy Cane"
Cupcake Crafts had the theme of a "Christmas Carol"
Die Cuts R Us wanted a project with a "Holiday Feel"
Just Magnolia had a special monthly challenge of "Make a card for Someone Special", well I'd feel pretty special if I received this card.


I stamped Tilda Sitting With Candy and colored her with Copic's. Then I cut her out and made a present for her to sit on.
The dp is a mixture of Paper Studio and Joanns.
The border punch is from Martha Stewart.

The inside is more dp and a ribbon topped message mat.

Here is a close up of Tilda, all decked out for Christmas!
If you still have time before Christmas I'd love to see you over at Cooking It Up With Katie
Katie

Lots of fun stuff at Digital Delights including 2 FREEBIES!

Hi Everyone,
Another weekend is almost here and with today's super Digital Delights news you'll think your weekend has started early!
Firstly it's Freebie Friday. Things have changed a little on how you get your freebie but it is change for the good.
First you just have to be a member of the Digital Delights group at Paper Craft Planet or Scrapbook News Review, Card Universe and click on the Freebie Friday post.
This week we have something extra special for you at SNR as we are having a Digi Day next week and will be doing all sorts of fun things.
To celebrate we have a super freebie that you can download just by being a member.
All the details can be found here.Now you may ask why should you join a group to get a freebie? Well there are lots of good reasons. Firstly you'll get to know the members of the Design Team a little more as they join in the fun. Secondly you'll meet other DD fans and thirdly you can upload your DD creations so everyone can see how wonderful your work is! You'll see everyone elses work too so you'll get lots of ideas of how to utilize those super cute images.
The image for challenge is

so it's well worth running over to SNR to get it!
And you can also grab

at either PCP or SNR and have some fun with Pippin!

I've added a few challenges along side this one too.
Artful Inkables wnated you to make something you'd never made before. Even though altered paintcans have been around for ages this is the first time I've ever made one.
AI Factory wanted you to alter something.
Stampin For The Weekend wanted a Festive Goodie Box, how perfect is this!
Digital Tuesday wanted to see Flowers
Crafty Catz wanted you to go Dotty and I've dots of my paper and ribbons so that works
Crafty Cardmakers wanted you to Stamp Something
Corrosive Challenges wanted "Anything But a Card"
Scrap Stamp and Doodle also wanted Anything But a Card
Esty Inspired wanted you to look at Vivika's Etsy Shop and it was easy to chose Little Gingers as my inspiration.


So just like you I joined the group and downloaded the super sweet gingerbread image and this is what I came up with.



The clear paintcan was Michaels and I used a little dp from the Love Nest stack by My Minds Eye from Hobby Lobby.
The border punch is from Martha Stewart.
I printed one Ginger big for the can and another small for a matching tag, this is one thing I absolutely love about digital images.
Both were colored with Copic's.




I added ribbon to the sides of the handle and a flower on top.
It would be a great gift if filled with candy, cookies or some other sweet treat!
So go and grab your freebie and enter for a chance to win.
Katie