Digital Delights - Happy Birthday Owl

As you well know we all need Birthday cards and today I have another cutie from Digital Delights
I used the adorable Celebration Owl and dressed him in cute Spring pastel colors!

Challenges:
Paper Minutes - Pastel Colors
Crafty Boots - Use a Sentiment
Critters and Creatures - Critters and Creatures
Cutie Pie - Cute and Woodland Creatures
Fab N Funky - Winged Things
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes (2 entries only)

Image - Celebration Owl
Sentiment - Birthday Sentiment Set
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Easter Floral by Echo Park
Circle Die - Quickutz
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Flower - Recollections

Pop on by the Digital Delights Blog to see the other great cards from the rest of my teamies!


Katie

Magnolia-Licious Celebration (New Baby, Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation, Christmas, etc.)

Today I'm sharing my card for the "Celebration" challenge at Magnolia-Licious!

I used one of the lovely images from the latest coollection, Spring Fever and I thought that Frenchy Edwin looks all ready and waiting to celebrate!

Challenges:
Deep Ocean - Dots and/or Stripes (dots on the butterfly)
Crafty Boots - Use a Sentiment
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes (2 entries only)
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes (1 entry only)

Card Recipe:
Image - Frenchy Edwin
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - The Garment District by The Paper Studio
Sentiment - 3 Bugs in a Rug
Pearls - The Paper Studio
Oval Die, Doily Die and Border Die - Sizzix
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Offray
Flowers and Butterfly - Michaels

So now you have just less than a week left to enter and you could be our winner if you enter and follow our theme.
So choose a Magnolia, Wee, or Wild Rose Studio image and have fun creating a project or card to join the Magnolia-Licious Challenge!

Katie

A Gem of a Challenge #167 - Teddy Bears

It's time for another challenge at A Gem of A Challenge and we want to see Teddy Bears

I used the super cute Bella with Bouquet and she looks so springy!

Challenges:
Critters and Creatures - Critters and Creatures
Aud's Sentiments - Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes
Cre8tive Hands Friends - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - Bella with Bouquet
Sentiment - Fresh Prints
Paper - Summer Bliss by Echo Park
Medium - Copic Markers
Enamel Dots - Michaels
Dies - Large Labels by Spellbinders, Frame by Sizzix and Border by Magnolia

We really would love you to join in at A Gem of A Challenge you could be our winner!

Katie

Digital Delights - New Releases

It's time for New Releases at Digital Delights and Wendy has created a fabulous Zodiac collection for you! Now when you are stuck for a birthday card you can simply choose their star sign and go from there!


Challenges:
Double D Challenges - Make it Yellow
Creative Card Crew - Die Cut
Tuesday Throwdown - Furry Friends
Critters and Creatures - Critters and Creatures
Incy Wincy - Favorite Coloring Medium
Melonheadz - Flowers
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - Aries
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Authentique
Circle Die - Quickutz
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Enamel Dots and Straw - Michaels
Doily and Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

This card is in memory of my Nana in heaven, the best Aries I ever knew! :)


Katie

Scor-Pal More than One Score Challenge - April Showers

A new month means a new challenge at More Than One Score at Scor-Pal and this time we are looking for your "April Showers" themed projects.
You make an "Anything But a Card", a card with a fancy fold, anything as long as it has more than a single score and that you let us know where you used your Scor-Pal in the project.
For my card I went with a cute criss cross fold with a belly band.


Challenges:
Cardz 4 Galz - Springtime
The Crafty Addicts - Springtime
DRS Designs - Spring Fling
Moo Mania - Spring
In The Pink - Dies and Punches and Pink
Crafting for All Seasons - Dies/Punches
City Crafter - Whitewash
WordArt Wednesday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes (3 entries only)

Card Recipe:
Scoring Tool - Scor-Pal
Image - Windswept Chole by Pink Gem Designs
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Bo Bunny
Sentiment - Adorn It
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Oval Die - Sizzix
Frame Die - Sizzix
Border Punch - Daisy by Martha Stewart
Paint - Waverly Chalk Paint in Plaster

I hope you liked this and be sure pop over to More Than One Score at Scor-Pal to see the other creations and to join in!

Katie

Magnolia-licious Anything Goes with Pearls

Today I'm sharing my card for the "Anything Goes with Pearls" challenge at Magnolia-Licious!

