Guest at Desert Island Crafters - Little Things Bring Joy!

A few weeks ago I was picked in the winning list at the Desert Island Crafters challenge.
If you haven't played there before then you should give it a go as it is a fun concept.
The whole idea is that you are given a list of 10 items and you must include at least 3 of them on your project, easy eh?
So as a winner I got to host a challenge and my crafting itinerary is:

1.Color Your Image (any coloring medium) (check!)
2.Stitching (check!)
3.Use a quote for a sentiment (check!)
4.Something with Wings (check!)
5.Make it Pop Up (check!)
6.Use 3 different shapes (check!)
7.Make it Manly (fail)
8.Use felt/fabric (not ribbon) (fail)
9.Give it Life (use an image of something alive) (check!)
10.Use 3 different colors only (apart from skin/hair) (check!)

So to play you have to include at least 3 of them, should be fun don't you think?

Challenges:
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Meljen's - Frame It!
Frosted Designs - Circles
Do It With Digi's - Girly
Patties Creations - Stitching (2 entries only)
Ribbon Carousel - Stitching (and ribbon)
Stampin Bee's - Ribbon
Thrilling Thursday - Summertime
Crafty Ann's - Summertime
If The Shoe Fits - Summer
Stampin Sisters In Christ - All Creatures Great and Small
Digital Tuesday - Garden and Wings
Everybody Art - Garden
Paper Play - In The Garden
Papertake Weekly - Sketch
Creative Craft World - Anything But Birthday

Card Recipe:
Image - Meljen's
Sentiment - Bits of Ivory
Paper - K and Co Watercolor Bouquet
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - The Whimsy Cottage
Pearls - Recollections
Roses - Treasures by Shabby Chic

I hope you liked this and will come along and play with my itinerary at Desert Island Crafters, remember just choose 3 of more from my list and you're in!
Katie

Cooking It Up #66 - Make Dad a Funny Button!

Just in time for Father's Day we have a great recipe for you this week over at Cooking It Up With Katie

The ingredients are:
Make it for Dad
Be sure it's Funny
Top it with a Button

And it's a big list of challenges as very many challenges were on the same wavelength this week ;)

Challenges:
Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Free and Easy
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Allsorts - 1 paper, 2 punches/dies and 3 buttons and for a boy/man
House of Gilli - Buttons
Fussy and Fancy - Card for a Man
The Stampman - For A Man
The Secret Crafter - Male card
Little Claire's - Cards for Men
Crazy 4 Challenge - Masculine card
Bows N Berries - Masculine
Wags N Whiskers - One For The Boys
Cupcake Crafts - Boy Oh Boy
Stamptacular Sunday - Dads or Grads
Papertake Weekly - Dads or Lads
Celebrate Dad
Alphabet Challenge - F is for Father's Day
CRAFT - Father's Day
Craft Us Crazy - Father's Day
Paper Play - Father's Day
Stamp Insanity - Father's Day
Digi's With Attitude - Father's Day
Sew Many Challenges - Father's Day
Delicious Doodles - Father's Day
One Stop Crafts - Father's Day
Simply Create - Father's Day
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Father's Day
Speedy The Cats Friends - Father's Day
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Father's Day
Sentimental Sundays - Father's Day
Sparkles Forum Father's Day
Dream Valley - Father's Day
Daisy Doodles - Father's Day
Incy Wincy - Father's Day
Ooh La La - Father's Day
Pear Tree Designs - Father's Day
Partytime Tuesday - Father's Day
Little Red Wagon - Father's Day

Card Recipe:
Image - Revenge of Ned the Nerd
Paper - DCWV The Guy Stack
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cut - Spellbinders Large Long Rectangles
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Edger Scallop Dot
Buttons - Stash

I absolutely love the image, so full of character and just one of the sweetest nerds I've ever seen :)
I hope you enjoy this and will come along and play with us at Cooking It Up With Katie this week :)
Katie

It's Magnolia Monday #3! - A Trio of Tilda's!

EDITED TO ADD Won a Top 3 Spot at Crop Stop!. Thanks so much!!!


Happy Memorial Day everyone!!
It's week 3 of my Magnolia Mondays and this week I have a Trio of Tilda's for you!
I was a little wary of the challenge at Totally Tilda but I decided to give it go anyway :)
Each tag features a different Tilda and one of them is a "new to me" and that one is Tilda on The Loose which I just got on Friday.
If you have a project featuring a Magnolia stamp on your blog today then be sure to add it to my InLinkz below and go and visit and leave some love for your fellow Maggie Lovers!

Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes or Your Favorite...
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Magnoli-licious Challenge - Photo Inpsiration (soft yellow and purple with flowers)
Crop Stop - Complimentary Colors (Purple and Yellow are opposite on the color wheel)
Make It Colorful - Yellow and Purple
Just Magnolia - Friends
Creative Inspirations Paint - Friends
Totally Tilda - Tilda on 3 Tags
Fairytale Challenge - Anything But a Card
Patties Creations - Anything But A Card
Sentiment Sunday's - Anything But A Card (must have a sentiment)
Going Grey - 3 Patterned Papers
My Time To Craft - Use a Die Cut
Bearly Mine - Die Cuts and Lace
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbon and Lace
Hanna and Friends - Lace and Pearls
Dare To Be Sassy - Pearls and Lace
Delicious Doodles - Lovely Lace
Bunny Zoe's - Lace
Paper Play - Blossoms and Blooms
House of Gilli - Flowers
Use It Tuesday - Flowers and a Stamp Not Inked Before
Creative Craft World - 3 or more Flowers
Paper Romance - Distressing
Thrilling Thursday - Let It All Hang Out (something off the edge of your project)
Allsorts - Things with Wings
Crafty Pad - 3 Papers, 2 Ribbons and 1 Flower (each tag has this)
Addicted to Stamps - Bingo! (I chose Cute Image, Pearls and Ribbon)
Card Cupids - Ribbon
Top Tip Tuesday - 2 or More Stamps on your project
Dream Valley - Stamp Something (no digi's)
Word Play - Scallops
Just Add Ink - Fussy Cutting (each of the Tilda's are cut out)
Crafty Purple Frog - Things of Beauty

Card Recipe:
Images - Tilda on The Loose, Tilda with Flowerpot and Tilda with Flowers
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Stash
Sentiment - K and Co
Lace - Offray
Border Die - Marianne D Creatables
Doliy Die - English Tea by Cheery Lynn Designs
Butterflies - Jolees
Flowers - Prima
Pearls - The Paper Studio
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby

Although I was daunted with the task at first once I got going I loved creating these tags and I hope you do too!
Be sure to link up below if you have a Magnolia creation today, May 30th, and join in with the fun here on Magnolia Monday!


Katie

Pile It On - Childhood Dreams

This week at Pile It On we have a theme challenge for you.
We want you to create a card or project about Childhood Dreams. They can be good dreams or bad dreams (a little scary maybe!). Think of those things you imagine your child is dreaming of when they close their eyes to sleep.
We hope you have fun with it.

Challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Robyns Fetish - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes (only one entry)
Thrilling Thursday - Show Us What You Got (anything goes)
Guylou's Inimitability - Anything Goes (5 entries)
Totally Paper Crafts - Do It With Digi
Paper Pretties - Card for a Child
Bearly Mine - Lace and Pearls
Truly Scrumptious - Swirls and Pearls
Digital Tuesday - Use a Die Cut
Crazy 4 Challenges - Use A Die Cut
Drunken Stampers - Use a Die Cut
Top Tip Tuesday - Stitching
Little Red Wagon - Use Your Mist
Stampin Royalty - Markers
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Whimsie Doodles - Weird Holiday (March is National Craft Month)
Delicious Doodles - Glitz and Glam
Cute Card Thursday - Shiny, Happy Cards (the orange on the paper is glossy)
Paper Play - Add Shine
Res Q - A Happy, Bright card
Simply Create - Bright
My Sheri Crafts - Girly
4 Crafty Chicks - Fairy, Angel or Butterfly
Do You Stack Up? - Lots of Dots

Card Recipe:
Image - Princess Leah by Whimsie Doodles
Paper - Chloe's Closet Specialty by Making Memories (on clearance at Michaels right now!)
Medium - Copic Markers
Swirls - Quickutz
Sentiment - Cloud 9
Mist - Smooch
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Butterflies - Prima

What little girl doesn't dream of being a Princess and wearing pearls and a tiara?
And if not a Princess then she certainly dreams of fancy dolls and dressing up!
We'd love to see your take on our challenge over at Pile It On this week :)
Katie

Think Ink Guest Challenge - Punching!

