Cuddly Buddly #5 - Petals and Pearls

It's Friday and time for another challenge from Team Cuddly at Cuddly Buddly!
This week we want to see Petals and Pearls so it's time to go girly!
It was my week with the designs from Bits Of Ivory and I decided to go with colored clip art and a coordinating paper and sentiment.

Challenges:
Clear It Out - Anything Goes
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Creative Craft World - Anything But Birthday
Crazy Challenge - Ribbon (2 entries)
Stampin Bee's - Ribbon
Anything Goes - Pick Of The Bunch (flowers)
Paper Pretties - No Markers
Amber's Crafts - Patterned Paper (1 entry only)
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Creative Craft Challenges - 3D or Decoupage

Card Recipe:
Image - Kitchen Garden by Bits of Ivory
Sentiment - Garden Vignettes by Bits of Ivory
Paper - Cottage Collection in Poppy by Cuddly Buddly
Doily Dies - French Pastry and English Tea Party by Cheery Lynn Designs
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Treasures by Shabby Chic
Pearls - Recollections
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - Stash

I printed two copies of the clip art and cut them both out. Then I popped up just the fruit part on the second part for more dimension. I used two different doily dies to mat them on and added flowers in a semi circle. I added pearls to the punched border and was all done!
I hope you enjoy this one and will be coming by to play with us at Cuddly Buddly this week :)
Katie

Pile It On - Pearls and Rhinestones and Sparkle, Oh My!

We have a great challenge for you this week at Pile It On!
We want to see bling in all shapes and sizes, from rhinestones and pearls to sparkly paint and glitter and everything in between!

Challenges:
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
My Grafico - Anything Goes
Papercutz - Anything Goes
Sugar Creek Hollow - Anything Goes
Amber's Crafts - Anything Goes (1 entry only)
Thrilling Thursday - Show Us What You've Got (anything goes)
Creative Craft Challenges - Lace (including Doilies)
Tuesday Throwdown - Lace
Creative Craft Friends - Lace
Teddy Bo and Co - Sketch
Your Next Stamp - Make It Sparkle
One Stop Crafts - Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
Bunny Zoe - Birthday and Pearls
Simon Says Stamp - Happy Birthday
Fairy Knoll - Birthday
Top Tip Tuesday - Happy Birthday
Kaboodle Doodles - Happy Birthday
Craft Your Days Away - For Mum or a Special Lady
The Stampman - Mothers Day or Floral
Charisma Cardz - Use a Die Cut
Annabelle Stamps - Say It With a Tag
Papertake Weekly - Trio (3 flowers in a row, 3 colors, 3 word sentiment)
Teddy Stampers - Embossing
Paper Play - Embossing
Crafty Sentiments - Animals
Card Makin Mama's - Animals
2 Sisters - Furry Friends
Do You Stack Up? - Add a Bow
Stamp Something - Something Sweet
AI Factory - Things With Wings
Digital Tuesday - It's a Magical Thing
Flutterfly - Green and Fairy, Angel or Butterfly
CCEE Stampers - Cute and Wearing Green
Southern Girls - Use Flowers (1 entry only)
Copic Creations - Use Blue
Creatalicious - Two Tone

Card Recipe:
Image - Teddy Bea Wishes by Teddy Bo and Co
Paper - K and Co Julianne
Medium - Copic Markers
Lace and Bow - Offray
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls - Recollections
Rhinestones - Treasures by Shabby Chic
Sentiment - Studio G
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Doily - Wilton
Embossing Folder - Sizzix

You know I love these images and this one is one of my favorites.
I added Liquid Embossing to her boots and Creative Inspirations Paint to her wings and star for even more sparkle.
I hope you can come along and play with us this week at Pile It On!

New Card for Chi Chi Memories

It's time for another card for my guest spot at Chi Chi Memories.
We are still on the countdown to Father's Day and I have a card with another cute "Freddie" image.