I used the lovely Sweetness Angel Tilda from the "Touch of Love " collection and she is so sweet looking and perfect for a special daughter card.

Challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - To Die For
Crafting by Designs - 3 or More Layers
Fab N Funky - Flowers
Stamping Sensations - Flower Power (3 entries only)
Robyn's Fetish - Add a Doily
Allsorts - Wings
Di's Digis - For the Girls
My Time to Craft - Girlie
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Patterned Paper
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Amusing Challenges - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - Sweetness Angel Tilda
Paper - The French Country Stack by DCWV
Sentiment - Bo Bunny
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers, Tag and Pearls - Michaels
Circle Die - Quickutz
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Doily - Recollections
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Lace - Art C

So now you have just less than a week to enter and you could be our winner if you enter and follow our theme.
So choose a Magnolia, Wee, or Wild Rose Studio image and have fun creating a project or card to join the Magnolia-Licious Challenge!

Katie

"W"ednesday at Magnolia-Licious

It’s ‘W’ednesday time at Magnolia-licious™ and we have changed things up a little and now will be having a Monthly Mini Magnolia Challenge for you.
The theme will always be "Anything Goes" you simply have to create with a Mini Magnolia and enter! These stamps are so cute and a fabulous way to create with Magnolia as most of these little cuties are just $2 each, you can't even buy a coffee for that little nowadays!

Now today Tilda is enjoying the outside, having a ton of fun being very sporty!


Challenges:
Come and Get It - Add Stitching
Crafty Sentiments - Any shape
Everybody Art - Anything Goes
Little Claires - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Glitter N Sparkle - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Images - Mini Skateboard Tilda, Mini Tennis Tilda and Mini Roller Skate Tilda
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Summer Bliss by Echo Park
Sentiment and Border - Time with You by Adorn It
Circle Dies - Quickutz
Enamel Dots, Straw and Kite - Michaels

If you are our winner you'll receive this wonderful prize!

You have almost a week left to join in and we would love to see you at Magnolia-licious™


Katie

Pile It On #104 - Stitching - You're Udderly the Best!

It's time for a new challenge at Pile It On! and this time we want you to use Stitching on your card
We don't mind if it real or faux, just show us your stitches!

We are again sponsored by Bugaboo and I used a one of their fabulous Scene-It images called Scene It Cow Trio and og my goodness how much do I love it?
I made the cows heads 3D by popping up an extra image on foam and it really does look like they are leaning over the fence. These images are so cute and so detailed, I love creating with them and I think I have almost all of this range!

Now we aren't called Pile it On for no reason and so here are all the challenges I found for this card. I was going to enter the Spring challenges until I saw the image had a Sunflower and is definitely Summer not Spring!

Challenges:
Critters and Creatures - Critters or Creatures
Simon Says Stamp - Cute and Cuddly (5 entries only)
Cardz 4 Galz - Cute and Cuddly
Digi Chooseday - Thinking of You
Di's Digis - Lots of Layers
Melonheadz - Layer it Up (2 entries only)
Clear it Out - Patterned Paper over a Year Old (3 entries only)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Patterned Paper
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Dies/Punches
4 Crafty Chicks - Humorous
Simply Create Too - Be Funny
Moving Along with the Times - In the Garden
Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Ribbon (3 entries only)
Craft Rocket - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Fresh Brewed - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes (2 entries)
Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes
Eureka Stamps - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Corrosive - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - Scene It Cow Trio
Sentiment - Printed
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - The Sunny Side by My Minds Eye
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Unknown
Enamel Dots - Michaels

I really hope this card brought a smile to your face and that it may have inspired you to "Get Stitching" and join us at Pile It On!, you could be our winner!

Katie

A Gem of a Challenge #165 - Easter Time

It's time for another challenge at A Gem of A Challenge and as Easter is next weekend we thought it was appropriate to have an Easter Time theme so you can show off all your sweet cards!

For mine I decided to go with the adorable trio of Chicks from the Chick Set and I colored a second set to create a 3D image. I love how this looks and don't do it often enough :)

Card Recipe:
Image and Sentiment - Easter Chicks from Chick Set
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Lemon Flower Stack by DCWV
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Doily Die - Little B
Enamel Dots, Flowers and Straws - Mickaels
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby

As well as the 3D chicks I added a dimensional border from alternating green and yellow 1" pieces of craft straws topped with ribbon and flowers.
We really would love you to join in at A Gem of A Challenge you could be our winner!