A few weeks ago I won a challenge at Think Ink and the prize was to be a guest designer for a challenge and to set the challenge too!
So today's the day and my challenge to you all is a super simple one, I want to see you using Punches! Now there are so many fabulous ones out there (I'm a little addicted to the Martha Stewart ones myself) that I know you don't need an excuse to play along do you?

Challenges:
Moving Along With the Times - Sketch
One Stitch At a Time - Season or Event
Alota Rubber Stamps - Let's Celebrate Christmas
Scrappy Frogs - Merry Christmas
Lexi's - Traditional Christmas Colors
Crafty Pad - Red and Green
Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Anything Goes Christmas
Papercutz - Christmas with lots of Bling
Stamps R Us - Sparkles and Scallops
Meljens - Sparkle and Shine
Oldie But Goodie - Glitter (old image and NO digi)
Treehouse Thursdays - Glitter
Simon Say Stamp - Sparkle
Crafts and Me - Glitter
If The Shoe Fits - Tickle me With Tinsel (make it sparkle and shine)
Fresh Brewed - Show Your Own Style (more is more and lots of sparkle!)
Paper Romance - Favorite Things (at the moment my are anything glittery and shiny)
Anything Challenge - Let It Snow
Crafty Calendar - Winter/Snowflakes
2 Sisters - Snowflakes
Totally Papercrafts - Snow or Snowflakes
Paper Play - Let It Snow
Stampin B's - Snowflakes
ECP - Snow
Stamping Vacation Music in You - Winter Wonderland
Rainbow Lady - Edge It
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Hodge Podge Shop - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Image - Post A Note by Artful Inkables
Paper - A Homemade Christmas by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Paint - Puffy by Tulip
Glitter - Glamour Dust by Viva Decor
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Snowflake punch - Emagination Crafts
Ribbon - Michaels
Sentiment - Hobby Lobby

I again used one of my favorite Christmas card technique which is to use Puffy Paint for the snow and while it is still wet I sprinkle it with super fine glitter and then heat it to pop it up. This is so easy, really inexpensive and I think it adds a great dimension to your project. It looks wonderful on the fur on Santa's suit too :)
I hope to see lots of you playing along this week so be sure to add your entry at Think Ink
Katie

Lily Boo Too - In The Summertime

Happy July!
I can't believe half of the year has gone by already!
It's the 1st of a new month and so that means a new challenge at Lily Boo Too!
This month we'd love to see your Summer creations and if you haven't heard the news already it's now super easy to get Lily Boo images as they have a new home at Cuddly Buddly!

Challenges for this card:

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch
Just For Fun Color Challenge - Pink, Green and White/Cream
Basic Grey Challenges - Photo Inspiration (green from the kiwi, cherries from the currents, sun from the peaches)
Craftycatz - Let's Go Digital
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
I Love Digi - Emboss It
Allsorts - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Embossing
Aud's Sentiments - Sentiment with Love in it
Practical Scrapper - Border Punches
Stampin B's - Summer Fun
Pear Tree Designs - Summer Lovin'
Digital Tuesday - Summertime
Timbro Scrapmania - Summer
Creative Cottage - Summer Surprise
Quirky Crafts - Ribbon
Flourishes - Fruity (used Cherry dp)




Card Recipe:
Image - Watering Can House
Paper - Basic Grey Lemonade
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Printed
Embossing folder - Crafts Too





I wish I lived in a little watering can house instead of having to keep using one on my plants three times a day! LOL
Summer is in full swing here in Texas and I hope it is with you too.
Please drop by and show us your Summer creations at Lily Boo Too!

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

Pixie Cottage Saturday Showcase - Painting Eggs and Baking Cookies!

Wow! There are so many new stamps arriving at The Pixie Cottage that we, the Design Team, have decided to give you another showcase.
You can see all the fabulous cards at The Pixie Cottage blog.