There are a few challenges I used to help me with this:

Daisy Doodles - Fathers Day (with a digi)
The Shabby Tea Room - Just For Dad
Craft - For Dad
Cards For Men - Fathers Day
Tellens Place - Fathers Day
Tanda Stamps - Fathers Day
Double Dutch - Fathers Day
Simple Doodles - Just for You Dad
One Stitch at a Time - Boys to Men
Creative Craft Challenges - For The Man in Your Life
Sweet Stop Sketches - Sketch
Your Next Stamp - Buttons
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Animal
Sentimental Sundays - New or Neglected Stash (brand new paper pad)



Card Recipe:

Image - Freddie loves Daddy
Paper - DCWV The Guy Stack
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - The Paper Studio
Border punch - Fiskars Threading Water





I definitely think that Freddie does love his Daddy!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #22 - Fathers Day - Guest Sketch

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and another super Special Guest Sketch Designer.
This time we have the fabulously talented Donalda from Enjoying The Journey.
Donalda designs card for such fabulous companies as Whiff of Joy and Sugar Nellie and we are super excited that she created this fabulous sketch for us.



As well as her wonderful sketch I have a few other challenges that this card fit:

The Shabby Tea Room - Just For Dad
Cards For Men - Fathers Day
Double Dutch - Fathers Day
Tellens Place - Fathers Day
Tanda Stamps - Fathers Day
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Fathers Day
Simple Doodles - Just for You Dad
One Stitch at a Time - Boys to Men
Creative Craft Challenges - For The Man in Your Life
Cuttlebug Spot - Dads and Grads (and embossing)
Just Cute Bears - Fathers Day (and a bear)
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Animal
Sentimental Sundays - New or Neglected Stash (brand new paper pad)
Corrosive - Die Cuts
Incy Wincy - Paper Piecing
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Floral Delights



Card Recipe:
Image - I love you Beary Much by ArTish
Papers - DCWV The Guy Stack
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Prima
Fabric Brads - K&Co
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Sentiment - The Paper Studio





I added googly eyes to my bear to give him a little humor and I hope you like that!
We'd love to see your Fathers Day creations over at The Pixie Cottage or maybe have a play with the sketch, or try both!
Katie

Digital Delights/Delightful sketches Textures

Second post of the day and it's a super cute one!
It's time for another challenge at Delightful Sketches and Challenges and this time we'd love to see you add some Texture to your projects! This could be with embossing, layering, popping things up, the world is your oyster on this one!

I added a few other challenges with my card:

Our Creative Corner - Sketch
Cupcake Craft - Black and Grey + One other color
Jacksonbelle - Black and 1 other Color
Quixotic - Embossing
Daisy Doodles - Anything Goes (with a digi)
Tuesday Throwdown - Any Image you can Color
Incy Wincy - Button Up
Alys - Ribbons and Bows
Creative Craft Challenges - Bows and Ribbons



Card Recipe:
Image - Fireman Peyton
Paper - DCWV and Cosmo Cricket
Medium - Copic Markers
Embossing Folder - Tim Holtz by Sizzix
Die Cut - Spellbinders
Buttons - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Printed





I think Peyton looks super sweet as a Fireman and he'd be great on a little boys birthday card, scrapbook page or even on the party invitations!

For news of my Blogoversary giveaway please drop back tomorrow!

Hope to see you and your projects over at Delightful Sketches and Challenges
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #20 - Add a Pocket or Tag - Guest Sketch

It's another Once Upon a Wednesday over at The Pixie Cottage
This week we have another Special Guest Sketcher and it's certainly a favorite or mine, it's Bev Rochester from All The Things I Love!

She created this fabulous sketch for us to use:


As well as the sketch we have an optional technique of adding a Tag or a Pocket to your card, remember you can chose the sketch, the technique or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.

