Krafty With Catered Crop

It is time for another Catered Crop Challenge.  I chose to use this adorable image from Mo's Digital Pencil called Strawberry Girl.  She is one of my favorites.  I colored her with Copics and added some Light Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock paper from the The Kraft Outlet.
The button is from my all time favorite button shop over on
Etsy called  Handmade Buttons byTessa Ann

Here are the details for the challenge:
Our featured ingredient for our next Catered Crop Recipe Swap is Kraft Paper! Any kind of kraft or kraft-like paper will do, including brown paper bags or brown butcher paper.

Here's how we roll . . .

• Just use kraft paper somewhere in your project.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, April 28.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to use kraft paper in your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

Perfect Paper Crafting's Perfect Layers tool is our sponsor this week. 

Everyone wins with this challenge. Just enter catered5% for a 5% discount checkout to get your hands on these tools.

One very lucky player will go shopping. The randomly selected winner will get a $25.00 gift certificate from Perfect Paper Crafting. Snap!

Have a fabulous weekend...

Catered Crop Ribbon Challenge

It is time for Catered Crop's Challenge.  This week our featured ingredient for our Catered Crop Recipe Swap is Ribbon! Pull out any kind of ribbon you like: seam binding, grosgrain, tulle, fabric, burlap . . . even twine. We love it all!

I chose this adorable image from Sassy Cheryl's digital shop called Noah and his Bunny Bandit.  I used ribbon to create my background "paper".  This image reminds me so much of my son.. 

Playing along is easy as tying a knot.

• Just use a ribbon somewhere in your project. Your project does not have to be a card. Feel free to go crazy.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure o you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, March 17.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to use ribbon in your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

Hope you come on out and join in the fun.. Sorry this is short.  I fell down the stairs and bruised my elbow so it is sore as can be. I will visit your blogs as soon as it is feeling better.  

Strawberry Red

February is definitely the month for the color red, and not just because of Valentine's day (or, if you prefer, Single Awareness Day). February is also the month of the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women® campaign.

Our featured ingredient for our Catered Crop Recipe Swap is the color Red!

I chose an oldie but goodie stamp I found in my stash from House Mouse.  How could you not love this adorable little guy.  His belly is full.  I also dusted off my Prisma pencils.  They needed some love.  The yoyo flower is made of fabric from my stash.  

Playing along is easy as cherry pie.

• Just use the color red somewhere in your project.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, March 3.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments. Do be sure to comment on the other player's post because sometimes I really do check.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to use red in your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

Paper and Such is an online store with everything a paper crafter could want. The Paper and Such line of clear photopolymer stamps is so much fun (check out the chickens) and they're made right here in the USA! They carry all my favorite papers: Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye, Jillibean Soup and more. There are adhesives, dies, embellishments, twine, ribbon . . . yep, paper crafter's candy store. Be sure to visit their Paper and Such Design Blog for beautiful inspiration and weekly challenges.

One very lucky randomly picked player will get to go shopping at Paper and Such with a $20 Gift Certificate.

Be sure to come back Sunday, February 26, to check out what our Top Chefs, Guest Chefs and Celebrity Chefs from Paper and Such have dished up for you.

Sending Love

Without hearts and Valentines and all things Love-ly, February would just be another cold month between Christmas and Spring. So, of course, for our first February challenge, Catered Crop wants to give you every opportunity to share you heart.

Our featured ingredient for our next challenge is Hearts!

I chose this adorable Pure Innocence image to send to my daughter.  I colored with copics and added lots of hearts.  I also created a little gift for her to fit inside the mailbox.  I saw this idea on Pinterest (of course) and stitched up some little gift holders. One has a pair of earrings and the other has some chocolate.  Just take your wax paper and cut out 2 hearts.  Stitch them together leaving a little hole if you need to and add your goodies.  For the earrings I just put them on the inside first and stitched around.  I think I needed to change my needle but I love this idea.  

Playing along is easy as A-B-C, 1-2-3, baby you and me.

• Just use a heart somewhere in your project.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, February 18.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to use hearts in your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

You can find Heather's digital stamps at her Etsy store, here. And, for those who prefer to get ink on their fingers, you can get any of more than 120 clear stamps of her image over at My Favorite Things, here.

The randomly chosen winner at the end of our Hearts challenge will get to choose three Heather Ellis digital stamp characters from her Etsy shop.

I will be announcing the winners of my blog candy tomorrow night.  SO sorry for the delay.  I have had the stomach flu and need an extra day to recuperate.  There is still time to join in on the give away.  Check it out here:

You can win the Flourishes' set Sweet Days of Summer by leaving a comment HERE. 

You can win your very own Lang Recipe Cardholder and a Mo's Digital Pencil image by leaving a comment HERE.

I am also giving away a sweet little snowman that I created...HERE 

Catered Crop Recipe Swap and Blog Candy

The Catered Crop Designers are at it again. If books are your constant companion, you're going to love our next challenge. We're going to get creative with the printed word because our featured ingredient is Print! 

  I chose the Flourishes sets Seeds of Friendship and Sweet Days of Summer for my card.   As you can see I used My Mind's Eye Blush paper because it has a printed piece in it that reminded me of newsprint.  I added 2 punched and stitched 3D hearts to add some dimension.  I stamped my images out onto watercolor paper and painted with Tim Holtz's distress ink Tea Dye.  I added a lot of distressing and a heart doily behind my main panel.  

Playing along is easy as A-B-C.

• Just use a printed page or newsprint somewhere in your project.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, February 4.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to incorporate print into your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

How would you like to win this Flourishes Sweet Days of Summer set and a box of butterfly stick pins?  Just leave me a comment here on my blog.. I will pick a winner on February 11, 2012.  February is my birthday month and I promised if I reached 500 followers I would be giving lots of blog candy.. SO here is my first February Fling...

Catered Crop Button Challenge

Illustrator Claire Keay is the owner of Jelly Park, and our sponsor for this week's challenge at Catered Crop.

The Catered Crop design team was treated to a couple of Claire's images for use in this challenge, and you can see all of them at the Catered Crop challenge blog in the upcoming days.

The challenge recipe ingredient for this week is buttons... and we've got an inspiration photo for you. Just use a button (or buttons) on your card and link it up at the Catered Crop kitchen. We'd love to see what you create.

I am super excited to be joining Catered Crop for the next few months.  It is fun to create just for the heck of it.. :)   These adorable images are super to use..here is what I came up with:

I think I got the buttons covered.  I added them to my snow mounds and a little string between her hands.  I needed some thank you cards and thought this would work perfectly. 

 

Now be sure to go take a peak at Claire's JellyPark, because the random winner of our Button Recipe Swap will get to choose two Jellypark digital stamps.