Now I'm a bit naughty this week as not only did I do a card with a new image, I also sneaked in with one from a little while ago! LOL

Card 1 is a super new image and the following challenges go with it:

Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch
Jacksonbelle - Easter
No Time To Stamp - Easter
The Town Scrapper - Easter
Fussy And Fancy - Easter
CRAFT - Easter
Paper Play - Easter
ResQ - Eggs!
Ooh La La - Button, a Bow and some Bling
Totally Stampalicious - Ribbons and Polka Dots
Creative Card Crew - Going Dotty!
Colour Q - Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip and White
Die Cuts R Us - 1 Image, 2 Die Cuts, 3 Buttons/Jewels and some Ribbon
Charisma - Spring has Sprung theme
Twisted Thursday - Spring with the addition of Buttons




Card Recipe:
Image - Got Rabbits by ArTish for the Pixie Cottage
Paper - DCWV The Flower Shower
Medium - Copic Markers
Gloss - Glossy Accents by Ranger
Buttons - The Paper Studio
Die Cuts - Spellbinders
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Studio G




Card 2 was born from a color challenge I saw and I immediately thought of the image so I had to play along:

Dancing In Pajamas - Poppy Red, Sunny Yellow, Olive Green and Black (just like a Pizza!)
Midnight Madness - Sketch
My Time To Craft - Make It Manly
Cupcake Crafts - Food and Drink
CCEE Stampers - Photo inspiration and I thought maybe my chef was baking up these tasty treats!



Card Recipe:
Image - Le Penguin Le Chef from The Pixie Cottage
Papers - Assorted from my stash
Medium - Copic Markers
Ribbons - Offray





I hope you've enjoyed these cards, be sure to come back tomorrow for more Pixie Cottage cards and make sure to keep checking out the The Pixie Cottage blog as there'll soon be the 1st creations from our new team members!
Katie

A New Year means New Beginnings at By The Cute and Girly

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Out with the old and in with the new!
The challenge this month at By The Cute and Girly is to create something to do with a New Beginning.
It could be a new Baby, a new job, a new Home, a new Love, a new School, anything you like!
And remember we want to see things other than cards as we have lots of prizes on offer each month! So make a scrapbook page, alter a book, arrange some flowers, bake a cake, whatever it is just take a photo and join in with the fun, you may just be the winner!

For this challenge I decided to make a couple of things.
Firstly for people moving into a New Home.
I found a wonderful little birdhouse to alter and made a matching card too!

Paper Play also had a New Beginnings theme
Stampin For The Weekend had a New Beginnings theme too
Mojo Monday had the sketch for the card
Crafty Angels wanted you to Try Something New. Well I've seen birdhouses completed, painted, papered etc but this is my 1st try at one.
The Digi Kitty had a free stamp of a bird and wanted you to use it.





I used Colorbok papes on both the birdhouse and card.
The card image is from the How Tweet Bird collection from Lily Boos and the bird on the house is freebie at The Digi Kitty
I colored both images with Copic's.
I added Prima flowers to both projects too.

Then for New Years
Simon Says Stamp had a Party theme
Everybody Art had a New Years theme
Paper Cutz also had New Years for the theme
Charisma had a Celebrations theme
Three Clovers also had a Celebrations theme
Our Creative Corner wanted to see "Food or Drink"
Stamp With Fun had a New Years theme
Sketch and Stash gave me the sketch
Hope Stamps Eternalhad some great Party Cupcakes for inspiration
Digital Ink had a New Beginnings recipe of gold or silver/gray or black and something glittery, ribbon, and incorporate some kind of distressing
Crafty Creations wanted Glitter and Bling for the New Year



For this card I used the super sweet Party Pippin which is the latest release from Wendy at Digital Delights. I colored him with Copic's and a gold Prismacolor pen.
The fabulous dp is from SEI and the gold textured cardstock from American Crafts.
The sentiment is from 7 Gypsies/
The flowers are Brides and the pearls are Queen and Co.
The border punch is Martha Stewart Deco Fan.

There are plenty of things this theme covers and I'd love to see you join in, the prizes are super!!!
Have fun and I hope you have a wonderful 2010!
Katie

A New Sketch Challenge at The Pixie Cottage!

Another triple posting day but it's worth it!
It's time for a new Once Upon A Wednesday challenge at The Pixie Cottage and this time it's a new sketch.

It was a great sketch to work with and I added a few other challenges along side it.