As always I have a few other challenges with this card:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
AI Factory - Brads and Animals
Speedy the Cat - Animal
One Stitch At a Time - Furry Friends
Paper Popsicles - Animals
365 Cards Day 85 - Flora and Fauna
Digital Tuesday - Cute People (I don't think bears ARE people but these ones are dressed up like people and sure are cute and are brand new digis!)
Colour Create - Soft Green and Light Aqua
Dutch Dare - 2 papers, 3 colors and 4 buttons
Papercutz - Buttons and Lace
The Town Scrapper - Flowers and Lace
Creative Craft Challenges - Bows and Ribbons
Paperplay - Wedding Celebrations
Etsy Inspired - Green and Aqua Wedding Invitation
Think Ink - Pockets



Card Recipe:
Image - Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Bride by ArTish and Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Groom by ArTish
Paper - DCWV The Linen Closet
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Medium - Copic Markers
Glitter - Stickles
Sentiment - KI Memories
Rhinestones - Colorbok
Doily - Little Yellow Bicycle Clothesline Paper Doilies
Lace - Offray
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting





Cut these cuties out and popped them up and then "Stickled" them as much as possible! LOL
We'd love to see your creations with the sketch, so get creating and drop by The Pixie Cottage and show us what you made!
Katie

Challenge #18 at Cooking It Up! Wing It You Pink Petal!

Welcome to the first of two posts today!
It's time for another challenge over at my Cooking It Up With Katie challenge blog.
Each challenge I set you a "recipe" to base your card on.
The time the challenge is:
Use Wings
And Petals
And Pink!

There are other challenges that this project will be entered into as well :

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Repeat Impressions - Sketch (turned on its side)
Just Us Girls - Use a Template (make something 3D)
Simple Doodles - Anything But A Card
Crafts and Me - Anything But A Card
Crazy Challenge - It's A Girl Thing
Flutterby - Open Week (with a Fairy, Angel or Butterfly)
Stamptacular - Pearls and Swirls
Lots To Do - Swirls and Flourishes
Alys - Ribbons and Bows
Creative Craft Challenges - Bows and Ribbons
Pollycraft - Buttons and Butterflies
Shabby Tea - Pink Polka Dot Tea Party
Creative Card Crew - Pink and Green



Project Recipe:
Image - Clover Butterfly Wishes by Pollycraft
Papers - Martha Stewart (Pink Polka Dots), K&Co (floral) DCWV (Green Gingham)
Swirl - Sizzix
Medium - Copic Markers
Glitter - Stickles
Sentiment - Design Originals
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Martha Stewart
Pearls and Rhinestones _ Queen and Co
Rose - Wild Orchid Crafts
Box template - My own design



Here you can see the "Pearls and Swirls"



This fairy is so gorgeous and once I'd colored her I added Stickles to give her true Fairy Finesse!
I'd seen Gable Boxes on other peoples blogs but couldn't find a scoring template so I designed my own. There were Cut files for the Cricut, Printable templates but none with just the "plans" and it took 3 attempts and lots of stamping of feet to get the right measurements but I wasn't giving up! LOL
I hope you like my project and I'd love you to check out the challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie and join in!
Katie

Thanks A Bunch! - A Christmas Lala, or is she?

Happy Saturday,
I like to buy stamps that I can use for more than one card/occasion but for a lot of the Holiday stamps it is very difficult. It's hard to make a Bunny with an egg anything but Easter and Santa really won't work for the 4th of July, hee hee!
But some of them can be used with a little "tweak" and I think this one will make you look at your stamps with different eyes.

Of course there are challenges too:

Artful Inkables - 3 Buttons, 2 Ribbons and a Circle
365 Cards Day 74 - Buttons and Bows
Creative Card Crew - Sketch
Totally Gorjuss - Round and Round
Creative Craft - Blue and Brown
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Blue, Brown and White
Colour Create - Khaki, Aqua, Brown and Cream
Paperplay - Brown and ...
Alphabet Challenge - C is For Chocolate colors
Aud's Sentiments - Thanks A Bunch
Lala Lands - Anything Goes (with a Lala Lands Stamp)
Papertake - Sparkly, Shiny and Special
Paper Makeup - 3 Flowers



Card Recipe:
Paper - K & Co Pads Margo and Bailey
Medium - Copic Markers
Image - Ornament Lala
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Rhinestones - Queen and Co
Sentiment - Printed in Harrington font
Die Cut - Spellbinders





I colored over the ornament on the image in the same color as her dress so that when I added the flowers you couldn't see it underneath, a great way to use a Holiday stamp for other occasions.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Katie