Again I have entered a ton of challenges (just shy of 50!) with this card and hope everyone that gets to see it will get a smile from it :)

Challenges:
Robyn's Fetish - Easter
Deep Ocean - Easter
Crafty Boots - Easter
Cute Card Thursday - Easter
Hanna and Friends - Easter
Double D's - Easter (3 entries only)
Artistic Impressions - Easter
Inky Chicks - Happy Easter
Jo's Scrap Shack - Happy Easter
Cuttlebug Mania - Happy Easter (3 entries only)
Cut It Up - Happy Easter and Die Cuts
Whimsy Inspires - Easter/Spring (3 entries only)
Ribbon Girls - Easter/Spring (and Ribbon)
Creative Moments - Spring has Sprung (2 entries only)
My Sheri Crafts - Spring
Brown Sugar - Spring (2 entries only)
Fantastic Tuesday - Spring and Square
Patties Creation - Green
Dragonfly Journeys - Green
Glitter N Sparkle - Green
Going Grey - Green
Crafty Gals Corner - Show Me the Green
City Crafter - Make it Green
Incy Wincy - Shades of Green
Crafty Ribbons - Green and Ribbon
Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Ribbon (3 entries only)
Dragonfly Dreams - Use a Die Cut
Di's Digis - Lots of Layers
Melonheadz - Layer it Up (2 entries only)
Clear it Out - Patterned Paper over a Year Old (3 entries only)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Patterned Paper
Wags N Whiskers - Wings
CCEE Stampers - Poultry Day
Creative Card Crew - Chicks
Cardz 4 Galz - Cute and Cuddly
Simon Says Stamp - Cute and Cuddly (5 entries only)
Critters and Creatures - Critters or Creatures
Aud's Sentiments - Bingo! (2 Patterned Papers, Flowers and Die Cut)
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Fresh Brewed - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes (2 entries)
Eureka Stamps - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Corrosive - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes


Katie

Digital Delights - Sunday Best Teddy

As you well know I love creating Spring and Easter cards and today I have another cutie from Digital Delights
This time I used the adorable Sunday Best Teddy and had so much fun with him/her!
The big Easter Bonnet brings back sweet memories for me as when I was a child back in England I would always enter the Easter Bonnet contest at the local community center. I can't remember if I ever won but I sure remember the fun of making the bonnet.

Card Recipe:
Image - Sunday Best Teddy
Sentiment - Easter Sentiment Set
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Chloe by Three Bugs in a Rug
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - The Paper Studio
Flowers, Butterfly and Straw - Michaels
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Oval Die - Sizzix

Pop on by the Digital Delights Blog to see the other great cards from the rest of my teamies!


Now I admit I got a little bit crazy with the challenges this week. Every now and again I like to see if I can just enter tons with one card and with Easter approaching and also lots of "Anything Goes" challenges this was a good week for it! It's all fun, I don't play for the prizes, just for the chance to share my cards with lots of people.


Challenges:
Patties Creation - Green
Dragonfly Journeys - Green
Glitter N Sparkle - Green
Going Grey - Green
Crafty Gals Corner - Show Me the Green
City Crafter - Make it Green
Incy Wincy - Shades of Green
Ikes World - Easter Bonnets
Robyn's Fetish - Easter
Creative Corner - Easter
Crafty Boots - Easter
Artistic Impressions - Easter
Deep Ocean - Easter
Inky Chicks - Happy Easter
Cuttlebug Mania - Happy Easter (3 entries only)
Double D's - Easter (3 entries only)
Double Click Skittles - Bunny, Basket or Egg (1 entry only)
Ribbon Girls - Easter/Spring (and Ribbon)
Come and Get It - Easter/Spring
Whimsy Inspires - Easter/Spring (3 entries only)
Fantastic Tuesday - Spring and Square
Allsorts - Spring is in the Air
Creative Moments - Spring has Sprung (2 entries only)
My Sheri Crafts - Spring
Docerela - Spring
Fussy and Fancy - Things with Wings
Dragonfly Dreams - Use a Die Cut
Clear it Out - Patterned Paper over a Year Old (3 entries only)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Patterned Paper
Critters and Creatures - Critters or Creatures
Simon Says Stamp - Cute and Cuddly (5 entries only)
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Fresh Brewed - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Eureka Stamps - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Corrosive - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes


Katie