Ildi Co had a color combo of Black and Bright
Paper Play wanted Christmas with No Red and Green
Creative Inspirations wanted Non Traditional Christmas colors, no red and green
Dutch Dare had a photo inspiration with the colors Black, Aqua/Blue and White
Stamp Something want you to "Glitz Something"
Tuesday Taggers had the theme of "Christmas Trees"
Simon Says Stamp had the theme of "Let It Snow"
Creatalicious wanted Snow and Sparkle


I used Winter Hannah on a Bench as my image and I just loved working with her. I just checked and there are now 51 stamp designs by The Pixie Cottage with new ones being added all the time. I love that there are different artists, all adding their own flair and style to the images.
I colored Hannah with Copic's. The dp is a combination of Basic Grey and My Minds Eye.
I don't usually say this but I highly recommend clicking on the photo to see the trees in a large form. I covered them with Tulip Puffy Paint in white and then before heating I sprinkled Art Institute Ultra Fine Transparent glitter in Crystal onto the wet surface.
Then I very gently heated it , held the heat gun as far away as possible, until it puffed up enough to look like snow capped trees.

Inside is a ribbon topped message mat.

Hopefully you can get a good look at the snow effect here.
I love playing with products not designed specifically for the scrapbooking and cardmaking market, it really widens your horizon.
I hope you liked Hannah and I'd love to see your creations with the wonderful sketch at The Pixie Cottage.
Katie

Trick or Treat - New Pile It On Challenge card

Happy Sunday,
I hope you are all having a great weekend.
Today's card is my DT card for the Pile It On challenge.
Today's challenge is to include punches on your card and we got to work with the super images from Crazed which was great.
As Pile It On is a blog that wants you to combine as many challenges as you can I obvious had to do a little searching before creating my card.
Delightful Sketches started me off with the sketch (I love their sketches and try to do each one)
Tuesday Taggers wanted Punches and/or Die Cuts.
PaperTake Weekly wanted "Fake Anything" so I added faux (aren't I being posh!)stitching to the mat on the front and inside too.
Everybody Art Challenge was looking for something Shabby so I inked the edges of the mats as well.
Daring Cardmakers wanted us to get Shabby too!
Paper Maniac wanted you to use Ribbon.
Belli wanted a Fall or Halloween theme.
Paper Play were looking for tags so I add my sentiment on one.
Treehouse Stamps wanted us to go "Just Around The Corner" and I think my fancy corner punch counts here!
Finally I used the elements from the recipe at my own challenge blog Cooking It Up With Katie which was use 1 image, 2 shapes (I used squares and circles) and 3 paper embellishments which I did with the square accents, punched borders and paper tag.

This fantastic image is from my new favorite artist, Mo Manning, and she is simply called Halloween Witch. She was so wonderful to color and I admit I'm getting hooked on her illustrations and stalk her blog and site every day!
The papers The Paper Studio and the Bat border punch is from EK Success. The Halloween accents are from this weeks Pile It On sponsor Crazed and the sheet is called Halloween Fun. They have a fabulous deal of 5 sheets for $10 going on right now so it's the perfect time to try them out! Plus enter the challenge and you will be in with a chance to win some!
The sentiment sticker is The Paper Studio also. I used an older Emaginations corner punch but sadly that company is no longer around :(

The inside is more dp and a matching "shabby" message mat with an additional rub on sentiment that I aged with more inking.

I hope you'll give Pile It On a try this week and get your punches out and get creating!
Have a great rest of your Sunday.

You're a T-Riffic Friend! My Grafico DT card

Happy Monday!
Today I have a wonderful new card for the challenge over at My Grafico and it's all about Dinosaurs!
They have a wonderful set of digital stamps at the My Grafico Store designed by Meljen Designs called simply Dinosaurs! I got to work with the T-Rex and I thought he was so adorable!

If you join in the challenge you get a chance to win the set for yourself!
This card also covers a few challenges:
The Cuttlebug Spot" wanted a favorite folder (I have so many faves!)
Tuesday Morning Sketches gave me the sketch
Simon Says Stamp wanted buttons and ribbons
Paper Play wanted All Creatures Great and Small
Dare U2 Digi wanted us to get Distressed
and both
Whimsy Stamps
and
No Time To Stamp wanted a card for friends.



I printed the T-Rex out on a piece of green dp and some blue cardstock and paper pieced the scales and stomach parts. I colored the claws with a Sharpie Paint Pen.
The ribbons are pieces from my scrap jar and I printed the sentiment.
I inked the embossed mat and the sentiment mat with chalk ink and added buttons from The Paper Studio.
I hope you like him and I'd love you to drop on over to the My Grafico Challenge blog and join in with the challenge too!
Katie